2001 World Aquatics Championships

The 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001.

9th FINA World Championships
Host cityFukuoka, Japan
Date(s)July 16–29, 2001
Officially opened byAkihito

The opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the swimming and synchronised swimming events, were held at Marine Messe, an indoor multi-purpose facility. The temporary 50-m pool with 10,000 seats on three sides cost US$4 million for the two-week period. The Fukuoka Prefectural Pool hosted the diving events, with open water swimming taking place at Momochi Beach. Water polo was held at two locations: the men's competition took place at Hakata-no-Mori Center Court and the women's event at the Nishi Civic Pool.

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Australia (AUS)134623
2  China (CHN)106420
3  United States (USA)99826
4  Russia (RUS)68721
5  Italy (ITA)62412
6  Germany (GER)47819
7  Netherlands (NED)3519
8  Ukraine (UKR)3115
9  Sweden (SWE)1326
10  Great Britain (GBR)1247
11  Japan (JPN)*1179
12  Canada (CAN)1135
13  Romania (ROU)1124
14  Hungary (HUN)1113
15  Spain (ESP)1001
16  France (FRA)0213
17  Austria (AUT)0202
  Mexico (MEX)0202
19  Iceland (ISL)0112
20  Costa Rica (CRC)0101
  Poland (POL)0101
  Switzerland (SUI)0101
  Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia)0101
24  South Africa (RSA)0011
Totals (24 entries)616261184

Results

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Diving

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Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
1 m springboard   Wang Feng (CHN)   Wang Tianling (CHN)   Alexander Dobroskok (RUS)
3 m springboard   Dmitri Sautin (RUS)   Wang Tianling (CHN)   Ken Terauchi (JPN)
10 m platform   Tian Liang (CHN)   Alexandre Despatie (CAN)   Mathew Helm (AUS)
3 m springboard synchro   Peng Bo (CHN)
  Wang Kenan (CHN)
  Joel Rodriguez (MEX)
  Fernando Platas (MEX)
  Alexander Dobroskok (RUS)
  Dmitri Sautin (RUS)
10 m platform synchro   Tian Liang (CHN)
  Hu Jia (CHN)
  Eduardo Rueda (MEX)
  Fernando Platas (MEX)
  Roman Volodkov (UKR)
  Anton Zakharov (UKR)
Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
1 m springboard   Blythe Hartley (CAN)   Wu Minxia (CHN)   Zhang Jing (CHN)
3 m springboard   Guo Jingjing (CHN)   Irina Lashko (AUS)   Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS)
10 m platform   Xu Mian (CHN)   Duan Qing (CHN)   Loudy Tourky (AUS)
3 m springboard synchro   Wu Minxia (CHN)
  Guo Jingjing (CHN)
  Youlia Pakhalina (RUS)
  Vera Ilynia (RUS)
  Ditte Kotzian (GER)
  Conny Schmalfuss (GER)
10 m platform synchro   Duan Qing (CHN)
  Sang Xue (CHN)
  Evgeniya Olshevskaya (RUS)
  Svetlana Timoshinina (RUS)
  Takiri Miyazaki (JPN)
  Emi Otsuki (JPN)

Open water swimming

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Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
5 km   Luca Baldini (ITA)   Yevgeny Bezruchenko (RUS)   Marco Formentini (ITA)
10 km   Yevgeny Bezruchenko (RUS)   Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS)   Fabio Venturini (ITA)
25 km   Yuri Kudinov (RUS)   Stéphane Gomez (FRA)   Stéphane Lecat (FRA)
Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
5 km   Viola Valli (ITA)   Peggy Büchse (GER)   Hayley Lewis (AUS)
10 km   Peggy Büchse (GER)   Irina Abysova (RUS)   Edith van Dijk (NED)
25 km   Viola Valli (ITA)   Edith van Dijk (NED)   Angela Maurer (GER)

