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Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Weightlifting
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueSydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Dates16–26 September 2000
No. of events15
Competitors246 from 76 nations
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The Weightlifting Competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia saw the introduction of women's weightlifting.[1][2]

Medalists

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Men

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
56 kg
details[a]
Halil Mutlu
 Turkey
Wu Wenxiong
 China
Zhang Xiangxiang
 China
62 kg
details[b]
Nikolaj Pešalov
 Croatia
Leonidas Sabanis
 Greece
Henadzi Aliashchuk
 Belarus
69 kg
details
Galabin Boevski
 Bulgaria
Georgi Markov
 Bulgaria
Siarhei Laurenau
 Belarus
77 kg
details
Zhan Xugang
 China
Viktor Mitrou
 Greece
Arsen Melikyan
 Armenia
85 kg
details
Pyrros Dimas
 Greece
Marc Huster
 Germany
Giorgi Asanidze
 Georgia
94 kg
details
Akakios Kakiasvilis
 Greece
Szymon Kołecki
 Poland
Aleksey Petrov
 Russia
105 kg
details
Hossein Tavakkoli
 Iran
Alan Tsagaev
 Bulgaria
Said Saif Asaad
 Qatar
+105 kg
details[c]
Hossein Rezazadeh
 Iran
Ronny Weller
 Germany
Andrey Chemerkin
 Russia

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
48 kg
details[d]
Tara Nott
 United States
Raema Lisa Rumbewas
 Indonesia
Sri Indriyani
 Indonesia
53 kg
details
Yang Xia
 China
Li Feng-ying
 Chinese Taipei
Winarni Binti Slamet
 Indonesia
58 kg
details
Soraya Jiménez
 Mexico
Ri Song-hui
 North Korea
Khassaraporn Suta
 Thailand
63 kg
details
Chen Xiaomin
 China
Valentina Popova
 Russia
Ioanna Chatziioannou
 Greece
69 kg
details
Lin Weining
 China
Erzsébet Márkus
 Hungary
Karnam Malleswari
 India
75 kg
details
María Isabel Urrutia
 Colombia
Ruth Ogbeifo
 Nigeria
Kuo Yi-hang
 Chinese Taipei
+75 kg
details
Ding Meiyuan
 China
Agata Wróbel
 Poland
Cheryl Haworth
 United States

Notes

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  • a Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified after testing positive for furosemide.[3]
  • b Sevdalin Minchev of Bulgaria originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified after testing positive for furosemide.[3]
  • c Ashot Danielyan of Armenia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified after testing positive for stanozolol.[4]
  • d Izabela Dragneva of Bulgaria originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified after testing positive for furosemide.[3]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China (CHN)5117
2 Greece (GRE)2215
3 Iran (IRI)2002
4 Bulgaria (BUL)1203
5 United States (USA)1012
6 Colombia (COL)1001
 Croatia (CRO)1001
 Mexico (MEX)1001
 Turkey (TUR)1001
10 Germany (GER)0202
 Poland (POL)0202
12 Indonesia (INA)0123
 Russia (RUS)0123
14 Chinese Taipei (TPE)0112
15 Hungary (HUN)0101
 Nigeria (NGR)0101
 North Korea (PRK)0101
18 Belarus (BLR)0022
19 Armenia (ARM)0011
 Georgia (GEO)0011
 India (IND)0011
 Qatar (QAT)0011
 Thailand (THA)0011
Totals (23 entries)15151545

Participating nations

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A total number of 261 weightlifters from 73 nations competed at the Sydney Games:

References

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  1. ^ "Weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Ola Rio 2016". 4 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Bulgarian lifters sent home". BBC Sport. 22 September 2000.
  4. ^ "Two more fail drug tests". BBC Sport. 1 October 2000.

Sources

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