2000 Scottish Masters
The 2000 Regal Scottish Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament which took place from 24 to 29 October. The tournament was played at the Motherwell Civic Centre, Scotland, and featured twelve professional players.


2000 Scottish Masters
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the tournament for the second time, defeating Stephen Hendry 9–6 in the final. Marco Fu recorded his first maximum break in his first round match with Ken Doherty. This was the first ever 147 streamed live on the Internet.


2000 Scottish Masters, Qualifying Event
Qualifying for the tournament took place amongst 12 players at the Spencer's Snooker Centre from 18 to 22 September 2000. Jimmy White dropped only four frames throughout the event as he won the tournament and earned the final wild card spot for the Scottish Masters by defeating Stephen Maguire, Drew Henry and Joe Swail over three rounds. All matches were played to the best-of-nine frames and players in bold indicate match winners.


2000 Scottish National Party leadership election
There was a Scottish National Party leadership election to choose the new National Convener of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2000. The election followed the announcement by SNP Leader Alex Salmond, that he would be stepping down as SNP leader in 2000. Salmond's announcement came in the face of internal criticism after a series of high-profile fall-outs with party members. Elections were also held for the position of Depute Leader.


2000 Scottish National Party leadership election
The election saw John Swinney become National Convener, and Roseanna Cunningham become Depute Leader.


2000 Scottish National Party leadership election, National Convener election, Candidates
Two candidates presented themselves for election; SNP Depute Leader and spokesman on enterprise and lifelong learning, John Swinney; and the SNP vice-convener for policy and social security spokesman, Alex Neil. Swinney was simultaneously serving as both an MP and MSP, and Neil was a serving MSP.


2000 Scottish National Party leadership election, National Convener election, Issues
Whilst both candidates supported the position of the SNP on the centre-left, Neil was seen as the more left-wing of the two, and individuals associated with the Neil campaign argued that a Swinney administration would drag the SNP to the right.


2000 Scottish National Party leadership election, National Convener election, Issues
In someways the fight was seen as being between the SNP's Fundamentalists and gradualists. Swinney was seen as representing the SNP gradualist wing, advocating devolution as a stepping stone towards Scottish independence. Neil however was far more critical and suspicious of devolution, viewing it as a means of undermining the case for independence, and was more forceful in pushing for a party emphasis on Scottish independence. Swinney, as a gradualist, argued that independence could only follow a successful vote in a referendum, whilst Neil believed that an SNP victory would be enough to secure negotiations for independence.


2000 Scottish National Party leadership election, National Convener election, Issues
Both candidates opposed trident, and were largely pro-European Union. Swinney however advocated joining the Euro at the earliest opportunity, whilst Neil believed pre-emptive joining of the Euro could undermine Scottish jobs. Swinney also favoured greater European integration on issues such as defence, whilst Neil favoured a weaker EU, and opposed the pooling of defence forces.


2000 Scottish National Party leadership election, National Convener election, Results, Voting system
Each SNP branch sent delegates to the election, with larger branches sending more members. Some 700 delegates had the right to vote.


2000 Scottish National Party leadership election, National Convener election, Results, Results
The result of the election was announced at the party conference on 23 September. John Swinney won the election by 547 votes to 268.


2000 Scottish Open (snooker)
The 2000 Regal Scottish Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that was held from March to April 2000 at the AECC, Aberdeen, Scotland. Stephen Hendry, was the defending champion but he lost 2–5 in the last 16 to Matthew Stevens.


2000 Scottish Open (snooker)
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the tournament by defeating Mark Williams nine frames to one in the final. O'Sullivan made a 147 maximum break in frame four of his 5–4 victory over Quentin Hann in the last 32. Stephen Maguire had also made a 147 in the qualifying stages (not televised) so this marked the first time that two maximum breaks had been made in the same ranking tournament.


2000 Seattle Mariners season
The Seattle Mariners' 2000 season was the franchise's 24th, and ended in the American League Championship Series, falling to the New York Yankees in six games.


2000 Seattle Mariners season
The regular season ended with the Mariners finishing 2nd in the American League West but earning the franchise's first wild card berth, with a 91–71 (.562) record. In the playoffs, they swept the Chicago White Sox in the American League Division Series, then were defeated by the New York Yankees.


2000 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


2000 Seattle Mariners season, Major League Baseball Draft
The following is a list of 2000 Seattle Mariners draft picks. The Mariners took part in the June regular draft, also known as the Rule 4 draft. The Mariners made 47 selections in the 2000 draft, the first being pitcher Sam Hays in the fourth round. In all, the Mariners selected 21 pitchers, 13 outfielders, 6 catchers, 5 shortstops, and 2 third basemen.


2000 Seattle Seahawks season
The 2000 Seattle Seahawks season was the franchise's 25th season in the National Football League, the first of two seasons the Seahawks played at Husky Stadium while Qwest Field was being built and the second under head coach Mike Holmgren. The 2000 Seahawks' pass defense surrendered 7.63 yards-per-attempt (including quarterback sacks), one of the ten-worst totals in the history of the NFL. They failed to improve on their 9–7 record or defend their AFC West title from 1999.


2000 Seattle Seahawks season, Schedule, Preseason
Divisional matchups have the AFC West playing the NFC West.


2000 Seattle Seahawks season, Schedule, Regular season
Divisional matchups have the AFC West playing the NFC West.


2000 Seattle Storm season
The 2000 WNBA season was the first season for the Seattle Storm.


2000 Seattle Storm season, Player stats
Note: GP= Games played; REB= Rebounds; AST= Assists; STL = Steals; BLK = Blocks; PTS = Points; AVG = Average


2000 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 4 May 2000. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 reducing the number of seats by three. The council stayed under no overall control.


2000 Segunda División B play-offs
The 2000 Segunda División B play-offs (Playoffs de Ascenso or Promoción de Ascenso) were the final playoffs for promotion from 1999–2000 Segunda División B to the 2000–01 Segunda División. The four first placed teams in each of the four Segunda División B groups played the Playoffs de Ascenso and the four last placed teams in Segunda División were relegated to Segunda División B.


2000 Segunda División B play-offs
The teams play a league of four teams, divided into 4 groups. The champion of each group is promoted to Segunda División.


2000 Senegalese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 27 February 2000, with a second round taking place on 19 March after no candidate won over 50% of votes in the first round. Although incumbent President Abdou Diouf of the Socialist Party won the most votes in the first round, he was defeated by long-term opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade of the Senegalese Democratic Party in the second round, marking the first time that the Socialist Party and its predecessors had lost power since independence. Voter turnout was 62.2% in the first round and 60.8% in the second.


2000 Senior League World Series
The 2000 Senior League World Series took place from August 13–19 in Kissimmee, Florida, United States. Panama City, Panama defeated Pinellas Park, Florida twice in the championship game.


2000 Senior PGA Tour
The 2000 Senior PGA Tour was the 21st season since the Senior PGA Tour, now known as PGA Tour Champions, officially began in 1980. The season consisted of 39 official money events with purses totalling $54,850,000, including four majors. Larry Nelson won the most tournaments, six. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.


2000 Senior PGA Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 2000 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold. Golfers winning on their Senior PGA Tour debut are shown in italics.


2000 Serbian local elections
Local elections were held in Serbia (excluding  Kosovo) on 24 September 2000, concurrently with the first round of voting in the 2000 Yugoslavian general election and the 2000 Vojvodina provincial election. This was the fourth and final local electoral cycle to take place while Serbia was a member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.


2000 Serbian local elections
The 2000 Yugoslavian general election was a watershed event in Serbian politics, resulting in the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's administration. The local elections, while less important in their own right, were part of the same general transformative moment.


2000 Serbian local elections
This was the final local electoral cycle in Serbia (to date) in which assembly delegates were elected in single-member constituencies; all subsequent cycles have been held under proportional representation. In a change from the previous cycle, delegates were elected by first-past-the-post voting rather than in run-off elections between the top two candidates. The method of election undoubtedly contributed to the lopsided results in some opposition strongholds, including the capital Belgrade.


2000 Serbian local elections
The Democratic Opposition of Serbia, a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to the Milošević administration, won significant majority victories in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and other major cities.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade
The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) won a landslide victory in the election for the City Assembly of Belgrade and equally strong victories in many of the city's constituent municipalities. The alliance won every seat in three municipalities and all seats but one in three others.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade
The only Belgrade municipality that the DOS did not win was Sopot, where the Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left won a majority government, helped by an incumbent mayor who was personally popular in the community.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade
Other than Sopot, the only municipality in Belgrade where the DOS did not win the popular vote was Lazarevac. It may be noted that the Socialist Party–Yugoslav Left alliance ran a full slate of candidates in this jurisdiction, while the DOS refrained from fielding candidates in three divisions (presumably due to pre-election arrangements with other opposition candidates).


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, City of Belgrade
The results of the election for the City Assembly of Belgrade were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, City of Belgrade
Milan St. Protić of New Serbia (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election. He resigned from the position on 20 March 2001 and was initially replaced by Dragan Jočić on an interim basis. On 1 June 2001, Jočić was in turn replaced by Radmila Hrustanović of the Civil Alliance of Serbia.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Barajevo were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Zoran Jevtić of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia was chosen as mayor after the election. He resigned on 9 February 2001 and was replaced on an interim basis by Miodrag Skoknić. After an extended period in which the municipal assembly was not convened, Dragoljub Stanić was named as the head of a provisional administration in November 2001. A new municipal election was held in 2003.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Čukarica were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Incumbent mayor Zoran Alimpić of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was confirmed for another term in office after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Grocka were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Vesna Ivić of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election. He was replaced by Milan Tanasković of the Democratic Party of Serbia on 28 June 2002; Tanasković was in turn replaced by Sava Starčević of the Serbian Renewal Movement on 8 December 2002. After a further period of political upheaval, Vladan Zarić of the Democratic Party became mayor on 15 April 2003.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Lazarevac were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Ljiljana Zdravković of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) became mayor of the municipality in 2001.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Mladenovac were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Zoran Kostić of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of New Belgrade were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Željko Ožegović of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Obrenovac were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Petar Knezević of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia served as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Palilula were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Milan Marković of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Rakovica were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Srboslav Zečević of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Savski Venac were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Branislav Belić of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Sopot were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Incumbent mayor Živorad Milosavljević of the Socialist Party was confirmed for another term in office after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Stari Grad were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Mirjana Božidarević of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Voždovac were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Stevan Radović of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Vračar were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Incumbent mayor Milena Milošević of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was confirmed for another term in office after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Zemun were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Vladan Janićijević of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) became mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Zvezdara were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Belgrade, Municipalities of Belgrade
Peter Moravac of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) served as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The Democratic Opposition of Serbia was successful overall in the South Bačka District, winning the Novi Sad city assembly in a landslide and participating on the winning side in at least seven of the eleven other municipalities in the district (sometimes in alliance with the Serbian Renewal Movement and other opposition candidates).


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The Socialist Party of Serbia held its historical strongholds of Bačka Palanka and Beočin and also won a narrow victory in Titel (although it was not able to form a stable government in the last of these communities). The defeat of the Socialists in Vrbas, another of its historical strongholds, was considered an upset.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Independent candidates won the largest number of seats in Bački Petrovac, and independent candidate Pavel Zima was subsequently chosen as mayor of the municipality.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the City Assembly of Novi Sad were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Borislav Novaković of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election. Former mayor Milorad Mirčić of the Radical Party sought re-election to the assembly and, like all Radical Party candidates in this cycle, was defeated.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bač were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Tomislav Bogunović of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bačka Palanka were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Zvezdan Kisić of the Socialist Party served as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bački Petrovac were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Independent delegate Pavel Zima served as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Bečej were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Zoran Stojšin of the Democratic Party (one of the parties of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) became mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Beočin were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Dimitrije Kovačević of the Socialist Party was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Srbobran were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Branislav Pivnički, a representative of Democratic Opposition of Serbia and aligned candidates, served as mayor following the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Sremski Karlovci were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Đorđe Gačić of the Serbian Renewal Movement (one of the parties in the United Democratic Opposition) served as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Temerin were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Although the Socialist Party–Yugoslav Left alliance technically won a plurality victory, the sixteen opposition delegates were able to unite to form a new local government. Petar Novak of the Democratic Party of Serbia (one of the parties in the United Democratic Opposition alliance) was chosen as mayor after the election. He was succeeded by Ðuro Žiga of the same party in 2002.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Titel were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The local government formed after this election was not stable, and a new municipal election was held in November 2001. The Democratic Opposition of Serbia won fourteen seats in the 2001 vote, while the Socialists won five, independent candidates two, the Serbian Renewal Movement one, and the Movement for a Democratic Serbia one (the identity of the other two delegates is not available via online sources). Milivoj Petrović of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia alliance) had already become mayor prior to the 2001 vote and was confirmed in office following the election.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Vrbas were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
Rafail Ruskovski of the Democratic Party (one of the parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition) served as mayor after the election. Milan Stanimirović, also of the Democratic Party, succeeded him in 2002.


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The results of the election for the Municipal Assembly of Žabalj were as follows:


2000 Serbian local elections, Results, Vojvodina, South Bačka District
The Serbian Renewal Movement participated in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia alliance in Žabalj. Vasa Zlokolica of the Serbian Renewal Movement was chosen as mayor after the election.


2000 Serbian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of Serbia on 23 December 2000. They were the first free parliamentary elections after the fall of Slobodan Milošević.


2000 Serbian parliamentary election, Results
The result was a victory for the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, which won 176 of the 250 seats in the National Assembly.


2000 Serbian parliamentary election, Results
This election resulted in a Gallagher index of 7.38, which measures disproportionality of votes received and seats allocated to each party.


2000 Seve Trophy
The 2000 Seve Trophy took place 14–16 April on The Old Course at Sunningdale Golf Club in Berkshire, England. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Colin Montgomerie, with the captain for Continental Europe being Seve Ballesteros. The inaugural competition was won by Continental Europe. The event was officially called "The Eurobet Seve Ballesteros Trophy".


2000 Seve Trophy, Format
The teams competed over three days with four fourball matches on both Friday and Saturday, four foursomes matches on Saturday afternoon, four greensomes matches on Sunday morning and ten singles on Sunday.


2000 Seve Trophy, Format
Each member of the winner team received €150,000, the losing team €90,000 each, giving a total prize fund of €2,400,000.


2000 Seve Trophy, Teams
Mark James, who qualified by finishing 18th on the 1999 European Tour Order of Merit, turned down the chance to play for Team Great Britain and Ireland and was replaced by David Howell.


2000 Seve Trophy, Day three, Morning greensomes
The greensomes were due to be played on Saturday afternoon but were delayed by rain and played on Sunday morning before the singles matches.


2000 Sheffield City Council election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 4 May 2000. One third of the council was up for election. Previous to this election, two Liberal Democrats – Robert Watson and Trefor Morgan – became Independents. Similarly there were two Labour defections, long-time Labour councillor Dorothy Walton went to the Liberal Democrats and Michael Smith became an Independent.


2000 Sheffield City Council election
The election saw the Liberal Democrats extend their majority through a couple of gains from Labour, with both parties recouping seats where aforementioned defections had taken place. Vote wise, the Liberal Democrat vote notably fell back from their previous elections' consistent increases, whereas the Conservatives managed their best vote share since 1992. Overall turnout was 25.8%.


2000 Sheffield City Council election, Election result
This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:


2000 Shell Championship Series
The 2000 Shell Championship Series was an Australian motor racing series open to V8 Supercars. The championship, which was the second Shell Championship Series, began on 11 February at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit and ended on 19 November at the Mount Panorama Circuit after 13 rounds. Titles were awarded for drivers, teams and manufacturers by the series organisers AVESCO (Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company), and the winning driver, Mark Skaife, was also awarded the Australian Touring Car Championship by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport, the 41st time that this title had been awarded.


2000 Shell Championship Series, Teams and drivers
The following drivers and teams competed in the 2000 Shell Championship Series.


2000 Shell Championship Series, Calendar
The 2000 Shell Championship Series was contested over 13 rounds.


2000 Shell Championship Series, Points system
Points were awarded for the first 20 places in each race as follows:


2000 Shell Championship Series, Results, Champion Team of the Year
The title was awarded to the team of the winning driver in the championship.


2000 Shell Championship Series, Results, Champion Manufacturer
The title was presented to the manufacturer with the most number of round wins in the championship.


2000 Shell Velocity season
The 2000 Shell Velocity Turbo Chargers season was the 16th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2000 Shimizu S-Pulse season
The 2000 season was Shimizu S-Pulse's ninth season in existence and their eighth season in the J1 League. The club also competed in the Emperor's Cup and the J.League Cup. The team finished the season eighth in the league.


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship
The 2000 FIM Sidecarcross World Championship, the 21st edition of the competition, started on 19 March and finished after thirteen Grand Prix on 24 September 2000.


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship
The championship was won by Kristers Serģis and his passenger Artis Rasmanis from Latvia, thereby winning their third World Championship together. The pair won the competition with a margin of 32 points, with Dutch rider Daniël Willemsen and his Belgian passenger Sven Verbrugge coming second. Willemsen was the defending champion, having won the 1999 World Championship with his brother Marcel as passenger. Marcel Willemsen was unable to compete in the 2000 edition because of injury. Third place went to the German combination Klaus and Thomas Weinmann. All up, 50 teams were classified in the overall standings with last place going to the Russian team of Anatoli Daineh and Aleksey Bessarabov.


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship
The Sidecarcross World Championship, first held in 1980 and organised by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, is an annual competition. All races, manufacturers, and the vast majority of riders in the competition being in and from Europe. Sidecarcross is similar to motocross except that the teams consist of two riders, a driver and a passenger. Races are held on the same tracks as solo motocross but the handling of the machines differs as sidecars don't lean. The majority of physical work in the sport is carried out by the passenger, who speeds up the sidecarcross in corners by leaning out. The coordination between the driver and the passenger are therefore of highest importance.


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
The thirteen races of the season were held in ten countries, Germany (2x), France (2x), Latvia (2x), Estonia, Belarus, Belgium, Sweden, Great Britain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. In comparison to the 1999 edition which had twelve Grand Prix, the Grand Prix of the Greece, Czech Republic and Ukraine had been dropped from the calendar while the GP's of Belarus and Sweden had been added and both France and Germany receiving a second Grand Prix.


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
Events typically consist of a qualifying competition, held in multiple stages on Saturdays of a race weekend while the two race events are typically held on Sundays. One exception to this rule is Easter weekends, when the races are held on Easter Monday. Race weekends can consist of additional motocross or quart support races as well, but the FIM stipulates that the World Championship races have priority. Riders have to be provided with at least one 30 minute free practice session, which will be timed.


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
A race can consist of up to 30 starters and the qualifying modus is dependent on the number of entries. Up to 32 entries, it will be held in one group split into two sessions of 30 minutes each. Above 32 entries, the starter field will be sub-divided into two groups through ballot and the current standings. Each qualifying group can consist of up to 30 racers. Should there be more than 60 entries, a pre-qualifying has to be held. Of the riders in the two groups, the top-twelve directly qualify for the races. The remaining teams then go to a second-chance qualifying, in which the best six advance. The riders placed seventh and eighth remain in reserve should one of the qualified teams not be able to participate.


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
The points system used in 2000 was the same as had been in use since 1984 with the best fifteen teams receiving points in every race and the race winner receiving 20 points. It was the last time this system was used, with changes being made to it in 2002 and, again, in 2003:


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship, Retirements
At the end of the 2000 season a number of long-term competitors retired from the World Championship, the most successful of those being German Alois Wenninger, runners-up in 1997 and active since 1992.


2000 Sidecarcross World Championship, Classification, Riders
The top ten teams in the final overall standings were:


2000 Silicon Valley Football Classic
The 2000 Silicon Valley Football Classic was a post-season college football bowl game between the Air Force Falcons and the Fresno State Bulldogs on December 31, 2000, at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. Air Force won the game 37–34; while Air Force led 34–7 at halftime, Fresno State came within three points of tying the game before failing to score on a fake field goal in the last minute of the game.


2000 Silverstone 500 USA Challenge
The 2000 Silverstone 500 USA Challenge was the third round of the 2000 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Silverstone Circuit, United Kingdom, on May 13, 2000.


2000 Silverstone 500 USA Challenge
This event was the first American Le Mans Series race held outside of North America. It served as a precursor to the creation of the European Le Mans Series by gauging the willingness of European teams from the FIA Sportscar Championship and FIA GT Championship to participate in a series identical to the American Le Mans Series. This event also shared the weekend at Silverstone with an FIA GT round, with some GT teams running both events.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference
The 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference (officially titled Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information) was a two-day meeting convened in June 2000 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), held at the Simpsonwood Methodist retreat and conference center in Norcross, Georgia. The key event at the conference was the presentation of data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink examining the possibility of a link between the mercury compound thimerosol in vaccines and neurological problems in children who had received those vaccines.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference
A 2005 article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., published by Rolling Stone and Salon.com, focused on the Simpsonwood meeting as part of a conspiracy to withhold or falsify vaccine-safety information. However, Kennedy's article contained numerous major factual errors and, after a number of corrections, was ultimately retracted by Salon.com. Nonetheless, on the basis of Kennedy's claims, the conference gained notoriety in the anti-vaccination movement.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference, The conference
The conference was convened following a resolution by the Congress of the United States in 1997 requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review the thimerosal content of approved drugs and biologics. Three vaccines of primary interest were discussed: hepatitis B vaccine, DPT vaccine, and the Hib vaccine.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference, The conference
Attendees included experts in the fields of autism, pediatrics, toxicology, epidemiology and vaccines. Also in attendance were approximately half a dozen public-health organisations and pharmaceutical companies, as well as eleven consultants to the CDC, a rapporteur,  and a statistician. The meeting served as a prelude to vaccine policy meetings held by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which sets U.S. vaccine policy for the CDC. The session was also to serve as the initial meeting of the ACIP work group on thimerosal and immunization.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference, The conference
Presentations and supporting documents from the conference were subject to a news embargo until June 21, 2000, at which point they were published by the ACIP. After the conference, researchers carried out a planned second phase to further analyze and clarify the study's preliminary findings. The results of this second analysis were published in 2003.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference, In the anti-vaccination movement
The June 20, 2005, issue of Rolling Stone contained an article written by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., entitled "Deadly Immunity". The article, which was also published on Salon.com, focused on the Simpsonwood conference, and alleged that government and private industry had colluded to "thwart the Freedom of Information Act" and "withhold" vaccine-safety findings from the public. Kennedy said that the Simpsonwood data linked thimerosal in vaccines to the rise in autism, but that the lead researcher later "reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism." However, Kennedy's article contained numerous errors, including overstating the amount of ethylmercury in vaccines, wrongly claiming that a researcher held a patent on one of the discussed vaccines, and erroneously claiming that the rotavirus vaccine contained thimerosal.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference, In the anti-vaccination movement
Salon.com later said that the errors in the article "went far in undermining Kennedy’s exposé", and corrected it on five occasions. The publisher later retracted it in January 2011, stating that criticisms of the article and flaws in the science connecting autism and vaccines undermined its value.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference, In the anti-vaccination movement
By the time the final study results discussed at Simpsonwood were published in 2003, the lead researcher, Thomas Verstraeten, had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline. Kennedy contended that the delay in publication gave Verstraeten sufficient time to fix the data around the CDC's alleged objective of obscuring a link between thimerosal and autism. Verstraeten denied the allegations, and published an account of the matter in the journal Pediatrics.


2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference, In the anti-vaccination movement
In September 2007, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions rejected allegations of impropriety against Verstraeten and the CDC. Addressing Kennedy's statements, the Committee found that: "Instead of hiding the [Simpsonwood] data or restricting access to it, CDC distributed it, often to individuals who had never seen it before, and solicited outside opinion regarding how to interpret it. The transcript of these discussions was made available to the public."


2000 Singapore Challenge
The 2000 Singapore Challenge, also known as the 2000 Godrej Singapore Challenge for sponsorship reasons, was a One Day International cricket tournament that took place 20–27 August 2000. The tournament was held in Singapore. The tournament was won by South Africa who defeated Pakistan by 93 runs by the Duckworth–Lewis method.


2000 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s
The 2000 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s was the second year of the Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7s tournament. All matches were played at Bogambara Stadium in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Following the success of the inaugural competition the previous year the tournament was made an open event and expanded to 16 teams, with four teams from Europe competing. Chinese Taipei defeated South Korea 38 points to 21 in the final of the Cup, with the Bowl final won by Thailand and the Plate final by Japan.


2000 Singer Triangular Series
The 2000 Singer Triangular Series was an ODI cricket tournament held in Sri Lanka from 5 to 14 July 2000. It featured the national cricket teams of South Africa, Pakistan and the hosts, Sri Lanka. The competition was won by Sri Lanka, which defeated South Africa in the final.


2000 Singer Triangular Series, Points table
The tournament was organised in a round robin format, with each team playing each other twice.


2000 Sint Maarten status referendum
A status referendum was held on the island of Sint Maarten on 22 June 2000.


2000 Sint Maarten status referendum, Background
After the 1994 referendum failed to show support for a separate status for Sint Maarten, the island council of Sint Maarten organized a new referendum in June 2000. This referendum came out in favour of a separate status for Sint Maarten as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and sparked a new series of referendums across the Netherlands Antilles.


2000 Sioux City Attack season
The 2000 Sioux City Attack season was the team's first overall and first as a member of the original Indoor Football League (IFL). One of twenty-one teams in the IFL for the league's second season, the Attack finished the regular season with a 9–5 record (good enough for third in their Southern Division) to earn the number five seed in the ten-team Western Conference, in which they traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska for the wild card round to play the Lincoln Lightning and defeated them, 52–38. They then moved on to Bismarck, North Dakota, to face the Western's Conference's top-seeded team, the Bismarck Blaze. The Attack had already beaten the Blaze once in the regular season, but fell, 30-14 in the conference semifinals.


2000 Sioux City Attack season
The Attack played their home games at the Sioux City Municipal Auditorium in Sioux City, Iowa, under the direction of head coach Jim Anderson.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings
The 2000 Sipadan kidnappings was a hostage crisis in Sabah, Malaysia, and the southern Philippines that began with the seizing of twenty-one hostages from the dive resort island of Sipadan at approximately 6:15 p.m. (UTC +8) on 23 April 2000, by up to six Abu Sayyaf (ASG) bandits. Taken hostage were 10 tourists from Europe and the Middle East and 11 Malaysian resort workers, 19 non-Filipino nationals in total. The hostages were taken to an Abu Sayyaf base in Jolo, Sulu.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings
During the hostage taking, Abu Sayyaf issued various demands for the release of several prisoners, including 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, $2.4 million and a complete withdrawal of government troops from the area around Jolo where the hostages were being held.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings
The Philippine Army launched a major offensive on 16 September 2000, rescuing all remaining hostages, except Filipino dive instructor Roland Ullah. Ullah was eventually freed in 2003.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, The crisis
On 23 April 2000, six men armed with assault rifles and several rocket-propelled grenades arrived by a speedboat on the Sipadan resort island off the eastern coast of Borneo. They proceeded to abduct 21 individuals from the dining hall where dinner was being served. The hostages, including a Malaysian police officer, three Germans, two French, two South Africans, two Finns and a Lebanese citizen, were herded onto the boats with nine Malaysian and two Filipino resort workers. An American couple and a local marine photographer managed to evade capture unharmed.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, The crisis
During the abduction the hostages were allegedly robbed of their money and jewelry before being forced at gunpoint to swim to the boat waiting offshore. The hostages were then allegedly transported about an hour away to Jolo island, in the Sulu Archipelago of the southern Philippines. Once on Jolo, the captives were allegedly held captive by up to 200 Abu Sayyaf bandits under the command of a Commander 'Robot', a pseudonym of Galib Andang.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, The crisis, Captivity in Jolo
On 6 May 2000, a video was released by the captors depicting the hostages held in a jungle area with gunfire and mortar rounds audible in the background. The video footage also showed a female German captive lying on a makeshift stretcher, apparently overcome by illness. A Philippine government doctor who reached and treated the captives in Jolo was reported as saying the German woman required immediate hospital treatment for hypertension. The bandits were reported to have demanded a ransom of $2 million for the release of the ailing German tourist among their captives.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, The crisis, Captivity in Jolo
Around 8 May 2000, the bandits holding the foreign hostages fired at government troops who the bandits claimed were approaching too close to their position. One Philippines soldier was killed, and the bandits claimed two of the hostages also died during the fighting, although the government denied any foreigners had been killed. The government's denial of any casualties among the foreign hostages would later be proven true; however, all efforts to open negotiations with the hostage takers were then suspended.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, The crisis, Further captives taken
In June, a Filipino evangelist and 12 of his prayer warriors from the Jesus Miracle Crusade Church offered their help and went as mediators for the release of other hostages. However the 13 were later taken hostage on 1 July 2000, when they tried to deliver 70 bags of rice and up to US$ 3,000 worth of cash to the bandits


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, The crisis, Further captives taken
On 2 July 2000, a German journalist Andreas Lorenz, who was visiting Jolo to cover the hostage story, was also seized. The correspondent for the weekly magazine Der Spiegel was abducted from a jeep during an ambush by a group of armed bandits who dragged Mr Lorenz to their vehicle. The driver of the jeep was able to escape.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, The crisis, Further captives taken
Three French television crew members were also captured by bandits on 9 July 2000.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, Aftermath, Captives released
On 20 August 2000, the final three of nine Malaysians taken from Sipadan arrived in Malaysia after the bandits received US$ 3 million from the Malaysian government and freed the trio from captivity, along with one Filipino. The Malaysian hostages reported living mostly on boiled rice and a scrap or two of fish each day, and having had only rain water to drink. Several had been bitten by scorpions during their captivity.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, Aftermath, Captives released
As of the release of the Malaysians it was believed two Germans, two Finns, two South Africans and seven French nationals, including the three journalists, were being held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf bandits.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, Aftermath, Captives released
On 28 August 2000, mediation by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi saw the bandits release six Western captives who were taken via a Libyan plane first to the United Arab Emirates and then to Tripoli, the capital of Libya. The six Westerners were allegedly set free after a ransom, reportedly of US$ 1 million a head, was paid by the state of Libya. Prior to these releases the Libyan state allegedly pledged US$ 25 million in "development aid". However the former Libyan ambassador to the Philippines, Rajab Azzarouq, denied media reports that Libya paid a US$ 25 million ransom to the bandits.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, Aftermath, Captives released
Of the original hostages taken, German Marc Wallert, Frenchman Stephane Loisy and Finns Seppo Fränti and Risto Vahanen and a Filipino resort worker were still being held by the Abu Sayyaf bandits as of 7 September 2000. The final four European captives taken from Sipadan were released on 10 September 2000, and transported to Tripoli, Libya, by private jet. Following his release, Vahanen confirmed that a number of female captives had been sexually assaulted by bandit Commander 'Robot', also known as Galib Andang.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, Aftermath, Captives released
On 16 September 2000, following an offensive by the Philippine Armed Forces on Jolo Island, the Filipino evangelist and his crew of eleven were released by the bandits. Three days later, the two final European hostages, a pair of French reporters, were also freed.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, Aftermath, Arrest and the death of perpetrators
On 14 January 2016, Philippine authorities arrested a member of Abu Sayyaf who was believed to have been involved in the kidnapping. According to Philippine media reports, the suspect had standing arrest warrants on 21 counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention with ransom issued by a court in Pasig, Philippines. Another Abu Sayyaf member who had been alleged to have a link to the kidnapping was killed during a clash with Philippine police and military personnel who, had been out to arrest him in Indanan, Sulu on 7 February.


2000 Sipadan kidnappings, Aftermath, Arrest and the death of perpetrators
While another Abu Sayyaf member that was involved in the kidnappings was arrested in Zamboanga City, Philippines on 7 October. Also in the same year, another Abu Sayyaf member was arrested on 17 October with a .45-calibre pistol and a hand grenade being confiscated from him. However, the suspect was fatally shot by an arresting soldier while he was being escorted to police headquarters when the suspect attempted to grab  the soldier's firearm. The Philippine authorities also arrested an Abu Sayyaf sub-leader in early 2017 who had been involved in the kidnappings. Another was killed during a firefight with Philippine security forces in March, while two others was caught in July 2017 and March 2018 respectively. Several others were arrested in 2019.


2000 Six Nations Championship
The 2000 Six Nations Championship was the first series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship, following the addition of Italy to the Five Nations. It was the 106th season of the championship overall.


2000 Six Nations Championship
The title was won by England. England won their first four games and met winless Scotland in their final match. Scotland earned a surprising victory and denied England the Grand Slam.


2000 Six Nations Championship
Italy won their first game in the championship with a surprising 34–20 win over Scotland, who had won the previous year's Five Nations. Italy did not win any of their other games and finished in sixth place.´


2000 Skate America
The 2000 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2000–01 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the World Arena in Colorado Springs, Colorado on October 26–29. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2000–01 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Westminster Waltz.


2000 Skate America, Results, Men
Guo Zhengxin was assigned to Skate America but did not compete.


2000 Skate Canada International
The 2000 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2000–01 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario on November 2–5. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2000–01 Grand Prix Final.


2000 Skate Israel
The 2000 Skate Israel was the 6th edition of a senior-level international figure skating competition held in Metulla, Israel. It was held at the Canada Centre. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.


2000 Sligo Senior Football Championship
This is a round-up of the 2000 Sligo Senior Football Championship. This Championship, after a number of years of being dominated by Eastern Harps and Tourlestrane, provided a novel final pairing, as Bunninadden (last champions in 1891) and Coolera/Strandhiill (last champions in 1907) contested the final, Coolera having dispatched both of the previous champions en route. The destination of the title went down to the last minute, as a dramatic injury-time goal gave Bunninadden their first title for 109 years, leaving Coolera devastated, after leading for much of the game.


2000 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Group Stages
The Championship was contested by 12 teams, divided into four groups. The top two sides in each group advanced to the Quarter-Finals.


2000 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final
Team:M. FinnS. RoddyF. O'DowdS. GormleyJ. O'FlahertyK. BrettW. GormleyP. Doohan (1-2)M. GormleyD. Gormley (1-0)L. Óg GormleyP. KerinsA. Killoran (0-3)F. O'Flaherty (Capt)(0-1)E. Gilhooley


2000 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final
Team:A. CartyG. FoleyN. CarewS. O'Neill (Capt)T. WattersJ. JoyceB. DoyleK. Quinn (0-1)S. CartyT. McMahonK. O'Neill (0-3)L. Healy (0-1)P. Hegarty (0-1)J. McPartland (0-4)K. Gilligan (0-1)


2000 Slovak early parliamentary elections referendum
A referendum on holding early parliamentary elections was held in Slovakia on 11 November 2000. Although approved by 95.1% of those voting, voter turnout was just 20% and the referendum was declared invalid due to insufficient turnout.


2000 Slovenian parliamentary election
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2000 Slovenian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 15 October 2000. The result was a victory for Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, which won 34 of the 90 seats. Following the election, Liberal Democracy leader Janez Drnovšek returned to the post of Prime Minister.


2000 Soccer NSW season
The Soccer NSW 2000 season was the 44th season of football in New South Wales since the formation of NSW Federation of Soccer Clubs in 1957. It was the ninth time and final time the premier division was named the "Super League" and the second division was named "Division One". There were 26 teams competing across both divisions, with 14 teams in the Super League and 12 teams in Division One. At the end of the season the Super League was rebranded as the NSW Premier League and played over the summer months and began in late 2000. This was so that it would be aligned with the National Soccer League. Division One was renamed the NSW Winter Super League and began in 2001.


2000 Soccer NSW season, Competitions, 2000 Super League
The 2000 Super League season was played over 26 rounds, with the regular season from January to July 2000.


2000 Soccer NSW season, Competitions, 2000 NSW Division One
The 2000 NSW Division One season was played over 22 rounds.


2000 Soccer NSW season, Competitions, 2000 NSW Division One, Finals
Results unknown. Dulwich Hill SC won but were not promoted for next season.


2000 Solheim Cup
The 6th Solheim Cup Match was held between 6 and 8 October 2000 at Loch Lomond Golf Club, Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Europe won the trophy for the second time, by a score of 141⁄2 to 111⁄2 points. Carin Koch holed the winning putt, coming back from three down to beat Michele Redman.


2000 Solheim Cup, Teams
The European team consisted of seven automatic qualifiers and five wild card picks from Captain Dale Reid. The US team consisted of 10 automatic qualifiers and two picks from Captain Pat Bradley.


2000 Solheim Cup, Format
A total of 26 points were available, divided among three periods of team play, followed by one period of singles play. The first period, on Friday morning, was four rounds of foursomes. This was repeated in the second period on Friday afternoon. The third period on Saturday was six rounds of fourballs in which all 24 players (12 from each team) took part. The final 12 points were decided in a round of singles matchplay. This was a slight change from the 1998 format and was not kept, as the 2002 match reverted to the 1998 format.


2000 Solheim Cup, Individual player records
Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player.


2000 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2000 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party gained overall control of the council from no overall control.


2000 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Campaign
Solihull was a top target for the Conservatives in the 2000 local elections with the party needing 2 gains to win an overall majority. Among the councillors defending seats in the election were the Conservative leader of the council in Castle Bromwich ward and the Labour group leader.


2000 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Campaign
The Conservatives campaigned on promises to protect the green belt and carefully manage the council's finances, while the national party's hard line on asylum seekers was also seen by the party as helping in the election. Labour defended its strongholds in the north of the council area, pledging to target spending on addressing social problems in an area with high unemployment.


2000 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw the Conservatives win a majority of 5 on the council to have majority control for the first time since 1991. Solihull also became the first metropolitan borough with a Conservative majority since the mid-1990s. The Conservative gained Elmdon from the Labour party, Packwood and Shirley East from the Liberal Democrats and Shirley South where an independent councillor stood down at the election. Meanwhile, the Labour group leader Mick Corser lost the election in Bickenhill after having been deselected in his previous ward of Fordbridge. Overall turnout in the election was 30.1%, a rise from 28.3% in 1999.


2000 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
The Labour party blamed the threatened closure of the Longbridge plant for a disappointing performance in the election, while the Conservatives put their success down to local campaigning and the national issue of pensions only going up by 75 pence. Following the election the former deputy group leader Hugh Hendry was elected as the new leader of the Labour group.


2000 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections :


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état
The Solomon Islands coup d’état occurred on 5 June 2000, in the capital of Honiara. The event came as a result of longstanding ethnic tensions between the province that saw a rise in armed political groups from the late 1990s. This rise of armed political groups, eventually ended in the coup d’état, in which the prime minister, Bartholomew Ulufa’alu, was taken hostage by the militant group, Malaita Eagle Force.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Political climate, Political leadership
The Solomon Islands is a constitutional monarchy, that gained independence in 1978. In 1997, Bartholomew Ulufa’alu succeeded Solomonon Mamaloni, as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands. Part of Ulufa’alu’s campaign included aims to implement public service and finance reforms to end government corruption and mismanagement, following the resignation of his predecessor Solomon Mamaloni, after accusations of corruption. Ulufa’alu’s restructuring of the civil service, including cutting more than five hundred jobs, gained him support from foreign banks. In mid 1998, Ulufa’alu’s government survived a vote of no confidence after the defection of six parliamentarians.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Political climate, Independence
The Solomon Islands has a long history with Western colonisation, with the first European explorer, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, reaching the islands in 1568. From as early as 1870, the people of the Solomon Islands were captured and exploited for slave labour in the sugar plantations of Queensland and Fiji. The Islands were also divided between Germany and Britain for self interests in 1886, however, the Solomon Islands were not formally colonised until 1893, by the British government. In the eighty five years of British occupation, the British set up a number of plantations.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Political climate, Migration crisis
From 1970 to 1999, the country’s population had grown by 254%, with Malaita making up 30% of the nations population in 1999, as well as Guadalcanal and Western Province making up 15% each. Logging during the period of the 1990s, was the Solomon Islands biggest export, with the Western Province providing 51% of all log exports, Guadalcanal between 10-12% and Malaita just 6%. Poorly distributed resources between the provinces, led to a dramatic difference between population and export revenue. It was this uneven distribution that led to a migration crisis in the capital of Hoinara, as people searched for work from the early 1980s onwards. Violence escalated in 1998, due to the peoples dismay at how the government distributed export revenue and escalating domestic cultural differences between the provinces.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Political climate, State of emergency
On 17 June 1999, the government declared a state of emergency which lasted four months. The state of emergency was issued due to the escalation of violence between armed political groups near the capital, Honiara. Also at this time, ethnic violence was starting to arise in the Western Province, with a number of houses being burnt down in New Georgia. This ethnic violence in the Western Province was also caused by the internal migration by the Malaitans, and the local populations dislike of their migration.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Political climate, State of emergency
In June 1999, the Premier of Western Province, Clement Base, voiced his disdain for the Malaitan settlers on national radio. This event lead to a meeting with the Western members of National Parliament in Honiara, where attendees publicly apologised for Base’s statements, out of fear it would result in an escalation of fighting. The meeting ended with the proposal of the Munda Accord, which aimed to settle ethnic violence and tension in the region. As well as the Munda accord, the signing of the Honiara Peace Accord, called for the political groups to disarm in Honiara, concluding the period of violence. The Ulufa’alu government during this period limited press reporting and freedom of association, as well as, granting the police force more power.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Political climate, State of emergency, Honiara Peace Accord
The Honiara Peace Accord meeting was held on 28 June 1999, in Honiara. The Accord was brokered by the Commonwealth Special Envoy, Sitiveni Rabuka, and was signed by members of the National and Provincial Governments and the Opposition. The Accord included nine points of interest, which highlighted ethnic tensions since independence in 1978, and ways to minimize more ethnic violence.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Political climate, State of emergency, Munda Accord
The Munda Accord was focused on the Western Province, and drawn up in July 1999. The Accord expressed that the Western Province wanted to restrict the movement of unemployed vagrants, into their province. This in addition to setting down stringent measures against its own people who allow their land to be settled by outsiders and direct allocation of land other than for the purpose of public interest must be stopped outright in Western Province. Building on the Munda Accord, the Premiers of Malaita and Western Provinces co-signed a Communique: Western Province Ethnic Tension in August 1999.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Political climate, State of emergency, Western Leader's Communique
As well as the Communique signed in August 1999, a second one was formed in April 2000. The Communique was centered around the Western Province’s response to the Provincial Government Decentralisation Bill proposed in 1999, due to go to parliament in April 2000. The Communique aimed to allow the Western Province more independence both economically and politically. It stated that the Western Province wanted:


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Coup d'état, Isatabu Freedom Movement
In late 1998, the Isatabu Freedom Movement was established and started a campaign of threats against Malaitan migrants in Guadalcanal. The Movement claimed indigenous rights to the land on Guadalcanal and wants the malaitans to move out of the capital. The Isatabu Freedom Movement drove an estimated 20,000 people from their homes, as well as injury many Malatian people. The Isatabu Freedom Movement had driven Malaitan migrants to the capital, Honiara, and surrounded the city with a series of roadblocks. Because of these roadblocks, The Isatabu Freedom Movement controlled the rural areas of Guadalcanal, where most indigenous Guadalcanal had fled to, and proceeded to join the movement.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Coup d'état, Malaita Eagle Force
The Malaita Eagle Force emerged in 1999, as a response to hostile behaviour from the population of Guadalcanal in response to the Malaitian migration to the island. The group based themselves in Honiara and fought for Malaitan interests in Honiara . The Malaitan group established themselves to compete with the Guadalcanal Isatabu Freedom Movement. It was the Malaita Eagle Force group that were responsible for the coup d’état on June 5 2000.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Coup d'état, Ethnic tensions in Western Province
While the Malaita Eagle Force and Isatabu Freedom Movement were concentrated on the island of Guadalcanal, in Western Province notices appeared around Gizo, Munda and Noro demanding Malaitans to leave the island, and had three weeks to do so. The notices were signed by a group called ‘Black Shark’, who were an armed combatant group from Bougainville, yet it was unclear whether they were indeed behind the notices. The group in the past had burnt down Malaitan settlements, where eight hundred to one thousand Malaitans resided and were known to be hostile towards Malaitan immigrants. Confusion spread as to who was behind the attacks, and whether it was in fact the Black Shark group from Bougainvlle or an impersonator, and police were dispatched to largely populated areas across the island.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Coup d'état, Events
The Malaita Eagle Force staged a coup d'état on 5 June 2000. The event occurred as a result for the group's view that the government had failed to properly address the ethnic crisis. It was on the 5 June  that Andrew Nori and the Malaita Eagle Force overrun Honiara and took the Prime Minister hostage at gunpoint. Once hostage, the Malaita Eagle Force, forced the Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu to resign and declared war on the Isatabu Freedom Movement.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Coup d'état, Events
He was given two days to announce his resignation, but this was later extended until the meeting of Parliament that was held the following Thursday. The Malaita Eagle Force at this time, started an offensive against the Isatabu Freedom Movement, driving the road blocks further from the city. During this time, the Malaita Eagle Force controlled the capital and kept the Prime Minister under heavy guard. On June 30, the parliament elected a new Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, who was the leader of the opposition.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Repercussions of the Coup d'État, Economic consequences
Throughout the building ethnic tension in 2000, the Solomon Islands economy was negatively affected. The nation's gross domestic product decreased by fourteen percent in 2000. It is also believed that by October 2000, more than eight thousand jobs had been lost. The capitol, Honiara, where most of the fighting and coup d’etat took place, lost a lot of workers because of the violence and Malaitan migration back to Malaita. Due to Isatabu Freedom Movement raids on Guadalcanal’s mine, Gold Ridge, it closed down, losing a major contributor to foreign money.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Repercussions of the Coup d'État, Economic consequences
As well as the mine, logging exports fell by thirteen percent in 2000, because of the roadblocks set up by the Malaita Eagle Force and Isatabu Freedom Movement. On Guadalcanal, plantations were also destroyed and equipment was stolen, as well as livestock being killed for food by soldiers from the Isatabu Freedom Movement. Houses, buildings and infrastructure were destroyed, including a water station at Kongulae, leaving Honiara without water from that source. As well as the domestic economy, the nation was unable to trade internationally for the likes of oil and gas due to insufficient funds at the Central Bank.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Repercussions of the Coup d'État, Peace Talks
On the fifteenth of October 2000, peace talks were held in Townsville Australia, to begin a process of reconciliation, resulting in the Townsville Peace Agreement. The talks hosted the following groups from the Solomon Islands, The Malaita Eagle Force, The Isatabu Freedom Movement, the Solomon Islands Government, The Malaita Provincial Government and the Guadalcanal Provincial Government. The Townsville Peace Agreement concluded that the government of The Solomon Islands was to introduce a form of government that would give more autonomy to the provinces.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Repercussions of the Coup d'État, Peace Talks
Members, leaders, police and civilian advisors that were associated with the Malaita Eagle Force and the Isatabu Freedom Movement who participated in military operations during the course of the ethnic crisis, up until October 15 were granted amnesty. This amnesty excludes people that did not give up firearms, ammunition or stolen property that were to be surrendered following the Townsville Peace Agreement, which stated that both the Malaita Eagle Force and the Isatabu Freedom Movement had to surrender all weapons in their possession. The Agreement also declared that there was to be a free movement of People and Services throughout the Solomon Islands, following the peace talks.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Repercussions of the Coup d'État, Peace Talks
Following the Townsville Peace Agreement in October 2000, the Solomon Islands government held a conference in Buala in November that was attended by the nation’s Premiers. The conference aimed to discuss legal and administrative changes to support a government that would increase the independence of the provinces. They concluded that the national government was to adopt a homegrown state system of government where each respective province should become a State with its own State Constitution. The system of state government was proposed and enacted  in the Constitution Amendment Bill in July 2001. Changes to this Bill continued until 2006.


2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état, Repercussions of the Coup d'État, Disarmament process
In November 2000, Australia and New Zealand combined sent forty seven monitors, that were dispersed between Guadalcanal and Malaita. There were four teams of monitors in Guadalcanal and one in Malaita. They arrived to oversee the disarmament process after the coup d’etat, in which the Malaita Eagle Force and Isatabu Freedom Movement were ordered to hand back stolen weaponry, in accordance with the Townsville Peace Talks. The monitors controlled eight storage containers which were to hold the equipment collected in the process, all were under surveillance and equipped with padlocks. By July 2001, 1,131 firearms and 3,600 rounds of ammunition had been surrendered by both the Malaita Eagle Force and the Isatabu Freedom Movement.


2000 Songs of Farida
2000 Songs of Farida (Uzbek: Faridaning ikki ming qoʻshigʻi), also translated as Farida's 2000 Songs, is a 2020 Uzbekistani drama film directed by Yalkin Tuychiev. It is set in Central Asia in 1920.


2000 Songs of Farida
The film premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival on 17 October 2020, and was shown a couple of weeks later at the 2020 Busan International Film Festival. It was selected as the Uzbekistani entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but was disqualified owing to the correct format of the film not being submitted by the deadline.


2000 Songs of Farida, Plot
The film is set in a rural location in Central Asia (present-day Uzbekistan) during the civil war following the 1917 Russian Revolution, which spread into the Russian colonies in the region. Set in 1920, the Bolshevik forces are closing in, close to victory in taking over the republic.


2000 Songs of Farida, Plot
The story centres on a landowner in a rural location, who already has three wives, and has his life disrupted when a fourth wife arrives at his home. He has married the new, younger wife because his other wives had not produced an heir for him, but he treats his wives poorly, and the women forge close relationships among themselves. The coming of the Bolsheviks means that women's roles in society will change.


2000 Songs of Farida, Themes
One reviewer described the film as "a story about the changes in local women’s lives under patriarchy and the war going on around them. Using the example of one local family, the film analyzes how the historical events of the beginning of the last century in Turkestan, affected the life of the population of this region".


2000 Songs of Farida, Themes
The director said "This film is neither a historical decoration nor a museum exhibition,... but the exploration of a real-life, real people, their reality, dignity and truth... that gets over the borders of history, mentality, nationality and race in order to reach a real sense of humaneness".


2000 Songs of Farida, Themes
World Film Reviews called it a "deceptively clever film", with the final 20 minutes particularly exciting.


2000 Songs of Farida, Production
2000 Songs of Farida was directed by Yalkin Tuychiev, a director from Tashkent, born in 1977 when Uzbekistan was still a Soviet Republic, whose earlier films had been selected for international film festivals before. It was produced by Shavkat Rizayev.


2000 Songs of Farida, Production
Called Faridaning ikki ming qoʻshigʻi in the Uzbek language, the film title has also been translated as Farida's 2000 Songs.


2000 Songs of Farida, Production
The film makes use of long takes, showing the dry and rural landscape around the house where all of the action takes place.


