Sumo at the 2001 World Games

Sumo
at the 2001 World Games
Sumo; at the 2001 World Games
	Tenno Town Gymnasium
Venue	Tenno Town Gymnasium
Dates	25–26 August 2001
Competitors	66 from 14 nations
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VenueTenno Town Gymnasium

Dates25–26 August 2001

Competitors66 from 14 nations

Sumo was one of the invitational sports at the 2001 World Games in Akita and was played between 25 and 26 August.^[1] 66 athletes, from 14 nations, participated in the tournament. The sumo competition took place at Tenno Town Gymnasium.

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	2	2	8
2	Germany	2	3	1	6
3	Russia	2	0	3	5
4	Estonia	0	2	0	2
5	Mongolia	0	1	1	2
6	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		8	8	8	24

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight details	Chohei Kimura Japan	Peer Schmidt-Düwiger Germany	Lodoijamtsyn Bat-Erdene Mongolia
Middleweight details	Seietsu Hikage Japan	Altangadasyn Khüchitbaatar Mongolia	David Tsallagov Russia
Heavyweight details	Jörg Brümmer Germany	Jüri Uustalu Estonia	Takahisa Osanai Japan
Openweight details	Kenichi Yajima Japan	Torsten Scheibler Germany	Jaroslav Poříz Czech Republic
Team details	Japan	Germany	Russia

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight details	Astrid Lixenfeld Germany	Satomi Ishigaya Japan	Natalia Bobkina Russia
Heavyweight details	Olesya Kovalenko Russia	Rie Tsuihiji Japan	Sandra Köppen Germany
Team details	Russia	Estonia	Japan

Sumo at the 2001 World Games

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