Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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At the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different gymnastics disciplines were contested: Artistic gymnastics, Rhythmic gymnastics, and Trampolining.

The all-around competition in the discipline of women's artistic gymnastics (WAG) was marred by two separate scandals. The vault apparatus was set incorrectly for more than half of the meet; consequently many gymnasts fell or were injured on the event. The apparatus was adjusted during the third rotation and those gymnasts who had vaulted on the incorrectly set equipment were invited to re-do the event the end of the competition. ^[1] ^[2]

Notably, Svetlana Khorkina, who led champion Andreea Raducan by nearly 0.3 in qualifications, was thrown out of medal contention due to the wrongly measured vault. Additionally, World All-Around Silver medalist, Viktoria Karpenko, who led the competition until the last rotation, was thrown from first place after she stubbed her tow, tripped, and fell out of bounds on her floor exercise. These are testaments to the upset of the entire competition. ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

Finally, the all-around gold medalist, Andreea Raducan, was stripped of her medal after testing positive for an IOC banned substance during that event. In 2004, after the substance was removed from the banned list, Raducan contested her being stripped of the medal and petitioned to have it returned to her. Unfortunately she was met with full resistance from the IOC. ^[7] ^[8]

[edit] Artistic gymnastics

[edit] Men's events

[edit] Team competition


China Score: 231,919 Yang Wei Zheng Lihui Li Xiaopeng Xing Aowei Xu Huang Xiao Junfeng	Ukraine Score: 230,306 Oleksandr Beresh Oleksandr Svitlychnyy Roman Zozulia Valeri Goncharov Valeriy Pereshkura Ruslan Myezyentsev	Russia Score: 230,019 Alexei Nemov Maxim Alechine Alexey Bondarenko Nikolay Krukov Evgueni Podgornyi Dmitri Drevine

[edit] Individual all-around

Rank	Athlete	FX	PH	RG	VT	PB	HB	Total
1	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.800	9.775	9.687	9.650	9.775	9.787	58.474
2	Yang Wei (CHN)	9.700	9.750	9.712	9.712	9.750	9.737	58.361
3	Oleksandr Beresh (UKR)	9.675	9.762	9.550	9.675	9.750	9.800	58.212

[edit] Floor exercise

Rank	Athlete	Score
1	Igors Vihrovs (LAT)	9.812
2	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.800
3	Jordan Jovtchev (BUL)	9.787

[edit] Pommel Horse

Rank	Athlete	Score
1	Marius Urzica (ROM)	9.862
2	Eric Poujade (FRA)	9.825
3	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.800

[edit] Rings

Rank	Athlete	Score
1	Szilveszter Csollany (HUN)	9.850
2	Dimosthenis Tampakos (GRE)	9.762
3	Jordan Jovtchev (BUL)	9.737

[edit] Vault

Rank	Athlete	Score
1	Gervasio Deferr (ESP)	9.712
2	Alexey Bondarenko (RUS)	9.587
3	Leszek Blanik (POL)	9.475

[edit] Parallel bars

Rank	Athlete	Score
1	Li Xiaopeng (CHN)	9.825
2	Lee Joo-Hyung (KOR)	9.812
3	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.800

[edit] Horizontal bar

Rank	Athlete	Score
1	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.787
2	Benjamin Varonian (FRA)	9.787
3	Lee Joo-Hyung (KOR)	9.775

[edit] Women's events

[edit] Qualifications

[edit] Team

Rank	Team	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	154.874
2	Romania (ROM)	153.991
3	China (CHN)	153.388
4	Ukraine (UKR)	151.914
5	Spain (ESP)	151.558
6	United States (USA)	151.439
7	Australia (AUS)	151.057
8	France (FRA)	150.084
9	Canada (CAN)	149.887
10	Great Britain (GBR)	149.483
11	Italy (ITA)	148.638
12	Belarus (BLR)	146.578

[edit] All-Around

Rank	Gymnast	Total
1	Svetlana Khorkina Russia (RUS)	39.005
2	Andrea Raducan Romania (ROM)	38.717
3	Simona Amanar Romania (ROM)	38.700
4	Ekaterina Lobazniouk Russia (RUS)	38.686
5	Elena Produnova Russia (RUS)	38.529
6	Yang Yun China (CHN)	38.424
7	Elena Zamolodchikova Russia (RUS)	38.336
8	Esther Moya Spain (ESP)	38.280
9	Dong Fangxiao China (CHN)	38.230
10	Maria Olaru Romania (ROM)	38.212

[edit] Finals