2001 Russian Top Division
However, the season was overshadowed by the death of CSKA and Ukraine goalkeeper Serhiy Perkhun, when he clashed heads with Anzhi striker Budun Budunov during the round 22 match against them  on 18 August. Both players were injured, and Perkhun died from a brain haemorrhage caused by the collision on 28 August in the age of 23, 10 days after the match against Anzhi.


2001 Russian Top Division, Awards
On 20 November, Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:


2001 Russian Top Division, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Maksym Levytskyi  (20), Aleksandr Filimonov (8), Maksim Kabanov (3). Defenders: Igor Mitreski  (27), Dmytro Parfenov  (26 / 4), Yuri Kovtun (26  / 1), Jerry-Christian Tchuissé  (22), Dmitri Ananko (13), Oleksandr Hranovskyi  (8 / 1), Dmitri Bugakov (5), Mikhail Kupriyanov (4), Ibra Kébé  (4), Igor Stamenovski  (1), Andrei Streltsov (1). Midfielders: Yegor Titov (30 / 11), Viktor Bulatov (29 / 2), Vasili Baranov  (25 / 5), Eduard Tsykhmeystruk  (15 / 3), Maksym Kalynychenko  (9 / 2), Aleksandr Pavlenko (5), Kahaber Mzhavanadze  (4), Nikola Gjoševski  (4), Lawrence Adjei  (1), Yevhen Lysytsyn  (1).


2001 Russian Top Division, Medal squads
Forwards: Luis Robson  (28 / 11), Aleksandr Shirko (15 / 3), Vladimir Beschastnykh (12 / 9), Nikolai Pisarev (9 / 1), Jafar Irismetov  (8), Artyom Bezrodny (6 / 1), German Lovchev (5), Raman Vasilyuk  (4 / 2), Marcão  (3), Okon Flo Essien  (3), Aleksandr Danishevsky (2), Aleksandr Sonin (2). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)


2001 Russian Top Division, Medal squads
Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Shirko (to FC Torpedo Moscow), Nikolai Pisarev (to FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow), Oleksandr Hranovskyi  (to  FC Karpaty Lviv), Jafar Irismetov  (on loan to  FC Slavia Mozyr), Aleksandr Filimonov (to  FC Dynamo Kyiv), Dmitri Bugakov (to FC Sokol Saratov), Nikola Gjoševski  (to  FK Vardar), Marcão  (to  FC St. Pauli).


2001 Russian Top Division, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Ruslan Nigmatullin (27), Platon Zakharchuk (3). Defenders: Igor Chugainov (28 / 2), Jacob Lekgetho  (25), Yuri Drozdov (24), Sergei Ignashevich (23), Gennadiy Nizhegorodov (21), Dmitri Sennikov (18), Vadim Evseev (13), Milan Obradović  (12 / 1), Igor Cherevchenko  (10), Andrei Lavrik  (5), Andrei Solomatin (3), Oleg Pashinin  (1). Midfielders: Dmitri Loskov (29 / 12), Vladimir Maminov  (25 / 5), Albert Sarkisyan  (16), Yevgeni Kharlachyov (3). Forwards: Marat Izmailov (29 / 6), James Obiorah  (25 / 14), Maksim Buznikin (25 / 6), Ruslan Pimenov (23 / 3), Zaza Janashia  (20 / 2), Nemanja Vučićević  (3).


2001 Russian Top Division, Medal squads
One own goal each scored by Denis Yevsikov and Oleg Kornaukhov (both PFC CSKA Moscow).


2001 Russian Top Division, Medal squads
Transferred out during the season: Andrei Solomatin (to PFC CSKA Moscow), Yevgeni Kharlachyov (to FC Dynamo Moscow), Oleg Pashinin  (on loan to  Sanfrecce Hiroshima).


2001 Russian Top Division, Medal squads
Goalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev (28), Dmitri Borodin (3). Defenders: Sargis Hovsepyan  (27), Aleksei Katulsky (26 / 3), Aleksei Igonin (22), Valeri Tsvetkov (21), Maksim Demenko (19 / 6), Konstantin Lepyokhin (15 / 2), Igor Nedorezov (2). Midfielders: Andrei Arshavin (29 / 4), Aleksandr Gorshkov  (28 / 6), Aleksandr Spivak  (27 / 3), Andrey Kobelev (24 / 6), Denis Ugarov (17), Barys Haravoy  (14), Sergei Osipov (10 / 1), Konstantin Konoplyov (8), Sergei Vasyanovich (7 / 1), Aleksei Lazarev (2). Forwards: Aleksandr Kerzhakov (28 / 6), Hennadiy Popovych  (24 / 7), Maksim Astafyev (9 / 3), Yevgeni Tarasov  (9 / 3), Dmitri Akimov (2), Dzmitry Aharodnik  (2), Aleksandr Petukhov (1).


2001 Russian Top Division, Medal squads
One own goal scored by Otar Khizaneishvili  (FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don).


2001 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team
The 2001 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Scarlet Knights were led by new head coach Greg Schiano and played their home games at Rutgers Stadium. They are a member of the Big East Conference. They finished the season 2–9, 0–7 in Big East play to finish in last place. Due to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11th, Rutgers September 15 home game against California was postponed until November 23.


2001 Ryan by-election
The 2001 Ryan by-election was held in the Australian electorate of Ryan in Queensland on 17 March 2001. The by-election was triggered by the retirement of the sitting member, the Liberal Party of Australia's John Moore, on 5 February 2001. The writ for the by-election was issued on 9 February 2001.


2001 Ryan by-election, Background
The Federal Division of Ryan had been in Liberal hands since its creation in 1949, and for most of that time had been reasonably safe for that party. However, in 1969, the Labor candidate, John Conn, employing his early version of the later famous 'It's Time' slogan, achieved a record swing in excess of 19% to almost unseat the long-time Liberal incumbent, Nigel Drury. Conn achieved a further swing to Labor in 1972, rendering the seat marginal.


2001 Ryan by-election, Background
Subsequently, upon Drury's retirement, in the big anti-Labor swing of 1975, Liberal John Moore won Ryan and became a minister in the Fraser and Howard governments. When a Cabinet reshuffle saw him lose the Defence portfolio, Moore resigned immediately. His retirement came at a very bad time for the government. The Coalition had just been defeated in the Western Australia and Queensland state elections, and the public reaction to the GST introduced eight months earlier was still worrying the Liberals.


2001 Ryan by-election, Background
The Queensland election saw the re-election of the Labor Government of Peter Beattie. Ironically Beattie was Moore's Labor opponent in Ryan at the 1980 federal election in which Moore defeated Beattie.


2001 Ryan by-election, Background
Comparisons were drawn with the 1975 by-election in the Tasmanian electorate of Bass: both had resulted from the resignation of a Defence Minister (former Labor Deputy Prime Minister Lance Barnard in 1975). Labor's landslide loss in Bass was linked to the defeat of the Whitlam government several months later.


2001 Ryan by-election, Background
The Liberals were expected to preselect Hong Kong-born lawyer Michael Johnson as their candidate for the by-election, although Johnson's Chinese heritage led to accusations of branch stacking by signing up ethnic Chinese as members of the Liberal Party. Eventually it emerged that Johnson had not properly renounced his British citizenship, and was ineligible to run as an electoral candidate in Australia.


2001 Ryan by-election, Aftermath
Leonie Short won the seat for Labor in a close contest on preferences, with only 255 votes separating her from Liberal candidate Bob Tucker on a two-party basis. The loss was a huge worry for the Liberals, although Labor's electoral momentum was halted by their loss in the Aston by-election four months later.


2001 Ryan by-election, Aftermath
Short contested the 2001 federal election, but was defeated by her Liberal opponent Michael Johnson, who had by then renounced his British citizenship.


2001 S.League
2001 S.League was the sixth season of Singapore's professional football league. It was won by Geylang United, which was their second league title.


2001 S.League, Foreign players
Each club is allowed to have up to a maximum of 4 foreign players.


2001 SANFL Grand Final
The 2001 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Central District Bulldogs defeat the Woodville-West Torrens by 39 points to claim the club's second premiership victory.


2001 SANFL Grand Final
The match was played on Sunday 7 October 2001 at Football Park in front of a crowd of 26,378.


2001 SANFL Grand Final
The Jack Oatey Medal for the best player on the ground was won by Central's Rick MacGowan.


2001 SANFL season
The 2001 South Australian National Football League season was the 122nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.


2001 SASF season
The South Australian Soccer Federation 2001 season consisted of two divisions of twelve teams each, across the State of South Australia.


2001 SASF season, 2001 SASF Premier League
The 2001 South Australian Premier League season was the top level domestic association football competition in South Australia for 2001. It was contested by 12 teams in a single 22 round league format, each team playing all of their opponents twice.


2001 SASF season, 2001 SASF State League
The 2001 South Australian State League season was the second highest domestic level association football competition in South Australia. It was contested by 12 teams in a single 22 round league format, each team playing all of their opponents twice.


2001 SCCA ProRally season
The 2001 SCCA ProRally Season was the 29th season of the SCCA ProRally and won by Mark Lovell from England. Ten rounds were held from January 2001 to October 2001. The co-driver title went to Frank Cunningham. The manufacturer's title went to Subaru.


2001 SEAT Open
The 2001 SEAT Open was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg which was part of Tier III of the 2001 WTA Tour. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from 22 October until 28 October 2001. First-seeded Kim Clijsters won the singles title, her second at the event after 1999, and earned $27,000 first-prize money.


2001 SEAT Open, Finals, Doubles
Elena Bovina /  Daniela Hantuchová defeated  Bianka Lamade /  Patty Schnyder, 6–3, 6–3


2001 SEAT Open – Doubles
Alexandra Fusai and Nathalie Tauziat were the defending champions, but Tauziat did not compete this year. Fusai teamed up with Rita Grande and lost in the first round to Anne Kremer and Virginie Razzano.


2001 SEAT Open – Doubles
Elena Bovina and Daniela Hantuchová won the title by defeating Bianka Lamade and Patty Schnyder 6–3, 6–3 in the final.


2001 SEAT Open – Singles
Jennifer Capriati was the defending champion, but decided to rest in order to compete in the WTA Tour Championships.


