World Games VI
VIワールドゲームズ

Host city	Akita, Japan
Nations	92
Athletes	3,200
Events	140 in 27 sports
Opening	16 August 2001
Closing	26 August 2001
Opened by	Atsuko Toyama Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
Athlete's Oath	Doumu Narita and Mero Narita
Main venue	Akita Yabase Athletics Stadium
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The 2001 World Games (Japanese: 2001年ワールドゲームズ, romanized: 2001-Nen wārudogēmuzu), the sixth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Akita, Japan.

140 titles (invitational sports not included) were awarded in the following official sports.^[1] There were five invitational sports in this edition.^[1]

The 2001 World Games programme featured 27 official sports and 4 invitational sports. (Aikido was deemed a demonstration sport; no medal events were held.) The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events that were contested in each sports discipline.

Notes

I: Invitational sports, selected by the host city

The results from the 2001 World Games are from the archived website of the Akita, Japan, organizing committee.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]} The medal tally during the sixth World Games is as follows. Russia finished at the top of the final medal table.^[15]

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	24	15	5	44
2	United States (USA)	15	8	8	31
3	France (FRA)	12	5	6	23
4	Germany (GER)	10	10	15	35
5	Australia (AUS)	10	10	3	23
6	Italy (ITA)	9	11	8	28
7	Japan (JPN)*	9	6	10	25
8	Spain (ESP)	5	4	1	10
9	Great Britain (GBR)[a]	4	7	11	22
10	Netherlands (NED)	4	3	3	10
11	South Africa (RSA)	3	7	4	14
12	Colombia (COL)	3	5	5	13
13	Belgium (BEL)	3	4	4	11
14	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	3	5	11
15	China (CHN)	2	6	5	13
16	Sweden (SWE)	2	4	9	15
17	Norway (NOR)	2	2	3	7
18	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	1	2	5
19	Denmark (DEN)	2	1	1	4
20	Austria (AUT)	1	4	2	7
21	New Zealand (NZL)	1	2	1	4
22	Greece (GRE)	1	2	0	3
23	Slovenia (SLO)	1	1	3	5
24	Lithuania (LTU)	1	1	1	3
	Portugal (POR)	1	1	1	3
	Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	1	3
27	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
	Romania (ROM)	1	1	0	2
29	Finland (FIN)	1	0	4	5
30	Egypt (EGY)	1	0	1	2
	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
32	Fiji (FIJ)	1	0	0	1
	Guatemala (GUA)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
36	Brazil (BRA)	0	3	1	4
37	Venezuela (VEN)	0	2	1	3
38	South Korea (KOR)	0	2	0	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	0	2
40	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	7	8
41	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	2	3
42	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	1	0	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	0	1
45	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	2	2
46	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	0	0	1	1
	Madagascar (MAD)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (49 entries)		140	140	140	420

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)*	5	4	2	11
2	Germany (GER)	2	4	1	7
3	Russia (RUS)	2	0	3	5
4	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
5	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	1	2
6	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
8	Estonia (EST)	0	2	0	2
9	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	1	2
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	0	1
11	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
12	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		13	13	13	39

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