2001 Polish parliamentary election, Background
In light of Buzek's besieged administration, opposition parties took advantage of AWS' organisational and economic weaknesses. From the centre left, a political coalition between the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Labour Union (UP), headed by Leszek Miller, appeared as the ruling government's most formidable, united and vocal opposition. On the centre right, Solidarity's traditional spectrum of support increasingly became divided by the emergence of new political groups. Civic Platform (PO), composed of former AWS and UW members, repeated calls for a low flat-rate income tax and a culling of bureaucracy to attract investment. Further down the right, the Law and Justice party (PiS), composed of AWS' more conservative and anti-communist adherents, campaigned on promises of tough anti-corruption and organised crime legislation.


2001 Polish parliamentary election, Background
The campaign leading up to the September election was marred by voter apathy due to the summer holidays, and was also marginalized by the September 11 attacks in the United States.


2001 Polish parliamentary election, Results
The SLD triumphed in the final tally, receiving 41% percent of the vote, though shy of an outright parliamentary majority in the Sejm. The party increased its representation by 52 seats, earning it 216 representatives, and returned to the Chancellery after a four-year period of sitting in opposition. Partly due to the fractious nature of its opponents, the SLD secured pluralities in all of Poland's voivodeships as well as in an overwhelming majority of the nation's powiats. On the centre right, Civic Platform entered parliament for the first time, coming in second place with nearly 13% of the vote. The party stood relatively strong in Pomeranian Voivodeship.


2001 Polish parliamentary election, Results
Surprisingly, ultra-nationalist parties performed well in the election's final results. The left-wing nationalist Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (SRP) increased its vote 100-fold from the 1997 election, securing 53 seats and 10% of the vote, coming in third place. Headed by populist Andrzej Lepper, the party campaigned against Warsaw excess and Poland's ongoing negotiations to enter the European Union. On the far right, the League of Polish Families, which campaigned on a staunchly Catholic and anti-EU platform, also entered the Sejm for the first time, gaining 38 seats and 8% of the vote.


2001 Polish parliamentary election, Results
Law and Justice (PiS), headed by Lech Kaczyński, a former Minister of Justice in the Buzek government, scored 44 seats and 9.5% of the vote, also securing his party's entrance into the Sejm for the first time. The Polish People's Party (PSL) won 42 seats, slightly reversing the party's devastating losses from 1997. The PSL would later enter into coalition with the SLD to achieve a parliamentary majority.


2001 Polish parliamentary election, Results
The election proved catastrophic for Solidarity Electoral Action and its former coalition partner, Freedom Union. Both parties failed to secure the 8% for coalitions and 5% for standalone parties threshold to enter the Sejm, with AWS and UW falling to 5.6% and 3.1%, respectively. In the election's aftermath, Prime Minister Buzek tendered his resignation. Both the AWS and UW faced political extinction following the election's aftermath. The AWS dissolved itself by the end of 2001; the UW lingered until its own dissolution in 2005.


2001 Pop Cola Panthers season
The 2001 Pop Cola Panthers season was the 12th and final season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2001 Pop Cola Panthers season, Occurrences
Pop Cola played their first three games in the Governor's Cup under the brand name "Swift", which the franchise last used back in 1994, known as Swift Panthers, they scored their first win over Red Bull, then revert to Pop Cola in their fourth game.


2001 Pop Cola Panthers season, Occurrences
The Pop Cola ballclub was disbanded the following season after the PBA franchise was sold by RFM Corporation to Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI), in connection with the sale of Cosmos Bottling Corporation to CCBPI.


2001 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
The 2001 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Filderstadt Tennis Club in Filderstadt, Germany that was part of Tier II of the 2001 WTA Tour. It was the 24th edition of the tournament and was held from 8 October until 14 October 2001. Third-seeded Lindsay Davenport won the singles title and earned $90,000 first-prize money.


2001 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Finals, Doubles
Lindsay Davenport /  Lisa Raymond defeated  Justine Henin /  Meghann Shaughnessy 6–4, 6–7(4–7), 7–5


2001 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Doubles
Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova were the defending champions, but withdrew before their semifinal match against Justine Henin and Meghann Shaughnessy.


2001 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Doubles
Lindsay Davenport and Lisa Raymond won the title, defeating Henin and Shaughnessy in the final 6–4, 6–7(4–7), 7–5.


2001 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles
Martina Hingis was the two-time defending champion, but retired in the semifinals against Lindsay Davenport.


2001 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles
Davenport won the title, defeating Justine Henin in the final 7–5, 6–4.


2001 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2001 Portland Fire season
The 2001 WNBA season was the 2nd season for the Portland Fire. The Fire failed to qualify for the WNBA Playoffs for the second consecutive year.


2001 Portland Timbers season
The 2001 Portland Timbers season was the inaugural season for the Portland Timbers—the 3rd incarnation of a club to bear the Timbers name—of the now-defunct A-League, the second-tier league of the United States and Canada at the time.


2001 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, A-League, Western Conference standings
Bye to quarterfinal round of playoffs  First round of playoffs


2001 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, A-League, Western Conference standings
Point system: 4 points for a win; 1 point for a draw; 1 point for scoring 3 or more goals in a game; 0 points for a loss


2001 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup, Qualification Group 9 standings
Entry into second round of 2001 U.S. Open Cup  D-3 wildcard entry into second round of 2001 U.S. Open Cup


2001 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup, Qualification Group 9 standings
Point system: 4 points for a win; 1 point for a draw; 1 point for scoring 3 or more goals in a game; 0 points for a loss


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


2001 Portland Timbers season, Squad, Statistics, Appearances and goals
All players contracted to the club during the season included.


2001 Porto Open
The 2001 Porto Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Porto, Portugal and was part of Tier IV of the 2001 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from 2 April until 8 April 2001. First-seeded Arantxa Sánchez Vicario won the singles title and earned $22,000 first-prize money.


2001 Porto Open, Finals, Doubles
María José Martínez /  Anabel Medina Garrigues defeated  Alexandra Fusai /  Rita Grande 6–1, 6–7 (5–7), 7–5


2001 Porto Open – Doubles
María José Martínez and Anabel Medina Garrigues won in the final 6–1, 6–7 (5–7), 7–5 against Alexandra Fusai and Rita Grande.


