2000 Summer Paralympics medal table

The medal table of the 2000 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the competition. This was the eleventh Summer Paralympic Games, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities.[1][2] The Games were held in Sydney, Australia, from October 18 to October 29, 2000, the first time they had been held in the southern hemisphere.[3] With 3,843 athletes taking part in the 18 sports on the programme,[1] the Games were the second largest sporting event ever held in Australia.[3] The location and facilities were shared with the largest event, the 2000 Summer Olympics, which concluded on 1 October. The Games set records for athlete and country participation, tickets sold, hits to the official Games website, and medals on offer.[4]

Australian swimmer Amanda Fraser competes in the S7 200IM at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. She went on to win two bronze medals.

A record of 122 countries (or 123 delegations including independent athletes from Timor-Leste) participated;[4] 68 countries won medals, of which seven won a medal for the first time.[5] A total of 1,657 medals were awarded during the Sydney games: 550 gold, 549 silver, and 558 bronze.[5] Among these performances, over 300 world and Paralympic records were set.[4] The host country, Australia, topped the table with more golds and more medals overall than any other nation, and achieved its record medal count.[1] Great Britain won the most silvers, with 43, and tied Australia for the most bronzes, with 47.[5] The medals were designed by the royal goldsmith and jeweller Stuart Devlin. They feature the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House, surrounded by the Games arenas. The reverse face shows the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee logos.[6]

There were numerous athletes who contributed multiple medals to their national tally. In the pool these included Béatrice Hess of France who won seven golds,[7] Mayumi Narita of Japan who won six golds and a silver,[8] Siobhan Paton of Australia who won six golds in individual events,[3][9] and Stéphanie Dixon of Canada and Hong Yan Zhu of China who each won five golds.[10][11] On the track Tim Sullivan of Australia won five golds,[3] and Tanni Grey-Thompson of Great Britain won four.[4]

Medal table

The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the IPC and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables.[5] By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.

With a few exceptions, each event contributed one medal of each type to the table (although for team events, multiple physical medals were actually awarded). All judo events awarded two bronze medals, one to each of the losing semi-finalists.[12] The men's 100 m backstroke S8 event awarded two golds to equal winners.[13] In the intellectual disability basketball event, although three medals were initially awarded, the gold was later stripped from the Spanish team due to a disqualification for cheating.[14]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Australia (AUS)*633947149
2 Great Britain (GBR)414347131
3 Canada (CAN)38332596
4 Spain (ESP)383038106
5 United States (USA)363934109
6 China (CHN)34221773
7 France (FRA)30282886
8 Poland (POL)19221253
9 South Korea (KOR)187732
10 Germany (GER)16413895
11 Czech Republic (CZE)15151343
12 Japan (JPN)13171141
13 South Africa (RSA)13121338
14 Russia (RUS)13111236
15 Netherlands (NED)129930
16 Iran (IRI)124723
17 Mexico (MEX)10121234
18 Italy (ITA)981027
19 Denmark (DEN)881430
20 Switzerland (SUI)84820
21 Hong Kong (HKG)83718
22 Nigeria (NGR)71513
23 Egypt (EGY)6121028
24 Brazil (BRA)610622
25 New Zealand (NZL)68418
26 Portugal (POR)65516
27 Tunisia (TUN)64111
28 Belarus (BLR)581023
29 Sweden (SWE)561021
30 Thailand (THA)54211
31 Ireland (IRL)5319
32 Hungary (HUN)451423
33 Greece (GRE)44311
34 Cuba (CUB)4228
35 Ukraine (UKR)3201437
36 Slovakia (SVK)35513
37 Israel (ISR)3216
38 Algeria (ALG)3003
39 Austria (AUT)27615
40 Norway (NOR)26715
41 Iceland (ISL)2024
42 Belgium (BEL)1449
43 Finland (FIN)13610
44 Chinese Taipei (TPE)1247
45 Estonia (EST)1135
46 Kenya (KEN)1124
47 Peru (PER)1102
48 Ivory Coast (CIV)1012
49 Bulgaria (BUL)1001
 Jordan (JOR)1001
 Zimbabwe (ZIM)1001
52 Faroe Islands (FRO)0314
 United Arab Emirates (UAE)0314
54 Argentina (ARG)0235
55 Slovenia (SLO)0224
56 Lithuania (LTU)0213
57 Kuwait (KUW)0145
58 Bahrain (BRN)0112
 Panama (PAN)0112
60 Azerbaijan (AZE)0101
 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)0101
 Yugoslavia (YUG)0101
63 Latvia (LAT)0033
64 Libya (LBA)0011
 Palestine (PLE)0011
 Philippines (PHI)0011
 Puerto Rico (PUR)0011
 Venezuela (VEN)0011
Totals (68 nations)5515495591659

   First-time medal-winning country

See also

References

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