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Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ1835062
Source-derived summary

Cuba competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Australia's largest city, Sydney. 229 competitors, 147 men and 82 women, took part in 135 events in 24 sports.

Medalists

Competitors

The following is the list of phone number of competitors in the Games.

Archery

Cuba's first appearance in the Olympic archery competition resulted in a surprise pair of victories.

Men

Women

Athletics

Men's track

Men's field

Women's track

Women's field

Decathlon

Heptathlon

Baseball

Basketball

Women's tournament

Team roster

Liset Castillo

Milayda Enríquez

Cariola Hechavarría

Dalia Henry

Grisel Herrera

María León

Yamilé Martínez

Yaquelín Plutín

Tania Seino

Yuliseny Soria

Taimara Suero

Lisdeivis Víctores

Summary

Beach volleyball

Boxing

Canoeing

Sprint

Men's

Cycling

Road cycling

Track cycling

Sprint

Time trial

Diving

Men's

Women's

Fencing

Eleven fencers, seven men and four women, represented Cuba in 2000.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics” as sporting event delegation. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cuba, Summer and Olympics can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as sporting event delegation. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1835062. The first chronological checks are 2000.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.