2001 SEAT Open – Singles
Kim Clijsters won the title by defeating Lisa Raymond 6–2, 6–2 in the final.


2001 SEAT Open – Singles, Seeds
The first two seeds received a bye into the second round.


2001 SEC Championship Game
The 2001 SEC Championship Game was won by the LSU Tigers 31–20 over the Tennessee Volunteers. The game was played in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia on December 8, 2001 and was televised to a national audience on CBS. The loss kept Tennessee from a second appearance in the BCS National Championship Game.


2001 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2001 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament took place on March 8–11, 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Entertainment Center. The first, quarterfinal, and semifinal rounds were televised by Jefferson Pilot Sports, and the SEC Championship Game was televised by CBS.


2001 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The Kentucky Wildcats won the tournament and received the SEC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by defeating the Ole Miss Rebels by a score of 77–55.


2001 SFA Season
The 2001 SFA season was the third regular season of the Texas Sixman Football League.


2001 SFA Season
2001 saw the conference setup continue and also the first time in league history that a team with a losing regular season record made the championship and won it.


2001 SFA Season, Teams
The Seminoles, Wolf Pack and Vipers all returned for their third seasons of the SFA. The Mean Machine, Red Raiders and Rhinos continued for their second seasons. The Bucs, Mad Dogs, Rage, Sharks, Thunder and Wolverines are all in their first year of competition. The Rhinos switched from the North to the South prior to the season's start.


2001 SFA Season, Teams
The Northern Conference consisted of the Bucs, Mean Machine, Sharks, Thunder, Wolf Pack and Vipers. The Southern Conference consisted of the Mad Dogs, Rage, Red Raiders, Rhinos, Seminoles and Wolverines.


2001 SFA Season, Regular season
The 2001 season of the SFA consisted of ten weeks from February 4, 2000 to April 8, 2000.


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 1
February 4, 2001Vipers 38 - Rage 12Sharks 37 - Rhinos 14Bucs 40 - Red Raiders 6Thunder 35 - Seminoles 16Mad Dogs 32 - Wolf Pack 28Mean Machine 34 - Wolverines 33


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 2
February 11, 2001Bucs 48 - Rage 0Sharks 47 - Mad Dogs 7Rhinos 29 - Thunder 26Seminoles 18 - Vipers 12Wolf Pack 36 - Wolverines 31Mean Machine 28 - Red Raiders 19


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 3
February 18, 2001Vipers 41 - Rhinos 40Bucs 36 - Seminoles 18Mad Dogs 44 - Thunder 26Sharks 40 - Wolverines 0Mean Machine 48 - Rage 20Wolf Pack 52 - Red Raiders 6


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 4
February 25, 2001Rhinos 25 - Bucs 20Wolf Pack 45 - Rage 0Vipers 32 - Mad Dogs 13Sharks 31 - Red Raiders 0Wolverines 36 - Thunder 12Mean Machine 39 - Seminoles 27


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 5
March 4, 2001Sharks 46 - Rage 0Bucs 20 - Mad Dogs 19Wolverines 32 - Vipers 26Wolf Pack 48 - Seminoles 0Thunder 44 - Red Raiders 21Mean Machine 37 - Rhinos 36


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 6
March 11, 2001Rhinos 12 - Rage 0Bucs 32 - Thunder 12Sharks 21 - Wolf Pack 7Mean Machine 52 - Vipers 7Seminoles 14 - Wolverines 6Mad Dogs 25 - Red Raiders 12


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 7
March 18, 2001Bucs 32 - Wolf Pack 2Thunder 32 - Vipers 0Seminoles 15 - Rage 12Mad Dogs 20 - Rhinos 12Mean Machine 15 - Sharks 0Wolverines 25 - Red Raiders 24


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 8
March 25, 2001Bucs 65 - Vipers 14Sharks 30 - Thunder 7Wolverines 45 - Rage 0Seminoles 44 - Mad Dogs 0Rhinos 21 - Red Raiders 19Mean Machine 32 - Wolf Pack 25


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 9
April 1, 2001Sharks 52 - Vipers 12Seminoles 26 - Rhinos 8Rage 27 - Red Raiders 0Mean Machine 36 - Bucs 28Wolf Pack 26 - Thunder 19Wolverines 34 - Mad Dogs 13


2001 SFA Season, Regular season, Week 10
April 8, 2001Sharks 31 - Bucs 0Mad Dogs 37 - Rage 8Wolf Pack 48 - Vipers 0Wolverines 40 - Rhinos 30Mean Machine 27 - Thunder 26Seminoles 41 - Red Raiders 12


2001 SFA Season, Playoffs
The third  year of playoffs for the SFA consisted of the top 4 from each conference making the playoffs.


2001 SFA Season, Playoffs, Conference Semi-Finals
April 22, 2001Sharks 26 – Bucs 6Mean Machine 47 – Wolf Pack 39Mad Dogs 45 – Wolverines 39Rhinos 29 – Seminoles 19


2001 SFA Season, Playoffs, Conference Championships
April 29, 2001Sharks 26 – Mean Machine 20Rhinos 48 – Mad Dogs 33


2001 SMU Mustangs football team
The 2001 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University during the 2001 college football season.


2001 Sacramento Monarchs season
The 2001 WNBA season was the 5th season for the Sacramento Monarchs. The team won their first playoff series, but they were later defeated by eventual champion Los Angeles Sparks in the conference finals.


2001 Sacramento State Hornets football team
The 2001 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented Sacramento State University during the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season.


2001 Sacramento State Hornets football team
Sacramento State competed in the Big Sky Conference. The Hornets were led by seventh-year head coach John Volek and played home games at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. They finished the season with a record of two wins and nine losses (2–9, 1–6 Big Sky). Sacramento State outscored its opponents 249–424 for the season.


2001 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Team players in the NFL
No Sacramento State players were selected in the 2002 NFL Draft.


2001 Saint Francis Cougars football team
The 2001 Saint Francis Cougars football team represented the University of Saint Francis, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the 2001 NAIA football season. They were led by head coach Kevin Donley, who served his 4th year as the first and only head coach in the history of Saint Francis football. The Cougars played their home games at Cougar Stadium and were members of the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) Mideast League (MEL). The Cougars finished in tie for 1st place in the MSFA MEL division. Both co-champions received invitations to the 2001 postseason NAIA playoffs.


2001 Saint Francis Red Flash football team
The 2001 Saint Francis Red Flash football team represented Saint Francis University as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC) during the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Red Flash were led by third-year head coach Dave Jaumotte and played its home games at the Pine Bowl. They finished the season 0–10 overall and 0–7 in NEC play to place last. Saint Francis' September 15 game against St. John's was canceled due to college football's collective decision to postpone games following the September 11 attacks.


2001 Saint Francis Red Flash football team
After the season, Jaumotte resigned after compiling a 2–30 record over three seasons.


2001 Saint Lucian general election
General elections were held in Saint Lucia on 3 December 2001. The result was a victory for the Saint Lucia Labour Party, which won fourteen of the seventeen seats. Voter turnout was 52.3%. As of 2021, this was the most recent election in which a ruling party was re-elected.


2001 Saint Paul mayoral election
The 2001 Saint Paul mayoral election in the U.S. state of Minnesota held a scheduled primary election on the 11th of September and a general election on the 6th of November.


2001 Saint Paul mayoral election
Incumbent mayor Norm Coleman had opted against seeking a third term.


2001 Saint Paul mayoral election
The general election was particularly close, with Kelly winning by a mere 403 vote margin.


2001 Saint Paul mayoral election, Primary
A primary was held on September 11, from which the top two candidates would advance to the general election.


2001 Saint Paul mayoral election, Primary
The primary coincided with the date of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States.


2001 Saint Paul mayoral election, General Election Results
Outgoing mayor Norm Coleman threw his support behind Kelly, and Kelly campaigned as a candidate that promised to continue much of Coleman's leadership style.


2001 Saint Paul mayoral election, General Election Results
Kelly pledged that public safety would be his top priority, while Benavav pledged that housing would be his.


2001 Salem Open
The 2001 Salem Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Hong Kong, China and was part of the International Series of the 2001 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from September 24 through September 30, 2001. Marcelo Ríos won the singles title.


2001 Salem Open, Finals, Doubles
Karsten Braasch /  André Sá defeated  Petr Luxa /  Radek Štěpánek 6–0, 7–5


2001 Salem Open – Doubles
Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


2001 Salem Open – Doubles
Karsten Braasch and André Sá won in the final 6–0, 7–5 against Petr Luxa and Radek Štěpánek.


2001 Salem Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2001 Salem Open – Singles
Nicolas Kiefer was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


2001 Salem Open – Singles
Marcelo Ríos won in the final 7–6 (7–3), 6–2 against Rainer Schüttler.


2001 Salem Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2001 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team
The 2001 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team represented Sam Houston State University in the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA college football season. The Bearkats were Southland Football League co-champions with McNeese State. Sam Houston State defeated Northern Arizona in the first round of the Division I-AA national playoffs to reach the I-AA quarterfinals, where the Bearkats lost to eventual national champion Montana. The 2001 Bearkats offense scored 470 points while the defense allowed 322 points. Members of the 2001 Bearkats team that went on to play in the National Football League include Keith Davis, Keith Heinrich and Josh McCown.


2001 Sammarinese general election
General elections were held in San Marino on 10 June 2001. The Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 25 of the 60 seats in the Grand and General Council.


2001 Sammarinese general election, Electoral system
Voters had to be citizens of San Marino and at least 18 years old.


2001 Samoa National League
The 2001 Samoa National League, or also known as the Upolo First Division, was the 13th edition of the Samoa National League, the top league of the Football Federation Samoa. Goldstar Sogi won their first title.


2001 Samoa rugby union tour of Europe
The 2001 Samoa rugby union tour of Europe was a series of matches played in November 2001 in Ireland and Italy by Samoa national rugby union team.


2001 Samoan general election
General elections were held in Samoa on 2 March 2001. Prime minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi led the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) into the election. Opposition leader and former prime minister and future head of state, Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi led the Samoan National Development Party (SNDP) into the election. The HRPP won 23 seats, but initially fell short of a majority. The SNDP won 13 seats, the Samoan United People's Party secured one seat and the remaining 12 were won by independents. Following the election, all 12 independents joined the HRPP, giving the party a majority in parliament and allowing Tuila'epa to remain prime minister.