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


2001 Porto Open – Singles
Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario won in the final 6–3, 6–1 against Magüi Serna.


2001 Porto 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 Portuguese local elections
The Portuguese local elections of 2001 took place on 16 December. The elections consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is elected mayor, another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president. This last was held separately in the more than 4,200 parishes around the country.


2001 Portuguese local elections
The Social Democratic Party (PSD) won the elections by a landslide, defying polls in many cities across the country in particular the three main cities, Lisbon, Porto and Sintra. The victory of the PSD in these local election was the first since 1985, the last time the PSD won more mayors than the Socialists, although in 1997, the PS and PSD basically tied in number of elected mayors. The PSD won 11 of the 20 district capitals mainly Lisbon, won by Pedro Santana Lopes, and Porto, won by Rui Rio, plus many suburban cities like Sintra, Cascais, Vila Nova de Famalicão and Penafiel swung also to the Social Democrats.


2001 Portuguese local elections
The Socialist Party (PS) was the biggest loser of these elections. After 6 years in power governing without an absolute majority and adding to this a bad economy, the PS hopes of maintaining the largest number of mayors were slashed. The defeat was worse than expected because of loses in the main cities of Lisbon and Porto, where polls showed the PS with a solid lead. Because of the bad results of the party and a prospect of political instability, Prime Minister António Guterres resigned on election night stating that the country should not fall in "a political swamp".


2001 Portuguese local elections
The election was also very bad for Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU) in which they achieved their worst result in local elections till that date. The Communist-Green alliance lost 13 mayoral races plus 37 councillors and lost big cities like Évora and Loures to the PS. The People's Party also had a poor showing losing 5 cities, although this time they celebrated more coalitions with the PSD.


2001 Portuguese local elections
On the other hands, the election returns were quite good for other smaller parties: the Left Bloc (BE) won 1 city (Salvaterra de Magos) from CDU and the Earth Party won Celorico da Beira from the PS. Independent movements were also allowed to run in these elections for the first time and won 3 cities.


2001 Portuguese local elections
Turnout in these elections remained unchanged in comparison with the 1997 election, as 60.1% of the electorate cast a ballot.


2001 Portuguese local elections, Parties
1 The PSD and the CDS–PP formed coalitions in several municipalities. In some municipalities the PSD or CDS–PP also formed coalitions with PPM. 2 The PS formed also some coalitions with the CDS–PP and a coalition with CDU in Lisbon.


2001 Portuguese local elections, Results, Municipal Councils, City control
The following table lists party control in all district capitals, as well as in municipalities above 100,000 inhabitants. Population estimates from the 2001 Census.


2001 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2001 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 7–9 September 2001 at the Autódromo do Estoril.


2001 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded.


2001 Portuguese presidential election
The Portuguese presidential election of 2001 was held on 14 January.


2001 Portuguese presidential election
The victory of incumbent president Jorge Sampaio was never in doubt and the turnout was therefore quite low (49.71%). Again, the incumbent president was reelected, like what happened with Mário Soares and Ramalho Eanes.


2001 Portuguese presidential election
As the re-election of the left-wing president was almost certain, both the Portuguese Communist Party and the Left Bloc, the latter for its first time, presented their own candidates, as their support against the right-wing candidate was not necessary. The Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers also presented its own candidate for the first time in its history, Garcia Pereira.


2001 Portuguese presidential election
On the right, Ferreira do Amaral was supported by the two major parties, the Social Democratic Party and the People's Party which, again, could not achieve their old objective of electing a right-wing president for the first time since the Carnation Revolution.


2001 Portuguese presidential election, Procedure
Any Portuguese citizen over 35 years old has the opportunity to run for president. In order to do so it is necessary to gather between 7500 and 15000 signatures and submit them to the Portuguese Constitutional Court.


2001 Portuguese presidential election, Procedure
According to the Portuguese Constitution, to be elected, a candidate needs a majority of votes. If no candidate gets this majority there will take place a second round between the two most voted candidates.


2001 Portuguese presidential election, Candidates, Unsuccessful candidacies
There were also four candidates rejected by the Portuguese Constitutional Court for not complying with the legal requirement of being proposed by 7500 voters:


2001 Portuguese presidential election, Candidates, Unsuccessful candidacies
These four candidates were present in the draw of the ballot position, but did not appear in the final ballot.


2001 Portuguese presidential election, Results, Maps
Strongest candidate by electoral district. (Azores and Madeira not shown)


2001 Potton municipal election
The 2001 Potton municipal election took place on November 4, 2001, to elect a mayor and councillors in Potton, Quebec.


2001 Potton municipal election, Results
Source: "Election 2001 Sherbrooke & Townships," Sherbrooke Record, 6 November 2001, p. 5.


2001 Preakness Stakes
The 2001 Preakness Stakes was the 126th running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 19, 2001, and was televised in the United States on the NBC television network. Point Given, who was jockeyed by Gary Stevens, won the race by two and one quarter lengths over runner-up A P Valentine. Approximate post time was 6:09 p.m. Eastern Time. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:55.51. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 118,926, this is recorded as second highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 2001.


2001 Premier League Snooker
The 2001 Sportingbet.com Premier League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 6 January to 13 May 2001. The highest break of the tournament was 143 made by Marco Fu against Stephen Hendry on 25 March 2001.


2001 Premier League Snooker, League phase
Top four qualified for the play-offs. If points were level then most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If that ended 4–4 then the player who got to four first was higher.


2001 Premier League speedway season
The 2001 Premier League speedway season was the second division of speedway in the United Kingdom and governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA).


2001 Premier League speedway season, Season summary
The League consisted of 15 teams for the 2001 season with the addition of a new teams, the Trelawny Tigers.


2001 Premier League speedway season, Season summary
The League was run on a standard format with no play-offs and was won by Newcastle Diamonds.


2001 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Knockout Cup
The 2001 Premier League Knockout Cup was the 34th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Hull Vikings were the winners of the competition.


2001 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Knockout Cup, Final
Hull were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 105–75.


