Azerbaijan at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Azerbaijan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. They won their first gold medal during these games.

Medalists

Gold

• Zemfira Meftakhetdinova — Shooting, Women's Skeet

• Namik Abdullayev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Flyweight

Bronze

• Vugar Alekperov — Boxing, Men's Middleweight

Results by event

Athletics

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

* Qualifying — 16.01 (→ did not advance)

Women's 20 km Walk

• Aida Isayeva

* Final — DNF (→ no ranking)

Boxing

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Makhach Nuriddinov

*Round 1 — Defeated Alexandr Maletin of Russia (→ did not advance)

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Ruslan Khairov

*Round 1 — Bye

*Round 2 — Defeated Kamel Chater of Tunisia

*Quarterfinal — Lost to Oleg Saitov of Russia (→ did not advance)

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Vugar Alekperov

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