Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000.[1]

Shooting
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for Shooting
Dates16–23 September

While the rifle, pistol and running target rules were largely unchanged from the Atlanta Games, two new events were added, raising the number of individual Olympic shooting events to an all-time high of seventeen.

Medal summary

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Women's 10 metre air rifle: Nancy Johnson (center), Kang Cho-hyun (left), and Gao Jing (right) won the first medals of the 2000 Olympic Games.
 
Men's skeet: Mykola Milchev (center), Petr Málek (left) and James Graves (right) won the last Sydney shooting medals.

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  China (CHN)3238
2  Bulgaria (BUL)2002
  Sweden (SWE)2002
4  Russia (RUS)1326
5  Australia (AUS)1113
6  France (FRA)1102
  Great Britain (GBR)1102
8  United States (USA)1023
9  Azerbaijan (AZE)1001
  Lithuania (LTU)1001
  Poland (POL)1001
  Slovenia (SLO)1001
  Ukraine (UKR)1001
14  Belarus (BLR)0134
15  Czech Republic (CZE)0112
  Italy (ITA)0112
17  Denmark (DEN)0101
  FR Yugoslavia (YUG)0101
  Finland (FIN)0101
  Moldova (MDA)0101
  South Korea (KOR)0101
  Switzerland (SUI)0101
23  Hungary (HUN)0011
  Kuwait (KUW)0011
  Norway (NOR)0011
  Romania (ROU)0011
Totals (26 entries)17171751

Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions
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Rajmond Debevec
  Slovenia
Juha Hirvi
  Finland
Harald Stenvaag
  Norway
50 metre rifle prone
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Jonas Edman
  Sweden
Torben Grimmel
  Denmark
Sergei Martynov
  Belarus
10 metre air rifle
details
Cai Yalin
  China
Artem Khadjibekov
  Russia
Yevgeni Aleinikov
  Russia
50 metre pistol
details
Tanyu Kiryakov
  Bulgaria
Igor Basinski
  Belarus
Martin Tenk
  Czech Republic
25 metre rapid fire pistol
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Sergei Alifirenko
  Russia
Michel Ansermet
  Switzerland
Iulian Raicea
  Romania
10 metre air pistol
details
Franck Dumoulin
  France
Wang Yifu
  China
Igor Basinski
  Belarus
Trap
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Michael Diamond
  Australia
Ian Peel
  Great Britain
Giovanni Pellielo
  Italy
Double trap
details
Richard Faulds
  Great Britain
Russell Mark
  Australia
Fehaid Al Deehani
  Kuwait
Skeet
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Mykola Milchev
  Ukraine
Petr Málek
  Czech Republic
James Graves
  United States
10 metre running target
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Yang Ling
  China
Oleg Moldovan
  Moldova
Niu Zhiyuan
  China

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions
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Renata Mauer
  Poland
Tatiana Goldobina
  Russia
Maria Feklistova
  Russia
10 metre air rifle
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Nancy Johnson
  United States
Kang Cho-hyun
  South Korea
Gao Jing
  China
25 metre pistol
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Mariya Grozdeva
  Bulgaria
Tao Luna
  China
Lalita Yauhleuskaya
  Belarus
10 metre air pistol
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Tao Luna
  China
Jasna Šekarić
  FR Yugoslavia
Annemarie Forder
  Australia
Trap
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Daina Gudzinevičiūtė
  Lithuania
Delphine Racinet
  France
Gao E
  China
Double trap
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Pia Hansen
  Sweden
Deborah Gelisio
  Italy
Kim Rhode
  United States
Skeet
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Zemfira Meftahatdinova
  Azerbaijan
Svetlana Demina
  Russia
Diána Igaly
  Hungary

Participating nations

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A total of 408 shooters, 262 men and 146 women, from 103 nations competed at the Sydney Games:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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