2000 Summer Olympics medal table

None October 2020 2000 Summer Olympics medals Most total medals USA 2000 Summer 93 Most gold medals USA 2000 Summer 37 Medalling NOCs 80 1996 Olympics medal tables 2004 Sydney, AUS thumb|right|450px|World map showing the medal achievements of each country during the 2000 Summer Olympics Legend: #FFD700 represents countries that won at least one gold medal. #808080 represents countries that won at least one silver medal but no gold medals. #C87137 represents countries that won at least one bronze medal (no gold or silver). #FF5555 represents participating countries that did not win medals. #444 represents entities that did not participate at the 2000 Summer Olympics. thumb|alt=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 thumb|alt=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 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.Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Encyclopædia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/event/Sydney-2000-Olympic-Games 24 December 2024 Johnston Mindy 8 September 2024 live https://web.archive.org/web/20200707142704/https://www.britannica.com/event/Sydney-2000-Olympic-Games 7 July 2020 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),http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympic-Games/All-Past-Olympic-Games/Summer/Sydney-2000/ Sydney 2000 2008-07-15 International Olympic Committee 25 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181225174238/https://www.olympic.org/sydney-2000 live including the Olympic debuts of Eritrea, Micronesia and Palau.Engel Matthew An Olympics to fire the flames of optimism https://www.theguardian.com/Columnists/Column/0,5673,369170,00.html The Guardian 16 September 2000 24 September 2024 The games featured 300 events in 28 sports across 39 disciplines,2000 Summer Olympics https://www.olympedia.org/editions/25 Olympedia 24 September 2024 including the debuts of synchronized diving, taekwondo, triathlon, trampolining, women's modern pentathlon and women's weightlifting as official Olympic medal events.Taekwondo https://www.olympedia.org/sports/TKW 24 December 2024 Olympedia Athletes from 80 countries won at least one medal, a new record,Sydney 2000 10 August 2011 https://olympic.ca/games/2000-sydney/ Canadian Olympic Committee 25 September 2024 with 52 nations winning at least one gold medal. The United States won the most gold medals, with 37, and the most medals overall, with 93. It was the second consecutive Summer Olympic Games that the United States led the medal count in both gold and overall medals.Livengood Paul Does the United States always win the medal count? Here's a look at every Summer Olympics final medal count in history https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/olympics/olympic-medal-count-paris-usa-history/287-856b12a9-cc80-4534-bb36-ff3442e5ce7e WFAA 8 August 2024 25 September 2024 Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall (16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze).Tancred Mike Sydney 2000 Olympics remembered for national pride and goodwill https://www.smh.com.au/sport/sydney-2000-olympics-remembered-for-national-pride-and-goodwill-20150912-gjl8dt.html The Sydney Morning Herald 12 September 2015 25 September 2024 25 September 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240925200755/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/sydney-2000-olympics-remembered-for-national-pride-and-goodwill-20150912-gjl8dt.html live Cameroon,Sydney 2000: Soccer; After Furious Draw, Cameroon Is Golden https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/30/sports/sydney-2000-soccer-after-furious-draw-cameroon-is-golden.html The New York Times Reuters 30 September 2000 25 September 2024 subscription Colombia,Buckley Will Maria whistles to glory https://www.theguardian.com/observer/sport/story/0,6903,372568,00.html The Guardian 24 September 2000 25 September 2024 Latvia,Zariņš Viesturs Who will bring home Olympic medals for Latvia? https://latviansonline.com/who-will-bring-home-olympic-medals-for-latvia/ Latvians Online 29 July 2012 25 September 2024 25 September 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240925142416/https://latviansonline.com/who-will-bring-home-olympic-medals-for-latvia/ live MozambiqueBoavida Maria Maria Mutola – The Running Wonder from Mozambique https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000191795 UNESCO Courier September 2006 12–13 25 September 2024 and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories,Smrdel Tania 20 years since Summer Olympic games in Sydney https://www.sbs.com.au/language/slovenian/en/podcast-episode/20-years-since-summer-olympic-games-in-sydney/75omzw8z8 Special Broadcasting Service 26 September 2020 25 September 2024 while Vietnam,Murray Shane Olympics: Vietnam hails first ever medallist https://www.rte.ie/sport/2000/0929/151733-olympics1/ RTÉ Sport Reuters 29 September 2000 25 September 2024 Barbados,Thousands welcome Obadele Thompson home https://worldathletics.org/news/news/thousands-welcome-obadele-thompson-home World Athletics Reuters 8 October 2000 25 September 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20231118010807/https://worldathletics.org/news/news/thousands-welcome-obadele-thompson-home 18 November 2023 dead Macedonia,On this day, Ibragimov brought the first Olympic medal for Macedonia! https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/na-deneshen-den-ibragimov-go-donese-prviot-olimpiski-medal-za-makedonija-video/ Sloboden Pečat 1 October 2020 25 September 2024 Kuwait,First Olympic Medal for Kuwait https://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1111316&language=en Kuwait News Agency 20 September 2000 25 September 2024 Kyrgyzstan,Brennan Eliott Kyrgyzstan NOC pays tribute to athletes on Independence Day https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1127595/kyrgyzstan-noc-independence-day Inside the Games 2 September 2022 25 September 2024 and Saudi Arabia won their first ever Olympic medals.Alomar Dana A history of Saudi Arabia at the Olympic Games https://www.esquireme.com/sports/54168-a-history-of-saudi-arabia-at-the-olympic-games Esquire Middle East 21 July 2021 25 September 2024 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 gymnast Alexei Nemov won the most overall medals with six (two gold, one silver and three bronze).2000 Sydney Summer Games https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ Sports Reference 24 September 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20200114073017/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ 14 January 2020 dead __TOC__ Medal table 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. 