2001 Samoan general election, Background
Prior to the election, in 1998 prime minister and HRPP leader Tofilau Eti Alesana resigned due to ill health. Tofilau was succeeded by deputy prime minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, and died the following year. Tofilau’s government changed the country’s name from ‘Western Samoa’ to ‘Samoa’ in 1997.


2001 Samoan general election, Electoral system
During the time of the 2001 election, Samoa’s legislative assembly, the Fono, was composed of 49 seats, with each member serving a five year term. 47 of the 49 members of the Fono were elected through electoral constituencies, whilst the remaining were elected through independent voters.


2001 Samoan general election, Electoral system
Only Matai (Chiefs) were permitted to contest any of the 47 constituencies, whilst the other two seats were open to all individuals. Universal suffrage was granted in 1991, permitting all individuals aged 21 and older to vote in the election. Once the final election results are confirmed, the leader of the majority party is appointed prime minister by the O le Ao o le Malo (head of state). The O le Ao o le Malo then appoints cabinet ministers on the advice of the prime minister.


2001 San Diego Chargers season
The 2001 San Diego Chargers season was the franchise's 32nd season in the National Football League (NFL) and the 42nd overall  and the third and final season under head coach Mike Riley. The team improved on their 1–15 record in 2000 to finish 5–11 but missed the playoffs for the 6th straight year. It was Mike Riley's final season as the team's head coach. At the end of the season running back LaDainian Tomlinson won the Offensive Rookie of the Year award. Despite finishing 5–11 after losing their final nine games of the season, eight of the Chargers’ losses were by less than a touchdown, five of them were by three points, and three of them were by ten points.


2001 San Diego Chargers season, Offseason, Becoming the “Bills West”
In December 2000, Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson fired his general manager, John Butler, and his entire staff. The Chargers immediately signed Butler, and within weeks, Butler had lured several recognizable names from the 2000 Bills team: defensive end Marcellus Wiley, linebackers Sam Rogers and John Holecek, kicker Steve Christie and most notably, quarterback Doug Flutie, who had been cut by the Bills in a bitter quarterback controversy involving Rob Johnson. With so many former Bills connections, the team was often referred to as the “Bills West”. (See also the 1995 Carolina Panthers season, in which Bill Polian brought several Bills contributors from the team's Super Bowl era to Carolina in its inaugural year of play.)


2001 San Diego Chargers season, Offseason, Becoming the “Bills West”
As such, the October 28 matchup between the Bills and Chargers in San Diego was heavily promoted as a dual grudge match, not just between Johnson and Flutie, but also between Wilson and Butler, with Wilson having been quoted as wanting to win the Chargers game more than the Super Bowl. Despite the fact that the Bills were having a very bad season, and the Chargers’ fortunes (at the time) had turned significantly, the game was very competitive, coming down to the final minutes play. Trailing 24–20, Flutie scrambled 13 yards to put the Chargers up 27–24; when kicker Jake Arians attempted a 44-yard field goal to tie the game, it was blocked. The Chargers, then 5–2, would not win another game the entire season, going 0–9 in the remaining nine games.


2001 San Diego Chargers season, Offseason, NFL Draft
Michael Vick was selected in the 2001 NFL Draft as the first overall pick and first African American quarterback taken number 1 in the NFL Draft. The San Diego Chargers had the number one selection spot in the draft that year but traded the rights to the first overall choice to the Atlanta Falcons a day before the draft, for which they received the Falcons’ first round pick (5th overall) and third round pick in 2001 (used to draft CB Tay Cody), a second round pick in 2002 (used to draft WR Reche Caldwell) and WR/KR Tim Dwight.


2001 San Diego Chargers season, Offseason, NFL Draft
With the Chargers’ downgraded spot (the 5th overall), they selected Texas Christian University running back LaDainian Tomlinson, who went on to become league MVP in 2006. Although Vick has never become league MVP, he finished second in voting in 2004. In this way, Tomlinson and Vick are linked as having been "traded" for each other, although the transaction was actually the result of traded draft picks and contract negotiations. The Chargers’ other notable draft pick was Drew Brees, who would eventually win Super Bowl XLIV as a member of the Saints.


2001 San Diego Padres season
The 2001 San Diego Padres season was the 33rd season in franchise history.


2001 San Diego Padres season, Regular season, Rickey Henderson
At the age of 42, his last substantial major league season, Henderson finished the year with 25 stolen bases, ninth in the NL. It also marked Rickey Henderson's 23rd consecutive season in which he'd stolen more than 20 bases.


2001 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2001 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The 2001 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State University in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Aztecs, led by head coach Ted Tollner, who was fired after the season, and they played their home games at the Qualcomm Stadium.


2001 San Francisco 49ers season
The 2001 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 56th season and 52nd in the National Football League. The 49ers rebounded from two losing seasons in 1999 and 2000, achieving their first winning season under quarterback Jeff Garcia and returning to the playoffs behind a strong 12-4 record. However, the 49ers failed to progress further and fell 25–15 to the Green Bay Packers in the Wildcard round. This was the fourth time out of five that they had lost to the Packers in the playoffs since the 1995 season. The Packers lost 45–17 to the eventual NFC Champion St. Louis Rams the following week, with Brett Favre’s six interceptions giving the 49ers’ conquerors no chance.


2001 San Francisco 49ers season
The 49ers twelve regular season wins were the most ever for a #5 seed under the 1990 playoff expansion format. Their three overtime wins tied the NFL record at the time, which has since been surpassed by the 2011 Arizona Cardinals.


2001 San Francisco Giants season
The 2001 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 119th year in Major League Baseball, their 44th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their second at Pacific Bell Park. The team finished in second place in the National League West with a 90–72 record, 2 games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks, and they finished three games behind the St. Louis Cardinals for the Wild Card spot. The Giants set franchise records for home runs (235) and pinch hit home runs (14).


2001 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2001 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2001 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2001 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2001 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2001 San Francisco Giants season, Barry Bonds accomplishments
The following MLB records were broken by Barry Bonds in 2001:


2001 San Jose Earthquakes season
The 2001 San Jose Earthquakes season was the sixth season of the team's existence, and saw the franchise win its first MLS Cup.


2001 San Jose Earthquakes season, Squad, Current squad
As of August 18, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2001 San Jose State Spartans football team
The 2001 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State University in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. Under first-year head coach Fitz Hill, the Spartans finished the season 3–9.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix
The 2001 San Marino Grand Prix (formally the XXI Gran Premio Warsteiner di San Marino) was a Formula One motor race held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy on 15 April 2001. It was the fourth race of the 2001 Formula One season. The 62-lap race was won by Ralf Schumacher driving a Williams-BMW after starting from third position. David Coulthard, who started the Grand Prix from pole position, finished second in a McLaren-Mercedes, while Rubens Barrichello finished third in a Ferrari.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix
Schumacher's win was the first of his Formula One career and the first for Williams since Jacques Villeneuve won the 1997 Luxembourg Grand Prix. The race also represented the first win for French tyre manufacturer Michelin in Formula One since the 1984 Portuguese Grand Prix and the first race since the 1998 Italian Grand Prix not won by Bridgestone.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix
The win put Coulthard level on points with Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher in the Drivers' Championship, with both drivers on 26 points after Schumacher retired from the race. In the Constructors' Championship, McLaren reduced Ferrari's lead to 10 points. This was the last race for Gastón Mazzacane.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix
This event also marked the last time until the 2008 Australian Grand Prix that cars competed without using traction control, which was reintroduced at the next race, and the last race until the 2004 Australian Grand Prix not to feature cars competing with fully-automatic gearboxes and launch control, which were also reintroduced at the next race. These electronic driver aids were reintroduced to ensure no teams were using these systems illegally to gain a competitive advantage.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Background
Heading into the 4th race of the season, Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher was the leading the Drivers' Championship with 26 points; McLaren driver David Coulthard was second on 20 points, six points behind Schumacher. Behind Schumacher and Coulthard in the Drivers' Championship, Schumacher's teammate Rubens Barrichello was third on 10 points, in a Ferrari and Sauber driver Nick Heidfeld was fourth with 7 points. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari was leading with 36 points, 15 points ahead of McLaren. Sauber was third with 8 points.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
Saturday qualifying would only run in one hour with the air temperature at 10–11°C (50–57°F) and the track temperature at 19–20°C (66–68°F) with partly cloudy conditions. Coulthard took pole position, two-tenths of a second ahead of teammate Mika Häkkinen, and half a second ahead of Ralf Schumacher in the Williams. The two Ferraris of Michael Schumacher and Barrichello qualified 4th and 6th, being split by Jarno Trulli's Jordan. The other Williams of Juan Pablo Montoya was seventh, and Kimi Räikkönen rounded out the top ten in his Sauber.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Race
Ralf Schumacher beat the two McLarens off the line to lead into the first corner, with Coulthard remaining ahead of Häkkinen. There was an investigation for jump starts, with Ralf, Coulthard and the BAR of Olivier Panis all being suspected of crawling at the start, but no action was taken against any of the drivers.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Race
On lap 5, Fernando Alonso suffered brake failure, his Minardi bouncing over the Variante Alta chicane and into the wall. One lap later, Jos Verstappen crawled to a halt at the Villeneuve chicane with a broken exhaust on his Arrows. Panis was ahead of both Ferraris for a few laps until Barrichello passed the French driver at the Rivazza double left-hander. Shortly after, Michael Schumacher passed him and moved into 7th place. On lap 17, Räikkönen's steering arm broke just after the Tosa hairpin, which forced his Sauber into the wall.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Race
Michael Schumacher picked up a puncture on his left front tyre on lap 20, causing him to pit. He continued, but came straight back into the pits due to a damaged suspension, possibly caused by an incident in the first few laps when he rammed a kerb too aggressively. Ralf Schumacher, Coulthard, Montoya and Gastón Mazzacane pitted on laps 27–28; Häkkinen made his first stop shortly after, along with Barrichello.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Race
Mazzacane and Jacques Villeneuve retired with engine failures on laps 29–30. Giancarlo Fisichella's Benetton and Eddie Irvine's Jaguar also suffered engine failures, Fisichella in the pits on lap 31 and Irvine on the start-finish straight on lap 43. Meanwhile, Häkkinen was failing to catch Barrichello, doing slower laps. Montoya pitted on lap 47 only to stall his engine; after it had been restarted, he burned his clutch leaving the pits, forcing him to retire. At the same time, Ralf and Häkkinen made their final pit stops.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Race
The Minardi team's race ended when Tarso Marques' engine blew up with just 12 laps to go, just after the pit entrance on the start-finish straight. The marshals put out the fire, and within a few minutes, had already helped pushed the car away.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Race
With eight laps to go, Ralf Schumacher was shown "Oil Pump" on his pitboard, possibly meaning that his oil pressure was slowly falling, and Coulthard began to close up to the Williams at a rate of a few tenths per lap. Ralf managed to hold the McLaren off and take the victory, four seconds ahead. Barrichello finished third but over 30 seconds behind Coulthard; he held off Häkkinen for the last podium place. Trulli finished fifth, the last driver on the lead lap, while Jordan teammate Heinz-Harald Frentzen took the final point. Ralf also set a new lap record, his fastest lap of 1:25.524 being 0.999 seconds faster than the previous year's fastest lap, set by Häkkinen.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Race
Nick Heidfeld's Sauber was 7th, Panis was 8th, and Jean Alesi was 9th in the Prost-Acer. Enrique Bernoldi was 10th in the second Arrows, Luciano Burti 11th in the second Jaguar, and Jenson Button the 12th and last finisher in the second Benetton, two laps behind Ralf.


