Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics explained

Event:Gymnastics
Games:2000 Summer
Venue:Sydney Super Dome (artistic and trampoline)
Sydney Showground (rhythmic)
Dates:16 September – 1 October 2000
Prev:1996
Next:2004

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.[1]

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:

Men's events

Team all-around

Huang Xu
Li Xiaopeng
Xiao Junfeng
Xing Aowei
Yang Wei
Zheng Lihui

Oleksandr Beresh
Valeri Goncharov
Ruslan Mezentsev
Valeri Pereshkura
Olexander Svitlichni
Roman Zozulya

Maxim Aleshin
Alexei Bondarenko
Dmitri Drevin
Nikolai Kryukov
Alexei Nemov
Yevgeni Podgorny
Individual all-around
Floor exercise
Pommel horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel bars
Horizontal bar

Women's events

Andreea Răducan originally won the gold medal in the women's all-around competition, but she was disqualified after she tested positive for pseudoephedrine.[2]

The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique Executive Board announced on 27 February 2010 after an investigation into the Chinese team for violations of age rules for senior gymnastics competitions that team member Dong Fangxiao, who had been entered as 17 years old, was actually 14 at the time of the Olympics (two years below the minimum age). Her 1999 World Championships and 2000 Olympic results were struck from the records, and in April 2010, nearly ten years after the event, the IOC officially disqualified China, who had originally won the bronze medal in the women's team event.

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.[3]

Team all-around

Simona Amânar
Loredana Boboc
Andreea Isărescu
Maria Olaru
Claudia Presăcan
Andreea Răducan

Anna Chepeleva
Svetlana Khorkina
Anastasiya Kolesnikova
Yekaterina Lobaznyuk
Elena Produnova
Elena Zamolodchikova

Amy Chow
Jamie Dantzscher
Dominique Dawes
Kristen Maloney
Elise Ray
Tasha Schwikert
Individual all-around
Vault
Uneven bars
Balance beam
Floor exercise

Rhythmic gymnastics

Individual all-around
Group all-around

Irina Belova
Yelena Chalamova
Natalia Lavrova
Mariya Netesova
Vyera Shimanskaya
Irina Zilber

Tatyana Ananko
Tatyana Belan
Anna Glazkova
Irina Ilyenkova
Maria Lazuk
Olga Puzhevich

Eirini Aindili
Evangelia Christodoulou
Maria Georgatou
Zacharoula Karyami
Charikleia Pantazi
Anna Pollatou

Trampoline

Men's individual
Women's individual

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gymnastics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040900/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/GYM/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 20 August 2019.
  2. News: Roberts. Selena. SYDNEY 2000: DRUG TESTING; Gymnast Tests Positive and Loses Gold. 25 August 2011. The New York Times. 26 September 2000.
  3. https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100428/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_gym_underage_gymnast IOC strips 2000 Games bronze medal from China 28 April 2010, FIG