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.Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024 https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympics-2024-medal-table-count-paris-b2580716.html The Independent 11 August 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240812015233/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympics-2024-medal-table-count-paris-b2594580.html 12 August 2024 live Ostlere Lawrence 12 August 2024 enA Medal Count That Adds Up To Little https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sports/olympics/19araton.html The New York Times 18 August 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20230321004238/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sports/olympics/19araton.html 21 March 2023 live Araton Harvey subscription 25 July 2024 If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.What happens if two countries are tied in the Olympic medal table? Tiebreaker rules explained https://en.as.com/olympic_games/what-happens-if-two-countries-are-tied-in-the-olympic-medal-table-tiebreaker-rules-explained-n/ Diario AS 10 August 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240811152350/https://en.as.com/olympic_games/what-happens-if-two-countries-are-tied-in-the-olympic-medal-table-tiebreaker-rules-explained-n/ August 11, 2024 live Cons Roddy 11 August 2024 en-us 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.Explained: Two bronze medals are awarded in the Olympics boxing competition https://olympics.com/en/news/why-two-bronze-medals-boxing International Olympic Committee 1 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20230328143327/https://olympics.com/en/news/why-two-bronze-medals-boxing 28 March 2023 live Ansari Aarish 25 September 2024 Another combat sport, judo, uses a repechage system which also results in two bronze medals being awarded.Repechage in wrestling and other sports explained – the second chance https://olympics.com/en/news/what-is-repechage-rules International Olympic Committee 21 June 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240802015913/https://olympics.com/en/news/what-is-repechage-rules 2 August 2024 live Nag Utathya 25 September 2024 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.Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's 100 metres https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ATH/womens-100-metres.html Sports Reference 25 September 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173401/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ATH/womens-100-metres.html 17 April 2020 deadAthletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's High Jump https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ATH/womens-high-jump.html Sports Reference 25 September 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174250/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ATH/womens-high-jump.html 17 April 2020 dead 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.Sydney 2000 Swimming 50m Freestyle Men Results https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/sydney-2000/results/swimming/50m-freestyle-men International Olympic Committee 25 September 2024 Two bronze medals were awarded in the women's 100 metre freestyle due to a tie for third place.Sydney 2000 Swimming 100m Freestyle Women Results https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/sydney-2000/results/swimming/100m-freestyle-women International Olympic Committee 25 September 2024 Key #ffffff darkgray Changes in medal standings (see below) 2000 Summer Olympics medal tableSydney 2000 Olympic Medal Table – Gold, Silver & Bronze https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/sydney-2000/medals International Olympic Committee 12 September 2024 11 September 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240911053054/https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/sydney-2000/medals liveFigures in table reflect all official changes in medal standings. AUS 10 Remaining NOCs flagIOC 2000 Summer NOC National Olympic Committee 37 24 32 32 28 29 28 16 14 16 25 17 yes 13 17 26 13 14 11 13 8 13 12 9 4 11 11 7 11 10 7 11 6 9 8 10 10 8 6 3 6 5 3 5 8 5 5 6 2 4 6 3 4 5 3 4 3 3 4 1 3 3 10 10 3 4 0 3 3 11 3 3 8 3 3 5 3 0 2 3 0 1 2 3 3 2 3 2 2 3 1 2 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 3 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 6 2 1 3 2 1 3 1 1 2 3 1 2 0 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 3 1 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 6 0 6 3 0 2 3 0 2 3 0 2 2 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Changes in medal standings List of stripped Olympic medals + List of official changes in medal standings Ruling date Event Athlete (NOC National Olympic Committee) Net change Comment 26 September 2000 Gymnastics, Individual all-around Andreea Răducan ROU 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified −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.https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100424&page=1 Romanian Gymnast Loses Gold Medal ABC News Zanca Salvatore 26 September 2000 16 October 2016 15 April 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190415235621/https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100424&page=1 live Simona Amânar ROU 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 Maria Olaru ROU 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 Liu Xuan CHN 2000 Summer +1 +1 23 October 2000 Wrestling, Men's