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Triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's

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Date
  
16 September

Winning time
  
2:00:40.52

Competitors
  
48 from 24 nations

Venue
  
Sydney Opera House

Location
  
Sydney Opera House, City of Sydney, Australia

The women's triathlon was part of the Triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event, and one of the first-day events at the 2000 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Saturday, September 16, 2000 at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney.

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Competition format

The race was held over the "international distance" (also called "Olympic distance") and consisted of 1,500 metres (0.93 mi) swimming, 40 kilometres (25 mi), road bicycle racing, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) road running.

Results

48 athletes competed in women's triathlon; only eight of them dropped out of the cycling phase.

  • * Including Transition 1 (swimming-to-cycling) and T2 (cycling-to-running), roughly a minute.
  • No one is allotted the number 13.
  • LAP - Lapped by the leader on the cycling course.

    • References

    Triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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