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2000 Summer Olympics medal table

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2000 Summer Olympics medals
LocationSydney,  Australia
Highlights
Most gold medals United States (37)
Most total medals United States (93)
Medalling NOCs80
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Three women sporting Olympic medals around their necks, with one holding a bouquet, celebrating their individual Olympic achievements together.
The awarding of the first medals of the Games
Colorful fireworks burst over the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, marking the festive opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the closing ceremonies
Olympic rings
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2000 Summer Olympics

The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000.[1] A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (with four individual athletes from East Timor because the country had no NOC),[2][3] including the Olympic debuts of Eritrea, Micronesia and Palau.[3] The games featured 300 events in 28 sports across 39 disciplines,[2][4] including the Olympic debuts of synchronized diving, taekowndo, triathlon and trampolining.[1]

Athletes from 80 countries won at least one medal, a new record,[5] with 52 nations winning at least one gold medal.[6] The United States won the most gold medals, with 37, and the most medals overall, with 93.[6] It was the second consecutive Summer Olympic Games that the United States led the medal count in both gold and overall medals.[7] Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall (16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze).[8] Cameroon,[9] Colombia,[10] Latvia,[11] Mozambique[12] and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories,[13] while Vietnam,[14] Barbados,[15] Macedonia,[16] Kuwait,[17] Kyrgyzstan,[18] and Saudi Arabia won their first ever Olympic medals.[19] Among individual athletes, Australia's Ian Thorpe, the Netherlands' Leontien van Moorsel and Inge de Bruijn and the United States' Jenny Thompson and Lenny Krayzelburg won the most gold medals at the games with three each and Russian tympanist Alexei Nemov won the most overall medals with six (two gold, one silver and three bronze).[20]

Medal table

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See also: Olympic medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables.[2] The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[21][22] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[23]

Events in boxing result in a bronze medal being awarded to each of the two competitors who lose their semi-final matches, as opposed to fighting in a third place tie breaker.[24] Another combat sport, judo, uses a repechage system which also results in two bronze medals being awarded.[25]

There were two ties for medals in athletics. No gold medal and two silver medals were awarded due to second-place ties in the women's 100 metres while a tie for third place in the women's high jump saw two bronze medals being awarded.[26][27] In swimming events, there were two more ties for medals. There was a two-way tie for first place in the men's 50 metre freestyle, which resulted in two gold medals and no silver medals being awarded.[28] Two bronze medals were awarded in the women's 100 metre freestyle due to a tie for third place.[29]

Key

 ‡  Changes in medal standings (see below)

  *   Host nation (Australia)

2000 Summer Olympics medal table[6][A]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States‡37243293
2 Russia‡32282989
3 China28161458
4 Australia*16251758
5 Germany‡13172656
6 France13141138
7 Italy1381334
8 Netherlands129425
9 Cuba1111729
10 Great Britain1110728
11 Romania‡116926
12 South Korea‡8101028
13 Hungary86317
14 Poland65314
15 Japan58518
16 Bulgaria56213
17 Greece46313
18 Sweden45312
19 Norway43310
20 Ethiopia4138
21 Ukraine3101023
22 Kazakhstan3407
23 Belarus331117
24 Canada33814
25 Spain33511
26 Turkey‡3025
27 Iran3014
28 Czech Republic2338
29 Kenya2327
30 Denmark2316
31 Finland2114
32 Austria2103
33 Lithuania2035
34 Azerbaijan2013
 Bahamas‡2013
36 Slovenia2002
37 Switzerland1629
38 Indonesia1326
39 Slovakia1315
40 Mexico1236
41 Nigeria‡1203
42 Algeria1135
43 Uzbekistan1124
44 FR Yugoslavia1113
 Latvia1113
46 New Zealand1034
47 Estonia1023
 Thailand1023
49 Croatia1012
50 Cameroon1001
 Colombia1001
 Mozambique1001
53 Brazil06612
54 Jamaica‡0639
55 Belgium0235
 South Africa0235
57 Argentina0224
58 Chinese Taipei0145
 Morocco0145
60 North Korea0134
61 Moldova0112
 Saudi Arabia0112
 Trinidad and Tobago0112
64 Ireland0101
 Sri Lanka‡0101
 Uruguay0101
 Vietnam0101
68 Georgia0066
69 Costa Rica0022
 Portugal0022
71 Armenia0011
 Barbados0011
 Chile0011
 Iceland0011
 India0011
 Israel0011
 Kuwait0011
 Kyrgyzstan0011
 Macedonia0011
 Qatar0011
Totals (80 entries)300300327927

