2000 Summer Olympics / wrestling

Wrestling at the XXVII. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Sydney
Competition venue	Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center
Nations	55
Athletes	314 (314 men)
date	September 24th - October 1st, 2000
decisions	16
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At the XXVII. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , 16 wrestling competitions were held, eight each in freestyle and eight in Greco-Roman style. The venue was the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center on Darling Harbor . On the program were two weight classes less than before.

Balance sheet

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Russia	6th	2	1	9
2	United States	2	2	3	7th
3	Cuba	1	3	1	5
4th	South Korea	1	2	1	4th
5	Bulgaria	1	1	-	2
6th	Turkey	1	-	1	2
7th	Azerbaijan	1	-	-	1
	Iran	1	-	-	1
	Canada	1	-	-	1
	Sweden	1	-	-	1
11	Ukraine	-	2	-	2
12	Japan	-	1	-	1
	Kazakhstan	-	1	-	1
	Hungary	-	1	-	1
	Uzbekistan	-	1	-	1
16	Georgia	-	-	3	3
17th	China	-	-	1	1
	Finland	-	-	1	1
	Greece	-	-	1	1
	Macedonia	-	-	1	1
	North Korea	-	-	1	1
	Belarus	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Freestyle competitor gold silver bronze Class up to 54 kg Namiq Abdullayev Samuel Henson Amiran Karndanof Class up to 58 kg Alireza Dabir Yevhen Buslowytsch Terry Brands Class up to 63 kg Murad Umakhanov Serafim Barsakov Jang Jae-sung Class up to 69 kg Daniel Igali Arsen Gitinov Lincoln McIlravy Class up to 76 kg Brandon Slay Moon Eui-jae Adem Bereket Class up to 85 kg Adam Saitijew Yoel Romero Mogamed Ibragimov Class up to 97 kg Sagid Murtasaliev Islam Bairamukov Eldari Luka Kurtanidze Class up to 130 kg David Musuľbes Artur Taymazov Alexis Rodríguez Valera

Greco-Roman style competitor gold silver bronze Class up to 54 kg Sim Gwon-ho Lázaro Rivas Kang Yong-gyun Class up to 58 kg Poor Nazarjan Kim In-sub Sheng Zetian Class up to 63 kg Waiting Samurgashev Juan Luis Marén Akaki Chachua Class up to 69 kg Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera Katsuhiko Nagata Alexei Glushkov Class up to 76 kg Murat Kardanov Matt Lindland Marko Yli-Hannuksela Class up to 85 kg Hamza Yerlikaya Sándor Bárdosi Muchran Vakhtangadze Class up to 97 kg Mikael Ljungberg David Saldadze Garrett Lowney Class up to 130 kg Rulon Gardner Alexander Karelin Dimitri Debelka

Results freestyle

Class up to 54 kg (fly weight)

space	country	athlete
1	AZE	Namiq Abdullayev
2	United States	Samuel Henson
3	GRE	Amiran Karndanof
4th	BLR	Herman Kantojeu
5	UKR	Oleksandr Zakharuk
6th	KAZ	Maulen Mamyrov
7th	MDA	Vitalie Railean
8th	UZB	Adhamjon Achilov
15th	GER	Vasilij Zeiher

Namig Abdullaev was immortalized on an Azerbaijani postage stamp after his Olympic victory

Date: September 28th to 30th, 2000
19 participants from 19 countries

Class up to 58 kg (bantam weight)

space	country	athlete
1	IRI	Alireza Dabir
2	UKR	Yevhen Buslowytsch
3	United States	Terry Brands
4th	UZB	Damir Zakhartdinov
5	GEO	David Pogosian
6th	POOR	Martin Berberjan
7th	RUS	Murad Ramasanov
8th	BLR	Aleksandr Guzov
15th	GER	Othmar Kuhner

Date: September 29th to October 1st, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 63 kg (feather weight)

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	Murad Umakhanov
2	BUL	Serafim Barsakov
3	COR	Jang Jae-sung
4th	IRI	Mohammad Talaee
5	POOR	Arshak Hajrapetjan
6th	CUB	Carlos Ortíz
7th	AZE	Samil Ofandiev
8th	SVK	Štefan Fernyák

Date: September 28th to 30th, 2000
19 participants from 19 countries

Class up to 69 kg (lightweight)

space	country	athlete
1	CAN	Daniel Igali
2	RUS	Arsen Gitinov
3	United States	Lincoln McIlravy
4th	BLR	Sergey Demchenko
5	CUB	Yosvany Sánchez
6th	MDA	Ivan Diaconu
7th	POOR	Arajik Geworgjan
8th	KGZ	Almazbek Askarov

Date: September 29th to October 1st, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 76 kg (welter weight)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Brandon Slay
2	COR	Moon Eui-jae
3	DOOR	Adem Bereket
4th	KAZ	Gennady Laliev
5	UZB	Ruslan Khinchagov
6th	UKR	Alik Musayev
7th	MKD	Nasir Gajichanov
8th	POLE	Marcin Jurecki

Date: September 28th to 30th, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

The original top-ranked German wrestler Alexander Leipold was because of doping the gold medal revoked .

