Georgia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. This was the country's second appearance at the Summer Olympics.

Medalists

{| class="wikitable"

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!Medal

!Name

!Sport

!Event

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| || Vladimer Chanturia || Boxing || Heavyweight

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| || Giorgi Vazagashvili || Judo || Men's 66 kg

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| || Giorgi Asanidze || Weightlifting || Men's 85 kg

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| || Akaki Chachua || Wrestling || Men's Greco-Roman 63 kg

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| || Mukhran Vakhtangadze || Wrestling || Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg

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| || Eldar Kurtanidze || Wrestling || Men's Freestyle 97 kg

|}

Results by event

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.

{| class="wikitable"

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| align=center colspan=10 | Women's individual

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|

| align=center colspan=3 | Khatuna Phutkaradze

| align=center colspan=3 | Khatuna Lorigi

| align=center colspan=3 | Asmat Diasamidze

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| width="100px" align=center | 1/32 eliminations

| width="75px" align= center | Lost to

| width="175px" align=center | Kate Fairweather <br/>Australia

| width="75px" align=center |166-158

| width="75px" align= center | Lost to

| width="175px" align=center | Melissa Jennison <br/>Australia

| width="75px" align=center |160-151

| width="75px" align= center | Lost to

| width="175px" align=center | Yi-Yin Lin <br/>Chinese Taipei

| width="75px" align=center |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 (&ndash; 54&nbsp;kg)

  • Theimuraz Khurtsilava
  • Round 1 – Defeated Aram Ramazyan of Armenia
  • Round 2 – Lost to Raimkul Malakhbekov of Russia (→ did not advance)

Men's Heavyweight (&ndash; 91&nbsp;kg)

  • Vladimer Chanturia
  • Round 1 – Bye
  • Round 2 – Defeated Amro Mostafa Mahmoud of Egypt
  • Quarterfinal – Defeated Ruslan Chagaev of Uzbekistan
  • Semifinal – Lost to Sultanahmed Ibzagimov of Russia – Bronze medal

Diving

Women's competition

{|class=wikitable style="font-size:95%" width="90%"

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!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan="2"|Preliminary

!colspan="2"|Semifinal

!colspan="2"|Final

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!Points

!Rank

!Points

!Rank

!Points

!Rank

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|width=30%|Nana Nebieridze

|align=center|10 m platform

|align=center|252.09

|align=center|26

|align=center colspan="4" |did not advance

|}

Swimming

Men's competition

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!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan="2"|Heat

!colspan="2"|Semifinal

!colspan="2"|Final

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!Time

!Rank

!Time

!Rank

!Time

!Rank

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|width=30%|Zurab Beridze

|align=center|50 m freestyle

|align=center|24.28

|align=center|54

|align=center colspan="4" |did not advance

|}

Weightlifting

Men

{|class=wikitable style="font-size:95%" width="90%"

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!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan="3"|Snatch

!colspan="3"|Clean & Jerk

!rowspan="2"|Total

!rowspan="2"|Rank

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!1

!2

!3

!1

!2

!3

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|width=30%|Giorgi Asanidze

|align=center|&ndash; 85&nbsp;kg

|align=center|<s>175.0</s>

|align=center|175.0

|align=center|180.0

|align=center|210.0

|align=center|<s>215.0</s>

|align=center|<s>215.0</s>

|align=center|390.0

|align=center|

|-

|width=30%|Mukhran Gogia

|align=center|&ndash; 105&nbsp;kg

|align=center|<s>190.0</s>

|align=center|—

|align=center|—

|align=center|—

|align=center|—

|align=center|—

|align=center|DNF

|align=center|—

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|width=30%|Valeri Sarava

|align=center|+ 105&nbsp;kg

|align=center|<s>170.0</s>

|align=center|170.0

|align=center|<s>177.5</s>

|align=center|210.0

|align=center|215.0

|align=center|<s>220.0</s>

|align=center|385.0

|align=center|16

|}

References

  • Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. .
  • International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
  • Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
  • Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
  • Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
  • International Olympic Committee Web Site