2001 President's Cup (tennis)
The 2001 President's Cup was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Tashkent in Uzbekistan and was part of the International Series of the 2001 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from September 10 through September 16, 2001.


2001 President's Cup (tennis), Champions, Doubles
Julien Boutter /  Dominik Hrbatý def. Marius Barnard /  Jim Thomas, 6–4, 3–6, [13–11].


2001 President's Cup – Doubles
Justin Gimelstob and Scott Humphries were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


2001 President's Cup – Doubles
Julien Boutter and Dominik Hrbatý won in the final 6–4, 3–6, [13–11] against Marius Barnard and Jim Thomas.


2001 President's Cup – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2001 President's Cup – Singles
Marat Safin was the defending champion and won in the final 6–2, 6–2 against Yevgeny Kafelnikov.


2001 President's Cup – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2001 Primera B de Chile
The 2001 Primera B de Chile was the 51st completed season of the Primera B de Chile.


2001 Primera División of Chile
The 2001 Campeonato Nacional was Chilean first tier's 70th season which Santiago Wanderers reached its third professional title after 33 years.


2001 Prince Edward Island Scott Tournament of Hearts
The 2001 Prince Edward Island Scott Tournament of Hearts was held January 19–23  at the Charlottetown Curling Club in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The winning team was Team Shelly Bradley who represented Prince Edward Island, finished with a 7-4 round-robin record, losing the tiebreaker for a place in the semi-finals at the 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts in Sudbury, Ontario.


2001 Princeton Tigers football team
The 2001 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The team was coached by Roger Hughes and played its home games at Princeton Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey. The Tigers tied for fourth in the Ivy League.


2001 Princeton Tigers football team
Like most of the Ivy League, Princeton played nine games instead of the usual 10, after the school made the decision to cancel its September 15 season opener against Lafayette, following the September 11 attacks.


2001 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
The 2001 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 7 October 2001. It was the 80th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.


2001 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
The winner was Sakhee, a four-year-old colt trained in Great Britain by Saeed bin Suroor. The winning jockey was Frankie Dettori.


2001 Pro Bowl
The 2001 Pro Bowl was the NFL's all-star game for the 2000 season. The game  was played on February 4, 2001, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The final score was AFC 38, NFC 17. Rich Gannon of the Oakland Raiders was the game's MVP.


2001 Protection One 400
The 2001 Protection One 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock car race held on September 30, 2001, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. The race was the 28th of the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. The race was the inaugural Cup race held at the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) track. Jason Leffler from Chip Ganassi Racing won his first career pole position with a qualifying speed of 176.499 miles per hour (284.048 km/h). Penske Racing's Rusty Wallace led the most laps with 117, while Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports won the race.


2001 Protection One 400
Due to the September 11 attacks happening earlier in the month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a no-fly zone, prohibiting aircraft from flying within three miles of any sporting event area, which also includes an altitude of 300 feet. To increase security, coolers and large bags were banned from the track, while other items like purses and binoculars were subject to inspection. Meanwhile, in a sense of patriotism after the attacks, Sterling Marlin ran a "God Bless America" paint scheme, which had not been prepared in time for the 2001 MBNA Cal Ripken, Jr. 400 the week before. To support victims of the attacks, Marlin's sponsor Coors Brewing Company donated $10 for every lap completed at the race by Marlin.


2001 Protection One 400, Race recap
The race was filled with caution flags; the first caution flag flew on the first lap, when John Andretti and Ricky Craven made contact in turn 2. A total of 13 caution flags were flown along with 70 laps were run under caution, both track highs, and a red flag stopped the race for eleven minutes. Meanwhile, Wallace dominated the race, leading a race-high 117 laps. However, he was eventually penalized for speeding on the pit road. Gordon then took the lead and held off Ryan Newman for his sixth win of the season, also giving him a 222-point advantage over Ricky Rudd in the championship standings. Rudd, Wallace, and Sterling Marlin closed out the top five.


2001 Pulitzer Prize
The 2001 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 16, 2001.


2001 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 2001 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season.


2001 Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs season
The 2001 Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs season was the 14th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2001 Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs season, Occurrences
Coach Eric Altamirano returns to the Purefoods bench as their head coach at the beginning of the season. Altamirano brings along Ryan Gregorio as his assistant coach. He replaces Derrick Pumaren, who decided to moved to another team and will handle the coaching chores for Tanduay Rhum Masters.


2001 QR322
2001 QR322 is a minor planet and the first Neptune trojan discovered on 21 August 2001, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey at Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile. It orbits ahead of Neptune at its L4 Lagrangian point.


2001 QR322
Other Neptune trojans have been discovered since. A study by American astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo from the Carnegie Institution suggests that Neptune could possibly have twenty times more trojans than Jupiter.


2001 QR322, Diameter
The discoverers estimate that the body has a mean-diameter of 140 kilometers based on a magnitude of 22.5. Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, it measures approximately 110 kilometers in diameter using an absolute magnitude of 7.9 and an assumed albedo of 0.10.


2001 QR322, Orbit
2001 QR322 orbits the Sun with a semi-major axis of 30.115 AU at a distance of 29.3–31.0 AU once every 165 years and 3 months (60,363 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.03 and an inclination of 1° with respect to the ecliptic.


2001 QR322, Orbit, Dynamical stability
Early studies of the dynamical stability of 2001 QR322, which used a small number of test particles spread over the uncertainties of just a few orbital parameters that were derived from a limited observation arc, suggested that 2001 QR322 is on a remarkably stable orbit, because most test particles remained on trojan orbits for 5 Gyr. Thereafter, the stability of Neptune trojans was simply assumed.


2001 QR322, Orbit, Dynamical stability
A more recent study, which used a very large number of test particles spread over the 3σ uncertainties in all six orbital parameters derived from a longer observational arc, has indicated that 2001 QR322 is far less dynamically stable than previously thought. The test particles were lost exponentially with a half life of 553 Myr. Further observations can determine whether 2001 QR322's orbit is actually within the dynamically stable or within the unstable part.


