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For the 2000 Summer Olympics, a total of thirty sports venues were used. After Melbourne hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics, Australia made several bids for the Summer Olympics before finally winning the 2000 Summer Olympics by two votes over Beijing, China. Venue construction was set at the Homebush Bay area of Sydney in an effort to rehabilitate the land. Environmental studies of the area in the early 1990s forced remediation to be used for about a fifth of the site selected. Fifteen new venues were constructed for the Games. Many of the venues used for the 2000 Games continue to be in use as of 2020, although some of the pre-existing facilities have been demolished and replaced.
Venues
Sydney Olympic Park
Venue | Sports | Capacity | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre | Tennis | 10,000 | [1] |
Stadium Australia | Ceremonies (opening/closing) Athletics Football/Soccer (final) |
110,000 | [2] |
Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre | Field hockey | 15,000 | [3] |
State Sports Centre | Table tennis Taekwondo |
5,006 | [4] |
Sydney Baseball Stadium | Baseball (final) Modern pentathlon (riding, running) |
21,500 | [5] |
Sydney International Archery Park | Archery | 17,500 | [6] |
Sydney International Aquatic Centre | Diving Modern pentathlon (swimming) Swimming Synchronized swimming Water polo (men's final) |
10,000 | [7] |
Sydney SuperDome | Basketball (final) Gymnastics (artistic/ trampoline) |
18,200 | [8] |
The Dome & Exhibition Complex | Badminton Basketball Gymnastics (rhythmic) Handball Modern pentathlon (fencing, shooting) Volleyball (indoor) |
10,000 | [9] |
Sydney
Venue | Sports | Capacity | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Blacktown Olympic Park |
Baseball Softball |
3,000 (baseball), 2,000 (softball) |
[10] |
Bondi Beach | Volleyball (beach) | 10,000 | [11] |
Centennial Parklands | Cycling (road) | Not listed. | [12] |
Dunc Gray Velodrome | Cycling (track) | 3,150 | [13] |
Marathon course | Athletics (marathon) | Not listed. | [14] |
North Sydney | Athletics (marathon start) | Not listed. | [14] |
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia | Sailing | 10,000 | [15] |
Penrith Whitewater Stadium | Canoeing (slalom) | 12,500 | [16] |
Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre | Water polo | 3,900 | [17] |
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre |
Boxing Fencing Judo Weightlifting Wrestling |
7,500 (weightlifting), 9,000 (judo & wrestling), 10,000 (boxing & fencing) |
[18] |
Sydney Entertainment Centre | Volleyball | 11,000 | [19] |
Sydney Football Stadium | Football/Soccer (women's final) | 42,500 | [20] |
Sydney International Equestrian Centre | Equestrian |
50,000 | [21] |
Sydney International Regatta Centre | Canoeing (sprint) Rowing |
20,000 | [22] |
Sydney International Shooting Centre | Shooting | 7,000 | [23] |
Sydney Opera House | Triathlon | Not listed. | [24] |
Western Sydney Parklands | Cycling (mountain biking) | 20,000 | [25] |
Outside Sydney
Venue | Location | Sports | Capacity | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Gabba | Brisbane | Football/Soccer | 37,000 | [26] |
Bruce Stadium | Canberra | 25,011 | [26] | |
Hindmarsh Stadium | Adelaide | 20,000 | [27] | |
Melbourne Cricket Ground | Melbourne | 98,000 | [27] |
Before the Olympics
Sydney first made preliminary plans for the 1972 and 1988 Summer Olympics, but they were not followed through. Melbourne made a bid for the 1988 Summer Games, but withdrew in February 1981. Brisbane made a bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics, losing out to Barcelona, while Melbourne finished fourth in the bidding for the 1996 Summer Olympics won by Atlanta. The first serious review for Sydney as an Olympic city took place in 1973 on rehabilitating the Homebush Bay area as an Olympic site, though those plans were not taken seriously until seven years later, when Sydney was making a preliminary bid for the 1988 Summer Games. Nick Greiner, who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1988 to 1992, led the effort to use the Olympics as a catalyst for rehabilitating Homebush Bay, forming a review committee on this in 1989. The Australian Olympic Committee endorsed this idea provisionally in December 1990 and officially three months later.[29]
In the bid package submitted to the
For site selection, 760 ha (1,900 acres) of Homebush Bay was selected for use though the area was not planned upon completion until 2010. Sydney's selection to host the 2000 Summer Olympics changed this. The States Sports Centre opened in 1984, and
Fifteen new venues were under construction by 1995, with all of them being completed in 1999. Temporary venues were added for beach volleyball and women's water polo in 2000, prior to the Olympics. 40,000 people were involved in venue construction for the Games.[36]
The Olympic Stadium was constructed on the site of a
Test events at the venues ran from September 1998 to August 2000.[44]
During the Olympics
Before the start of the women's marathon, street personnel in Sydney had to tow 137 cars that were parked along the course. Japan's Naoko Takahashi won the event.[45]
Canoe sprint events on the last day of the Games at the Regatta Centre were delayed for six hours by up to 50 mph (80 km/h) wind gusts. The Regatta Center also had lane markers that were damaged and an official's aluminum dinghy sinking.[46] Eight days earlier in the men's rowing coxless four final, Great Britain's Steve Redgrave won the gold medal in his fifth straight Olympics.[47]
The endurance course of the equestrian eventing competition led to the hospitalization of two riders and four horses being injured, including one that was subsequently put to sleep.[48] Meanwhile, the individual jumping final was held in the midst of high winds that forced volunteers to hold down some of the top rails until a rider approached.[49]
After the Olympics
The Olympic Stadium, now
The Super Dome, now known as
Blacktown Olympic Park plays host to competitions for
Penrith Whitewater Stadium hosted the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in 2005.[53]
The Sydney Entertainment Centre, which opened in 1983, continued to be in use until it was closed in December 2015, hosting numerous concerts, sporting events and conventions. It was the home arena for the Sydney Kings, and occasionally played host to both national senior basketball teams, the
The Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre remained in use until it closed in December 2013, and was demolished in 2014 to make way for the new Sydney International Convention, Exhibition and Entertainment Precinct at Darling Harbour, which was due for completion by the end of 2016.[54]
Sydney Football Stadium, an existing stadium that opened in 1988, continues to be in use as of 2017 by the NRL (including finals),
The
For the venues located outside of Sydney as of 2017, the
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