( CNN ) -- The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday stripped China of a bronze medal in the women 's team event at the 2000 Olympic Games after finding one of the team 's athletes was underage . The United States will be awarded the bronze medal instead , the IOC said in a news release . The International Gymnastics Federation ( FIG ) in February decided to cancel all results obtained by gymnast Dong Fangxiao at the Sydney , Australia , Games . `` The FIG conducted an inquiry which showed that the athlete was only 14 years old during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games , '' the IOC said . Under FIG qualification rules , athletes must be 16 in the year of the Games in order to compete . The IOC 's executive board on Wednesday decided to reallocate the results of the events that Dong participated in . She had placed sixth in the women 's individual floor exercises and seventh in the women 's individual vault . Dong has been disqualified from all the events she participated in , which also included the women 's individual uneven bars , the women 's individual all-around and the women 's individual balance beam .
China stripped of gold medal from women 's team event at Sydney Olympics . Gymnast Dong Fangxiao found to be underage during the Games in Sydney . Dong 's was disqualified as United States awarded gold medal in China 's place .