2001 San Marino Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
Ralf Schumacher's win meant that two brothers had won a Formula One race for the first time. It was also the first victory for BMW since joining the Williams team as an engine supplier. This also turned out to be Gastón Mazzacane's last Formula One race (and last World Championship Grand Prix to date for an Argentine driver), as he would be sacked by Alain Prost and replaced by Luciano Burti from the Spanish Grand Prix onwards, Burti himself having been sacked by Jaguar and replaced by Pedro de la Rosa.


2001 San Miguel Beermen season
The 2001 San Miguel Beermen season was the 27th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2001 San Miguel Beermen season, Championship (Finals stint)
The San Miguel Beermen contested for all three championships of the season. The Beermen won their 16th PBA title in the All-Filipino Cup by defeating Barangay Ginebra Kings in six games as they are now winners of five of the last six conferences.


2001 San Miguel Beermen season, Championship (Finals stint)
In the Commissioner's Cup, San Miguel advances to the finals by winning over Alaska Aces, three games to two, in their best-of-five semifinal series. As the odds-on favorite against sophomore team Batang Red Bull, who were making their first trip to the championship, the defending champion Beermen were surprisingly upset by the Thunder in six games. It was coach Jong Uichico's first loss in the PBA finals since handling the Beermen at the start of the 1999 season.


2001 San Miguel Beermen season, Championship (Finals stint)
San Miguel was back in the finals for the fifth straight conference in the season-ending Governor's Cup with import Lamont Strothers returning to help the Beermen defend the crown they won the past two seasons. San Miguel made it via 3-0 sweep over Shell Turbo Chargers in their best-of-five semifinal series and played the Sta.Lucia Realtors for the second time in the championship of the 2000 era. The Beermen lost to the Realtors in six games and placed runner-up in the last two conferences of the 2001 season.


2001 San Miguel Beermen season, Award
Danny Ildefonso won the Most Valuable Player trophy for the second straight time and becoming the third PBA player to win back-to-back MVP honors, joining William "Bogs" Adornado (1975–1976) and Alvin Patrimonio (1993–1994).


2001 Sanex Trophy
The 2001 Sanex Trophy was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Knokke-Heist, Belgium that was part of the Tier IV category of the 2001 WTA Tour. It was the third and last edition of the tournament and was held from 16 July until 22 July 2001. Unseeded Iroda Tulyaganova won the singles title and earned $23,500 first-prize money.


2001 Sanex Trophy, Finals, Doubles
Virginia Ruano Pascual /  Magüi Serna defeated  Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie /  Andreea Ehritt-Vanc, 6–4, 6–3


2001 Santos FC season
The 2001 season was Santos Futebol Clube's eighty-ninth in existence and the club's forty-second consecutive season in the top flight of Brazilian football.


2001 Santos FC season, Players, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2001 Sarawak state election
The eighth Sarawak state election was held on Thursday, 27 September 2001 with nomination date on Tuesday, 18 September 2001. The state assembly was supposed to be expired on 18 November 2001 but it was dissolved by the governor of Sarawak 2 months earlier on 3 September 2001.


2001 Sarawak state election
The election saw 815,932 citizens eligible to vote but only 67.01% of the total voters or 546,285 voters had turned up to vote in this election.


2001 Sarawak state election
There were 171 candidates pursuing for 62 state seats in Sarawak. Sarawak Barisan Nasional (National Front) won 60 out of 62 seats while the remaining two seats were won by Democratic Action Party (DAP) and independent respectively.


2001 Sarawak state election, Results, Results by constituency
4 state seats were won unopposed by Sarawak National Front on the nomination day. They were:


2001 Sarawak state election, Results, Results by constituency
N11. Batu Kawah – Alfred Yap Chin Loi by Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP)


2001 Sarawak state election, Results, Results by constituency
N25. Batang Ai – Dublin Unting anak Ingkot by Sarawak Dayak People's Party (PBDS)


2001 Sarawak state election, Results, Results by constituency
N49. Katibas – Ambrose Blikau by United Traditional Bumiputera Party (PBB)


2001 Sarawak state election, Results, Results by constituency
N62. Ba'kelalan – Dr Judson Tagal by Sarawak National Party (SNAP)


2001 Sarawak state election, Results, Results by constituency
There were two election petitions filed to the Sarawak high court for N48 Pelagus and N60 Limbang constituency respectively after the election.


2001 Saskatchewan Roughriders season
The 2001 Saskatchewan Roughriders finished in 4th place in the West Division with a 6–12 record and missed the playoffs for the fourth year in a row.


2001 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts
The 2001 Saskatchewan Scott Tournament of Hearts women's provincial curling championship, was held January 24–28 at the Estevan Arena in Estevan, Saskatchewan. The winning team of Michelle Ridgway, represented Saskatchewan at the 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts in Sudbury, Ontario,  where the team finished round robin with a 4–7 record.


2001 Saudi Crown Prince Cup
The 2001 Crown Prince Cup was the 26th season of the Saudi premier knockout tournament since its establishment in 1957. The main competition started on 10 March 2001 and concluded with the final on 2 May 2001.


2001 Saudi Crown Prince Cup
Al-Hilal were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Al-Ittihad.


2001 Saudi Crown Prince Cup
In the final, Al-Ittihad defeated Al-Ettifaq 3–0 to secure their record-extending sixth title and first since 1997. The final was held at the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium in Jeddah.


2001 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Qualifying rounds
All of the competing teams that are not members of the Premier League competed in the qualifying rounds to secure one of 4 available places in the Round of 16. First Division sides Abha, Al-Khaleej, Al-Raed and Al-Tai qualified.


2001 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Round of 16
The Round of 16 fixtures were played on 10, 13, 14, 15 and 16 March 2001. Al-Shabab's match was moved to 10 March due to their participation in the Round of 16 of the 2000–01 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).


2001 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Quarter-finals
The Quarter-finals fixtures were played on 29, 30 and 31 March 2001. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).


2001 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Semi-finals
The Semi-finals fixtures were played on 12 and 13 April 2001. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).


2001 Saudi Crown Prince Cup, Final
The 2001 Crown Prince Cup Final was played on 2 May 2001 at the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium in Jeddah between Al-Ettifaq and Al-Ittihad. This was the seventh Crown Prince Cup final to be held at the stadium. The two sides met twice in the final, Al-Ettifaq won in 1965 while Al-Ittihad won in 1963. This was Al-Ettifaq's first final since 1965 and Al-Ittihad first since 1997. All times are local, AST (UTC+3).


2001 Sayyd Alma Kalay airstrike
The Sayyd Alma Kalayy airstrike was a major friendly fire incident via airstrike during the Invasion of Afghanistan. It happened on December 5, 2001 when a U.S. soldier responsible for calling in airstrikes accidentally misguided the Boeing B-52 bomber to strike a hill held by American Special Forces and dozens of their Afghan allies.


2001 Sayyd Alma Kalay airstrike, Events
Two days earlier, U.S. Army Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Jason Amerine and Afghan tribal leader Hamid Karzai fought for the vital Arghandab town of Sayyd Alma Kalay. The Taliban withdrew from the town, and Amerine and Karzai entered the town. After both talked in the headquarters, Amerine left to discuss further airstrikes with another officer. While studying a map, a huge explosion hit the hill near them, apparently from one of their own bombs. Amerine was wounded, while many on the hill were killed or also wounded.


2001 Sayyd Alma Kalay airstrike, Events
A military investigation revealed that one of the men from the headquarters in Sayyd Alma Kalay who arrived earlier in the day made a mistake: he was on the ground calling in airstrikes when he accidentally gave the wrong coordinates for a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress that dropped the 2,000 lb bomb on the hill on which several Americans and Afghans were located.


2001 Sayyd Alma Kalay airstrike, Casualties
10 Afghans died as well. Forty Afghans and Americans, including Amerine, were wounded. The wounded were taken to Ramstein Air Base in Germany for treatment.


2001 Scheldeprijs
The 2001 Scheldeprijs was the 88th edition of the Scheldeprijs cycle race and was held on 25 April 2001. The race was won by Endrio Leoni of the Alessio team.


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts
The 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's national curling championship, was played at the Sudbury Community Arena in Sudbury, Ontario. The final pitted 1999 champions Colleen Jones and her Nova Scotia team against the defending champions Kelley Law who represented team Canada. The game came down to the final shot, and a measurement to decide the winner.


