Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men's event with eight teams competing. The sport was a form of basketball adapted for players with intellectual disabilities (ID).
The Basketball ID event at the 2000 Paralympic Games were marred by one of sport's biggest controversies which saw a classification of athlete removed from the next two Paralympic games. Fernando Martin Vicente, former head of the Spanish Federation for Mentally Handicapped Sports, allowed athletes with no disabilities to compete at the Games in order to win the gold medal. The team at the centre of the row was the Spanish basketball team, who won the gold medal after beating Russia in the final despite fielding a team mainly composed of athletes with no intellectual disability. The athletes were quickly exposed and the IPC reacted by stripping Spain of their medal and removing all events from the following Games for athletes with intellectual disabilities.[1] Events for athletes with intellectual disabilities returned to the Paralympic schedule in 2012.[2]
Medal summaryedit
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]
Marcin Merk Andrzej Kołodziejczyk Robert Kwiatkowski Tomasz Macholl Mariusz Wikbold Adam Krzemiński Rafał Jastrząb Łukasz Skory Grzegorz Sobuś Tadeusz Truszczyński Piotr Madej Robert Wittke
^"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.
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basketball, 2000, summer, paralympics, consisted, event, with, eight, teams, competing, sport, form, basketball, adapted, players, with, intellectual, disabilities, contents, cheating, controversy, medal, summary, group, stage, finals, referencescheating, cont. Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men s event with eight teams competing The sport was a form of basketball adapted for players with intellectual disabilities ID Contents 1 Cheating controversy 2 Medal summary 3 Group stage 4 Finals 5 ReferencesCheating controversy editMain article Cheating at the Paralympic Games Basketball controversy The Basketball ID event at the 2000 Paralympic Games were marred by one of sport s biggest controversies which saw a classification of athlete removed from the next two Paralympic games Fernando Martin Vicente former head of the Spanish Federation for Mentally Handicapped Sports allowed athletes with no disabilities to compete at the Games in order to win the gold medal The team at the centre of the row was the Spanish basketball team who won the gold medal after beating Russia in the final despite fielding a team mainly composed of athletes with no intellectual disability The athletes were quickly exposed and the IPC reacted by stripping Spain of their medal and removing all events from the following Games for athletes with intellectual disabilities 1 Events for athletes with intellectual disabilities returned to the Paralympic schedule in 2012 2 Medal summary editSpain 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 nbsp Russia RUS Oleg Chubasov Marat Oumarov Nariman Sadekov Shamil Kodraleev Serguei Rogov Vladimir Fedotov Igor Gousev Slava Kosoukhov Artur Melkonian Michail Kisilev Slava Chernobrov Andrey Zakharov nbsp Poland POL Marcin Merk Andrzej Kolodziejczyk Robert Kwiatkowski Tomasz Macholl Mariusz Wikbold Adam Krzeminski Rafal Jastrzab Lukasz Skory Grzegorz Sobus Tadeusz Truszczynski Piotr Madej Robert WittkeGroup stage editGroup A Team Wins Losses Points Competitionscore vs ESP vs POR vs BRA vs JPN nbsp Spain ESP DSQ 3 0 254 126 6 73 58 94 48 87 20 nbsp Portugal POR 2 1 251 146 5 58 73 71 56 122 17 nbsp Brazil BRA 1 2 207 189 4 48 94 56 71 103 24 nbsp Japan JPN 0 3 61 312 3 20 87 17 122 24 103 Group B Team Wins Losses Points Competitionscore vs RUS vs POL vs AUS vs GRE nbsp Russia RUS 2 1 239 211 5 111 97 79 64 49 50 nbsp Poland POL 2 1 245 214 5 97 111 77 66 71 37 nbsp Australia AUS 1 2 220 182 4 64 79 66 77 90 26 nbsp Greece GRE 1 2 113 210 4 50 49 37 71 26 90 Finals edit Semi finalsFinal nbsp Spain ESP 97 nbsp Poland POL 67 nbsp Spain ESP DSQ 87 nbsp Russia RUS 63 nbsp Russia RUS 73 nbsp Portugal POR 45 Third place nbsp Poland POL 65 nbsp Portugal POR 51References edit nbsp Sports portal 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 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics amp oldid 1212840872, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
