| | Event type

Road Race, Men

Date	27 September 2000 — 10:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Cycling Road Course, Centennial Parklands, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	154 from 41 countries
Format	239.4 km. (148.7 miles) mass start race.

The professional peleton was again present. As always, in a one-day race, choosing a favorite was difficult. The top professional riders were Lance Armstrong, who had won the 1999-2000 Tour de France and would eventually win the race seven times consecutively, and Jan Ullrich, who had won the 1997 Tour de France. But neither was considered a great sprinter. With 25 km. to do, the peleton made a grave tactical error when it allowed three riders from the same professional team, Deutsche Telekom (later T-Mobile), to get away together. The riders were Kazakhstan’s Aleksandr Vinokurov, and the Germans Andreas Klöden and Ullrich. Vinokurov and Klöden served as domestiques on the Deutsche Telekom team, supporting and riding for Ullrich and the finish, with Ullrich winning the sprint comfortably for the gold medal, was a foregone conclusion. Armstrong missed the winning break and finished 13th.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	Jan Ullrich	GER	5-29:08	–	Gold
2	Aleksandr Vinokurov	KAZ	–	at 0:09	Silver
3	Andreas Klöden	GER	–	at 0:12	Bronze
4	Michele Bartoli	ITA	–	at 1:26
5	Laurent Jalabert	FRA	–	at 1:26
6	Frank Høj	DEN	–	at 1:26
7	Piotr Wadecki	POL	–	at 1:26
8	George Hincapie	USA	–	at 1:26
9	Paolo Bettini	ITA	–	at 1:26
10	Dmitry Konyshev	RUS	–	at 1:26
11	Danilo Di Luca	ITA	–	at 1:29
12	Axel Merckx	BEL	–	at 1:29
13	Erik Zabel	GER	–	at 1:38
14	Max van Heeswijk	NED	–	at 1:38
15	Gord Fraser	CAN	–	at 1:38
16	Óscar Freire	ESP	–	at 1:38
17	Jaan Kirsipuu	EST	–	at 1:38
18	Robbie McEwen	AUS	–	at 1:38
19	Zbigniew Spruch	POL	–	at 1:38
20	Markus Zberg	SUI	–	at 1:38
21	Arvis Piziks	LAT	–	at 1:38
22	Peter Wrolich	AUT	–	at 1:38
23	Rolf Aldag	GER	–	at 1:38
24	Léon van Bon	NED	–	at 1:38
25	Andrej Hauptman	SLO	–	at 1:38
26	Volodymyr Duma	UKR	–	at 1:38
27	Glenn Magnusson	SWE	–	at 1:38
28	Pavel Tonkov	RUS	–	at 1:38
29	Henk Vogels, Jr.	AUS	–	at 1:38
30	Ruber Marín	COL	–	at 1:38
31	Uroš Murn	SLO	–	at 1:38
32	Nico Mattan	BEL	–	at 1:38
33	Fred Rodriguez	USA	–	at 1:38
34	Max Sciandri	GBR	–	at 1:38
35	Sergey Ivanov	RUS	–	at 1:38
36	Oscar Camenzind	SUI	–	at 1:38
37	John Tanner	GBR	–	at 1:38
38	Serhiy Ushakov	UKR	–	at 1:38
39	Nicki Sørensen	DEN	–	at 1:38
40	Gerrit Glomser	AUT	–	at 1:38
41	Oleksandr Fedenko	UKR	–	at 1:38
42	David McCann	IRL	–	at 1:38
43	Raimondas Rumšas	LTU	–	at 1:38
44	Laurent Brochard	FRA	–	at 1:38
45	Andrey Teteryuk	KAZ	–	at 1:38
46	Chris Jenner	NZL	–	at 1:38
47	Zbigniew Piątek	POL	–	at 1:38
48	Tyler Hamilton	USA	–	at 1:38
49	Omar Enrique Pumar	VEN	–	at 1:38
50	Matthias Buxhofer	AUT	–	at 1:38
51	Antonio Cruz	USA	–	at 1:38
52	Aleksandr Shefer	KAZ	–	at 1:38
53	Mauro Gianetti	SUI	–	at 1:38
54	Erki Pütsep	EST	–	at 1:38