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Kelley LawThird: Julie SkinnerSecond: Georgina WheatcroftLead: Diane NelsonAlternate: Cheryl Noble


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Renée SonnenbergThird: Marcy BalderstonSecond: Tina McDonaldLead: Karen McNameeAlternate: Melody Vavrek


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Shelley MacDonaldThird: Lisa WhitakerSecond: Adina TasakaLead: Jacalyn BrownAlternate: Rene Duplisse


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Karen YoungThird: Janice SandisonSecond: Tammy RadchenkaLead: Alison HarveyAlternate: Denise Podolski


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Kathy FloydThird: Marie-Anne PowerSecond: Allison FraneyLead: Jane ArseneauAlternate: Mary Harding


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Heather Strong Third: Laura StrongSecond: Susan O'LearyLead: Michelle BakerAlternate: Marcie Brown


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Colleen JonesThird: Kim KellySecond: Mary-Anne WayeLead: Nancy DelahuntAlternate: Laine Peters


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Sherry MiddaughThird: Janet BrownSecond: Andrea LawesLead: Sheri CordinaAlternate: Kirsten Harmark


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Shelly BradleyThird: Janice MacCallumSecond: Leslie AllanLead: Tricia MacGregorAlternate: Nancy Cameron


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Marie-France LaroucheThird: Nancy BelangerSecond: Annie LemayLead: Valérie GrenierAlternate: Karo Gagnon


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Michelle RidgwayThird: Lorie KehlerSecond: Roberta MateriLead: Joan StrickerAlternate: Kristy Lewis


2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Kerry KoeThird: Ainsley HolowecSecond: Stacey TreptauLead: Heather McCagg-NystromAlternate: Dawn Moses


2001 Scottish Challenge Cup Final
The 2001 Scottish Challenge Cup Final was played on 14 October 2001, at Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld and was the 11th staging of the final in the history of the tournament. It was played between Airdrieonians and Alloa Athletic of the First and Second Divisions respectively. Airdrieonians emerged winners after defeating Alloa Athletic 2–1 to win the tournament for the second consecutive year, also being Airdrieonians last honour before going into liquidation in 2002.


2001 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final, Airdrieonians
The first round draw brought Queen of the South to face Airdrieonians at the Excelsior Stadium for the second consecutive season with the home team emerging 2–0 victors. The second round was an away game at rivals Albion Rovers with Airdrie producing a 4–1 win to progress to the quarter-finals. Just like the previous season Airdrie were drawn against Clydebank in the quarter-finals and again emerged winners with a 2–1 victory.


2001 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final, Airdrieonians
The semi-final draw paired the club with Brechin City at home and it took penalties to separate the sides with The Diamonds winning 4–3 after a 1–1 draw after extra time to progress to the final. Airdrieonians reached the Scottish Challenge Cup final for the third time, and second consecutive season since winning the 1994 final against Dundee and defeating Livingston the previous season to win the 2000 final.


2001 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final, Alloa Athletic
Alloa Athletic were drawn against East Stirlingshire away from home in the first round at Firs Park and produced a 1–0 victory over the club. The second round draw saw The Wasps drawn against Inverness Caledonian Thistle whom they defeated on penalties in the 1999 final, with the game being decided in extra time again with Alloa Athletic emerging 3–2 winners after a 1–1 draw after 90 minutes.


2001 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final, Alloa Athletic
Another home game was drawn in the quarter-finals with Stranraer providing the opposition which saw Alloa Athletic win in extra time for a second consecutive game by winning 4–3 to progress to the semi-finals. The opposition provided was Clyde away from home with Alloa Athletic winning 1–0 to reach the Scottish Challenge Cup final for the second time after their 1999 triumph.


2001 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis
Airdrie and Alloa both played two games at home and two away each. In the process Airdrieonians scored nine goals and conceded three whilst Alloa Athletic also scored nine but conceded five. However, Alloa Athletic had kept a total of two clean sheets, both away from home, compared with Airdrie's one clean sheet. In Alloa's two games at Recreation Park it took extra time on both occasions before the club emerged winners. One of Airdrieonians' games had gone to extra time but then penalties before a winner was declared.


2001 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis
This was Airdrieonians' third time competing in the Scottish Challenge Cup final, whilst holding a 100% record after winning both the 1994 and 2000 finals. Alloa Athletic were appearing in the final for the second time in the club's history since defeating Inverness Caledonian Thistle on penalties after a 4–4 draw in the 1999 final. On the road to that final Alloa Athletic had knocked out Airdrieonians in the second round at the Excelsior Stadium.


2001 Scottish Claymores season
The 2001 Scottish Claymores season was the seventh season for the franchise in the NFL Europe League (NFLEL). The team was led by head coach Gene Dahlquist in his first year, and played its home games at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland. They finished the regular season in fourth place with a record of four wins and six losses.


2001 Scottish Cup Final
The 2001 Scottish Cup Final was played on 26 May 2001 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 116th Scottish Cup competition. Celtic and Hibernian contested the match, Celtic won the match 3–0. Jackie McNamara opened the scoring in the first half running onto a through ball to angle the ball past Hibernian goalkeeper Nick Colgan. In the second half Henrik Larsson scored twice, with a penalty and a hard shot into the top corner.


2001 Scottish League Cup Final
The 2001 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 18 March 2001 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 54th Scottish League Cup. The final was contested by Celtic and Kilmarnock. Celtic won the match 3–0, thanks to a Henrik Larsson hat-trick.


2001 Scottish Masters
The 2001 Scottish Masters (known as the 2001 Regal Scottish Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament which took place at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland, from 18 to 23 September 2001. It was the first time the tournament was played in Glasgow since the 1989 edition. The competition was the second of four invitational World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) events of the 2001–02 season. It was broadcast on BBC Scotland and Eurosport and was sponsored by the cigarette brand Regal.


2001 Scottish Masters
John Higgins, the top-ranked Scottish player, won the tournament, defeating the defending champion and world title holder Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–6 in the final. It was the first time that Higgins had won the competition it was the 22nd ranking tournament victory of his career. He earned £63,000 from a prize fund pool of £200,000. O'Sullivan made the highest break of the competition of 134 in his semi-final victory over Marco Fu.


2001 Scottish Masters, Background
The Scottish Masters was an invitational professional snooker tournament first contested in 1981. The 2001 competition was the second of four invitational World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) events of the 2001–02 season and was held from 18 to 23 September at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland. It followed the 2001 Champions Cup. This was the first time since the 1989 edition that the tournament took place in Glasgow. Sponsored by the cigarette brand Regal, it had a total prize fund of £200,000, and was televised on BBC Scotland and Eurosport. It was also broadcast on the 110Sport website with coverage provided by BBC Scotland.


2001 Scottish Masters, Background
The 12-player event included those who were ranked in positions one to eight in the world rankings, players who had won major tournaments from the 2000–01 season, and one qualifier. Any player who withdrew would be replaced by a reserve. The field included the tournament's defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and former Scottish Masters victors Stephen Hendry, Ken Doherty and Matthew Stevens. Patrick Wallace, a quarter-finalist in the 2001 world championship, qualified for the tournament by winning the Scottish Masters qualifying competition.


2001 Scottish Masters, Background
John Higgins, Scotland's highest-ranked player and world number three, thought about withdrawing from the tournament because his wife was due to give birth to their first child imminently. She did not allow him to do so. The maximum number of frames in a match increased from nine in the first round to eleven in the quarter and semi-finals, leading up to the final which was played as the best-of-17 frames.


2001 Scottish Masters, Background, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for the tournament was as follows:


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Round 1
The first round of the competition took place from 18 to 19 September and was played as best-of-nine frame matches. Marco Fu, the world number 17, defeated two-time ranking event winner Peter Ebdon 5–2. Tied at 2–2 at the mid-session interval after a break of 126, Ebdon lost the next three frames to Fu whose highest break was a 38. Fu said he felt Ebdon had frustrated himself and that the match helped him to refine his playing ability.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Round 1
Hendry, who was coached by the 1979 world champion Terry Griffiths after ending his partnership with coach Frank Callan, played Jimmy White. He accumulated 13 points as White won the first three frames with breaks of no more than 74. Hendry won frame four after White missed the yellow ball and made two half-centuries to level the match at 3–3. After White made it 4–3, Hendry took frames eight and nine to claim a 5–4 victory.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Round 1
Stephen Lee, the world number eight, took 76 minutes to whitewash Wallace 5–0 and outscored his opponent 392–61. He used his post-match press conference to threaten a withdrawal from England's World Cup team unless Ebdon apologised for his celebrations after his 13–12 victory over Lee in the second round of the 2001 world championship, saying, "The way he reacted anyone would have thought he had won the title or was going to pick up the FA Cup." World number six Stevens defeated the 2001 Masters champion Paul Hunter 5–2 in his third try against him.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Round 1
The match was tied at 1–1 with a break of 66 from Stevens and a 69 from Hunter. Stevens won three successive frames, which included a clearance to the yellow and black balls in frame three and the fourth from the green ball to the pink ball. Hunter took frame five before Stevens made breaks of 60 and 57 to win the match.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
The four quarter-finals were played as best-of-11 frames between 20 and 21 September. Fu played former world champion Doherty in the first quarter-final. Doherty took a 2–1 lead and held it until Fu compiled a 90 break from a fluke to go 3–2 ahead. Doherty levelled the score at 3–3, but he was inconsistent and Fu won the match 6–3. The defending world champion O'Sullivan competed against Stevens. O'Sullivan was behind 2–1 when he produced breaks of 108 and 101 en route to a 5–2 lead. Stevens claimed frame eight with a break of 70 before O'Sullivan secured a 6–3 victory in the ninth frame. O'Sullivan said afterwards he had anticipated a tighter match after both players made errors: "I'm happy with the centuries and I don't want to give the title up without a fight."


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Mark Williams, a former world champion, was drawn to play Lee. The two players shared the opening four frames as Williams' highest breaks were 59 and 56 and Lee's were 90, 86 and 82. Lee was unable to tie the match at 4–4 because he left Williams with a snooker on the brown ball and went in-off on the pink and then missed the black to allow Williams to win 6–3. The final quarter-final was contested between the Scottish duo of Higgins and Hendry.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
The first frame was won by Hendry; Higgins then won three frames in a row to lead 3–1 at the mid-session interval. Hendry claimed two more frames to tie the match, before Higgins won 6–3 with breaks of 70, 44 and 50. Higgins said after the game that with the impending birth of his child his mindset was not "100 per cent on practice", while Hendry expressed frustration that "I had 20 chances to go 4–3 up but I couldn't take them."


