Finswimming at the 2001 World Games
Akita Prefectural Pool
Venue	Akita Prefectural Pool
Dates	24–25 August 2001
Competitors	76 from 17 nations
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The finswimming events at the 2001 World Games in Akita was played between 24 and 25 August.^[1] A total o 76 athletes from 17 nations participated in the tournament. The competition took place in Akita Prefectural Pool.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	8	5	2	15
2	China	1	3	4	8
3	Germany	1	1	4	6
4	Hungary	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		10	10	10	30

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m apnoea details	Evgeny Skorzhenko  Russia	Li Yong  China	Zhao Ji  China
100 m surface details	Evgeny Skorzhenko  Russia	Sergey Akhapov  Russia	Huang Jiandong  China
200 m surface details	Sergey Akhapov  Russia	Andreas Utzmeir  Germany	Ilya Somov  Russia
400 m surface details	Sven Gallasch  Germany	Gergely Juhos  Hungary	Ilya Somov  Russia
4 × 100 m surface details	Russia Ilya Somov Evgeny Skorzhenko Maksim Maksimov Sergey Akhapov	China Zhao Ji Hu Hailong Huang Jiandong Li Yong	Germany Frank Wille Sven Kaiser Sven Gallasch Andreas Utzmeir

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m apnoea details	Anastassia Kochneva  Russia	Tatiana Komarova  Russia	Zhu Baozhen  China
100 m surface details	Liu Qi  China	Tatiana Komarova  Russia	Zhu Baozhen  China
200 m surface details	Anastassia Glukhikh  Russia	Lidia Goriacheva  Russia	Suzanne Jentzsch  Germany
400 m surface details	Elena Gracheva  Russia	Anastassia Glukhikh  Russia	Bettina Müller  Germany
4 × 100 m surface details	Russia Tatiana Komarova Lidia Goriacheva Irina Egoruchkina Anastassia Kochneva	China Zhu Baozhen Li Qingping Wu Xiaohui Liu Qi	Germany Suzanne Jentzsch Tina Hirschfeldt Bettina Müller Christine Müller

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