2000 Summer Olympics medal table

The 2000 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations (with four individual athletes from East Timor) competed in 300 events in 28 sports.[1]

The awarding of the first gold medal of the Games
Fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the closing ceremonies

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, a silver in taekwondo, a bronze in athletics, a bronze in wrestling and a bronze in judo, respectively.[1]

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.

Key

  *   Host nation (Australia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)37243293
2 Russia (RUS)32282989
3 China (CHN)28161458
4 Australia (AUS)*16251758
5 Germany (GER)13172656
6 France (FRA)13141138
7 Italy (ITA)1381334
8 Netherlands (NED)129425
9 Cuba (CUB)1111729
10 Great Britain (GBR)1110728
11 Romania (ROU)116926
12 South Korea (KOR)8101028
13 Hungary (HUN)86317
14 Poland (POL)65314
15 Japan (JPN)58518
16 Bulgaria (BUL)56213
17 Greece (GRE)46313
18 Sweden (SWE)45312
19 Norway (NOR)43310
20 Ethiopia (ETH)4138
21 Ukraine (UKR)3101023
22 Kazakhstan (KAZ)3407
23 Belarus (BLR)331117
24 Canada (CAN)33814
25 Spain (ESP)33511
26 Turkey (TUR)3025
27 Iran (IRI)3014
28 Czech Republic (CZE)2338
29 Kenya (KEN)2327
30 Denmark (DEN)2316
31 Finland (FIN)2114
32 Austria (AUT)2103
33 Lithuania (LTU)2035
34 Azerbaijan (AZE)2013
 Bahamas (BAH)2013
36 Slovenia (SLO)2002
37 Switzerland (SUI)1629
38 Indonesia (INA)1326
39 Slovakia (SVK)1315
40 Mexico (MEX)1236
41 Nigeria (NGR)1203
42 Algeria (ALG)1135
43 Uzbekistan (UZB)1124
44 Latvia (LAT)1113
 Yugoslavia (YUG)1113
46 New Zealand (NZL)1034
47 Estonia (EST)1023
 Thailand (THA)1023
49 Croatia (CRO)1012
50 Cameroon (CMR)1001
 Colombia (COL)1001
 Mozambique (MOZ)1001
53 Brazil (BRA)06612
54 Jamaica (JAM)0639
55 Belgium (BEL)0235
 South Africa (RSA)0235
57 Argentina (ARG)0224
58 Chinese Taipei (TPE)0145
 Morocco (MAR)0145
60 North Korea (PRK)0134
61 Moldova (MDA)0112
 Saudi Arabia (KSA)0112
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)0112
64 Ireland (IRL)0101
 Sri Lanka (SRI)0101
 Uruguay (URU)0101
 Vietnam (VIE)0101
68 Georgia (GEO)0066
69 Costa Rica (CRC)0022
 Portugal (POR)0022
71 Armenia (ARM)0011
 Barbados (BAR)0011
 Chile (CHI)0011
 Iceland (ISL)0011
 India (IND)0011
 Israel (ISR)0011
 Kuwait (KUW)0011
 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)0011
 Macedonia (MKD)0011
 Qatar (QAT)0011
Totals (80 nations)300300327927

Changes in medal standings

Ruling dateSport/EventAthlete (NOC)TotalComment
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 positive 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)+1−10
 Maria Olaru (ROU)+1−10
 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)+1−10
 Moon Eui-jae (KOR)+1−10
 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)+1−10
 Merlene Ottey (JAM)+1+1
Athletics
Women's 200 metres
 Marion Jones (USA) DSQ−1−1
 Davis-Thompson (BAH)+1−10
 Susanthika Jayasinghe (SRI)+1−10
 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) DSQ00
Athletics
Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
 Marion Jones (USA) DSQ00
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)+1−10
 - (JAM)+1−10
 - (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]

References

  1. "Sydney 2000". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  2. Zanca, Salvatore (26 September 2000). "Romanian Gymnast Loses Gold Medal". ABC News. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. "IOC Strips Leipold of Wrestling Gold". ABC News. 23 October 2000. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  4. Shipley, Amy (5 October 2007). "Marion Jones Admits to Steroid Use". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  5. "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.
  6. Dunbar, Graham (16 July 2010). "US relay runners win Olympic medals appeal". Associated Press.
  7. "IOC Executive Board meets ahead of London Games". International Olympic Committee. 21 July 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  8. "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.
  9. "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.
  10. "IOC Statement on Lance Armstrong". International Olympic Committee. 17 January 2013.
  11. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lance-armstrong-stripped-of-olympic-bronze-medal/

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