placed after Russia, though, on the Buchholz tie-breaker system employed by the Olympiad, and finished, as in the previous Olympiad, with the bronze medals. Hosts Spain, led by Alexei Shirov, just managed to squeeze into the top ten. Notable absentees from the tournament were the no. 1 player in the world, Garry Kasparov, as well as classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and his challenger Peter Leko, who were just finishing their championship match (Kramnik retained his title with a 7–7 tie). FIDE Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov was present, however, and led Uzbekistan to 14th place by going undefeated in his 8 games (+4-0=4). {| class="wikitable" |+ Open event ! # !! Country !! Players !! Averagerating !! Points !! Buchholz |- | style="background:gold;"|1 || || Ivanchuk, Ponomariov, Volokitin, Moiseenko, Eljanov, Karjakin || 2680 || 39½ || |- | style="background:silver;"|2 || || Morozevich, Svidler, Grischuk, Dreev, Khalifman, Zvjaginsev || 2718 || 36½ || 460.0 |- | style="background:#cc9966;"|3 || || Akopian, Aronian, Vaganian, Lputian, Sargissian, Minasian || 2660 || 36½ || 459.0 |- | 4 || || Onischuk, Shabalov, Goldin, Kaidanov, Novikov, Gulko || 2623 || 35 || |- | 5 || || Gelfand, Sutovsky, Smirin, Avrukh, Huzman, Roiz || 2670 || 34½ || |- | 6 || || Viswanathan Anand, Krishnan Sasikiran, Pendyala Harikrishna,Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Abhijit Kunte, Chanda Sandipan || 2655 || 34 || |- | 7 || || Domínguez, Bruzón, Delgado, Nogueiras, Arencibia, Quezada || 2596 || 33½ || |- | 8 || || Van Wely, Sokolov, Tiviakov, Timman, Van den Doel, Nijboer || 2641 || 33 || |- | 9 || || Georgiev, Delchev, Cheparinov, Spasov, Chatalbashev, Radulski || 2584 || 32½ || 453.0 |- | 10 || || Shirov, Vallejo Pons, Illescas Córdoba, Cifuentes Parada, Romero Holmes, Arizmendi Martínez || 2643 || 32½ || 439.5 |} {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! # !! Country !! Averagerating !! Points !! Buchholz !! MP |- | 11 || || 2569 || 32½ || 427.5 || |- | 12 || || 2624 || 32 || 445.5 || |- | 13 || || 2559 || 32 || 442.5 || |- | 14 || || 2550 || 32 || 440.5 || |- | 15 || || 2568 || 32 || 435.0 || |- | 16 || || 2617 || 32 || 430.0 || |- | 17 || || 2575 || 32 || 427.5 || |- | 18 || || 2609 || 32 ||