Azerbaijan at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Azerbaijan competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia having won one silver medal.

Powerlifter Gunduz Ismayilov who initially had won a gold medal in Men's -90kg competition lifting 240 kg to set a world record was stripped of it with his record nullified after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone.

[1] Ismayilov subsequently was banned from the Paralympics for life in 2004 after testing positive for stanazolol in the 2004 Summer Paralympics.

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