Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Virginie_Dedieu

Virginie Dedieu (born 25 February 1979) is a French former synchronized swimmer and Olympic medalist.
Virginie won a bronze medal in the women's duet at the 2000 Summer Olympics with Myriam Lignot. She was also successful in the European and World Aquatics Championships, winning several medals.Dedieu was awarded the Legion of Honour on 1 January 2006.

Brahim_Asloum

Brahim Asloum (Arabic: إبراهيم اسلوم, born 31 January 1979 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French boxer. He won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. His Olympic win was France's first Olympic gold medal in boxing in 64 years.
Asloum is the former WBA light flyweight world champion.

Thierry_Gadou

Thierry Gadou (born 13 January 1969 in Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains) is a French basketball player formerly with Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez. Gadou won a silver medal with the France national basketball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Pierpaolo_Ferrazzi

Pierpaolo Ferrazzi (born 23 July 1965 in Bassano del Grappa) is an Italian slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K1 event with a gold in 1992 and a bronze in 2000.
Ferrazzi also won three silver medals in the K1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, earning them in 1989, 2002 and 2005.
He won the overall World Cup title in K1 twice (1990 and 1992). At the European Championships he has won a total of three medals (2 golds and 1 bronze).

Inaki_Urdangarin

Iñaki Urdangarin Liebaert (born 15 January 1968) is a retired Spanish handball player turned entrepreneur and the former husband of Infanta Cristina, younger daughter of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía. He was the brother-in-law of King Felipe VI. Urdangarin was convicted of embezzling about 6 million euros in public funds for sporting events since 2004 through his nonprofit foundation, the so-called Nóos case, and of political corruption by using his former courtesy title of consort Duke of Palma de Mallorca as the husband of Infanta Cristina. In June 2018 he was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in prison; he was initially imprisoned in Ávila, but as of 2021, he was on supervised release.

Paola_Pezzo

Paola Pezzo (born 8 January 1969, in Bosco Chiesanuova) is an Italian cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona. In 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S., she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut.