2000 Paris–Dakar–Cairo Rally

The 2000 Dakar Rally, also known as the 2000 Dakar–Cairo Rally, was the 22nd running of the Dakar Rally event. The event began on 6 January 2000 in Senegal and ended on 23 January in Cairo. It had been re-routed to avoid Mauritania following an armed robbery of competitors in the 1999 rally. Four stages of the rally scheduled to be held in Niger were cancelled following a reported terrorist threat. Competitors were airlifted from Niamey airport to Libya where the rally was restarted five days later at Sabha. The rally was won by French driver Jean-Louis Schlesser and his co-driver Henri Magne in a Schlesser-Renault buggy., with the motorcycle title going to BMW's Richard Sainct and the truck title to Kamaz's Vladimir Chagin.

Stages
Motorcycles principal entry

KTM

2 Heinz Kinigadner

3 Kari Tiainen

4 Fabrizio Meoni

6 Alfie Cox

7 Joan Roma

9 Giovanni Sala

12 Jordi Arcarons

16 Carlo de Gavardo

18 Isidre Esteve Pujol

BMW

1 Richard Sainct

5 Oscar Gallardo

8 Jimmy Lewis

10 John Deacon

19 Jean Brucy

Honda

23 Le Blanc

77 Ikemachi Yoshio

Cars principal entry

Schlesser-Renault

250 Jean Louis Schelesser

253 Jose Maria Servia

Mitsubishi

251 Jean Pierre Fontenay

254 Kenjiro Shinozuka

256 Jutta Kleinschmidt

260 Carlos Souza

271 Hiroshi Masuoka

Ford

252 Bruno Saby

Nissan

255 Thierry Delavergne

259 Philippe Wambergue

269 Gregoire de Mevius

Trucks principal entry

Kamaz

409 Vladimir Tchaguine

416 Firdaus Kabirov

Tatra

407 Karel Loprais

408 André de Azevedo

414 Bedrich Slenovsky

Hino

400 Yoshimasa Sugawara

MAN

415 Peter Reif