Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men's event with eight teams competing. The sport was a form of basketball adapted for players with intellectual disabilities (ID).

Cheating controversy

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Russia (RUS) [1][2][3][4]

Oleg Chubasov
Marat Oumarov
Nariman Sadekov
Shamil Kodraleev
Serguei Rogov
Vladimir Fedotov
Igor Gousev
Slava Kosoukhov
Artur Melkonian
Michail Kisilev
Slava Chernobrov
Andrey Zakharov

 Poland (POL)

Marcin Merk
Andrzej Kolodziejczyk
Robert Kwiatkowski
Tomasz Macholl
Mariusz Wikbold
Adam Krzeminski
Rafat Jastrzab
Lukasz Skory
Grzegorz Sobus
Tadeusz Truszczynski
Piotr Madej
Robert Wittke

 Portugal (POR)

Group stage

Group A
Team Wins Losses Points Competition
score
vs. ESP vs. POR vs. BRA vs. JPN
 Spain (ESP) 3 0 254:126 6 - 73:58 94:48 87:20
 Portugal (POR) 2 1 251:146 5 58:73 - 71:56 122:17
 Brazil (BRA) 1 2 207:189 4 48:94 56:71 - 103:24
 Japan (JPN) 0 3 61:312 3 20:87 17:122 24:103 -
Group B
Team Wins Losses Points Competition
score
vs. RUS vs. POL vs. AUS vs. GRE
 Russia (RUS) 2 1 239:211 5 - 111:97 79:64 49:50
 Poland (POL) 2 1 245:214 5 97:111 - 77:66 71:37
 Australia (AUS) 1 2 220:182 4 64:79 66:77 - 90:26
 Greece (GRE) 1 2 113:210 4 50:49 37:71 26:90 -

Finals

Semi-finals Final
   Spain (ESP)   97  
   Poland (POL)   67  
 
       Spain (ESP)   87
     Russia (RUS)   63
Third place
   Russia (RUS)   73    Poland (POL)   65
   Portugal (POR)   45      Portugal (POR)   51

References

  1. The Spanish team originally won the gold medal, but they were disqualified after it was discovered that ten of the team's twelve players were not disabled
  2. "Spain ordered to return golds". BBC. 14 December 2000. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  3. Spain national paralympic basketball team has returned gold medals (Russian)
  4. basketballid at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics on paralympic.org