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]
2000 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
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Location | Sydney, Australia | |||
Highlights | ||||
Most gold medals | United States (37) | |||
Most total medals | United States (93) | |||
Medalling NOCs | 80 | |||
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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 medals (37). 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]