Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Koptur ya yi gasa a wasanni uku na iyo a Wasannin Olympics na 2000 a Sydney. Ya share lokacin shigarwa na FINA A na 15:27.86 (m 400 na kyauta) daga Gasar Turai
a birnin Helsinki na ƙasar Finland. A ranar farko ta wasannin, Koptur ya sanya na ashirin da biyu a tseren mita 400. Yin iyo a zagaye na huɗu, ya kammala filin zuwa matsayi na ƙarshe da kusan dakika goma a bayan Massimiliano Rosolino na Italiya a cikin 3: 55.26. Kwana huɗu bayan haka, Koptur ya haɗu da Pavel Lagoun, Igor Koleda, da Valeryan Khuroshvili a tseren tseren mita 4 × 200. Yin iyo a mataki na uku, Koptur ya rubuta rabuwa na 1: 51.14, amma 'yan Belarusian sun kasa zuwa na shida da na sha biyu a duka a cikin lokaci na ƙarshe na 7: 24.83. A cikin wasansa na karshe, 1500 m freestyle, Koptur ya kalubalanci wasu masu iyo bakwai a zagaye na uku, gami da manyan masoya Ricardo Monasterio na Venezuela da Spyridon Gianniotis na Girka. Ya ci gaba da Gianniotis da kashi bakwai cikin dari na biyu (0.07) don samun matsayi na biyu a cikin lokaci na 15:29.62. Koptur ya kasa kaiwa ga manyan 8 na karshe, yayin da ya sanya na ashirin a gaba ɗaya a ranar ƙarshe ta prelims.