55	Jens Voigt	GER	–	at 1:38
56	Sergey Yakovlev	KAZ	–	at 1:38
57	Piotr Przydział	POL	–	at 1:38
58	Rolf Sørensen	DEN	–	at 1:38
59	Abraham Olano	ESP	–	at 1:38
60	Julian Dean	NZL	–	at 1:38
61	Christophe Moreau	FRA	–	at 1:38
62	Richard Virenque	FRA	–	at 1:38
63	Laurent Dufaux	SUI	–	at 1:38
64	Volodymyr Hustov	UKR	–	at 1:38
65	Francesco Casagrande	ITA	–	at 1:38
66	Marc Wauters	BEL	–	at 1:38
67	Alex Zülle	SUI	–	at 1:38
68	Marco Pantani	ITA	–	at 1:38
69	Pavel Padrnos	CZE	–	at 1:38
70	Rik Verbrugghe	BEL	–	at 1:38
71	Eric Wohlberg	CAN	–	at 1:38
72	Andrey Kivilyov	KAZ	–	at 1:38
73	Ciarán Power	IRL	–	at 5:50
74	Vyacheslav Yekimov	RUS	–	at 5:50
75	Tomáš Konečný	CZE	–	at 5:50
76	Stuart O'Grady	AUS	–	at 7:06
77	Bjørnar Vestøl	NOR	–	at 7:06
78	Peter Van Petegem	BEL	–	at 7:06
79	Tristan Hoffman	NED	–	at 7:06
80	Andris Reiss	LAT	–	at 12:53
81	José Medina	CHI	–	at 12:54
82	Manuel Guevara	VEN	–	at 13:35
83	Carlos Alberto Maya	VEN	–	at 13:35
84	Scott Guyton	NZL	–	at 14:13
85	David George	RSA	–	at 16:43
86	Milan Dvorščík	SVK	–	at 22:45
87	Alexis Méndez	VEN	–	at 23:39
88	Murilo Fischer	BRA	–	at 23:39
89	Martin Riška	SVK	–	at 23:39
90	Óscar Pineda	GUA	–	at 23:39
91	Pedro Pablo Pérez	CUB	–	at 23:40
DNF	Scott McGrory	AUS	–	–
DNF	Matt White	AUS	–	–
DNF	René Haselbacher	AUT	–	–
DNF	Thomas Mühlbacher	AUT	–	–
DNF	Czeslaw Lukaszewicz	CAN	–	–
DNF	Brian Walton	CAN	–	–
DNF	Luis Sepúlveda	CHI	–	–
DNF	Santiago Botero	COL	–	–
DNF	Jhon García	COL	–	–
DNF	Fredy González	COL	–	–
DNF	Víctor Hugo Peña	COL	–	–
DNF	Radim Kořínek	CZE	–	–
DNF	Ján Svorada	CZE	–	–
DNF	Lars Michaelsen	DEN	–	–
DNF	Michael Sandstød	DEN	–	–
DNF	Mahmoud Abbas	EGY	–	–
DNF	Amru El-Nady	EGY	–	–
DNF	Mohamed Abdel Fattah	EGY	–	–
DNF	Mohamed Khulify	EGY	–	–
DNF	Juan Carlos Domínguez	ESP	–	–
DNF	Santos González	ESP	–	–
DNF	Miguel Ángel Martín	ESP	–	–
DNF	Lauri Aus	EST	–	–
DNF	Innar Mändoja	EST	–	–
DNF	Janek Tombak	EST	–	–
DNF	Christophe Capelle	FRA	–	–
DNF	Nick Craig	GBR	–	–
DNF	Rob Hayles	GBR	–	–
DNF	Jeremy Hunt	GBR	–	–
DNF	Jazy Garcia	GUM	–	–
DNF	Hossein Askari	IRI	–	–
DNF	Ahad Kazemi Sarai	IRI	–	–
DNF	Yoshiyuki Abe	JPN	–	–
DNF	Yevgeny Vakker	KGZ	–	–
DNF	Raivis Belohvoščiks	LAT	–	–
DNF	Andris Naudužs	LAT	–	–
DNF	Dainis Ozols	LAT	–	–
DNF	Artūras Kasputis	LTU	–	–
DNF	Remigijus Lupeikis	LTU	–	–
DNF	Saulius Šarkauskas	LTU	–	–
DNF	Erik Dekker	NED	–	–
DNF	Koos Moerenhout	NED	–	–
DNF	Kurt Asle Arvesen	NOR	–	–
DNF	Svein Gaute Hølestøl	NOR	–	–
DNF	Thor Hushovd	NOR	–	–
DNF	Glen Mitchell	NZL	–	–
DNF	Piotr Chmielewski	POL	–	–
DNF	José Azevedo	POR	–	–
DNF	Bruno Castanheira	POR	–	–
DNF	Vítor Gamito	POR	–	–
DNF	Orlando Rodrigues	POR	–	–
DNF	Robert Hunter	RSA	–	–
DNF	Yevgeny Petrov	RUS	–	–
DNF	Martin Hvastija	SLO	–	–
DNF	Tadej Valjavec	SLO	–	–
DNF	Roman Broniš	SVK	–	–
DNF	Róbert Nagy	SVK	–	–
DNF	Magnus Bäckstedt	SWE	–	–
DNF	Michel Lafis	SWE	–	–
DNF	Martin Rittsel	SWE	–	–
DNF	Serhiy Honchar	UKR	–	–
DNF	Gregorio Bare	URU	–	–
DQ	Lance Armstrong	USA	–	[at 1:29]		1