Azerbaijan at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. They won their first gold medal during these games.

Gold

Zemfira Meftakhetdinova
Zemfira Meftakhetdinova
Zemfira Meftakhetdinova is an Azerbaijani sport shooter who has won two Olympic medals in skeet.She was born in Baku and is a police officer and sports teacher, and she speaks three languages. She has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002.-Olympic...

— Shooting
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....

, Women's Skeet

Namik Abdullayev — Wrestling
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 September 28 to October 1, and the...

, Men's Freestyle Flyweight

Bronze

Vugar Alekperov — Boxing
Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour...

, Men's Middleweight

Athletics
Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.-Men's events:...

Men's 100 metres

Teymur Gasimov
Round 1 — 10.97 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

Faig Baghirov
Round 1 — 01:57.39 (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

Sergey Bochkov
Sergey Bochkov
Sergey Bochkov is an Azerbaijani triple jumper.He finished seventh at the 1998 World Junior Championships. He also competed at the 1999 World Championships, the 2000 Olympic Games, the 2001 World Championships and the 2004 Olympic Games without reaching the final.His personal best jump is 16.82...
Qualifying — 16.01 (→ did not advance)

Women's 20 km Walk

Aida Isayeva
Final — DNF (→ no ranking)

Boxing
Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour...

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

Makhach Nuriddinov
Round 1 — Defeated Alexandr Maletin
Alexandr Maletin
Alexandr Ivanovich Maletin is a boxer from Russia best known to win the lightweight world championships 1997.-Career:Maletin won the bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia...

of Russia (→ did not advance)

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

Ruslan Khairov
Ruslan Khairov
Ruslan Khairov is a boxer from Azerbaijan. He is competing in the Welterweight division, and won bronze medals at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships and 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships....
Round 1 — Bye
Round 2 — Defeated Kamel Chater
Kamel Chater
Kamel Chater is a welterweight boxer from Tunisia, who twice won the gold medal at the All-Africa Games in his weight division. He is a two-time Olympian .-References:*...

of Tunisia
Quarterfinal — Lost to Oleg Saitov
Oleg Saitov
Oleg Elekpayevich Saitov is a Russian boxer. He studied journalism in Ryazan, a city of approximately one million people south of Moscow.He won the Olympic gold medal at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, and bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. He was the winner of the...

of Russia (→ did not advance)

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

Vugar Alekperov
Round 1 — Defeated Peter Kariuki Ngumi of Kenya
Round 2 — Defeated Paul Miller
Paul Miller (boxer)
Paul James Miller is a boxer from Australia, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the Men's 75 kg Division...

of Australia
Quarterfinal — Defeated Akin Kakauridze of Turkey
Semifinal — Lost to Jorge Gutierrez
Jorge Gutiérrez
Jorge Gutiérrez Espinosa is a former boxer from Cuba. He won the Middleweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Gutiérrez's Olympic results were:*Defeated Somchai Chimlum 20-11...

of Cuba → Bronze Medal

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

Ali Ysmajlov
Round 1 — Defeated Dankov Emil-Krastev of Bulgaria
Round 2 — Lost to Sergei Mikhailov of Uzbekistan (→ did not advance)

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

Magomed Aripgadjiyev
Round 1 — Bye
Round 2 — Lost to Sebastian Kober
Sebastian Köber
Sebastian Köber is a German boxer, who won the Heavyweight bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia...

of Germany (→ did not advance)

Diving
Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events...

Men's 10 Metre Platform

Emil Jabrayilov
Preliminary Round — 334.74 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Swimming
Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested, between September 15–23, 2000. There was a total of 954 participants from 150 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men:...

Men's 50m Freestyle

Emil Gulyev
Preliminary Heat — 25.36 (→ did not advance)

Women's 50m Freestyle

Alisa Khaleyeva
Preliminary Heat — 28.79 (→ did not advance)

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	1	2	3	Total	Rank
Turan Mirzoyev	– 69 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 69 kg The Men's Lightweight Weightlifting Event is the third men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass...	140.0	145.0	147.5	175.0	180.0	~~182.5~~	327.5	9
Nizami Pashayev Nizami Pashayev Nizami Pashayev is an Azerbaijani athlete in weightlifting. He won two World Weightlifting Championships titles and one European Weightlifting Championships title, when he hauled 402 kilograms in total to take the overall gold in the men's 94 kg category.Pashayev totalled 402 kg on...	– 85 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 85 kg The Men's Light-Heavyweight Weightlifting Event is the fifth men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 85 kilograms of body mass...	155.0	~~166.0~~	~~166.0~~	197.5	~~203.5~~	203.5	357.5	12

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Gold

Bronze

AthleticsAthletics at the 2000 Summer OlympicsAt the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.-Men's events:...

BoxingBoxing at the 2000 Summer OlympicsThe boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour...

DivingDiving at the 2000 Summer OlympicsAt the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events...

SwimmingSwimming at the 2000 Summer OlympicsAt the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested, between September 15–23, 2000. There was a total of 954 participants from 150 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men:...

Weightlifting

Athletics
Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.-Men's events:...

Boxing
Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour...

Diving
Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events...

Swimming
Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested, between September 15–23, 2000. There was a total of 954 participants from 150 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men:...