Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Event	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
Horizontal bar	Alexei Nemov  Russia	Benjamin Varonian  France	Lee Joo-Hyung  South Korea
Parallel bars	Li Xiaopeng  China	Lee Joo-Hyung  South Korea	Alexei Nemov  Russia
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

Women's events

Andreea Raducan was the original winner of the Women's All-Around competition, but her gold medal was stripped when she tested positive for a banned substance contained in a cold medicine. The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique Executive Board announced on 27 February 2010 following an investigation into the Chinese team for violations of the minimum age for senior gymnastics competitions (must be 16). The FIG noted Dong Fangxiao was entered as 17 years old when she was actually 14. Her 1999 World Championships titles have been stripped. In April 2010, nearly ten years after the results, the IOC officially stripped China of its women's team medal. 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.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	Romania (ROU) Simona Amânar Loredana Boboc Andreea Isărescu Maria Olaru Claudia Presacan 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 Amanar  Romania	Maria Olaru  Romania	Liu Xuan  China
Balance beam	Liu Xuan  China	Yekaterina Lobaznyuk  Russia	Elena Produnova  Russia
Floor exercise	Elena Zamolodchikova  Russia	Svetlana Khorkina  Russia	Simona Amânar  Romania
Uneven bars	Svetlana Khorkina  Russia	Ling Jie  China	Yang Yun  China
Vault	Elena Zamolodchikova  Russia	Andreea Răducan  Romania	Yekaterina Lobaznyuk  Russia

Rhythmic gymnastics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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
Individual all-around	Yulia Barsukova  Russia	Yulia Raskina  Belarus	Alina Kabaeva  Russia

Trampoline

Event	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

1	Russia (RUS)	9	5	6	20
2	China (CHN)	3	2	2	7
3	Romania (ROU)	3	2	1	6
4	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	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
Total		18	18	18	54

See also

• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
• 1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net