2001 QR322, Orbit, Dynamical stability
The stability is strongly dependent on semi-major axis, with a≥30.30 AU being far less stable, but only very weakly dependent on the other orbital parameters. This is because those with larger semi-major axes have larger libration amplitudes, with amplitudes ~70° and above being destabilized by secondary resonances between the trojan motion and the dynamics of at least Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Secular resonances were found not to contribute to the dynamical stability of 2001 QR322.


2001 QR322, Numbering and naming
Due to its orbital uncertainty, this minor planet has not been numbered and its official discoverers have not been determined. If named, it will follow the naming scheme already established with 385571 Otrera, which is to name these objects after figures related to the Amazons, an all-female warrior tribe that fought in the Trojan War on the side of the Trojans against the Greek.


2001 QW322
2001 QW322 is a trans-Neptunian object and binary system of the Kuiper belt, located in the outermost region of the Solar System. The cubewano was discovered at the Mauna Kea Observatories on 27 July 2001, by JJ Kavelaars, Jean-Marc Petit, Brett Gladman, and Matthew Holman. Later in 2001, Kavelaars discovered that it is a binary system. The diameter of the two components are estimated at about 128 kilometers (80 miles) and 126 kilometers (78 miles).


2001 QW322
In 2008, work was published showing that the binary has an extraordinarily long orbital period (for a binary trans-Neptunian object, asteroid or minor planet) of about 17 years. The orbital radius is also remarkably high (105,000 to 135,000 km) while the eccentricity is unusually low (< 0.4). All of these parameters are in the extremes of their normal ranges for such objects. The wide spacing and low eccentricity conspire to make the system prone to disruption, and its lifetime is estimated to be in the order of another billion years.


2001 Qatar Open
The 2001 Qatar Open, known as the 2001 Qatar ExxonMobil Open for sponsorship reasons, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha in Qatar and was part of the International Series of the 2001 ATP Tour. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from 1 January through 7 January 2001. Unseeded Marcelo Ríos won the singles title.


2001 Qatar Open, Finals, Doubles
Mark Knowles /  Daniel Nestor defeated  Juan Balcells /  Andrei Olhovskiy 6–3, 6–1


2001 Qatar Open – Doubles
Mark Knowles and Max Mirnyi were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Knowles with Daniel Nestor and Mirnyi with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.


2001 Qatar Open – Doubles
Kafelnikov and Mirnyi lost in the quarterfinals to Juan Balcells and Andrei Olhovskiy.


2001 Qatar Open – Doubles
Knowles and Nestor won in the final 6–3, 6–1 against Balcells and Olhovskiy.


2001 Qatar Open – Singles
Fabrice Santoro was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Gianluca Pozzi.


2001 Qatar Open – Singles
Marcelo Ríos won in the final 6–3, 2–6, 6–3 against Bohdan Ulihrach.


2001 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open
The 2001 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha in Qatar and was part of Tier III of the 2001 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 12 February through 18 February 2001. First-seeded Martina Hingis won the singles title.


2001 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open, Finals, Doubles
Sandrine Testud /  Roberta Vinci defeated  Kristie Boogert /  Miriam Oremans 7–5, 7–6(7–4)


2001 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open – Doubles
Sandrine Testud and Roberta Vinci won in the final 7–5, 7–6(7–4) against Kristie Boogert and Miriam Oremans.


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


2001 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open – Singles
2001 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open was a WTA tier III tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar from 12 – 18 February 2001. Martina Hingis won in the final 6–3, 6–2 against Sandrine Testud.


2001 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top two seeds received a bye to the second round.


2001 Quebec municipal elections
Several municipalities in the Canadian province of Quebec held elections on November 4, 2001, to elect mayors, reeves, and city councillors. The most closely watched contest was in the newly amalgamated city of Montreal, where Gérald Tremblay defeated incumbent Pierre Bourque.


2001 Quebec municipal elections, Results, Mont-Saint-Michel
Source: , Affaires municipales, Régions et Occupation du territoire Québec.


2001 Quebec municipal elections, Results, Potton
Source: "Election 2001 Sherbrooke & Townships," Sherbrooke Record, 6 November 2001, p. 5.


2001 Quebec uprising
The 2001 Quebec uprising was a mass uprising, marked by riots and popular civil protests, against the 3rd Summit of the Americas from 21 to 22 April in Quebec City. Mass protests was met with tear gas and grenades was thrown by police, who claimed demonstrators were storming buildings. Protests ceased on 22 April.


2001 Quebec uprising, Background
Quebec has been a centrepiece for the summit, and has seen harsh police repression and police brutality during previous movements, and is known for its national independence movement and nationalist movement for deep independence. In 1968, 1974, 1986 and 1996, movements occurred throughout the state. Protesters marched for their rights and an end of the 3rd Summit of the Americas.


2001 Quebec uprising, Protests
Police claimed that their actions were justified in protecting delegates from "red-zone" attempts to break through the fence, as well as to violent protesters destroying property and attacking the police, the media, and other protesters.


2001 Quebec uprising, Protests
Many protesters accuse the police of excessive force, claiming that the police's abundant use of tear gas and rubber bullets was both completely disproportionate to the scale of violence, and primarily directed at unarmed, peaceful demonstrators with dispersal of violent protesters an afterthought. A number of protesters were severely injured by rubber bullets; also, tear gas canisters were fired directly at protesters on numerous occasions, in violation of the protocols governing their use. They also criticize the actions of prison authorities. Altogether, the anti-globalization movement describes the actions of the police in Quebec City as an attempt to suppress dissent.


2001 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on Monday 11 June 2001 by the office of the Governor-General.


2001 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June.


2001 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia), Order of Australia, Member (AM), Military Division
For exceptional service to the Royal Australian Navy in the fields of project management and capability management. || rowspan=14 |


2001 Queensland Cup
The 2001 Queensland Cup season was the 6th season of Queensland's top-level statewide rugby league competition run by the Queensland Rugby League. The competition, known as the Bundy Gold Cup due to sponsorship from Bundaberg Rum, featured 11 teams playing a 26-week long season (including finals) from March to September.


2001 Queensland Cup
The Toowoomba Clydesdales defeated the Redcliffe Dolphins 28–26 in the Grand Final at Dolphin Oval to claim their second premiership. Redcliffe fullback Adam Mogg was named the competition's Player of the Year.


