Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men's event with eight teams competing.
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.
[2] 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] 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 Kołodziejczyk Robert Kwiatkowski Tomasz Macholl Mariusz Wikbold Adam Krzemiński Rafał Jastrząb Łukasz Skory Grzegorz Sobuś Tadeusz Truszczyński Piotr Madej Robert Wittke