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	Henadzi Aliashchuk  Belarus
69 kg	Galabin Boevski  Bulgaria	Georgi Markov  Bulgaria	Siarhei Laurenau  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	Akakios Kakiasvilis  Greece	Szymon Kołecki  Poland	Aleksey Petrov  Russia
105 kg	Hossein Tavakkoli  Iran	Alan Tsagaev  Bulgaria	Said Saif Asaad  Qatar
+105 kg [c]	Hossein Rezazadeh  Iran	Ronny Weller  Germany	Andrey 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 Feng-ying  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 Chatziioannou  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	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

References

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