The
Republic of Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...
[Officially under the provisional appellation "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", short "FYR Macedonia"] competed at the
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
in
Sydney
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,
Australia
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, officially under the name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Macedonia won its first ever Olympic medal on the final day of competition.
Magomed Ibragimov won a bronze medal in
wrestling
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. It was Macedonia's only medal of the 2000 Olympics.
The at-the-time president of Macedonia,
Boris Trajkovski
Boris Trajkovski ( GCMG) ( mk, Борис Трајковски, pronounced ; 25 June 1956 – 26 February 2004) was a Macedonian politician who served as the second President of Macedonia from 1999 until his death in 2004 in a plane crash.
Tra ...
, was in
Sydney
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during the Olympic Games and attended the Opening Ceremony.
Medalists
Athletics
;Men
;Track
;Women
;Track
Canoeing
Shooting
Swimming
;Men
;Women
Wrestling
;Freestyle
Notes
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
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Nations at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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Summer Olympics
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