page_title: 2000 Summer Olympics medal table
hierarchical_section_title: 2000 Summer Olympics medal table
caption_attribution_description: Public Domain. Suggested credit: DOD via pingnews. Additional information from source: Fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during closing ceremonies of the Olympics games in Sydney, Australia. DoD photo by: TSGT ROBERT A. WHITEHEAD, USAF Date Shot: 1 Oct 2000
context_page_description: The 2000 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations competed in 300 events in 28 sports.
  Athletes from 80 countries won at least one medal. The United States won the most medals overall with 93, as well as the most gold medals. Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall. Cameroon, Colombia, Latvia, Mozambique and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories, while Vietnam, Barbados, Macedonia, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, and Saudi Arabia won their first ever Olympic medals, a silver in taekwondo, a bronze in athletics, a bronze in wrestling and a bronze in judo, respectively.
context_section_description: The 2000 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 nations (with four individual athletes from East Timor) competed in 300 events in 28 sports.
  Athletes from 80 countries won at least one medal. The United States won the most medals overall with 93, as well as the most gold (37) medals. Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall (16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze). Cameroon, Colombia, Latvia, Mozambique and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories, while Vietnam, Barbados, Macedonia, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, and Saudi Arabia  won their first ever Olympic medals, a silver in taekwondo, a bronze in athletics, a bronze in wrestling and a bronze in judo, respectively.
caption: Fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the closing ceremonies
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