Swimming

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Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle   Anthony Ervin (USA)   Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED)   Roland Schoeman (RSA)
  Tomohiro Yamanoi (JPN)
100 m freestyle   Anthony Ervin (USA)   Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED)   Lars Frölander (SWE)
200 m freestyle   Ian Thorpe (AUS)   Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED)   Klete Keller (USA)
400 m freestyle   Ian Thorpe (AUS)   Grant Hackett (AUS)   Emiliano Brembilla (ITA)
800 m freestyle   Ian Thorpe (AUS)   Grant Hackett (AUS)   Graeme Smith (GBR)
1500 m freestyle   Grant Hackett (AUS)   Graeme Smith (GBR)   Alexei Filipets (RUS)
50 m backstroke   Randall Bal (USA)   Thomas Rupprath (GER)   Matt Welsh (AUS)
100 m backstroke   Matt Welsh (AUS)   Örn Arnarson (ISL)   Steffen Driesen (GER)
200 m backstroke   Aaron Peirsol (USA)   Markus Rogan (AUT)   Örn Arnarson (ISL)
50 m breaststroke   Oleg Lisogor (UKR)   Roman Sludnov (RUS)   Domenico Fioravanti (ITA)
100 m breaststroke   Roman Sludnov (RUS)   Domenico Fioravanti (ITA)   Ed Moses (USA)
200 m breaststroke   Brendan Hansen (USA)   Maxim Podoprigora (AUT)   Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
50 m butterfly   Geoff Huegill (AUS)   Lars Frölander (SWE)   Mark Foster (GBR)
100 m butterfly   Lars Frölander (SWE)   Ian Crocker (USA)   Geoff Huegill (AUS)
200 m butterfly   Michael Phelps (USA)   Tom Malchow (USA)   Anatoly Polyakov (RUS)
200 m individual medley   Massimiliano Rosolino (ITA)   Tom Wilkens (USA)   Justin Norris (AUS)
400 m individual medley   Alessio Boggiatto (ITA)   Erik Vendt (USA)   Tom Wilkens (USA)
4 × 100 m freestyle relay   Australia (AUS)
Michael Klim
Ashley Callus
Todd Pearson
Ian Thorpe
  Netherlands (NED)
Mark Veens
Johan Kenkhuis
Klaas-Erik Zwering
Pieter van den Hoogenband
  Germany (GER)
Stefan Herbst
Torsten Spanneberg
Lars Conrad
Sven Lodziewski
4 × 200 m freestyle relay   Australia (AUS)
Grant Hackett
Michael Klim
Bill Kirby
Ian Thorpe
  Italy (ITA)
Emiliano Brembilla
Matteo Pelliciari
Andrea Beccari
Massimiliano Rosolino
  United States (USA)
Scott Goldblatt
Nate Dusing
Chad Carvin
Klete Keller
4 × 100 m medley relay   Australia (AUS)
Matt Welsh
Regan Harrison
Geoff Huegill
Ian Thorpe
  Germany (GER)
Steffen Driesen
Jens Kruppa
Thomas Rupprath
Torsten Spanneberg
  Russia (RUS)
Vladislav Aminov
Dmitry Komornikov
Vladislav Kulikov
Dmitri Tchernychev
Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle   Inge de Bruijn (NED)   Therese Alshammar (SWE)   Sandra Völker (GER)
100 m freestyle   Inge de Bruijn (NED)   Katrin Meissner (GER)   Sandra Völker (GER)
200 m freestyle   Giaan Rooney (AUS)   Yang Yu (CHN)   Camelia Potec (ROM)
400 m freestyle   Yana Klochkova (UKR)   Claudia Poll (CRC)   Hannah Stockbauer (GER)
800 m freestyle   Hannah Stockbauer (GER)   Diana Munz (USA)   Kaitlin Sandeno (USA)
1500 m freestyle   Hannah Stockbauer (GER)   Flavia Rigamonti (SUI)   Diana Munz (USA)
50 m backstroke   Haley Cope (USA)   Antje Buschschulte (GER)   Natalie Coughlin (USA)
100 m backstroke   Natalie Coughlin (USA)   Diana Mocanu (ROM)   Antje Buschschulte (GER)
200 m backstroke   Diana Mocanu (ROM)   Stanislava Komarova (RUS)   Joanna Fargus (GBR)
50 m breaststroke   Luo Xuejuan (CHN)   Kristy Kowal (USA)   Zoë Baker (GBR)
100 m breaststroke   Luo Xuejuan (CHN)   Leisel Jones (AUS)   Ágnes Kovács (HUN)
200 m breaststroke   Ágnes Kovács (HUN)   Qi Hui (CHN)   Luo Xuejuan (CHN)
50 m butterfly   Inge de Bruijn (NED)   Therese Alshammar (SWE)   Anna-Karin Kammerling (SWE)
100 m butterfly   Petria Thomas (AUS)   Otylia Jędrzejczak (POL)   Junko Onishi (JPN)
200 m butterfly   Petria Thomas (AUS)   Annika Mehlhorn (GER)   Kaitlin Sandeno (USA)
200 m individual medley   Martha Bowen (USA)   Yana Klochkova (UKR)   Qi Hui (CHN)
400 m individual medley   Yana Klochkova (UKR)   Martha Bowen (USA)   Beatrice Câșlaru (ROM)
4 × 100 m freestyle relay   Germany (GER)
Petra Dallmann
Antje Buschschulte
Katrin Meissner
Sandra Völker
  United States (USA)
Colleen Lanne
Erin Phenix
Maritza Correia
Courtney Shealy
  Great Britain (GBR)
Alison Sheppard
Melanie Marshall
Rosalind Brett
Karen Pickering
4 × 200 m freestyle relay1   Great Britain (GBR)
Nicola Jackson
Janine Belton
Karen Legg
Karen Pickering
  Germany (GER)
Silvia Szalai
Sarah Harstick
Hannah Stockbauer
Meike Freitag
  Japan (JPN)
Maki Mita
Tomoko Hagiwara
Tomoko Nagai
Eri Yamanoi
4 × 100 m medley relay   Australia (AUS)
Dyana Calub
Leisel Jones
Petria Thomas
Sarah Ryan
  United States (USA)
Natalie Coughlin
Megan Quann
Mary Descenza
Erin Phenix
  China (CHN)
Zhan Shu
Luo Xuejuan
Ruan Yi
Xu Yanwei

