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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 56 kg	Halil Mutlu Turkey	Wu Wenxiong China^[1]	Zhang Xiangxiang China
– 62 kg	Nikolaj Pešalov Croatia	Leonidas Sabanis Greece	Gennady Oleshchuk Belarus ^[2]
– 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
– 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	Hossein Rezazadeh Iran	Ronny Weller Germany	Andrei Chemerkin Russia^[3]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 48 kg	Tara Nott United States^[4]	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

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

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
10	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
12	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	2	3
12	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 (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

↑ Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria originally won the silver, but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide August, Melissa; Castronovo, Val; Cooper, Matthew; Fonda, Daren; Minhua, Ling; Luscombe, Belinda; Martens, Ellin; Nugent, Benjamin; Roberts, Gary; Rawe, Julie (2 October 2000). "You Lose". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
↑ Sevdalin Minchev of Bulgaria originally won the bronze but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide name="Minchev Dragneva">"Two Bulgarian weightlifters stripped of medals for doping: IOC". CNN Sports Illustrated. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
↑ Ashot Danielyan of Armenia originally won the bronze but was disqualified after he tested positive for stanozolol. "Sydney Dreams Realized ... By Some". CBS News. 1 October 2000. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
↑ Izabela Dragneva of Bulgaria originally won this event but was disqualified after she tested positive for furosemide.

Events at the 2000 Summer Olympics (Sydney)

Archery Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Football Gymnastics Handball Field hockey Judo Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Softball Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

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