2000 Songs of Farida, Release
The film premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival on 17 October 2020, and was also selected for the 2020 Busan International Film Festival, where it was shown a couple of weeks later.


2000 Songs of Farida, Release
Its German premiere was at the GoEast festival, based in Wiesbaden but much of it online, in April 2021, and it was shown at the 6th Ulju Mountain Film Festival, a film festival held in the Yeongnam Alps in South Korea dedicated to films about mountains and mountaineering. It was listed as the first of twelve films not to be missed at the festival.


2000 Songs of Farida, Reception
The film was submitted for the Golden Globes in 2020, but was not nominated. The website reviewer called it a rare film:


2000 Songs of Farida, Reception
It was selected as the Uzbekistani entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. However, the film was disqualified, because the Uzbek Film Commission did not submit the required format of the film to the Academy in time.


2000 Songs of Farida, Reception
At the 6th edition of the annual Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles, 2000 Songs of Farida won the Snow Leopard Audience Award.


2000 Soul Train Music Awards
The 2000 Soul Train Music Awards were held on March 4, 2000 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Eric Benét, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Tamia and Shemar Moore.


2000 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina, Britain and Ireland
The 2000 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina, Britain and Ireland was a series of matches played in November–December 2000 in Argentina, Britain and Ireland by South Africa national rugby union team.


2000 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina, Britain and Ireland
In the meantime, the "Under-23" South African selection made another tour playing with second tier countries.


2000 South African Figure Skating Championships
The 2000 South African Figure Skating Championships were held in Cape Town on 3–7 October 1999. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles at the senior, novice, and pre-novice levels. There was also a junior and juvenile ladies' competition.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 19 March 2000 at Phakisa Freeway.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, 500cc race report
This race was most notable for the shock win of WCM rider Garry McCoy. Initially, many thought that it would be 1999 500cc world champion Àlex Crivillé who would win the race, mainly thanks to the pole he had obtained on Saturday. This race also marked the first ever 500cc race of Valentino Rossi.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, 500cc race report
At the start of the race, Kenny Roberts Jr. on his Suzuki, overtook Crivillé at the start to lead the opening lap, followed by the Yamaha of Carlos Checa. Crivillé would drop down to 7th, whilst Tadayuki Okada moved up to third, closely followed by Loris Capirossi who would swap places with each other a few times on the opening lap. McCoy at that time was only in 8th place, and Rossi in 13th after a bad opening lap.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, 500cc race report
After a few laps, Checa would overtake Kenny Roberts Jr. for the lead, and not long after that Capirossi would follow suit. McCoy dropped to 9th place, with Valentino Rossi behind him.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, 500cc race report
On the 5th lap, Capirossi overtook Checa to lead the race, and after 12 laps, both Max Biaggi and Valentino Rossi were out of the race; Biaggi because of technical problems, and Rossi because of a crash.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, 500cc race report
With the laps closing down, McCoy overtook multiple people to reach third place. Sete Gibernau also overtook Kenny Roberts to go on and finish in what would be 4th place, but ran wide and eventually retired. Not much later, Crivillé would end up overtaking Roberts Jr. as well.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, 500cc race report
With 5 laps to go, McCoy overtook the Honda of Capirossi and went up into second place. A few corners later, he overtook the other Yamaha of Checa to lead the race. He held off a late charge from Checa and would come home to win the race with 0.366 seconds difference: the first 500cc race of his career.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, 500cc race report
This was the first race to be won by an Australian since the 1998 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix who was won by Mick Doohan.


2000 South African motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.


2000 South African municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in South Africa on 5 December 2000 to elect members to the local governing councils in the municipalities of South Africa.


2000 South African municipal elections, Results
The popular vote, obtained by adding the ward ballots and the municipal proportional representation ballots, were as follows:


2000 South American Cross Country Championships
The 2000 South American Cross Country Championships took place on February 5–6, 2000. The races were held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, jointly with the Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships.


2000 South American Cross Country Championships
Complete results, results for junior and youth competitions, and medal winners were published.


2000 South American Cross Country Championships, Race results, Men's short race (4 km)
†: Athlete marked as guest, but accounted for team score.


2000 South American Cross Country Championships, Participation
According to an unofficial count, a total of 195 athletes from 16 countries participated.


2000 South American Cross Country Championships, Participation, South American Cross Country Championships
According to an unofficial count, 81 athletes from 7 countries were competing for the South American Cross Country Championships.


2000 South American Cross Country Championships, Participation, Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships
According to an unofficial count, 86 athletes from 9 countries were competing for the Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships. 13 athletes from Colombia and 5 athletes from Panamá competed for both championships.


2000 South American Cross Country Championships, Participation, Guests
In addition, one African guest athlete, and 45 local Colombian athletes participated.


2000 South American Junior Championships in Athletics
The 32nd South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in São Leopoldo, Brazil at the University of Unisinos Track club from October 7–8, 2000. Athletes from Portugal were invited to participate as guests.


2000 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the CBAt, on the IAAF and on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count (without the Portuguese guest athletes) yields the number of about 260 athletes from about 11 countries:  Argentina (53), Bolivia (3), Brazil (66), Chile (46), Colombia (8), Ecuador (16), Panama (2), Paraguay (24), Peru (3), Uruguay (14), Venezuela (25).


2000 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for men and womenComplete results can be found on the CBAt, on the IAAF and on the "World Junior Athletics History"website.


2000 South American Rugby Championship "A"
The 2000 South American Rugby Championship was the 22nd edition of the competition of the leading national Rugby Union teams in South America.


2000 South American Rugby Championship "A"
The tournament was played in Montevideo, with three team participating. Paraguay withdrew.


2000 South American Rugby Championship "A"
Argentina (that played with the "Development XV") won the tournament.


2000 South American Rugby Championship "A", Standings
Three point for victory, two for draw, and one for lost


2000 South American Rugby Championship "B"
The 2000 South American Rugby Championship "B" was the first edition of the competition of the second level national Rugby Union teams in South America.


2000 South American Rugby Championship "B"
The tournament was played in São Paulo, with three teams participating.


2000 South American Rugby Championship "B", Standings
Three points for victory, two for a draw, and one for a loss


2000 South American Youth Championships in Athletics
The 15th South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio El Salitre in Bogotá, Colombia from November 4–5, 2000. For the first time, the competition was open for athletes from the age group under 18 (U18) rather than under 17 (U17) as before.


2000 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for boys and girls. Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


2000 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
All results are marked as "affected by altitude" (A), because Bogotá is located at 2,625 metres above sea level.


2000 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 228 athletes from about 12 countries:


2000 South Antrim by-election
Clifford Forsythe, the Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for South Antrim, died on 27 April 2000; as result, a by-election was held in the constituency on 21 September 2000.


2000 South Antrim by-election, Candidates
The election arose after the Good Friday Agreement, with prisoner releases having started, but before the pro-agreement parties had reached agreement on the shape of a devolved government. After a disputatious selection contest, the London-based public relations executive David Burnside was selected as the new Ulster Unionist Party candidate. Burnside claimed to have supported the Agreement at the time of its negotiation but to have since turned against the way in which it was being implemented. However this was at odds with his party's policy. This was seized upon by the Democratic Unionist Party candidate, former Mid-Ulster MP Rev. William McCrea in campaigning. McCrea campaigned on a policy of refusal to co-operate with Sinn Féin in the absence of progress on arms decommissioning.


2000 South Antrim by-election, Candidates
The Northern Ireland Unionist Party initially selected Norman Boyd, who was a local member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (elected as a member of the United Kingdom Unionist Party). However, during the campaign Boyd withdrew, urging voters not to divide the anti-agreement vote, and supported McCrea. Although the Progressive Unionist Party had secured 8.7% of the vote at the previous general election, they did not stand on this occasion.


2000 South Antrim by-election, Candidates
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland selected David Ford, who was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the area and who had previously fought the seat in the 1997 general election. With all the Unionist candidates opposed to the Good Friday Agreement to some degree, Ford hoped to gain the support of pro Agreement unionist voters. However, with the Unionist parties fighting fiercely, Ford faced the difficult task of convincing voters that a vote for the Alliance was not wasted, especially when many who supported the Agreement argued that the best realistic result for maintaining it would be for Burnside to win the seat.


2000 South Antrim by-election, Candidates
The nationalist SDLP also ran their local assembly member, in this case Donovan McClelland. With the constituency overwhelmingly Protestant the SDLP had no chance of winning and much of the spotlight on them concerned their electoral battle with Sinn Féin as a prelude to forthcoming Assembly elections. Sinn Féin had no Assembly members but ran Martin Meehan, who had been their sole Assembly candidate the last time, in the hope of increasing his profile and building up their local organisation in preparation for a shot at the next election. The battle between McClelland and Meehan attracted much attention as it would indicate the movement of votes within the nationalist community between the two parties, though most agreed that it was always likely for the SDLP to come out on top in the highly middle-class constituency.