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
The best-of-11 frame semi-finals were held on 22 September. The first was between O'Sullivan and Fu. O'Sullivan held a mid-session lead of 3–1 after breaks of 46 and 58 and a total clearance of 134, the tournament's highest break. Fu won frame five after O'Sullivan went in-off on several red balls. A break of 71 and a clearance from the second-to-last red to the pink gave O'Sullivan a 5–2 lead. He look set to  win 6–2 before he failed to pot the blue ball into a middle pocket while on a break of 39.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
Fu made a reply break of 50 and O'Sullivan took a 6–3 win with a 77 break in the ninth frame. Post-match, O'Sullivan said a lack of pre-tournament form made him consider withdrawal, but his father advised him to go holidaying beforehand. He said he felt nervous because he thought he would lose the match: "That was horrible. I don't think I've played as solidly this time as I did when I won the title here last year. Maybe that's because I'm a little bit match-rusty."


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
The second semi-final was played by Higgins and Williams. A 44 clearance gave Williams the first frame. He had no further success in the match after he missed a pink ball from a long distance that would have tied the match at 2–2. Higgins made breaks of 74 and 71 to secure a 6–1 victory and the second berth in the final. Higgins commented on his chances of winning the tournament, "Ronnie has won his fair share in Scotland so it's about my turn but I'll have to raise my game a few notches to beat him. He's played well this week and he's beaten me the last few times. It won't be as one-sided here as it may have been in Motherwell, which is closer to where I live."


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Final
The final between Higgins and O'Sullivan on 23 September was played as a two-session best-of-17 frames match. The first two frames were won by Higgins with one break at 111, before O'Sullivan won four in a row from breaks of 80, 117, 50 and 57 to convert a 2–0 deficit into a 4–2 lead. O'Sullivan missed a chance to go 5–2 ahead when he was unable to pot a difficult blue ball, and Higgins claimed frame seven by potting the black ball. He took frame eight to conclude the first session tied with O'Sullivan at 4–4.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Final
After a series of errors by both players, Higgins led 7–5. O'Sullivan had reduced his deficit to one with a break of 73. O'Sullivan failed to pot a single ball thereafter, as Higgins produced a clearance of 114 that ended at the pink ball. Higgins had a 60–0 advantage in frame 15 that he kept to win the match 9–6 and the tournament after O'Sullivan was unable to pot a red ball into the top-left corner pocket.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Final
It was the first time that Higgins had won the Scottish Masters; he had lost in the final of the 1998 and 1999 tournaments. It was his second win of the season after the 2001 Champions Cup, and the 22nd tournament victory of his career. The win ended Higgins' streak of five successive losses to O'Sullivan extending back to the 2000 Irish Masters. It was the first time since the 2000 Grand Prix 11 months earlier that O'Sullivan had been defeated in a tournament final. Higgins commented on his win, "It's been a long wait but well worthwhile.


2001 Scottish Masters, Tournament summary, Final
To have my friends and family here to see me win makes it really special. I was really choked at the end". He added, "Winning here in Scotland has taken a lot of pressure off me and I couldn't be happier professionally and personally." O'Sullivan said he was disappointed with his performance against Higgins' consistency. He added that he felt he played better than he had in the Champions Cup, and was happy to reach the final of the Scottish Masters.


2001 Scottish Masters, Main draw
Numbers given to the left of players' names show the seedings for the top eight players in the tournament. Players in bold indicate match winners.


2001 Scottish Masters, Final
The bold text denotes all of the winning frame scores and the winning participant. Breaks over 50 are indicated in brackets.


2001 Scottish Masters, Qualifying Event
Qualifying for the tournament took place amongst 16 players at the Spencer's Snooker Centre from 26 to 31 August 2001. Players who entered the tournament included three-time Scottish Masters runner-up Alan McManus, former Grand Prix champion Dominic Dale and 1997 Scottish Masters victor Nigel Bond. Bookmakers installed McManus and Anthony Hamilton as the joint favourites to win the competition. Patrick Wallace defeated Joe Swail, Hamilton, Joe Perry and Stephen Maguire to qualify for the Scottish Masters. All matches were played to the best-of-nine frames and players in bold denote match winners.


2001 Scottish Masters, Century breaks
The main stage of the event saw a total of seven century breaks compiled by three different players. O'Sullivan made the highest break of 134 in the third frame of his semi-final game with Fu, which earned him £5,000 prize money.


2001 Scottish Open (snooker)
The 2001 Regal Scottish Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 8–15 April 2001 at the AECC in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was the seventh and penultimate ranking event of the 2000/2001 season.


2001 Scottish Open (snooker)
Peter Ebdon won the title by defeating Ken Doherty 9–7 in the final. The defending champion, Ronnie O'Sullivan, was defeated by Mark Davis in the second round.


2001 Seattle Bowl
The 2001 Jeep Seattle Bowl was the first edition to be named as such of the college football bowl game (previously known as the Oahu Bowl), and was to be played at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington. The game pitted the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets from the ACC and the Stanford Cardinal from the Pac-10. The game was the final competition of the 2001 football season for each team and resulted in a 24–14 Georgia Tech upset victory over the 11th ranked Stanford team.


2001 Seattle Bowl
The game was played at Safeco Field because Qwest Field had not yet been completed.


2001 Seattle Bowl, Coaches
Georgia Tech coach Mac McWhorter was coaching on an interim basis (his only game as head coach) after coach George O'Leary announced he was resigning to take the same position at Notre Dame. Due to a controversy surrounding O'Leary's resume, and in an odd twist of fate, McWhorter's counterpart Tyrone Willingham ended up as the new Notre Dame coach and thus this edition of the Seattle Bowl was his last game at Stanford.


2001 Seattle Mariners season
The Seattle Mariners' 2001 season was the 25th since the franchise's inception. The Mariners finished with a 116–46 (.716) record, tying the major league record for wins set by the 1906 Chicago Cubs, and setting the record for wins by an American League team. Of those wins, 59 were by four or more runs, a record for the number of games won by such a margin. They also led the majors in both runs scored and fewest runs allowed.


2001 Seattle Mariners season
Winning the American League West division, the 2001 season marked the only time the Mariners reached the postseason in consecutive seasons to date, following their wild card berth in 2000. The team went on to defeat the Cleveland Indians in the American League Division Series, but fell to the New York Yankees in five games in the American League Championship Series.


2001 Seattle Mariners season
The 2001 season was also notable for the Major League debut of star Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who led the league in batting average and won both the AL Rookie of the Year and the AL MVP awards. Additionally, the Mariners hosted their second All-Star Game during the season.


2001 Seattle Mariners season
Despite the record-setting win total, the 2001 season marks the most recent time that the Mariners have reached the postseason. Their 20 years without a postseason appearance is the longest active playoff drought in the four major North American professional sports.


2001 Seattle Mariners season, All-Star Game
The Mariners hosted the 2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 10, 2001 at Safeco Field. It was the second time the Mariners hosted the Midsummer Classic, and the first at Safeco Field. Eight Mariners were in the game, including four in the starting lineup. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League by the final score of 4–1. This would be the final All-Star Game for Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn.


2001 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


2001 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


2001 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2001 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2001 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; SVO = Save opportunities; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2001 Seattle Mariners season, Major League Baseball Draft
The following is a list of 2001 Seattle Mariners draft picks. The Mariners took part in the June regular draft, also known as the Rule 4 draft. The Mariners made 52 selections in the 2001 draft, the first being shortstop Michael Garciaparra in the first round. In all, the Mariners selected 23 pitchers, 13 outfielders, 7 catchers, 5 shortstops, 2 third basemen, 1 first baseman, and 1 second baseman.


2001 Seattle Seahawks season
The 2001 Seattle Seahawks season was the franchise's 26th season in the National Football League, The second of two seasons the Seahawks played at Husky Stadium while Qwest Field was being built and the third under head coach Mike Holmgren. They improved on their 6–10 record from 2000 and finished the season at 9–7. The Seahawks were in the playoff hunt until the last game of the season; Baltimore's win over Minnesota on the last Monday Night game of the year ended Seattle's post-season bid. The 2001 season was the final season for the Seahawks in the American Football Conference and the second and final season they played at Husky Stadium while Qwest Field was being built.


2001 Seattle Seahawks season
Before the season, the Seahawks signed free agent quarterbacks Trent Dilfer and Matt Hasselbeck. Hasselbeck eventually won the starting position over Dilfer. The Seahawks also signed future Hall of Fame defensive tackle John Randle, who spent the last 11 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings and would make the Pro Bowl in his first season with the Seahawks.


2001 Seattle Seahawks season
The season saw the emergence of the second year running back Shaun Alexander after Ricky Watters was injured for most of the season. Watters retired after the season ended.


2001 Seattle Seahawks season
It was also the final season the Seahawks wore their traditional blue and green uniforms, and their last year in the AFC West as they returned to the NFC West in the 2002 NFL season.


2001 Seattle Seahawks season, Schedule, Regular season
Divisional matchups have the AFC West playing the NFC East.


2001 Seattle Storm season
The 2001 WNBA season was the second season for the Seattle Storm.


2001 Seattle Storm season, Player stats
Note: GP= Games played; REB= Rebounds; AST= Assists; STL = Steals; BLK = Blocks; PTS = Points


2001 Segunda División B play-offs
The 2001 Segunda División B play-offs (Playoffs de Ascenso or Promoción de Ascenso) were the final playoffs for promotion from 2000–01 Segunda División B to the 2001–02 Segunda División. The four first placed teams in each of the four Segunda División B groups played the Playoffs de Ascenso and the four last placed teams in Segunda División were relegated to Segunda División B.


2001 Segunda División B play-offs
The teams play a league of four teams, divided into 4 groups. The champion of each group is promoted to Segunda División.


2001 Senegalese constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Senegal on 7 January 2001. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution. It was approved by 94% of voters, leading to early parliamentary elections taking place in April 2001.


2001 Senegalese constitutional referendum, Background
The proposed constitution would abolish the Senate, which had only come into existence in 1999; its first election had been boycotted by the opposition parties, who viewed its creation as unnecessary. It also reduced the presidential term from seven to five years.


2001 Senegalese parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 29 April 2001 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first held under the new constitution approved by a referendum earlier in the year. Following the victory of Abdoulaye Wade in the February–March 2000 presidential election, the Sopi Coalition, including Wade's Senegalese Democratic Party and its allies, won a large majority.


2001 Senegalese parliamentary election
After Wade was elected President, he entered a situation of cohabitation with the Socialist Party, which still held an overwhelming majority of seats in the National Assembly. Wade was constitutionally barred from dissolving the National Assembly and calling a new parliamentary election, but he decided to revise the constitution and said that he would not pursue policy initiatives in the meantime. Since he was not seeking new legislation, he did not need to compromise with the National Assembly, which simply approved the budget and adjourned.


