Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting; at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Dates	16 - 26 September 2000
Competitors	246 from 76 nations
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The Weightlifting Competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia saw the introduction of women's weightlifting.

Medal summaryEdit

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

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

^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]

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	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 nations)		15	15	15	45