2001 Queensland Cup, Teams
The number of teams in the Queensland Cup was reduced from 12 to 11 in 2001 with the withdrawal of inaugural club, the Cairns Cyclones. The Easts Tigers re-branded as the East Coast Tigers.


2001 Queensland Cup, Teams
For the 2001 season, the Brisbane Broncos and Melbourne Storm were again affiliated with the Toowoomba Clydesdales and Norths Devils, respectively. After partnering for the 2000 season, the Auckland Warriors ended their affiliation with the Souths Magpies.


2001 Queensland Cup, Grand Final
Toowoomba dominated the regular season, finishing first (winning their second minor premiership) and only losing one game. After earning a bye in the first week of the finals, they lost their second game of the season to Redcliffe in the major semi final. This forced them into the preliminary final, where they defeated Burleigh to set up a Grand Final rematch with the Dolphins, their third meeting in a Grand Final. Redcliffe finished the regular season in third and qualified for their third straight Grand Final after defeating the Clydesdales in Week 2.


2001 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, First half
Redcliffe got off to the best start possible when centre Jason Webber scored inside the first minute after a Toowoomba error. Seven minutes later, Craig O'Dwyer latched onto an Adam Mogg grubber to give the Dolphins their second try. Toowoomba hit back not long after when hooker Michael Ryan scored from dummy half. The scores were then levelled when Tony Duggan dived on a loose ball in the in-goal and Damien Quinn converted from the sideline. The Clydesdales took their first lead of the match in the 35th minute when prop Kirk Reynoldson scored. The lead was short lived, as Redcliffe tied the game two minutes before the break when winger George Wilson crossed out wide.


2001 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half
The Dolphins came out firing after half time, scoring inside three minutes when bench forward Andrew Wynyard broke through for a try. The scoreline remained unchanged for the next 20 minutes until a Ken McGuinness cutout pass saw Quinn score in the corner. Quinn then converted his own try from the sideline to lock the score at 22-all. Redcliffe clawed ahead once again when Luke Scott scored inside the final 10 minutes, setting up a tense finish.


2001 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half
With 30 seconds left on the clock and Toowoomba pressuring Redcliffe's try line, halfback Casey McGuire scored next to the posts to level the scores at 26-all. Quinn then stepped up to kick the simple conversion and give Toowoomba their second premiership victory. Clydesdales' fullback Ken McGuinness was named man of the match.


2001 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half
Five years later, Toowoomba pair Brent Tate and Casey McGuire won an NRL premiership with the Brisbane Broncos, when they defeated the Melbourne Storm in the 2006 Grand Final. Their Clydesdales teammate Nathan Friend was on the losing Storm side.


2001 Queensland state election
An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 17 February 2001 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The result of the election was the return of the Labor Party (ALP) government of Premier Peter Beattie, with an increased majority. Labor won 66 seats, easily the most it has ever won in Queensland and one of Labor's best-ever results nationwide. There was a 10.07% swing towards Labor, while One Nation suffered a 13.98% swing against it, losing eight seats (five of which were held by the newly formed City Country Alliance after an internal split in December 1999).


2001 Queensland state election
The longstanding coalition between the Nationals and Liberals, led by Nationals leader (and former premier) Rob Borbidge recorded only a 2.39% swing against it. However, its support in Brisbane all but vanished; it was reduced to only one seat in the capital. Largely due to losses in Brisbane, the Coalition suffered an overall 17-seat loss. This included only three seats for the Liberals, easily the worst showing for the urban non-Labor party in Queensland since it adopted the Liberal banner in 1948. The 'Just Vote 1' strategy adopted by the Labor campaign (capitalising on Queensland's optional preferential voting system) was also considered to be effective in reducing preference flows between the Coalition parties, thereby dampening the combined strength of the conservative parties.


2001 Queensland state election, Results
Queensland state election, 17 February 2001Legislative Assembly << 1998–2004 >>


2001 Queensland state election, Seats changing hands
Candidates in italics did not contest their seat at this election.


2001 Queensland state election, Seats changing hands
1Candidates Black, Dalgleish, Feldman, Paff and Prenzler were all elected as One Nation Party MLAs, but abandoned that party to form the City Country Alliance in December 1999.


2001 Queensland state election, Seats changing hands
2 Shaun Nelson was elected as a One Nation Party MLA in 1998, but left that party in February 1999 to sit as an independent.


2001 Queensland state election, Seats changing hands
3 Ken Turner was elected as a One Nation Party MLA in 1998, but left that party in 1999 to sit as an independent.


2001 R League
The 2001 edition of R League was held from April 19 to September 27, 2001. From this year, Police FC.


2001 R League
Anyang LG Cheetahs won the competition for the first time by defeating Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma in final on 27 September 2001.


2001 RCA Championships
The 2001 RCA Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2001 ATP Tour. It was the 14th edition of the tournament and ran from August 13 through August 19, 2001.


2001 RCA Championships, Finals, Doubles
Mark Knowles /  Brian MacPhie defeated  Mahesh Bhupathi /  Sébastien Lareau 7–6(7–5), 5–7, 6–4


2001 RCA Championships – Doubles
Lleyton Hewitt and Sandon Stolle were the defending champions but only Stolle competed that year with Max Mirnyi.


2001 RCA Championships – Doubles
Mirnyi and Stolle lost in the quarterfinals to Mark Knowles and Brian MacPhie.


2001 RCA Championships – Doubles
Knowles and MacPhie won in the final 7–6(7–5), 5–7, 6–4 against Mahesh Bhupathi and Sébastien Lareau.


2001 RCA Championships – Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


2001 RCA Championships – Singles
Gustavo Kuerten was the defending champion but was forced to retire in the final losing 4–2 against Patrick Rafter.


2001 RCA Championships – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


2001 RCSL season
The 2001 Rugby Canada Super League season was the fourth season for the RCSL.


2001 RCSL season, Standings
Note: A bonus point was awarded for a loss of 7 points or less


2001 RCSL season, Championship Final
The Fraser Valley Venom (Western Division champions) defeated the Toronto Renegades (Eastern Division Champions) 20-14 in the Championship Final, played in Surrey, British Columbia on 28 July 2001.


