Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney Super Dome (artistic and trampoline) Sydney Showground (rhythmic)
Dates	16 September – 1 October 2000

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, three different gymnastics disciplines were contested: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampoline. The artistic gymnastics and trampoline events were held at the Sydney SuperDome on 16–25 September and 22–23 September, respectively. The rhythmic gymnastics events were held at Pavilion 3 of the Sydney Olympic Park on 28 September – 1 October.

Artistic gymnastics

Format of competition

No compulsory routines were performed in artistic gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Instead, all participating gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round. The results of this competition determined which teams and individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:

• The team competition, in which the six highest scoring teams from qualifications competed. Each team of six gymnasts could have up to five gymnasts perform on each apparatus, and only the four highest scores counted toward the team total.
• The all-around competition, in which the thirty-six highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed. Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final.
• The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed. Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	China (CHN) Huang Xu Li Xiaopeng Xiao Junfeng Xing Aowei Yang Wei Zheng Lihui	Ukraine (UKR) Oleksandr Beresh Valeri Goncharov Ruslan Mezentsev Valeri Pereshkura Olexander Svitlichni Roman Zozulya	Russia (RUS) Maxim Aleshin Alexei Bondarenko Dmitri Drevin Nikolai Kryukov Alexei Nemov Yevgeni Podgorny
Individual all-around	Alexei Nemov  Russia	Yang Wei  China	Oleksandr Beresh  Ukraine
Floor exercise	Igors Vihrovs  Latvia	Alexei Nemov  Russia	Yordan Yovchev  Bulgaria
Pommel horse	Marius Urzică  Romania	Eric Poujade  France	Alexei Nemov  Russia
Rings	Szilveszter Csollány  Hungary	Dimosthenis Tampakos  Greece	Yordan Yovchev  Bulgaria
Vault	Gervasio Deferr  Spain	Alexei Bondarenko  Russia	Leszek Blanik  Poland
Parallel bars	Li Xiaopeng  China	Lee Joo-Hyung  South Korea	Alexei Nemov  Russia
Horizontal bar	Alexei Nemov  Russia	Benjamin Varonian  France	Lee Joo-Hyung  South Korea

Women's events

Andreea Răducan originally won the gold medal in the women's all-around competition, but she was disqualified after she tested positive for pseudoephedrine.

The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique Executive Board announced on 27 February 2010 after an investigation into the Chinese team for violations of age rules for senior gymnastics competitions that team member Dong Fangxiao, who had been entered as 17 years old, was actually 14 at the time of the Olympics (two years below the minimum age). Her 1999 World Championships and 2000 Olympic results were struck from the records, and in April 2010, nearly ten years after the event, the IOC officially disqualified China, who had originally won the bronze medal in the women's team event.

The now-third place team from the United States was awarded the bronze at the 2010 national championships, held at the XL Center in Hartford, CT.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	Romania (ROU) Simona Amânar Loredana Boboc Andreea Isărescu Maria Olaru Claudia Presăcan Andreea Răducan	Russia (RUS) Anna Chepeleva Svetlana Khorkina Anastasiya Kolesnikova Yekaterina Lobaznyuk Elena Produnova Elena Zamolodchikova	United States (USA) Amy Chow Jamie Dantzscher Dominique Dawes Kristen Maloney Elise Ray Tasha Schwikert
Individual all-around	Simona Amânar  Romania	Maria Olaru  Romania	Liu Xuan  China
Vault	Elena Zamolodchikova  Russia	Andreea Răducan  Romania	Yekaterina Lobaznyuk  Russia
Uneven bars	Svetlana Khorkina  Russia	Ling Jie  China	Yang Yun  China
Balance beam	Liu Xuan  China	Yekaterina Lobaznyuk  Russia	Elena Produnova  Russia
Floor exercise	Elena Zamolodchikova  Russia	Svetlana Khorkina  Russia	Simona Amânar  Romania

Rhythmic gymnastics

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Yulia Barsukova  Russia	Yulia Raskina  Belarus	Alina Kabaeva  Russia
Group all-around	Russia (RUS) Irina Belova Yelena Chalamova Natalia Lavrova Mariya Netesova Vyera Shimanskaya Irina Zilber	Belarus (BLR) Tatyana Ananko Tatyana Belan Anna Glazkova Irina Ilyenkova Maria Lazuk Olga Puzhevich	Greece (GRE) Eirini Aindili Evangelia Christodoulou Maria Georgatou Zacharoula Karyami Charikleia Pantazi Anna Pollatou

Trampoline

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	Alexander Moskalenko  Russia	Ji Wallace  Australia	Mathieu Turgeon  Canada
Women's individual	Irina Karavaeva  Russia	Oxana Tsyhuleva  Ukraine	Karen Cockburn  Canada

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	9	5	6	20
2	China (CHN)	3	2	2	7
3	Romania (ROU)	3	2	1	6
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
7	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	1	3
8	Belarus (BLR)	0	2	0	2
	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
10	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
12	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	2	2
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
15	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		18	18	18	54

See also

• Gymnastics at the 1998 Asian Games
• Gymnastics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Gymnastics at the 1999 Pan American Games
• 1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• gymnasticsresults.com
• gymn-forum.net
• Artistic Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• Rhythmic Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• Trampoline at the 2000 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)