2000_Summer_Olympics_medal_table
2000 Summer Olympics medal table
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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. A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (with four individual athletes from East Timor) competed in 300 events in 28 sports.[1]
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| 2000 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
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| Location | Sydney,  Australia | |||
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| Most gold medals |  United States (37) | |||
| Most total medals | United States (93) | |||
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Athletes from 80 countries won at least one medal. The United States won the most medals overall with 93, as well as the most gold (37) medals. Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall (16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze).[1] Cameroon, Colombia, Latvia, Mozambique and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories, while Vietnam, Barbados, Macedonia, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, and Saudi Arabia won their first ever Olympic medals.[1]
See also: Olympic medal table
The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee.[1]
The ranking sorts by the number of gold medals earned by a country—in this context, an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.
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* Host nation (Australia)
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See also: List of stripped Olympic medals
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| Ruling date | Sport/Event | Athlete (NOC) |  |  |  | Total | Comment | |
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| List of official changes in medal standings (during the Games) | ||||||||
| 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.[2] | |||
| Simona Amânar (ROU) | +1 | −1 | 0 | |||||
| Maria Olaru (ROU) | +1 | −1 | 0 | |||||
 Liu Xuan (CHN) | +1 | +1 | ||||||
| List of official changes in medal standings (after the Games) | ||||||||
| 23 October 2000 | Wrestling Men's freestyle 76 kg |
 Alexander Leipold (GER) DSQ | −1 | −1 | Three weeks after the games, Alexander Leipold of Germany stripped off his gold medal after he was tested positive for nandrolone, handing it over to his American rival originally second-placed Brandon Slay.[3] | |||
| 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 3 gold and 2 bronze medals by the International Olympic Committee, after confessing that she had taken the anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone before competing in Sydney.[4][5] 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 3rd and 4th 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.[6] | |||
 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 International Olympic Committee stripped the gold medal from the U.S. men's 4x400-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.[7] | |||
 - (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, reported that it determined Dong Fangxiao to be 14 during the 2000 Olympics. The minimum age for competition was 16. The IGF 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.[8][9] | |||
| - (USA) | +1 | +1 | ||||||
| 17 January 2013 | Cycling Men's road time trial |
Lance Armstrong (USA) DSQ | −1 | −1 | On 17 January 2013, U.S. 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.[10] 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.[11] | |||
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- "IOC Strips Leipold of Wrestling Gold". ABC News. 23 October 2000. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- Shipley, Amy (5 October 2007). "Marion Jones Admits to Steroid Use". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- "IOC strips Jones of all 5 Olympic medals". MSNBC. Associated Press. 12 December 2007. Archived from the original on 18 February 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- Dunbar, Graham (16 July 2010). "US relay runners win Olympic medals appeal". Associated Press.
- "IOC Executive Board meets ahead of London Games". International Olympic Committee. 21 July 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- "Chinese may forfeit 2000 gymnastics bronze". NBC Sports. Associated Press. 26 February 2010. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- "IOC strips 2000 Games bronze medal from China". USA Today. Associated Press. 28 April 2010. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- "IOC Statement on Lance Armstrong". International Olympic Committee. 17 January 2013.
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