Georgia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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Georgia
competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics
in Sydney
, Australia
.
In its second Olympic archery competition, Georgia sent three women. None won a match, and the trio lost their first match in the team round as well.
Women's team:
Men's 100m
Women's 100m
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)
Men
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
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
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Bronze
- Vladimir Chanturia — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)
- Giorgi VazagashviliGiorgi VazagashviliGiorgi Vazagashvili is a Georgian judoka. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Lightweight category, together with Girolamo Giovinazzo of Italy....
— Judo, Men's Half Lightweight (– 66 kg)
- Giorgi Asanidze — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight (– 85 kg)
- Akaki ChachuaAkaki ChachuaAkaki Chachua is a Georgian wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 64 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. He also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and finished 9th.-References:*...
— Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight (– 63 kg)
- Mukhran VakhtangadzeMukhran VakhtangadzeMukhran Vakhtangadze is a Georgian wrestler who competed in the Men's Freestyle 85 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. He also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated early....
— Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (– 85 kg)
- Eldar KurtanidzeEldar KurtanidzeEldar Kurtanidze, also known as Luka Kurtanidze is a Georgian wrestler. He has been a senior professional freestyle wrestler since 1992. He was a bronze medallist in both the Men's Freestyle 90 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics and also Men's Freestyle 97 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He also...
— Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight (– 97 kg)
Archery
In its second Olympic archery competition, Georgia sent three women. None won a match, and the trio lost their first match in the team round as well.| Women's individual | |||||||||
| Khatuna Phutkaradze | Khatuna Lorigi Khatuna Lorig Khatuna Lorig is an American archer originally from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic which is today the Republic of Georgia.... |
Asmat Diasamidze | |||||||
| 1/32 eliminations | Lost to | Kate Fairweather Kate Fairweather Kate Fairweather was an Australian female Olympic archer.Fairweather's older brother is archer Simon Fairweather. Her father is Robert Fairweather, founder of the South Australian branch of Trees for Life... Australia |
166-158 | Lost to | Melissa Jennison Melissa Jennison Melissa Jennison is an athlete from Australia. She competes in archery.Jennison represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In 2004, she placed 29th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 628... Australia |
160-151 | Lost to | Yi-Yin Lin Chinese Taipei |
158-140 |
Women's team:
- Phutkaradze, Lorigi, and Diasamidze — Round of 16, 12th place (0-1)
Athletics
Men's 100m
- Ruslan Rusidze
- Round 1 - 10.7 (→ did not advance)
Women's 100m
- Tamara Shanidze
- Round 1 - 12.56 (→ did not advance)
Boxing
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
- Theimuraz KhurtsilavaTheimuraz KhurtsilavaTheimuraz Khurtsilava is a retired male boxer from Georgia, who competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia in the men's bantamweight division. There he was eliminated in the second round by Russia's eventual silver medalist Raimkul Malakhbekov.- References :*...
- Round 1 - Defeated Aram RamazyanAram RamazyanAram Ramazyan is a boxer from Armenia.He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he lost in the first round of the men's bantamweight division to Georgia's Theimuraz Khurtsilava. Ramazyan is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1997 World...
of Armenia - Round 2 - Lost to Raimkul MalakhbekovRaimkul MalakhbekovRaimkul Khudoynazarovich Malakhbekov is one of highest titled boxers of Russia, who won two Olympic medals in the Men's Bantamweight category.- Biography :...
of Russia (→ did not advance)
- Round 1 - Defeated Aram Ramazyan
Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)
- Vladimer Chanturia
- Round 1 - Bye
- Round 2 - Defeated Amro Mostafa Mahmoud of Egypt
- Quarterfinal - Defeated Ruslan ChagaevRuslan ChagaevRuslan Chagaev born October 19, 1978 in Andijan, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union) is an Uzbekistani former WBA heavyweight boxing champion of Tatar ethnicity...
of Uzbekistan - Semifinal - Lost to Sultanahmed Ibzagimov of Russia - Bronze medal
Women's Competition
| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Semifinal | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| Nana Nebieridze | 10 m platform Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 metre platform The women's 10 metre platform was one of eight diving events included in the Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics programme.The competition was split into three phases:... |
252.09 | 26 | did not advance | |||
Men's Competition
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Zurab Beridze | 50 m freestyle Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 metre freestyle These are the results of the men's 50 metre freestyle competition in swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-Records:Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Neither record was broken at the Sydney Games.... |
24.28 | 54 | did not advance | |||
Weightlifting
Men
| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Giorgi Asanidze | – 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... |
175.0 | 180.0 | 210.0 | 390.0 | ||||
| Mukhran Gogia Mukhran Gogia Mukhran Gogia is a retired male weightlifter from Georgia. He qualified for the 1996 Summer Olympics, but eventually did not start in Atlanta, Georgia. Four years later Gogia had to retire after one snatch after having finished fourth in the men's heavyweight division at the 1999 World... |
– 105 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 105 kg The Men's Heavyweight Weightlifting Event is the seventh men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 105 kilograms of body mass... |
— | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | |
| Valeri Sarava Valeri Sarava Valeriane Sarava is a retired male weightlifter from Georgia. He qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he ended up in 16th place in the men's super heavyweight division .... |
+ 105 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's +105 kg The Men's Super Heavyweight Weightlifting Event is the heaviest men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, for lifters over 105 kilograms of body mass... |
170.0 | 210.0 | 215.0 | 385.0 | 16 | |||