Changes in medal standings

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See also: List of stripped Olympic medals
List of official changes in medal standings
Ruling date Event Athlete (NOC) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Net change Comment
26 September 2000 Gymnastics, Individual all-around  Andreea Răducan (ROU) DSQ −1 −1 During the Games, Romanian gymnast Andreea Răducan won the gold in women's artistic individual all-around, but she was stripped of her gold medal after she tested positive for a banned substance. As so, her teammates Simona Amânar and Maria Olaru, originally won silver and bronze, upgraded to gold and silver, respectively. While Chinese gymnast Liu Xuan moved up to bronze.[30]
 Simona Amânar (ROU) +1 −1 0
 Maria Olaru (ROU) +1 −1 0
 Liu Xuan (CHN) +1 +1
23 October 2000 Wrestling, Men's freestyle 76 kg  Alexander Leipold (GER) DSQ −1 −1 Three weeks after the games, Alexander Leipold of Germany was stripped of his gold medal after he tested positive for nandrolone, with the medal being reallocated to his American rival, originally second-placed Brandon Slay.[31]
 Brandon Slay (USA) +1 −1 0
 Moon Eui-jae (KOR) +1 −1 0
 Adem Bereket (TUR) +1 +1
5 October 2007 Athletics, Women's 100 metres  Marion Jones (USA) DSQ −1 −1 American Marion Jones was stripped of her three gold and two bronze medals by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after confessing that she had taken the anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone before competing in Sydney.[32][33]
The women's 100 metres gold medal has not been reallocated, because the presumed recipient, Ekaterini Thanou of Greece, was given a two-year ban for doping just before the 2004 Summer Olympics. After years of deliberations the IOC decided to upgrade third- and fourth-placed athletes to silver and bronze, while not upgrading Thanou.
Jones' teammates on the relay teams had their medals reinstated due to the fact that, according to the rules at the time, a team should not be stripped of a medal because of a doping offense by one athlete.[34]
 Tayna Lawrence (JAM) +1 −1 0
 Merlene Ottey (JAM) +1 +1
Athletics, Women's 200 metres  Marion Jones (USA) DSQ −1 −1
 Davis-Thompson (BAH) +1 −1 0
 Susanthika Jayasinghe (SRI) +1 −1 0
 Beverly McDonald (JAM) +1 +1
Athletics, Women's long jump  Marion Jones (USA) DSQ −1 −1
 Tatyana Kotova (RUS) +1 +1
Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 metres relay  Marion Jones (USA) DSQ 0 0
Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 metres relay  Marion Jones (USA) DSQ 0 0
2 August 2008 Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 metres relay  Antonio Pettigrew (USA) DSQ −1 −1 On 2 August 2008, the IOC stripped the gold medal from the U.S. men's 4 x 400-metre relay team after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to taking EPO. The IOC reallocated the gold, silver and bronze medals to the teams from Nigeria, Jamaica and the Bahamas, respectively.[35]
 - (NGR) +1 −1 0
 - (JAM) +1 −1 0
 - (BAH) +1 +1
25 February 2010 Gymnastics, Women's artistic team all-around  Dong Fangxiao (CHN) DSQ −1 −1 On 25 February 2010, the Associated Press reported that one of the members of the Chinese Gymnastic team was found to be under the minimum age limit set for competition. The governing body of the event, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), reported that it determined Dong Fangxiao to be 14 during the 2000 Olympics. The minimum age for competition was 16. The FIG invalidated the results of the competition in relation to the disqualified athlete. On 28 April 2010, the International Olympic Committee formally stripped the Chinese team of its bronze medal in the team event. The United States, which originally placed fourth, was awarded the bronze.[36][37]
 - (USA) +1 +1
17 January 2013 Cycling, Men's road time trial  Lance Armstrong (USA) DSQ −1 −1 On 17 January 2013, American cyclist Lance Armstrong was stripped of his bronze medal from the 2000 Summer Olympics by the IOC after his confession of being involved in using doping.[38] The IOC also decided not to award Spanish cyclist Abraham Olano the bronze medal, as he had also tested positive for doping, back in 1998.[39]
List of official changes by country
NOC Gold Silver Bronze Net change
 United States (USA) −2 −1 0 −3
 Germany (GER) −1 0 0 −1
 Romania (ROU) 0 0 −1 −1
 Nigeria (NGR) +1 −1 0 0
 South Korea (KOR) 0 +1 −1 0
 Sri Lanka (SRI) 0 +1 −1 0
 Bahamas (BAH) +1 −1 +1 +1
 Russia (RUS) 0 0 +1 +1
 Turkey (TUR) 0 0 +1 +1
 Jamaica (JAM) 0 +2 0 2

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Figures in table reflect all official changes in medal standings.

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