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2000 Summer Olympics medal table

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Field	Value
name	2000 Summer Olympics medals
award2_type	Most total medals
award2_winner	USA
award1_type	Most gold medals
award1_winner	USA
award3_type	Medalling NOCs
award3_winner	80
previous	[1996](1996-summer-olympics-medal-table)
main	Olympics medal tables
next	[2004](2004-summer-olympics-medal-table)
location	Sydney, AUS

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

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. 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), The games featured 300 events in 28 sports across 39 disciplines, including the debuts of synchronized diving, taekowndo, triathlon, trampolining, women's modern pentathlon and women's weightlifting as official Olympic medal events.

Athletes from 80 countries won at least one medal, a new record, with 52 nations winning at least one gold medal. Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall (16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze). 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. 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 tympanist Alexei Nemov won the most overall medals with six (two gold, one silver and three bronze). TOC

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. If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.

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. Another combat sport, judo, uses a repechage system which also results in two bronze medals being awarded.

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. 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. Two bronze medals were awarded in the women's 100 metre freestyle due to a tie for third place.

;Key Changes in medal standings (see below)

Please DO NOT bold highest medal counts. The table is sortable so bolding is redundant and unnecessary. Thanks.

Changes in medal standings

Ruling date	Event	Athlete (NOC)	Net change	Comment	26 September 2000	23 October 2000
Gymnastics, Individual all-around	Andreea Răducan	−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.
Simona Amânar	+1	−1		0
Maria Olaru		+1	−1	0
Liu Xuan			+1	+1
Wrestling, Men's freestyle 76 kg	Alexander Leipold	−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.
Brandon Slay	+1	−1		0
Moon Eui-jae		+1	−1	0
Adem Bereket			+1	+1
Athletics, Women's 100 metres	Marion Jones	−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.
The 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](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.
Tayna Lawrence		+1	−1	0
Merlene Ottey			+1	+1
Athletics, Women's 200 metres	Marion Jones	−1			−1
Davis-Thompson	+1	−1		0
Susanthika Jayasinghe		+1	−1	0
Beverly McDonald			+1	+1
Athletics, Women's long jump	Marion Jones			−1	−1
Tatyana Kotova			+1	+1
Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 metres relay	Marion Jones			0	0
Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 metres relay	Marion Jones	0			0
Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 metres relay	Antonio Pettigrew	−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.
-	+1	−1		0
-		+1	−1	0
-			+1	+1
Gymnastics, Women's artistic team all-around	Dong Fangxiao			−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.
-			+1	+1
Cycling, Men's road time trial	Lance Armstrong			−1	−1	On 17 January 2013, American cyclist Lance Armstrong was stripped of his bronze medal from the [2000 Summer Olympics](2000-summer-olympics) by the IOC after his confession of being involved in using doping. 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.

NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze
−2	−1	0	−3
−1	0	0	−1
0	0	−1	−1
+1	−1	0	0
0	+1	−1	0
0	+1	−1	0
+1	−1	+1	+1
0	0	+1	+1
0	0	+1	+1
0	+2	0	2

Notes

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