| | Event type

Road Race, Individual, 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	Bib	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 Moya	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