freestyle 76 kg Alexander Leipold GER 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified −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.https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100259&page=1 IOC Strips Leipold of Wrestling Gold 23 October 2000 ABC News 11 May 2012 31 January 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110131003141/http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100259&page=1 live Brandon Slay USA 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 Moon Eui-jae KOR 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 Adem Bereket TUR 2000 Summer +1 +1 5 October 2007 Athletics, Women's 100 metres Marion Jones USA 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified −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.Shipley Amy Marion Jones Admits to Steroid Use The Washington Post 5 October 2007 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100401666_pf.html 8 March 2010 28 June 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110628214312/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100401666_pf.html livehttp://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/22170098/ IOC strips Jones of all 5 Olympic medals 12 December 2007 Associated Press MSNBC 8 March 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20080218091719/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/22170098/ 18 February 2008 deadThe 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.US relay runners win Olympic medals appeal 16 July 2010 Graham Dunbar Associated Press Tayna Lawrence JAM 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 Merlene Ottey JAM 2000 Summer +1 +1 Athletics, Women's 200 metres Marion Jones USA 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified −1 −1 Davis-Thompson BAH 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 Susanthika Jayasinghe SRI 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 Beverly McDonald JAM 2000 Summer +1 +1 Athletics, Women's long jump Marion Jones USA 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified −1 −1 Tatyana Kotova RUS 2000 Summer +1 +1 Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 metres relay Marion Jones USA 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified 0 0 Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 metres relay Marion Jones USA 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified 0 0 2 August 2008 Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 metres relay Antonio Pettigrew USA 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified −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.IOC Executive Board meets ahead of London Games http://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-executive-board-meets-ahead-of-london-games/168640 International Olympic Committee 21 July 2012 3 August 2012 28 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130728233441/http://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-executive-board-meets-ahead-of-london-games/168640 live - NGR 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 - JAM 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 - BAH 2000 Summer +1 +1 25 February 2010 Gymnastics, Women's artistic team all-around Dong Fangxiao CHN 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified −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.http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35610686/ns/sports-olympic_sports/ Chinese may forfeit 2000 gymnastics bronze 26 February 2010 Associated Press NBC Sports 8 March 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100301091311/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35610686/ns/sports-olympic_sports/ 1 March 2010 deadhttp://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35610686/ns/sports-olympic_sports/ IOC strips 2000 Games bronze medal from China 28 April 2010 Associated Press USA Today 8 March 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100301091311/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35610686/ns/sports-olympic_sports/ 1 March 2010 dead - USA 2000 Summer +1 +1 17 January 2013 Cycling, Men's road time trial Lance Armstrong USA 2000 Summer red DSQ Disqualified −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.IOC Statement on Lance Armstrong http://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-statement-on-lance-armstrong/188433 International Olympic Committee 17 January 2013 21 January 2013 25 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181225174242/https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-statement-on-lance-armstrong live 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.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lance-armstrong-stripped-of-olympic-bronze-medal/ Lance Armstrong stripped of Olympic bronze medal CBS News 17 January 2013 10 March 2020 5 April 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200405210329/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lance-armstrong-stripped-of-olympic-bronze-medal/ live + List of official changes by country NOC National Olympic Committee Gold Silver Bronze Net change USA 2000 Summer −2 −1 0 −3 GER 2000 Summer −1 0 0 −1 ROU 2000 Summer 0 0 −1 −1 NGR 2000 Summer +1 −1 0 0 KOR 2000 Summer 0 +1 −1 0 SRI 2000 Summer 0 +1 −1 0 BAH 2000 Summer +1 −1 +1 +1 RUS 2000 Summer 0 0 +1 +1 TUR 2000 Summer 0 0 +1 +1 JAM 2000 Summer 0 +2 0 +2 See also Olympic Games All-time Olympic Games medal table 2000 Summer Paralympics medal table Notes 1 upper-alpha References External links 2000 Summer Olympics 2000 Summer Olympics Olympedia.com http://www.olympedia.org/editions/25 24 February 2021 17 May 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210517200758/http://www.olympedia.org/editions/25 live Olympic Analytics/2000_1 olympanalyt.com http://olympanalyt.com/OlympAnalytics.php?param_pagetype=MedalsByCountries&param_games=2000%2F1 21 August 2020 1 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200901143907/http://olympanalyt.com/OlympAnalytics.php?param_pagetype=MedalsByCountries&param_games=2000%2F1 live Medal table 2000