2001 Mediterranean Games

14th edition of the Mediterranean Games XIV Mediterranean Games 2001 MG (logo).png 200 Tunis, Tunisia 23 2,991 230 in 23 sports 2 September 2001 15 September 2001 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Stade 7 November Bari 1997 Almería 2005 The XIV Mediterranean Games (ar ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2001), commonly known as the 2001 Mediterranean Games, were the 14th Mediterranean Games held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 2–15 September 2001, where 2,991 athletes (1,972 men and 1,019 women) from 23 countries participated. There were a total of 230 medal events from 23 different sports. France won the most gold medals in the competition (40) while Italy had the greatest medal haul overall with 136 in total. Turkey, Spain and Greece rounded out the top five, shortly followed by the host country in sixth place. Two disability events were incorporated into the athletics programme – there was a 1500 m wheelchair race for men and an 800 m for women."Updates on Mediterranean Games" (2008-04-24) Tunisia Online. Archived from the original. Retrieved on 2012-08-09. The Tunisian organisers of the Games decided not to hold the closing ceremony because of the September 11 attacks.ΜΕΣΟΓΕΙΑΚΟΙ ΑΓΩΝΕΣ: Ξεχώρισαν οι ρίπτες Participating nations The following is a list of nations that participated in the 2001 Mediterranean Games: 18em ALB 2001 Mediterranean Games 42 ALG 2001 Mediterranean Games 155 AND 2001 Mediterranean Games 9 BIH 2001 Mediterranean Games 26 CRO 2001 Mediterranean Games 134 CYP 2001 Mediterranean Games 66 EGY 2001 Mediterranean Games 69 FRA 2001 Mediterranean Games 303 GRE 2001 Mediterranean Games 338 ITA 2001 Mediterranean Games 329 JOR 2001 Mediterranean Games 20 LIB 2001 Mediterranean Games 59 LBA 2001 Mediterranean Games 33 MLT 2001 Mediterranean Games 16 MON 2001 Mediterranean Games 7 MAR 2001 Mediterranean Games 117 SMR 2001 Mediterranean Games 51 SLO 2001 Mediterranean Games 133 ESP 2001 Mediterranean Games 301 SYR 2001 Mediterranean Games 76 TUN 2001 Mediterranean Games 303 TUR 2001 Mediterranean Games 261 YUG 2001 Mediterranean Games 143 Sports 18em Athletics Basketball Boxing Bowls Cycling Fencing Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Karate Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Tennis Table tennis Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling Medal table The rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. Equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically if after the above, countries are still tied. This follows the system used by the IOC, IAAF and BBC. Place Nation Total 1 FRA at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 40 32 50 122 2 ITA at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 38 59 39 136 3 TUR at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 33 16 12 61 4 ESP at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 31 26 41 98 5 GRE at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 28 33 26 87 6 TUN at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 19 12 25 56 7 ALG at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 10 10 12 32 8 EGY at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 7 13 17 37 9 CRO at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 6 6 6 18 10 MAR at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 6 4 5 15 11 SLO at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 5 5 10 20 12 FR Yugoslavia at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 3 5 14 22 13 CYP at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 1960 1 1 3 5 14 SYR at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 1980 0 5 4 9 15 LIB at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 0 1 1 2 16 ALB at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 0 1 0 1 17 BIH at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 0 0 3 3 18 LBA at the 2001 Mediterranean Games 1977 0 0 1 1 Total 227 229 269725 References External links International Mediterranean Games Committee Results M M M Category:Multi-sport events in Tunisia Category:Mediterranean Games by year Category:Sports competitions in Tunis Category:21st century in Tunis Category:September 2001 sports events in Africa