Npc: | AZE |
Npcname: | National Paralympic Committee of Azerbaijan |
Games: | Summer Paralympics |
Year: | 2000 |
Location: | Sydney |
Competitors: | 7 |
Rank: | 60 |
Gold: | 0 |
Silver: | 1 |
Bronze: | 0 |
Appearances: | auto |
App Begin Year: | 1996 |
See also: | (1960–1988) (1992) |
Azerbaijan competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia having won one silver medal. Powerlifter Gunduz Ismayilov who initially had won a gold medal in Men's -90kg competition lifting 240 kg to set a world record was stripped of it with his record nullified after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone.[1] Ismayilov subsequently was banned from the Paralympics for life in 2004 after testing positive for stanazolol in the 2004 Summer Paralympics.[2]