The 2001 World Games, the sixth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Akita, Japan.

Titles

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

Sports

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.

Participating nations

Medal count

Official sports

The results from the 2001 World Games are from the archived website of the Akita, Japan, organizing committee. The medal tally during the sixth World Games is as follows. Russia finished at the top of the final medal table.

Invitational sports