2001 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards
The 2001 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards (Chinese: 2001年度十大中文金曲得獎) was held in 2001 for the 2000 music season.


2001 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, Top 10 song awards
The top 10 songs (十大中文金曲) of 2001 are as follows.


2001 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, Other awards
The top 10 outstanding artist was also extended to 15 artists.


2001 Race of Champions
The 2001 Race of Champions took place on December 7 to 9 at Gran Canaria. It was the 14th running of the event, and the 10th running at Gran Canaria. There was a slight format change for this year - The International Masters event was replaced by the Junior Masters event, open to rally drivers under the age of 30. Seeding for the main Race of Champions event was no longer awarded on the basis of having won a WRC title, but places were awarded for having posted the fastest times in the Nations Cup.


2001 Race of Champions
The vehicles used were the Peugeot 206 WRC, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI WRC, the SEAT Córdoba WRC, the Saab 93 Rallycross car and the ROC Buggy.


2001 Race of Champions
The individual competition was won by Harri Rovanpera, whilst the Nations Cup was won by Spain with Fernando Alonso, Jesús Puras and Rubén Xaus.


2001 Radio Disney Music Awards
The 2001 Radio Disney Music Awards were held on December 23, 2001, at the Radio Disney, studios. It was the first edition of the award.


2001 Radio Disney Music Awards, Production
At that time the Radio Disney Music Awards was not an official ceremony but just a special edition on the Radio Disney broadcast. It was held on December 23, 2001. The Radio Disney Music Awards contained 9 categories, with 3 nominees for votes in 4 weeks.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz
The raid on the "Armando Diaz" School took place during the 27th G8 meeting in Genoa in 2001 in the district of Albaro, Genoa. The school building was the temporary headquarters of the Genoa Social Forum, led by Vittorio Agnoletto. A nearby building, housing the anti-globalization organization Indymedia and lawyers affiliated with the Genoa Social Forum, was also raided. On July 21, 2001, shortly before midnight, mobile divisions of the Polizia di Stato of Genoa, Rome and Milan attacked the buildings, with the operational support of some battalions of the Carabinieri.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz
The police indiscriminately attacked the building's occupants, resulting in the arrest of 93 protesters; 61 were seriously injured and were taken to hospital, three of them were in a critical condition and one in a coma. Prisoners taken to a temporary detention facility in Bolzaneto were tortured and humiliated before being released. The raid resulted in the trial of 125 policemen, including managers and supervisors, for what was termed a beating from "Mexican butchery" by the assistant chief Michelangelo Fournier. However, none of the accused police officers was punished, due to delays in the investigation and incompleteness of Italian laws under which torture was not recognised as a crime in 2001.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz
Prior to the raid, there had been several clashes between demonstrators and security forces. Several protesters were sleeping in the school. The numbers and designation of the security forces involved in the raid are still unknown, as they wore ski masks to hide their identities. The Court of Appeal of Genoa stated that  "346 policemen, in addition to 149 Carabinieri officers were involved in the raid of the school buildings."