Class up to 85 kg (middle weight)

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	Adam Saitijew
2	CUB	Yoel Romero
3	MKD	Mogamed Ibragimov
4th	IRI	Amir Reza Khadem
5	United States	Charles Burton
6th	COR	Yang Hyun-mo
7th	HUN	Gábor Kapuvári
8th	ROME	Nicolae Ghiță
16	SUI	Grégory Martinetti

Date: September 29th to October 1st, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 97 kg (heavyweight)

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	Sagid Murtasaliev
2	KAZ	Islam Bairamukov
3	GEO	Eldari Luka Kurtanidze
4th	POLE	Marek Garmulewicz
5	GRE	Aftandil Xanthopoulos
6th	IRI	Alireza Heidari
7th	BLR	Aljaksandr Schamarau
8th	NED	George Torchinava
9	GER	Arawat Sabeyev
10	SUI	Rolf Scherrer

Date: September 28th to 30th, 2000
19 participants from 19 countries

Class up to 130 kg (super heavy weight)

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	David Musuľbes
2	UZB	Artur Taymazov
3	CUB	Alexis Rodríguez Valera
4th	IRI	Abbas Jadidi
5	United States	Kerry McCoy
6th	BLR	Alexei Medvedev
7th	GER	Sven Thiele
8th	KGZ	Aleksandr Kovalevsky

Date: September 29th to October 1st, 2000
18 participants from 18 countries

Results Greco-Roman style

Class up to 54 kg (fly weight)

space	country	athlete
1	COR	Sim Gwon-ho
2	CUB	Lázaro Rivas
3	PRK	Kang Yong-gyun
4th	UKR	Andrii Kalaschnykov
5	GER	Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
6th	CHN	Wang Hui
7th	AZE	Natiq Eyvazov
8th	KGZ	Uranium Kalilov

Date: September 24th to 26th, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 58 kg (bantam weight)

space	country	athlete
1	BUL	Poor Nazarjan
2	COR	Kim In-sub
3	CHN	Sheng Zetian
4th	GER	Rıfat Yıldız
5	IRI	Ali Ashkan
6th	United States	Jim Gruenwald
7th	RUS	Valery Nikonorov
8th	JPN	Makoto Sasamoto

Date: September 25-27, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 63 kg (feather weight)

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	Waiting Samurgashev
2	CUB	Juan Luis Marén
3	GEO	Akaki Chachua
4th	SUI	Beat Motzer
5	UZB	Bakhodir Kurbanov
6th	United States	Kevin Bracken
7th	KAZ	Mchitar Manukjan
8th	UKR	Hryhoriy Komyshenko

Date: September 24th to 26th, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 69 kg (lightweight)

space	country	athlete
1	CUB	Filiberto Ascuy
2	JPN	Katsuhiko Nagata
3	RUS	Alexei Glushkov
4th	EST	Valery Nikitin
5	COR	Son Sang-pil
6th	AZE	Islam Duguchiev
7th	POLE	Ryszard Wolny
8th	UKR	Rustam Aji
13	GER	Adam Juretzko

Date: September 25-27, 2000
19 participants from 19 countries

Class up to 76 kg (welter weight)

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	Murat Kardanov
2	United States	Matt Lindland
3	FIN	Marko Yli-Hannuksela
4th	UKR	David Manukyan
5	COR	Kim Jin-soo
6th	SWE	Ara Abrahamian
7th	BLR	Vyachazlau Makaranka
8th	GEO	Tarieli Melelashvili

Date: September 24th to 26th, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 85 kg (middle weight)

space	country	athlete
1	DOOR	Hamza Yerlikaya
2	HUN	Sándor Bárdosi
3	GEO	Muchran Vakhtangadze
4th	BLR	Valery Tsilent
5	CUB	Luis Enrique Méndez
6th	ISR	Gocha Tsitsiashvili
7th	SWE	Martin Lidberg
8th	EGY	Mohamed Abdelfatah

Date: September 25-27, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 97 kg (heavyweight)

space	country	athlete
1	SWE	Mikael Ljungberg
2	UKR	David Saldadze
3	United States	Garrett Lowney
4th	GRE	Konstantinos Thanos
5	GEO	Gennady Chchaidze
6th	KAZ	Sergei Matviyenko
7th	SUI	Urs Bürgler
8th	LTU	Mindaugas Ežerskis

Date: September 24th to 26th, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Class up to 130 kg (super heavy weight)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Rulon Gardner
2	RUS	Alexander Karelin
3	BLR	Dimitri Debelka
4th	ISR	Yuri Evseichik
5	CUB	Héctor Milián
6th	UKR	Georgiy Saldadze
7th	ITA	Giuseppe Giunta
8th	DOOR	Fatih Bakir

Date: September 25-27, 2000
20 participants from 20 countries

Web links

Commons : Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wrestling at the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 2000 Summer Games (PDF, 2.0 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wrestling in the Leipold case. faz.net , January 28, 2001, accessed October 23, 2018 .