Weightlifting 2000

Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held from 16 to 26 September 2000 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

For the first time in Olympic history, women were finally admitted to compete in weightlifting, while the men saw their program decrease from 10 events to 8 to allocate more spots for the female weightlifters.

Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	1	1	7
2	Greece	2	2	1	5
3	Iran	2	0	0	2
4	Bulgaria	1	2	0	3
5	United States	1	0	1	2
6	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Mexico	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
10	Germany	0	2	0	2
	Poland	0	2	0	2
12	Indonesia	0	1	2	3
	Russia	0	1	2	3
14	Chinese Taipei	0	1	1	2
15	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
	North Korea	0	1	0	1
18	Belarus	0	0	2	2
19	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Men

Event
56 kg	Halil Mutlu	Wu Wenxiong	Zhang Xiangxiang
62 kg	Nikolay Pechalov	Leonidas Sabanis	Gennady Oleshchuk
69 kg	Galabin Boevski	Georgi Markov	Sergei Lavrenov
77 kg	Zhan Xugang	Viktor Mitrou	Arsen Melikyan
85 kg	Pyrros Dimas	Marc Huster	George Asanidze
94 kg	Akakios Kakiasvilis	Szymon Kolecki	Alexei Petrov
105 kg	Hossein Tavakoli	Alan Tsagaev	Said Saif Asaad
105+ kg	Hossein Rezazadeh	Ronny Weller	Andrei Chemerkin

Women

Event
48 kg	Tara Nott	Raema Lisa Rumbewas	Sri Indriyani
53 kg	Yang Xia	Li Feng-ying	Winami Binti Slamet
58 kg	Soraya Jimenez Mendivil	Ri Song Hui	Khassaraporn Suta
63 kg	Chen Xiaomin	Valentina Popova	Ioanna Chatziioannou
69 kg	Lin Weining	Erzsebet Markus	Karnam Malleswari
75 kg	Maria Isabel Urrutia	Ruth Ogbeifo	Kuo Yi-hang
75+ kg	Ding Meiyuan	Agata Wrobel	Cheryl Haworth

Statistics

• There were 261 total athletes from 76 countries.
• Dika Toua was the youngest participant with 16 years and 86 days.
• Maria Jorge was the oldest participant with 43 years and 150 days.
• 10 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
• Greece won 5 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Bulgaria and Indonesia won 3 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Iran won its first 2 medals in the sport since Montreal 1976.
• Chinese Taipei won its first 2 medals in the sport since Los Angeles 1984.
• United States won its first gold medal in the sport since Rome 1960 and first medal since Los Angeles 1984.
• Armenia, Colombia, India, and Qatar won their only medal of Sydney 2000 and their first-ever medal in the sport.
• Croatia, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Thailand won their first-ever medal in the sport.

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