2000 Summer Olympics medal table

2000 Summer Olympics medals
LocationSydney,  Australia
Highlights
Most gold medals United States (37)
Most total medals United States (93)
Medalling NOCs80
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Three women sporting Olympic medals around their necks, with one holding a bouquet, celebrating their individual Olympic achievements together.
The awarding of the first medals of the Games
Colorful fireworks burst over the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, marking the festive opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the closing ceremonies
Olympic rings
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2000 Summer Olympics

The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000.[1] A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (with four individual athletes from East Timor because the country had no NOC),[2][3] including the Olympic debuts of Eritrea, Micronesia and Palau.[3] The games featured 300 events in 28 sports across 39 disciplines,[2][4] including the Olympic debuts of synchronized diving, taekowndo, triathlon and trampolining.[1]

Athletes from 80 countries won at least one medal, a new record,[5] with 52 nations winning at least one gold medal.[6] The United States won the most gold medals, with 37, and the most medals overall, with 93.[6] It was the second consecutive Summer Olympic Games that the United States led the medal count in both gold and overall medals.[7] Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall (16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze).[8] Cameroon,[9] Colombia,[10] Latvia,[11] Mozambique[12] and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories,[13] while Vietnam,[14] Barbados,[15] Macedonia,[16] Kuwait,[17] Kyrgyzstan,[18] and Saudi Arabia won their first ever Olympic medals.[19] Among individual athletes, Australia's Ian Thorpe, the Netherlands' Leontien van Moorsel and Inge de Bruijn and the United States' Jenny Thompson and Lenny Krayzelburg won the most gold medals at the games with three each and Russian tympanist Alexei Nemov won the most overall medals with six (two gold, one silver and three bronze).[20]

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