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz
The raid is the subject of the 2012 film Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood where the attack and subsequent torture of detainees is recreated. On April 7, 2015, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy had violated the European Convention on Human Rights at the 2001 G8 and ordered compensation for a protester beaten by the police. Earlier, the Italian government compensated a British journalist who had been beaten by the police. Amnesty International defined the raid as "the most serious human rights suspension in Europe, after World War II.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid
The police raid on the school, which housed protesters linked to the Genoa Social Forum, took place a few minutes before midnight when most guests were already asleep. The raid was initiated by mobile police units from Rome, followed by more units from Genoa and Milan. Battalions of the Carabinieri did not actively participate in the raid, but limited themselves to surround the perimeter and areas adjacent to the school. Mark Covell, a British journalist, was the first person who met the police outside the building and was assaulted, leaving him in a coma.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid
During the raid the police violently attacked those who were in the school, injuring 82 people out of a total of 93 arrested. Among the arrested, 63 were taken to hospital and 19 were taken to the police station of Bolzaneto. According to the reconstruction of events given in subsequent investigations, evidence was planted after the raid to justify the brutality of the raid. Senior police officers planted two Molotov cocktails recovered elsewhere in the school, delivered to them by General Valerio Donnini that afternoon.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid
Police also planted construction tools, hammers and knives from a nearby construction site and claimed they belonged to anarchist groups housed in the building. A police officer, Massimo Nucera, showed a slash in his bulletproof vest, claiming he was knifed by a violent demonstrator. However, the knife was never identified. He was later convicted of forgery and defamation, and it was later revealed that he cut his own vest to claim resistors were violent, and thus justify the brutality of the raid.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Beginning of the raid
The raid started a few minutes before midnight, when policemen massed outside the school. A police officer attacked British journalist Mark Covell, who tried to tell them he was a journalist. Within seconds, more policemen joined in the attack, beating him with nightsticks to the ground. According to Covell, one policeman kicked him in the chest, breaking half-a-dozen ribs whose splintered ends then shredded the membrane of his left lung, and laughed. Other policemen kicked him around, breaking his hand and damaging his spine. The police then used an armoured police van to break through the school gates and 150 policemen, wearing crash helmets and carrying truncheons and shields, entered the school compound.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Nature of police action during the raid
For the raid, police wore masks to hinder identification. Most occupants of the building were in their sleeping bags, and many raised their arms in surrender when they realised the police were breaking into the building. However, police attacked the crowds with truncheons, beating everyone indiscriminately. A 65-year-old woman's arm was broken. Melanie Jonasch, a 28-year-old archaeology student from Berlin, was attacked by officers set upon her, beating her head so hard that she rapidly lost consciousness. When she fell to the ground, officers circled her, beating and kicking her limp body, banging her head against a nearby cupboard, leaving her in a pool of blood.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Nature of police action during the raid
All occupants of the ground floor were seriously injured. In the first-floor corridor, some occupants decided to lie down on the ground to show that they offered no resistance. Nonetheless, police beat them and kicked them when they arrived. Soon, there were police officers on all four floors of the building, kicking and battering prone occupants. In one corridor, police ordered a group of young men and women to kneel, so that they could batter them around the head and shoulders more easily.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Nature of police action during the raid
Here, Daniel Albrecht, a 21-year-old cello student from Berlin, had his head beaten so badly that he needed surgery to stop bleeding in his brain. The police also used humiliation to cow the occupants of the school. An officer who stood spread-legged in front of a kneeling and injured woman, grabbed his groin and thrust it into her face. Another who paused amid the beatings and took a knife to cut off hair from his victims, including Nicola Doherty; the constant shouting of insults; the officer who asked a group if they were OK and who reacted to the one who said "No" by handing out an extra beating.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Nature of police action during the raid
A few escaped, at least for a while. Karl Boro made it up on to the roof but then made the mistake of coming back into the building, where he was treated to heavy bruising to his arms and legs, a fractured skull, and bleeding in his chest cavity. Jaroslaw Engel, from Poland, managed to use builders' scaffolding to get out of the school, but he was caught in the street by some police drivers who smashed him over the head, laid him on the ground and stood over him smoking while his blood ran out across the tarmac.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Nature of police action during the raid
Police officers found a fire extinguisher and squirted its foam into the wounds of an injured occupant. Other occupants were thrown down the stairs head-first. Eventually, they dragged all occupants into the ground-floor hall, where they had gathered dozens of prisoners from all over the building in a mess of blood and excrement. They threw her on top of two other people. They were not moving, and Lena Zuhlke drowsily asked them if they were alive.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Nature of police action during the raid
They did not reply, and she lay there on her back, unable to move her right arm, unable to stop her left arm and her legs twitching, blood seeping out of her head wounds. A group of police officers walked by, and each one lifted the bandana which concealed his identity, leaned down and spat on her face.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Nature of police action during the raid
Many victims of the raid were taken to the San Martino hospital, where police officers walked up and down the corridors, slapping their clubs into the palms of their hands, ordering the injured not to move around or look out of the window, keeping handcuffs on many of them and then, often with injuries still untended, shipping them across the city to join scores of others, from the Diaz school and from the street demonstrations, detained at the detention centre in the city's Bolzaneto district.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Treatment of prisoners at Bolzaneto
Prisoners at the temporary detention facility in Bolzaneto were forced to say "Viva il duce." and sing fascist songs: "Un, due, tre. Viva Pinochet!" The 222 people who were held at Bolzaneto were treated to a regime later described by public prosecutors as torture. On arrival, they were marked with felt-tip crosses on each cheek, and many were forced to walk between two parallel lines of officers who kicked and beat them. Most were herded into large cells, holding up to 30 people.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Treatment of prisoners at Bolzaneto
Here, they were forced to stand for long periods, facing the wall with their hands up high and their legs spread. Those who failed to hold the position were shouted at, slapped and beaten. A prisoner with an artificial leg and, unable to hold the stress position, collapsed and was rewarded with two bursts of pepper spray in his face and, later, a particularly savage beating.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Treatment of prisoners at Bolzaneto
Prisoners who answered back were met with violence. One of them, Stefan Bauer, answered a question from a German-speaking guard and said he was from the European Union and he had the right to go where he wanted. He was hauled out, beaten, sprayed with pepper spray, stripped naked and put under a cold shower. His clothes were taken away and he was returned to the freezing cell wearing only a flimsy hospital gown.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Treatment of prisoners at Bolzaneto
The detainees were given few or no blankets, kept awake by guards, given little or no food and denied their statutory right to make phone calls and see a lawyer. They could hear crying and screaming from other cells. Police doctors at the facility also participated in the torture, using ritual humiliation, threats of rape and deprivation of water, food, sleep and medical care. A prisoner named Richard Moth was given stitches in his head and legs without anaesthetics, which made the procedure painful.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Treatment of prisoners at Bolzaneto
Men and women with dreadlocks had their hair roughly cut off to the scalp. One detainee, Marco Bistacchia was taken to an office, stripped naked, made to get down on all fours and told to bark like a dog and to shout "Viva la polizia Italiana!" He was sobbing too much to obey. An unnamed officer told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he had seen police officers urinating on prisoners and beating them for refusing to sing Faccetta Nera, a Mussolini-era fascist song.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, The raid, Treatment of prisoners at Bolzaneto
Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse! Would you like a truncheon up it?" Several women reported threats of rape. Finally, the police forced their captives to sign statements, waiving all their legal rights. One man, David Larroquelle, testified that he refused to sign the statements. Police broke three of his ribs for his disobedience.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Media and government reactions
The British journalist Covell was photographed with his wounds immediately after the raid by Daily Mail journalist Lucie Morris, who bribed Italian police to approach him. Soon afterward, the Daily Mail wrote a story accusing Covell of helping mastermind the riots. Covell contended the story was false, but was in no financial position to sue for libel. However, he was able to get legal aid to sue for invasion of privacy.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Media and government reactions
Covell argued that under the Convention on Human Rights and the Italian constitution, he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his hospital room, and Morris breached it by entering his room under false pretense. The Mail initially stood by its reporting. However, when it became apparent that the paper stood no chance in court, it agreed to pay damages to Covell and reimburse him for his legal expenses. Managing editor Charles Garside also wrote a private letter of apology to Covell.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Media and government reactions
While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do. The prime minister believes that they did that job." Blair's refusal to criticise police violence was condemned by British protesters on their expulsion from Italy.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Media and government reactions
While the bloody bodies were being carried out of the Diaz Pertini building on stretchers, police told reporters that the ambulances lined up in the street were nothing to do with the raid. They also claimed that the school building was being used as a makeshift hospital by anarchists who had attacked policemen, and many of the injured in the building had pre-existing injuries.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Media and government reactions
The next day, senior officers held a press conference at which they announced that everybody in the building would be charged with aggressive resistance to arrest and conspiracy to cause destruction. Later, Italian courts dismissed all charges against everyone.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Media and government reactions
At the same press conference, police displayed an array of what they described as weaponry. This included crowbars, hammers and nails which they themselves had taken from a builder's store next to the school; aluminium rucksack frames, which they presented as offensive weapons; 17 cameras; 13 pairs of swimming goggles; 10 pen-knives; and a bottle of sun-tan lotion. They also displayed two Molotov cocktails which had been found by police earlier in the day in another part of the city and planted in the Diaz Pertini building as the raid ended.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Media and government reactions
At the Edinburgh International Television Festival 2001, alternative news journalist Paul O'Connor from Undercurrents news called the mainstream reporting of Genoa "lazy journalism". CNN president Chris Cramer replied that the independent journalism coming out of the protests was