1In accordance with the decision of the FINA Bureau (2001, Bangkok): “To avoid any reasonable doubt regarding the result of the Women’s relay 4x200m Freestyle Final of the 9th FINA World Championships in Fukuoka but without unfairly changing the official results of the race, the Bureau decided to grant a second set of gold medals to the USA team." The members of the USA team were: Natalie Coughlin, Diana Munz, Cristina Teuscher, Julie Hardt (7:58.13).[1]

Synchronised swimming

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Solo routine   Olga Brusnikina (RUS)   Virginie Dedieu (FRA)   Miya Tachibana (JPN)
Duet routine   Miya Tachibana (JPN)
  Miho Takeda (JPN)
  Anastasia Davydova (RUS)
  Anastassia Ermakova (RUS)
  Claire Carver-Dias (CAN)
  Fanny Létourneau (CAN)
Team routine   Russia (RUS)
Anastasia Davydova
Anastassia Ermakova
Irina Tolkatcheva
Elena Ovtchinnikova
Anna Shorina
Elvira Khasyanova
Svetlana Petratchina
Joulia Chestakovitch
Maria Gromova
  Japan (JPN)
Yoko Yoneda
Juri Tatsumi
Michiyo Fujimaru
Satoe Hokoda
Chiaki Watanabe
Naoko Kawashima
Emiko Suzuki
Saho Harada
Miho Takeda
  Canada (CAN)
Claire Carver-Dias
Fanny Létourneau
Catherine Garceau
Erin Chan
Jessica Chase
Lynn Johnson
Amy Caskey
Sara Petrov
Shayna Nackoney
Sarah L. Alexander

Water polo

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Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's tournament   Spain   Yugoslavia   Russia
Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's tournament   Italy   Hungary   Canada

References

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  1. ^ HistoFINA SWIMMING MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS AT FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (50M) - Pg. 47 (http://www.fina.org/H2O/docs/histofina/swimming_wch.pdf Archived 2013-09-14 at the Wayback Machine)
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