  Searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson have been performed in the data
collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP in the year 2000 at centre-of-mass
energies between 200 and 209 GeV corresponding to a total integrated luminosity
of 224 pb^{-1}. No evidence for a Higgs signal is observed in the kinematically
accessible mass range, and a 95% CL lower mass limit of 114.3 GeV/c^2 is set,
to be compared with an expected median limit of 113.5 GeV/c^2 for these data.
