Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men's event with eight teams competing. The sport was a form of
Cheating controversy
The Basketball ID event at the
Medal summary
Spain originally won the gold medal, but they were disqualified after it was discovered that ten of the team's twelve players were not disabled.[3]
As a consequence of this decision, the official results indicate that no gold medal was awarded for this event:[4] Thomas Reinecke, the Chief Operating Officer of the International Paralympic Committee at the time, stated in an interview with the BBC in September 2021 that the gold medals were withheld because the silver medalists, Russia, failed to provide evidence regarding the classification of its own team.[5]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's team | Not awarded | Russia (RUS) Oleg Chubasov |
Poland (POL) Marcin Merk |
Group stage
Team | Wins | Losses | Points | Competition score |
vs. ESP | vs. POR | vs. BRA | vs. JPN |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spain (ESP) (DSQ) | 3 | 0 | 254:126 | 6 | - | 73:58 | 94:48 | 87:20 |
Portugal (POR) | 2 | 1 | 251:146 | 5 | 58:73 | - | 71:56 | 122:17 |
Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 2 | 207:189 | 4 | 48:94 | 56:71 | - | 103:24 |
Japan (JPN) | 0 | 3 | 61:312 | 3 | 20:87 | 17:122 | 24:103 | - |
Team | Wins | Losses | Points | Competition score |
vs. RUS | vs. POL | vs. AUS | vs. GRE |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Russia (RUS) | 2 | 1 | 239:211 | 5 | - | 111:97 | 79:64 | 49:50 |
Poland (POL) | 2 | 1 | 245:214 | 5 | 97:111 | - | 77:66 | 71:37 |
Australia (AUS) | 1 | 2 | 220:182 | 4 | 64:79 | 66:77 | - | 90:26 |
Greece (GRE) | 1 | 2 | 113:210 | 4 | 50:49 | 37:71 | 26:90 | - |
Finals
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
Spain (ESP) | 97 | |||||
Poland (POL) | 67 | |||||
Spain (ESP) (DSQ) | 87 | |||||
Russia (RUS) | 63 | |||||
Russia (RUS) | 73 | |||||
Portugal (POR) | 45 | |||||
Third place | ||||||
Poland (POL) | 65 | |||||
Portugal (POR) | 51 |
References
- ^ "PLUS: PARALYMPICS; Paralympic Group Orders Suspensions". The New York Times. 30 January 2001. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
- ^ "Intellectual disability ban ends". 2009-11-21. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
- ^ "Spain ordered to return golds". BBC. 14 December 2000. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
- ^ "Results Archive, Sydney 2000: Basketball ID". Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ "The Fake Paralympians, Episode 4: Probe". BBC. 7 September 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.