Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The Weightlifting Competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia saw the introduction of women's weightlifting.^[1][2]

Weightlifting at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Dates	16–26 September 2000
No. of events	15
Competitors	246 from 76 nations
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Medalists

Men

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

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

• ^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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	5	1	1	7
2	Greece (GRE)	2	2	1	5
3	Iran (IRI)	2	0	0	2
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	0	3
5	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
6	Colombia (COL)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
12	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	2	3
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
14	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	1	2
15	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	2	2
19	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	1	1
	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		15	15	15	45

Participating nations

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

•  Albania (1)
•  Algeria (1)
•  American Samoa (1)
•  Argentina (2)
•  Armenia (6)
•  Australia (12)
•  Azerbaijan (2)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Belarus (5)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Bulgaria (12)
•  Canada (2)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  China (12)
•  Chinese Taipei (4)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Cuba (5)
•  Dominican Republic (2)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  Egypt (2)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Federated States of Micronesia (1)
•  Fiji (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (3)
•  Georgia (3)
•  Germany (6)
•  Great Britain (1)
•  Greece (10)
•  Guam (1)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  India (3)
•  Indonesia (3)
•  Iran (6)
•  Italy (4)
•  Japan (8)
•  Kazakhstan (6)
•  Kyrgyzstan (2)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Moldova (3)
•  Myanmar (3)
•  Nauru (2)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Nigeria (5)
•  North Korea (4)
•  Norway (1)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Palau (1)
•  Panama (1)
•  Papua New Guinea (1)
•  Poland (9)
•  Puerto Rico (2)
•  Qatar (5)
•  Romania (7)
•  Russia (9)
•  Samoa (1)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  South Korea (8)
•  Spain (3)
•  Thailand (5)
•  Tonga (1)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Turkey (8)
•  Turkmenistan (1)
•  Ukraine (10)
•  United States (6)
•  Uzbekistan (2)
•  Venezuela (2)

References

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. "Bulgarian lifters sent home". BBC Sport. 22 September 2000.
4. "Two more fail drug tests". BBC Sport. 1 October 2000.

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 August 2008.