Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Medal summary

Men's competition

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 56 kg [a]	Halil Mutlu  Turkey	Wu Wenxiong  China	Zhang Xiangxiang  China
– 62 kg [b]	Nikolaj Pešalov  Croatia	Leonidas Sabanis  Greece	Gennady Oleshchuk  Belarus
– 69 kg	Galabin Boevski  Bulgaria	Georgi Markov  Bulgaria	Sergey Lavrenov  Belarus
– 77 kg	Zhan Xugang  China	Viktor Mitrou  Greece	Arsen Melikyan  Armenia
– 85 kg	Pyrros Dimas  Greece	Marc Huster  Germany	Giorgi Asanidze  Georgia (country)
– 94 kg	Kakhi Kakhiashvili  Greece	Szymon Kołecki  Poland	Aleksei Petrov  Russia
– 105 kg	Hossein Tavakkoli  Iran	Alan Tsagaev  Bulgaria	Said Saif Asaad  Qatar
+ 105 kg [c]	Hossein Rezazadeh  Iran	Ronny Weller  Germany	Andrei Chemerkin  Russia

Women's competition

Women's weightlifting was included as a medal sport for the first time in Sydney 2000^[1]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 48 kg [d]	Tara Nott  United States	Raema Lisa Rumbewas  Indonesia	Sri Indriyani  Indonesia
– 53 kg	Yang Xia  China	Li Fengying  Chinese Taipei	Winarni Binti Slamet  Indonesia
– 58 kg	Soraya Jiménez  Mexico	Ri Song-Hui  North Korea	Khassaraporn Suta  Thailand
– 63 kg	Chen Xiaomin  China	Valentina Popova  Russia	Ioanna Khatziioannou  Greece
– 69 kg	Lin Weining  China	Erzsébet Márkus  Hungary	Karnam Malleswari  India
– 75 kg	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia	Ruth Ogbeifo  Nigeria	Kuo Yi-Hang  Chinese Taipei
+ 75 kg	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.^[2]
• ^b Sevdalin Minchev of Bulgaria originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified after testing positive for furosemide.^[2]
• ^c Ashot Danielyan of Armenia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified after testing positive for stanozolol.^[3]
• ^d Izabela Dragneva of Bulgaria originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified after testing positive for furosemide.^[2]

Participating nations

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

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	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
	Georgia (country) (GEO)	0	0	1	1
	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Total	15	15	15	45

See also

• Weightlifting at the 1999 Pan American Games

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-08-06. 

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