Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

2000 Summer Paralympics

The 2000 Paralympic Games were held in Sydney, Australia, from 18 October to 29 October. The eleventh Summer Paralympic Games, an estimated 3800 athletes took part in the Sydney programme. They commenced with the opening ceremony on 18 October 2000...

consisted of a men's event with eight teams competing. The sport was a form of basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 adapted for players with intellectual disabilities (ID).

Medal summary

Men's team

None 1

Oleg Chubasov  Marat Oumarov  Nariman Sadekov  Shamil Kodraleev  Serguei Rogov  Vladimir Fedotov  Igor Gousev  Slava Kosoukhov  Artur Melkonian  Michail Kisilev  Slava Chernobrov  Andrey Zakharov

Marcin Merk  Andrzej Kolodziejczyk  Robert Kwiatkowski  Tomasz Macholl  Mariusz Wikbold  Adam Krzeminski  Rafat Jastrzab  Lukasz Skory  Grzegorz Sobus  Tadeusz Truszczynski  Piotr Madej  Robert Wittke

¹ The Spanish team originally won the gold medal, but they were disqualified after it was discovered that ten of the team's twelve players were not disabled.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Wins	Losses	Points	Competition score	vs. ESP	vs. POR	vs. BRA	vs. JPN
	3	0	254:126	6	-	73:58	94:48	87:20
	2	1	251:146	5	58:73	-	71:56	122:17
	1	2	207:189	4	48:94	56:71	-	103:24
	0	3	61:312	3	20:87	17:122	24:103	-

Group B

Team	Wins	Losses	Points	Competition score	vs. RUS	vs. POL	vs. AUS	vs. GRE
	2	1	239:211	5	-	111:97	79:64	49:50
	2	1	245:214	5	97:111	-	77:66	71:37
	1	2	220:182	4	64:79	66:77	-	90:26
	1	2	113:210	4	50:49	37:71	26:90	-

Finals