Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre and was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories. The freestyle competitions were held from 28 September to 1 October, and the Greco-Roman events were held from 24 to 27 September. In the freestyle 76 kg Alexander Leipold of Germany originally placed first, but was disqualified after he tested positive for Nandrolone.

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Namig Abdullayev  Azerbaijan	Sammie Henson  United States	Amiran Kardanov  Greece
58 kg	Alireza Dabir  Iran	Yevhen Buslovych  Ukraine	Terry Brands  United States
63 kg	Murad Umakhanov  Russia	Serafim Barzakov  Bulgaria	Jang Jae-sung  South Korea
69 kg	Daniel Igali  Canada	Arsen Gitinov  Russia	Lincoln McIlravy  United States
76 kg	Brandon Slay  United States	Moon Eui-jae  South Korea	Adem Bereket  Turkey
85 kg	Adam Saitiev  Russia	Yoel Romero  Cuba	Magomed Ibragimov  Macedonia
97 kg	Sagid Murtazaliev  Russia	Islam Bayramukov  Kazakhstan	Eldar Kurtanidze  Georgia (country)
130 kg	David Musulbes  Russia	Artur Taymazov  Uzbekistan	Alexis Rodríguez  Cuba

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Sim Kwon-ho  South Korea	Lázaro Rivas  Cuba	Kang Yong-gyun  North Korea
58 kg	Armen Nazaryan  Bulgaria	Kim In-sub  South Korea	Sheng Zetian  China
63 kg	Varteres Samurgashev  Russia	Juan Marén  Cuba	Akaki Chachua  Georgia (country)
69 kg	Filiberto Azcuy  Cuba	Katsuhiko Nagata  Japan	Aleksey Glushkov  Russia
76 kg	Murat Kardanov  Russia	Matt Lindland  United States	Marko Yli-Hannuksela  Finland
85 kg	Hamza Yerlikaya  Turkey	Sándor Bárdosi  Hungary	Mukhran Vakhtangadze  Georgia (country)
97 kg	Mikael Ljungberg  Sweden	Davyd Saldadze  Ukraine	Garrett Lowney  United States
130 kg	Rulon Gardner  United States	Aleksandr Karelin  Russia	Dmitry Debelka  Belarus

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	6	2	1	9
2	United States (USA)	2	2	3	7
3	Cuba (CUB)	1	3	1	5
4	South Korea (KOR)	1	2	1	4
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
6	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
7	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	Iran (IRI)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
11	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	0	2
12	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	1	0	1
16	Georgia (country) (GEO)	0	0	3	3
17	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Macedonia (MKD)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	16	48

Participating nations

A total of 314 wrestlers from 55 nations competed at the Sydney Games:

References

• International Olympic Committee results database

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