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Macedonia at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
MKD

Flag bearer
  
Lazar Popovski

Macedonia at the 2000 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
FYR Macedonian Olympic Committee

Website
  
www.mok.org.mk (Macedonian)

Competitors
  
10 (6 men, 4 women) in 5 sports

Medals Ranked 71st
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 1 1

The Republic of Macedonia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Officially under the name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

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Macedonia won its first ever Olympic medal on the final day of competition. Magomed Ibragimov won a bronze medal in wrestling. It was Macedonia's only medal of the 2000 Olympics.

The at-the-time president of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski, was in Sydney during the Olympic Games and attended the Opening Ceremony.

Athletics

Men's 800 metres

  • Vančo Stojanov
  • Heat: 01:47.71 (did not advance)

    • Women's 1500 metres

  • Daniela Kuleska
  • Heat: 04:33.50 (did not advance)

    • Canoeing

    Men's slalom K-1

  • Lazar Popovski
  • Qualifying: 266.60 (Run 1: 132.23, 0 points, Run 2: 130.37, 4 points, 17th place, did not advance)

    • Shooting

    Women's 50 metre rifle three positions

  • Divna Pešić
  • Qualification: 561 points (190 Prone, 190 Standing, 181 Kneeling) (36th overall, did not advance)

    • Women's 10 metre air rifle

  • Divna Pešić
  • Qualification: 384 points (44th overall, did not advance)

    • Swimming

    Men's 100 metre butterfly

  • Aleksandar Miladinovski
  • Heat: 55.62 (did not advance)

    • Men's 200 metre butterfly

  • Zoran Lazarevski
  • Heat: 02:01.30 (did not advance)

    • Men's 200 metre individual medley

  • Aleksandar Miladinovski
  • Heat: 02:07.45 (did not advance)

    • Women's 200 metre freestyle

  • Vesna Stojanovska
  • Heat: 02:05.58 (did not advance)

    • Women's 400 metre freestyle

  • Vesna Stojanovska
  • Heat: 04:19.69 (did not advance)

    • Women's 800 metre freestyle

  • Mirjana Boševska
  • Heat: 08:46.39 (did not advance)

    • Women's 200 metre butterfly

  • Mirjana Boševska
  • Heat: 02:12.59 (did not advance)

    • Women's 400 metre individual medley

  • Mirjana Boševska
  • Heat: 04:48.08 (did not advance)

    • Wrestling

    Men's freestyle 76 kg

  • Nasir Gadžihanov
  • Pool 6
  • Won with Radion Kertanti (SVK) (3-2)
  • Won with Yosmany Romero (CUB) (3-0)
  • Lost to Alexander Leipold (GER) (2-5)
  • 2nd in pool, did not advance (8 TP, 7 CP, 7th place)

    • Men's freestyle 85 kg

  • Mogamed Ibragimov → Bronze Medal
  • Pool 1
  • Won with Davyd Bichinashvili (UKR) (3-1)
  • Won with Tatsuo Kawai (JPN) by fall
  • 1st in pool, qualified (7 TP, 7 CP)
  • Quarter-finals
  • Won with Charles Burton (USA) (4-2)
  • Semi-finals
  • Lost to Adam Saitiev (RUS) (0-3)
  • Third place
  • Won with Amir Reza Khadem (IRN) (4-1)

    • References

    Macedonia at the 2000 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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