2000 South Antrim by-election, Candidates
In addition the Natural Law Party selected David Collins. This was to be one of the last occasions that the party would fight an election in Northern Ireland.


2000 South Antrim by-election, Campaign
With delays over the selection and the summer holiday intervening, polling day in the by-election was held off until 21 September, allowing extensive campaigning. The constituency is strongly Protestant and it was always clear that the real contest was between the two Unionist parties. Away from these two, interest was piqued by the advance of Sinn Féin, overtaking the Alliance in the number of votes won. Many believed that this heralded the former party subsequently taking the latter's Assembly seat in the next assembly election, but in the event Ford narrowly held on.


2000 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 2000 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gamecocks were led by Lou Holtz in his second season as head coach and played their home games at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.


2000 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
South Carolina made one of the biggest turnarounds in college football history, going from a winless season in 1999 to an eight-win campaign in 2000. Their first win of the season, against New Mexico State, came two years to the day after their previous win, against Ball State on September 2, 1998. South Carolina's turnaround in conference play was also one of the biggest in SEC history, going from 0–8 in 1999, to 5–3 in 2000 including a victory against a heavily favored Georgia team that ended the Gamecocks' SEC losing streak. South Carolina fans tore down the goalposts at Williams-Brice Stadium on both occasions in celebration. On New Year's Day 2001, the Gamecocks defeated Ohio State in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Florida. South Carolina finished the season ranked #19 in the AP Poll and #21 in the Coaches Poll.


2000 South Florida Bulls football team
The 2000 South Florida Bulls football team represented the University of South Florida (USF) in the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football season, and was the fourth team fielded by the school. The Bulls were led by head coach Jim Leavitt in his fourth year, played their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida and competed as a Division I-AA Independent. The Bulls finished the season with a record of seven wins and four losses (7–4).


2000 South India cyclone
2000 South Indian Cyclone (IMD designation: BOB 05 JTWC designation: 05B) was the strongest, most intense tropical cyclone of the fairly-quiet 2000 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. The fifth cyclone, and the fourth named storm, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm BOB 05 started as an upper-level low over the Andaman Sea on November 24. On early November 26, the group of thunderstorms was classified as a depression by the IMD. The system slowly began to organize, and late on November 26 the JTWC named it as Tropical Cyclone 03B.


2000 South India cyclone
By November 28, a 20 km (12 mi)-wide eye was developing, prompting the JTWC to upgrade the storm to the equivalent of a minimal hurricane with winds of 120 km/h (75 mph). By comparison, the IMD estimated peak winds of 190 km/h (120 mph). Wind shear in the region prevented further strengthening, and the storm weakened slightly before making landfall on November 29 in eastern India near Cuddalore. A station there recorded a pressure of 983 mbar (29.0 inHg).


2000 South India cyclone
The storm rapidly weakened over land, and degenerated into a remnant low on November 30. The remnants emerged into the eastern Arabian Sea on December 1, by which time most thunderstorms had dissipated over the deteriorating center. Two days later, the JTWC reissued advisories, based on an increase in outflow and convective organization. This was short-lived, as the thunderstorms soon dwindled, and the JTWC ceased issuing advisories on December 5. The remnants continued westward without development toward eastern Somalia.


2000 South India cyclone
As many as 12 people died from the storm. The storm caused ₹700 million rupees (US$15 million) in damages.


2000 South India cyclone, Meteorological history
An upper-level low persisted over the Andaman Sea on November 24. By the next day, a circulation center was present about 370 km (230 mi) west of Thailand, although convection was dislocated to the west due to wind shear. After the thunderstorms concentrated over the center early on November 26, the IMD classified the system as a depression. A ridge to the north steered the system generally westward. Outflow and convective organization gradually increased, and late on November 26 the JTWC classified it as Tropical Cyclone 03B. As the rainbands organized around the center, the winds increased; the IMD upgraded the system to a cyclonic storm on November 27, and to a severe and later a very severe cyclonic storm on November 28.


2000 South India cyclone, Meteorological history
By November 28, a 20 km (12 mi)-wide eye was developing, prompting the JTWC to upgrade the storm to the equivalent of a minimal hurricane with winds of 120 km/h (75 mph). By comparison, the IMD estimated peak winds of 190 km/h (120 mph). Wind shear in the region prevented further strengthening, and the storm weakened slightly before making landfall on November 29 in eastern India near Cuddalore. A station there recorded a pressure of 983 mbar (29.0 inHg). The storm rapidly weakened over land, and degenerated into a remnant low on November 30.


2000 South India cyclone, Meteorological history
The remnants emerged into the eastern Arabian Sea on December 1, by which time most thunderstorms had dissipated over the deteriorating center. Two days later, the JTWC reissued advisories, based on an increase in outflow and convective organization. This was short-lived, as the thunderstorms soon dwindled, and the JTWC ceased issuing advisories on December 5. The remnants continued westward without development toward eastern Somalia, before they were last noted on December 6.


2000 South India cyclone, Impact, Tamil Nadu
Heavy rainfall, peaking at 450 mm (18 in) in Tholudur, spread across Tamil Nadu. During the passage of the eye, residents reported a period of calm lasting about 45 minutes. The main loss was crop damage, uprooting of big trees, and damage to houses. About one thousand  and 14 brick houses were damaged due to strong winds. 10 people lost their lives due to wall/building collapse, and/or electrocution. In the whole state, the roofs of 1000 houses were blown off, 14 houses were washed away, and 300 houses were washed away.


2000 South India cyclone, Impact, Tamil Nadu
Sugarcane in 100 acres, 30.000 Plantain trees, and 50,000 plantain saplings were also destroyed. The winds also damaged about 41,000 houses, about 1,000 of which lost their roofs. Flooding washed away 14 brick buildings, while 300 others were inundated by the sea. Over 1,000 power lines were damaged. Overall, the cyclone caused damages of ₹700 million rupees (US$15 million) and 12 deaths.


2000 South India cyclone, Impact, Tamil Nadu, Cuddalore
Over 30,000 trees were uprooted in the Cuddalore district, and 1,000+ electric poles were downed. Four transformers were also damaged. In the Cuddalore district alone, the damages was 20 Indian crores (US$2,702,136).


2000 South India cyclone, Impact, Pondicherry
Damages to paddy crops, plantains and coconut plantations were the major loss. About 40,000 Kutcha houses were partially damaged due to the strong winds, and 2 people lost their lives. The damage amounted to 50 Indian crores (US$6,801,865)


2000 South Korean legislative election
Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 13 April 2000.


2000 South Korean legislative election
Opinion polls suggested that the ruling Democratic Party would win the most seats, but the result was a victory for the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), which won 133 of the 273 seats in the National Assembly. The United Liberal Democrats (ULD) lost two-thirds of their seats due to GNP's victory in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gangwon-do (South Korea), and also fewer local votes in Chungcheong.


2000 South Korean legislative election
With no party winning a majority, the 16th parliament was the first Hung Parliament in South Korean history.


2000 South Korean legislative election
The Democrats, ULD and Democratic People's Party (DPP) formed a coalition to gain a majority. However, the ULD withdrew support in 2001 and joined the conservative opposition. Seven ULD members subsequently defected from the party and joined the GNP, giving it a majority.


2000 South Lakeland District Council election
The 2000 South Lakeland District Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of South Lakeland District Council in Cumbria, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2000 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2000 South Tyneside Council Metropolitan Borough election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in Tyne and Wear, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council.


2000 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
Labour maintained their control of the council with only one independent gain being made in the election.


2000 Southampton City Council election
The 2000 Southampton Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Southampton Unitary Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.


2000 Southampton City Council election, Election result
The results saw Labour lose their majority on the council for the first time in 13 years after both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats made gains. The Conservatives gained the seats of Harefield, Shirley and St Lukes from Labour, with the winner in St Lukes, Stephen Day, becoming the youngest councillor at the age of 22. Among the defeated Labour councillors was the former leader of the council, Richard Bates, in Shirley, while the then leader of the council June Bridle only held her seat in Sholing by 59 votes. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats gained in Coxford and Woolston, the latter by 33 votes over Labour. The overall turnout in the election was 25%, with the lowest being 17.2% in Bargate ward.


2000 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2000 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama from May 17th through May 21st. LSU defeated Florida in the championship game, earning the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. LSU would go on to win the national championship at the College World Series in Omaha, NE, their fifth national championship in 10 seasons.