2000 Summer Paralympics

XI. Summer Paralympics

Venue:	Sydney , Australia
Opening ceremony:	October 18, 2000
Closing ceremony:	October 29, 2000
Opened by:	William Deane (Governor General of Australia)
Competitions:	550 competitions in 18 sports
Countries:	122+ independent athletes from East Timor
Athletes:	3881 (women, men)
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Medal table
space	country				total
1	Australia	63	39	47	149
2	United Kingdom	41	43	47	131
3	Canada	38	33	25th	96
4th	Spain	38	30th	38	106
5	United States	36	39	34	109
6th	People's Republic of China	34	22nd	17th	73
7th	France	30th	28	28	86
8th	Poland	19th	22nd	12	53
9	South Korea	18th	7th	7th	32
10	Germany	16	41	38	95
...
20th	Switzerland	8th	4th	8th	20th
...
39	Austria	2	7th	6th	15th
Complete medal table

The 11th Summer Paralympics took place from October 18 to October 29, 2000 in Sydney , Australia .

Participating Nations

A total of 122 nations took part in the Paralympics. There were also independent athletes from East Timor. The following nations took part in the 2000 Games:

Egypt  Algeria  Angola  Argentina  Armenia  Azerbaijan  Australia  Bahrain  Barbados  Belgium  Benin  Bermuda  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Yugoslavia  Brazil  Bulgaria  Burkina Faso  People's Republic of China  People's Republic of China  Chinese Taipei  Denmark  Germany  Ecuador  Ivory Coast  Estonia  Faroe Islands  Fiji  Finland  El Salvador  France  Greece  Honduras  Hong Kong  India  Indonesia  Iraq  Iran  Ireland  Iceland  Israel  Italy

Jamaica  Japan  Jordan  Canada  Cambodia  Kazakhstan  Qatar  Kenya  Kyrgyzstan  Croatia  Cuba  Kuwait  Colombia  Laos  Latvia  Lesotho  Lebanon  Libya  Lithuania  Macau  Malaysia  Madagascar  Mali  Mauritania  Macedonia  Morocco  Moldova  Mexico  Mongolia  New Zealand  Netherlands  Nigeria  Norway  Austria  Oman  Pakistan  Palestine  Panama  Papua New Guinea  Peru  Philippines

Poland  Portugal  Puerto Rico  Rwanda  Romania  Russia  Zambia  Saudi Arabia  Sweden  Switzerland  Sierra Leone  Zimbabwe  Samoa  Singapore  Slovakia  Slovenia  South Korea  South Africa  Spain  Sri Lanka  Syria  Thailand  Tonga  Turkey  Turkmenistan  Czech Republic  Tunisia  Uganda  Ukraine independent paralymp. Attendees  Hungary  Uruguay  Vanuatu  Venezuela  Vietnam  Belarus  United Arab Emirates  United States  United Kingdom  Cyprus

sports

The Paralympic basketball player (1998) by Dominique Sutton in Olympic Park Sydney in 2000 (today in front of the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra )

Medals were awarded in the following 18 sports. In addition, there was a competition for men in basketball ( Basketball ID ), in which people with intellectual disabilities took part.

• Basketball ID
• Boccia
• Archery
• 7-a-side football
• Goalball
• Judo
• athletics
• Powerlifting
• Cycling
• horse riding
• Wheelchair basketball
• Wheelchair fencing
• Wheelchair rugby
• Wheelchair tennis
• shoot
• swim
• sailing
• Table tennis
• volleyball

Successes of the German team

Bernd Vogel from Bald Wildungen subsequently received the gold medal in weightlifting because Gundus Ismailow from Azerbaijan was denied victory in the class up to 90 kilograms because of doping. Martina Willing (Brandenburg) received the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award , a medal made of 75 grams of pure gold, for her special merits in overcoming her disability through sport . The best athlete was the swimmer Annke Conradi . She won one gold and three silver medals. Swimmer Kay Espenhayn won the most medals with five second places.

The German athletes received 16 gold, 41 silver and 38 bronze medals and, with 95 medals, took 10th place in an international comparison. Once again it was found that other countries such as Australia, Great Britain or Spain are more advanced in the professionalization of disabled sports than Germany.

Outstanding athletes

• Heidi Andreasen ( Faroe Islands ) - four medals in swimming

Highlights

The USA won the first gold medal in wheelchair rugby, beating Australia 32:31 in an exciting final. The amputated US swimmer Jason Wening continued her winning streak (since 1991) in the 100 m freestyle and won gold with a world record. The British Tanni Gray-Thompson won gold in the four wheelchair races over 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 800 m. Jianxin Bian from China and Fatma Omar from Egypt won the first gold medals in women's powerlifting.

The severely visually impaired runner Marla Runyan from the USA also started in the games of the non-disabled and reached the final over 1500 m, in which she finished eighth.

Web links

• Paralympics Sydney 2000 on the website of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC )
• NDR.de: Paralympic Games Sydney 2000 ( Memento from June 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Remarks

1. ↑ Used in 2000 when East Timor was under the administration of UNTAET . See also: Independent Olympian .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} International Paralympic Committee: Paralympics Sydney 2000 . Retrieved August 28, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ard.de: Exemplary games "Down Under" ( Memento from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ( Internet Archive )