2001 Senegalese parliamentary election
The Socialist Party did not object to Wade's constitutional changes, which included giving the President the right to dissolve the National Assembly, and the new constitution easily passed a referendum in January 2001. Wade then dissolved the National Assembly and called a new parliamentary election. The Socialist-controlled upper house of Parliament, the Senate, was abolished by the referendum.


2001 Senegalese parliamentary election
Although Wade was barred by the January 2001 Constitution from addressing rallies during the election campaign and the Sopi Coalition was not allowed to use his picture on its ballot papers, Wade actively and prominently participated in the Sopi campaign, drawing criticism from opponents. Wade urged the people to vote for the Sopi Coalition so that he could govern effectively with a secure majority.


2001 Senior League World Series
The 2001 Senior League World Series took place from August 12–18 in Kissimmee, Florida, United States. Palm Harbor, Florida defeated Maracaibo, Venezuela in the championship game.


2001 Senior PGA Tour
The 2001 Senior PGA Tour was the 22nd season since the Senior PGA Tour, now known as PGA Tour Champions, officially began in 1980. The season consisted of 37 official money events with purses totalling $58,150,000 (not including the Vantage Championship which was canceled due to terrorist activities of September 11), including four majors. Larry Nelson won the most tournaments, five. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.


2001 Senior PGA Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 2001 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold. Golfers winning on their Senior PGA Tour debut are shown in italics.


2001 Sex Strike For Running Water
The 2001 sex strike for running water in Turkey began when women in a Turkish village initiated a nonviolent direct action to persuade the men of the village to fix a broken water system.


2001 Sex Strike For Running Water, Background
In 2001, a southern Turkish village near Siirt suffered from a broken down water supply system. This was not the first time the system had stopped, leaving the 600-person village without running water for months at a time. When the water system breaks down, the women must walk  several miles to a small public fountain in order to have water for drinking, cooking and bathing.


2001 Sex Strike For Running Water, Background
In mid-July 2001, women in the village began a sex strike to encourage their husbands to demand that the government repair the water system. The idea of the sex strike came from a Turkish movie from 1983 in which women held a sex strike for better equality between the genders.


2001 Sex Strike For Running Water, Background
The lack of running water prevented women from bathing after sex, which is traditionally required of Muslim women. This ritual is known as ritual purification, which has to do with preparation for prayer that occurs five times a day.


2001 Sex Strike For Running Water, Background
Within one month of the sex strike, the men began asking the Siirt government for assistance to fix the water system. On August 15, the government supplied the village with enough resources to fix the water system themselves.


2001 Sex Strike For Running Water, Related events
A film, The Source, was created in 2011 capturing a similar story in a North Africa. The women of the village take part in a sex strike against having to walk to a water source to collect water.


2001 Seychellois presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Seychelles on 31 August and 2 September 2001. They were won by the incumbent president, France-Albert René, who beat his nearest rival Wavel Ramkalawan by just under 5,000 votes.


2001 Seychellois presidential election, Results
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2001 Shanghai International Film Festival
The 5th Shanghai International Film Festival was film festival held between June 9 and June 17, 2001. 164 films were screened including 46 from China. 14 films were entered into the Golden Cup competition, with Antitrust from the United States winning the grand prize.


2001 Shanghai International Film Festival
The Festival utilized 9 theaters, which held 479 screenings to an aggregate audience of 170,000.


2001 Shanghai International Film Festival
This marked the last time the Shanghai International Film Festival was held on a biannual basis. Beginning with 2001, the festival was held on an annual basis.


2001 Shanghai Sevens
The 2001 Shanghai Sevens was an international rugby sevens tournament that was held in Shanghai, China as the fifth leg of the 2000–01 World Sevens Series. It was the first China Sevens tournament to be hosted as part of  the World Sevens Series, and the event took place at the Yuanshen Stadium on 8–9 April 2001.


2001 Shanghai Sevens
Australia won the Shanghai Sevens after they defeated South Africa 19–12 to go to second place in the overall standings.


2001 Shanghai Sevens, Format
The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played the other teams in their pool once, with 3 points awarded for a win, 2 points for a draw, and 1 point for a loss (no points awarded for a forfeit). The pool stage was played on the first day of the tournament. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Bowl/Shield brackets.


2001 Shanghai Sevens, Pool stage
The pool stage was played on the first day of the tournament. The 16 teams were separated into four pools of four teams and teams in the same pool played each other once. The top two teams in each pool advanced to the Cup quarterfinals to compete for the 2001 Shanghai Sevens title.


2001 Shell Championship Series
The 2001 Shell Championship Series was an auto racing series for V8 Supercars. The championship, which was the third Shell Championship Series, began on 25 March 2001 at Phillip Island and ended on 2 December at Sandown after 13 rounds. The same events also determined the winner of the 2001 Australian Touring Car Championship as awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.


2001 Shell Championship Series, 2001 season, Cars
Ford continued with the AU Falcon that the majority of Ford teams ran while some ran the older EL Model. Holden released the new VX Commodore after the VT Commodore. Some Holden teams still ran the VT and some ran the old VS Commodore.


2001 Shell Championship Series, 2001 season, Race formats, Special events
Round 2-Clipsal 500 at Adelaide. This involves 2 250 km races over 78 laps of the Adelaide Street circuit. The winner of the event is the driver who wins the second race and not the driver who collects the most points. The second race involves double points over the first race. There are 2 compulsory pit stops in each race, 1 stop for tyres and 1 stop for fuel.


2001 Shell Championship Series, 2001 season, Race formats, Special events
Round 5-GMC 400 at Canberra. This involves 2 100 km races and 1 200 km race over 25 and 50 laps of the Canberra Street Circuit. The winner of the event is the driver who collects the most points over the weekend. The 2nd race of the weekend will involve a reverse grid of the entire field. The 3rd race grid will be a culmination of the points of race 1 and race 2 put together. In the first 2 races there will be only 1 compulsory stop for tyres. In the 3rd race, there will be 1 stop for tyres and 1 stop for fuel.


2001 Shell Championship Series, 2001 season, Race formats, Special events
Round 9-VIP Petfoods Queensland 500 at Queensland Raceway. This is the first of the double driver endurance events. This race is held over 161 laps over 500 km. The race will involve driver changes and fuel and tyre stops will have to happen at the same time.


2001 Shell Championship Series, 2001 season, Race formats, Special events
Round 11-V8 Supercar 1000 at Bathurst. Known as "The Great Race", Bathurst is the event that all the drivers want to win. It is again a double driver event and will involve driver changes at pit stops. The race is held over 161 laps over 1000 km. This season is the first time that the event isn't the last round of the championship.


