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The '''2000 [[Ibero-American Championships in Athletics]]''' (Spanish: '''''IX Campeonato Iberoamericano de Atletismo''''') was the ninth edition of the international [[athletics (sport)|athletics]] competition between [[Ibero-America]]n nations which was held at the [[Estádio Célio de Barros]] in [[Rio de Janeiro (city)|Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]] on 20 and 21 May.<ref name=CONS>[http://www.consudatle.org/estadisiberosud.pdf Campeonato Iberamericano] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725195432/http://www.consudatle.org/estadisiberosud.pdf |date=2011-07-25 }}. [[CONSUDATLE]]. Retrieved on 2012-01-04.</ref> With a total of 308 athletes, the number of competitors was the lowest since 1990. The Spanish team (29 athletes) was much smaller than previous delegations as most of the Spaniards chose to focus on the [[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney Olympics]] instead.<ref name=SF10>[http://www.rfea.es/aeea/archivos/libroiberoamericano2010.pdf El Atletismo Ibero-Americano - San Fernando 2010] (pgs. 161). RFEA. Retrieved on 2012-01-08.</ref> Other national teams used the competition as a chance to gain an Olympic qualifying mark.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120709231745/http://berlin.iaaf.org/aboutiaaf/news/newsid=15212.html Brazil heads Ibero American Games standings with 7 gold medals]
The host nation Brazil easily topped the medal table by winning 18 [[gold medal]]s and a total haul of 45 medals. The next best performing nation was [[Spain]], which took six golds and 21 medals during the two-day championships.<ref name=IAAF1>[https://archive.today/20130415013341/http://berlin.iaaf.org/aboutiaaf/news/newsid=15214.html Brazil clinches 18 golds in Ibero American Championships]
Brazil dominated the men's track events and [[Hudson de Souza]] completed an [[800 metres|800]]/[[1500 metres]] double. Cuban men provided the highlights of the men's field events, where [[Michael Calvo]] won the [[triple jump]] with a jump of 17.05 m and [[Emeterio González]] had a [[javelin throw]] over eighty metres (both championship marks). In the women's track events, reigning Olympic champion [[Fernanda Ribeiro]] broke the 5000 m championship record and [[Soraya Telles]] became the first female Ibero-American champion in the [[steeplechase (athletics)|steeplechase]] (a contest which meant that the 44-event programme was equal between the sexes for the first time). The 10,000 m track walk saw [[Rosario Sánchez]] knock almost a minute of the meet record, while runner-up [[Geovana Irusta]] set a South American record behind her.<ref name=SF10/>
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[[File:Maracana Stadium.jpg|thumb|right|The host athletics stadium (centre top) seen as part of the [[Estádio do Maracanã|Maracanã]] Sports Complex]]
Several athletes present at the competition went on to win medals on the Olympic stage later that year: Mexican [[Noé Hernández (racewalker)|Noé Hernández]] won the 20 km walk silver medal, Fernanda Ribeiro took an Olympic bronze over 10,000 m, while both the Brazilian and Cuban 4×100 m relay teams reached the Olympic podium.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042527/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ATH/ Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2012-01-09.</ref> Future world champion [[Naide Gomes]] won [[São Tomé and Príncipe]]'s first ever medal with her runner-up performance in the [[heptathlon]].
==Medal summary==
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