2001 Shell Championship Series, 2001 season, Television coverage
Channel 10 and Fox Sports broadcast the coverage for the 5th year since 1997 when they took over from Channel 7. Neil Crompton hosted the coverage for regular rounds with Barry Sheene. Bill Woods hosted the coverage at special events while Leigh Diffey hosted the coverage at the last 2 rounds. Matthew White hosted the coverage at Winton for the only time in the 2001 season. Neil Crompton, Barry Sheene and Mark Oastler commentated for most of the season with Leigh Diffey coming in from Queensland 500 onwards. Greg Rust and Grant Denyer were the pit lane reporters after Greg was commentator for the 2000 championship.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Teams and drivers
The following drivers and teams competed in the 2001 Shell Championship Series. The series consisted of 11 rounds of single driver racing and two rounds (the Queensland 500 and the Bathurst 1000) of endurance racing with each car driven by two drivers.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Race Calendar
The 2001 Shell Championship Series consisted of 13 rounds which included 7 pit-stop rounds of two or three races, two sprint races, two 2-driver races and 2 1-driver endurance races.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Phillip Island, Victoria
Mark Skaife get off to the best start possible as he collects the maximum number of points at Phillip Island with Craig Lowndes second on his debut for Ford thanks to the fastest pit stops over the weekend by his pit crew. Jason Bright comes third on his comeback to the sport.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Adelaide, South Australia
At the next round at Adelaide, Bright wins the round and the double points race after coming from the back of the field after an accident on lap 1, leaving him at the top of the championship. Mark Skaife has a shocker as he came fourth after being spun by Paul Radisich in Race 1 and has another spin in Race 2 leaving him ninth. Craig Lowndes won the Saturday race but tangled with Skaife in Race 2 leaving his car disabled and left him falling behind in the championship.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Adelaide, South Australia
Paul Radisich had the fastest car on the weekend but an axle broke in race 1 and steering damage left him wounded in the championship. Russell Ingall has a good weekend with a third and a second place. There was big controversy over the race officials as rule breaking went unpunished. They were being watched at Eastern Creek.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Eastern Creek, New South Wales
Craig Lowndes and Marcos Ambrose came first and second in the first race but got penalised because of incidents. Craig passed under a Yellow Flag that he could not see and Marcos made an illegal pass on Greg Murphy. This left Greg Murphy 1st on the grid for Race 2 and Mark Skaife second who started tenth in race 1 after he spun in the shootout. Greg Murphy lost his lead to Skaife after he was given a stop-go penalty for jumping the start, but there was more controversy after he didn't come to a complete stop. He got away with it but the rules were changed for the next round. Mark Skaife duly took out the race and round with teammate Jason Bright second but still leading the championship. Greg Murphy came third for the round even with the penalty.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Hidden Valley, Northern Territory
The next round at Hidden Valley turned out to be the car breaker of the year, with Greg Murphy and Russell Ingall having mechanical problems while leading within sight of the flag in Race 3 and 2 respectively. Mark Skaife had a stop-go penalty for jumping the start in Race 1 which left him 12th but still recovered to win Race 3 and come third in the round. Jason Bright had another solid weekend coming second and extending his championship lead over his teammate. But it was Marcos Ambrose who kept his nose clean over the weekend to take the round win in only his fourth championship round.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Canberra, ACT
The GMC 400 was the turning point of the season for Mark Skaife as he came third on the weekend and overtook teammate Jason Bright, who had a difficult weekend. The DJR cars were the cars to have earlier in the weekend as Paul Radisich and Steven Johnson finished 1–2 in qualifying but Radisich spun out in his shootout lap, leaving him 15th and Steven Johnson claiming his first pole position in the series. New for the championship were the pit lane speed limiters restricted to 40 km/h and only one pit bay per team.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Canberra, ACT
Steven Johnson wins the first race from Craig Lowndes who was advantaged bt a clear pit lane. Mark Skaife finished 3rd after starting 5th. Marcos Ambrose retires from the race with a broken driveshaft and will start from the back of the grid. The 2nd race is a reverse grid with Steve Reed and Steven Richards starting on the front row. Steven Richards wins from Marcos Ambrose who has a brilliant race which he started from the back but in race 3 he will have to start from the back again.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Canberra, ACT
Mark Skaife has a difficult race when he ran into the back of Rodney Forbes in a concertina effect and finished 24th and will start 10th in race 3. The race 3 grid is decided by an aggregate of points accumulated in race 1 and 2 which means that the front row is Craig Lowndes and Paul Radisich. Mark Skaife wins the race with Garth Tander second and Steve Johnson 3rd. Craig Lowndes was leading until a safety car came out with a pit stop still to go. He eventually retired with fuel pressure problems. Steve Johnson won the round with Garth Tander second and Mark Skaife 3rd.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Barbagallo, Western Australia
Paul Radisich dominates the weekend as he wins the shootout and Race 1,2 and 3. Mark Skaife consolidates his championship lead with 2nd in all 3 races with Greg Murphy 3rd on the weekend. Russell Ingall saw his chance of a podium dashed when he jumped the start in Race 3 and finished 4th overall.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Calder Park, Victoria
Paul Morris won his first ever V8 Supercar event as the Big Kev Racer was on the pace from the start of the weekend. Mark Skaife started on Pole but a poor start left him vulnerable to Steven Johnson, who he tapped to give him the lead, but he was issued with a stop-go penalty giving Johnson the lead he never relinquished. Paul Morris came 2nd and Marcos Ambrose 3rd.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Calder Park, Victoria
Paul Morris reverted to blocking in the final 2 races to win both, Russell Ingall finished 2nd in race 2 with Jason Bright 3rd and in race 3, Paul Radisich finished 2nd with Russell Ingall 3rd. Overall for the weekend, Steven Johnson finished 2nd with Russell Ingall 3rd. Mark Skaife finished 14th overall after a spin in race 3.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Oran Park, New South Wales
Mark Skaife comes back from a difficult Calder with a win in both races after starting 2nd. Craig Lowndes claims the pole, but finished 2nd in race 1 and 8th in race 2 after a spin by Garth Tander but still finishes 3rd overall. David Besnard has a fantastic round as he finishes 3rd and 2nd for a 2nd overall as teammate Marcos Ambrose struggles to get to grips with the track.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Queensland 500, Queensland
The 1st 2 driver Enduro threw up plenty of thrills and spills and a dramatic ending. The heavens opened causing a huge thunderstorm as Steven Johnson and Paul Radisich won the race in the gravel trap but was lucky as the red flag came out, putting the result to the previous lap. Russell Ingall and Larry Perkins finish 2nd and Todd Kelly and Greg Murphy 3rd. Mark Skaife and Jason Bright finish 4th even though they had oil on the screen for some of the race.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Winton, Victoria
Russell Ingall put his championship fight another step further as he takes his first round win of the season and also claims his first pole position of his career. Greg Murphy wins Race 1 but a slow pit-stop in Race 2 puts him 6th but still finished 2nd overall for the weekend. Mark Skaife finished 3rd overall for the weekend after starting 15th after a horror qualifying. Marcos Ambrose was the fastest ford over the weekend as he passed car after car after he ran off-road on the first corner.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, V8 Supercar 1000, Bathurst, New South Wales
Mark Skaife put one hand on the championship after his win at Bathurst with Tony Longhurst. the drive of the day went to Brad Jones and John Cleland who started 21st and finished 2nd even despite radio dramas that meant that Cleland didn't come in under safety car. They lost out by a couple of seconds. Todd Kelly and Greg Murphy finished 3rd after running in the top 3 all day. They could have won if Todd didn't spin on a slippy track coming into the last pitstop at the chase.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, V8 Supercar 1000, Bathurst, New South Wales
Russell Ingall overtook Jason Bright into 2nd place of the championship when Jason didn't finish with Tomas Mezera. Russell and Larry Perkins led coming into the final pitstop but Larry crashed when coming into the pit lane; damaging the front spoiler. They eventually finished 8th. Pole position man Marcos Ambrose went back though the field until he over cooked it coming into pit land at the first pit stop and got stuck in the gravel. He eventually retired. Greg Ritter and Cameron McLean finished 4th after a great race with a fast car. Paul Radisich and Steven Johnson retired with an engine failure during a safety car.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Boost Mobile V8 International, Pukekohe, New Zealand
In the first ever overseas event for the series, Greg Murphy collected maximum points on home turf. Mark Skaife collects the championship in the first race when he finished ahead of Russell Ingall who had a number of problems with the gearbox. Marcos Ambrose finished 3rd but didn't have the pace of the leading Holdens.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Sandown, Victoria
Todd Kelly wins his first ever championship round after a win in race 2 and other consistent race results. Mark Skaife wins the first race in dry conditions, but struggled in the wet conditions and eventually retired from race 3 after contact with Steven Richards. Craig Lowndes won the 3rd race from Marcos Ambrose.


2001 Shell Championship Series, Season review, Overall
Mark Skaife wins the series for the 4th time ahead of Russell Ingall. Jason Bright comes 3rd ahead of Greg Murphy. The first Ford driver is Steven Johnson. Todd Kelly comes 6th after his strong final round ahead of Paul Radisich who had some strong rounds. Marcos Ambrose collected the rookie of the year award after coming 8th but would regret the endurance races where he only collected 112 pts. Steve Ellery is the first driver from a single car team, placing 9th and Garth Tander eventually finishes 10th after a tough year. Craig Lowndes is 11th in his first year for Ford.


2001 Shell Turbo Chargers season
The 2001 Shell Turbo Chargers season was the 17th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2001 Sherbrooke municipal election
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2001 Sherbrooke municipal election
The 2001 Sherbrooke municipal election was held on November 4, 2001, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The communities of Brompton and Lennoxville also elected borough councillors, who do not serve on the city council.


2001 Sherbrooke municipal election, Results, Councillors
Source: "Election 2001 Sherbrooke & Townships," Sherbrooke Record, 6 November 2001, p. 4 .


2001 Shimizu S-Pulse season
The 2001 season was Shimizu S-Pulse's tenth season in existence and their ninth season in the J1 League. The club also competed in the Emperor's Cup and the J.League Cup. The team finished the season fourth in the league and won the Emperor's Cup.


2001 Shimizu S-Pulse season, International results, Asian Cup Winners' Cup
Shimizu S-Pulse qualified for this tournament as the defending champions.


2001 Shropshire County Council election
The 2001 elections to Shropshire County Council took place on 7 June 2001.


2001 Shropshire County Council election
The Labour party increased its number of councillors at the expense of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. The council remained no overall control however.


2001 Sicilian regional election
The Sicilian regional election of 2001 was held on 24 June 2001. For the first time the president of Region was elected directly by the citizens.


2001 Sicilian regional election
The election was competed by three competitors: Salvatore Cuffaro, House of Freedoms candidate; Leoluca Orlando, candidate of The Olive Tree and former mayor of Palermo; and Sergio D'Antoni, leader of European Democracy. Cuffaro won by a landslide.


2001 Sidecarcross World Championship
The 2001 FIM Sidecarcross World Championship, the 22nd edition of the competition, started on 1 April and finished after fourteen Grand Prix on 30 September 2001.


2001 Sidecarcross World Championship
The defending champions were Kristers Serģis and his passenger Artis Rasmanis from Latvia who also took out the 2001 championship, thereby winning their fourth World Championship together, becoming the third team in the history of the sport to do so. For one race of the season, the first of the two German Grand Prix, Serģis rode with Dutch passenger Christian Verhagen by his side, in all other events he participated with Rasmanis.


2001 Sidecarcross World Championship
The pair won the competition with a margin of 123 points, with Dutch rider Daniël Willemsen and his Belgian passenger Sven Verbrugge coming second, as they had done the year before. Willemsen, like Serģis, used a different passenger for one event, Czech rider Premsyl Novotny in the first of the two German Grand Prix. Third place went to the Swedish combination of Henrik Söderqvist and  Tobias Sylwan, who had previously achieved the same result in 1999. All up, 51 teams were classified in the overall standings with last place going to the Estonian team of Tommas and Tinnu Soir.


2001 Sidecarcross World Championship
The Sidecarcross World Championship, first held in 1980 and organised by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, is an annual competition. All races, manufacturers and the vast majority of riders in the competition being in and from Europe. Sidecarcross is similar to motocross except that the teams consist of two riders, a driver and a passenger. Races are held on the same tracks as solo motocross but the handling of the machines differs as sidecars don't lean. The majority of physical work in the sport is carried out by the passenger, who speeds up the sidecarcross in corners by leaning out. The coordination between the driver and the passenger are therefore of highest importance.


2001 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
The fourteen races of the season were held in eleven countries, Germany (2x), France, Latvia (2x), Estonia (2x), Ukraine, Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden, Great Britain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. In comparison to the 2000 edition which had thirteen Grand Prix, the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic and Ukraine had been added to the calendar while the GP of Belarus had been dropped.


2001 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
Events typically consist of a qualifying competition, held in multiple stages on Saturdays of a race weekend while the two race events are typically held on Sundays. One exception to this rule is Easter weekends, when the races are held on Easter Monday. Race weekends can consist of additional motocross or quart support races as well, but the FIM stipulates that the World Championship races have priority. Riders have to be provided with at least one 30 minute free practice session, which will be timed.


2001 Sidecarcross World Championship, Overview
A race can consist of up to 30 starters and the qualifying modus is dependent on the number of entries. Up to 32 entries, it will be held in one group split into two sessions of 30 minutes each. Above 32 entries, the starter field will be sub-divided into two groups through ballot and the current standings. Each qualifying group can consist of up to 30 racers. Should there be more than 60 entries, a pre-qualifying has to be held. Of the riders in the two groups, the top-twelve directly qualify for the races. The remaining teams then go to a second-chance qualifying, in which the best six advance. The riders placed seventh and eighth remain in reserve should one of the qualified teams not be able to participate.