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Attack on the Indymedia building
On the night of the raid, a force of 59 police entered the building opposite the Diaz Pertini, where Covell and others had been running their Indymedia centre and where, crucially, a group of lawyers had been based, gathering evidence about police attacks on the earlier demonstrations. Officers went into the lawyers' room, threatened the occupants, smashed their computers and seized hard drives. They also removed anything containing photographs or video tape.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Investigations and judicial action
Fifteen Italian police officers and doctors were sentenced to jail for brutally mistreating detainees at the Bolzaneto holding camp. However, none of them actually served prison terms because the convictions and sentences were wiped out by a statute of limitations. Those found guilty, including the camp commander, Biagio Gugliotta, were given jail sentences ranging from five months to five years. However, none served any portion of their sentence. While the verdict did not lead to the punishment of the offenders, it did help victims claim compensation. Since torture is not present in Italy’s code, officers alleged to have tortured demonstrators have never been charged with torture.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Investigations and judicial action
On September 21, 2012, the Italian interior ministry awarded Mark Cowell €350,000 (£280,000 or US$454,265) in an out-of-court settlement. Cowell had suffered broken ribs, smashed teeth and a shredded lung in the attack, and had spent the better part of a decade traveling between the UK and Italy to pursue his case. In return, he dropped his Court of Human Rights case against the Italian government.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Investigations and judicial action
On April 7, 2015, the European Court of Human Rights condemned Italy for the violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Cestaro v. Italy trial and found the Italian legislation against torture to be inadequate.


2001 Raid on Armando Diaz, Investigations and judicial action
The European Court of Human Rights on 22 June 2017 ruled that the italian police involved in the raid and subsequent detention were guilty of torture, denouncing what it called a "particularly serious and cruel" police raid. The state of Italy was ordered to pay damages to the victims in the order of 45 000 - 55 000 EUR each. .


2001 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
The 2001 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the 74th series of the inter-provincial hurling Railway Cup. Three matches were played between 10 November 2001 and 11 November 2001 to decide the title. It was contested by Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.


2001 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
On 11 November 2001, Munster won the Railway Cup after a 1-21 to 1-15 defeat of Connacht in the final at MacDonagh Park, Nenagh. It was their 43rd Railway Cup title overall and their second title in succession.


2001 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
Munster's Alan Browne was the Railway Cup top scorer with 2-13.


2001 Raleigh mayoral election
The Raleigh mayoral election of 2001 was held on November 6, 2001, to elect a Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. The election was non-partisan. It was won by Charles Meeker, who defeated incumbent Paul Coble in the run-off. A third candidate was eliminated in the first round on October 9.


2001 Ramna Batamul bombings
Ramna Batamul bombing was a series of bomb attacks on 14 April 2001 at a cultural programme of the Pahela Baishakh celebrations arranged by Chaayanot, the leading cultural organization of Bangladesh.


2001 Ramna Batamul bombings
Ten people, including Shujan, a Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami militant, died and many more people were wounded. The Islamic fundamentalist group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami later confessed their involvement in the attack.


2001 Ramna Batamul bombings, Attacks
Pohela Boishakh or Bengali New Year is the first day of the Bengali calendar. It is celebrated on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April in the Indian states of West Bengal as well as Tripura by the Bengali people and by minor Bengali communities in other Indian states, including Assam, Jharkhand and Odisha. On April 14 around 8:00am at Ramna Batamul, the first bomb exploded. Shortly after, there was a second blast when police were conducting evacuations and rescue operations. One policeman was injured in the second bomb explosion. Ten people lost their lives and about 50 were injured. Police also recovered another inactive bomb later. The state-owned television station BTV was broadcasting the programme live from Ramna Batamul. Because of this, people throughout the country saw the bombing attack on television. Following the incident, all cultural functions organised for New Year celebrations were postponed.


2001 Ramna Batamul bombings, Trial
Two charges were filed by the police with the capital's Ramna police station: one for murder and one for illegal possession of explosives. Eight years after the bomb attack, a court in Dhaka brought charges against Mufti Hannan, chief of banned fundamentalist group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami and 13 others of this group. In 2014, eight of the accused were sentenced to death. Those sentenced included Mufti Hannan, Maulana Akbar Hossain, Arif Hasan Sumon, Maulana Tajuddin, Hafiz Jahangir Alam Badr, Maulana Abu Bakr alias Hafiz Selim Hawladar, Maulana Abdul Hai and Maulana Shafiqur Rahman. The other six, Shahadatullah Jewel, Maulana Sabbir, Shaokat Hossain alias Sheikh Farid, Maulana Abdur Rauf, Maulana Abu Taher and Maulana Yahia, were sentenced to life in prison.


2001 Rhein Fire season
The 2001 Rhein Fire season was the seventh season for the franchise in the NFL Europe League (NFLEL). The team was led by head coach Pete Kuharchek in his first year, and played its home games at Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf, Germany. They finished the regular season in third place with a record of five wins and five losses.


2001 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
The 2001 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 25 March 2001 to elect the members of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Kurt Beck retained its majority and continued in office.


2001 Rhineland-Palatinate state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.


2001 Rhineland-Palatinate state election, Sources
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2001 Rhode Island Rams football team
The 2001 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 Conference during the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their second season under head coach Tim Stowers, the Rams compiled an 8–3 record (6–3 against conference opponents) and finished fifth out of eleven teams in the conference.


2001 Rice Owls football team
The 2001 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A college football season. The Owls, led by head coach Ken Hatfield, played their home games at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.


2001 Richmond Spiders football team
The 2001 Richmond Spiders football team represented the University of Richmond during the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Richmond competed as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10), and played their home games at the University of Richmond Stadium.


2001 Richmond Spiders football team
The Spiders were led by seventh-year head coach Jim Reid and finished the regular season with a 3–8 overall record and 3–6 record in conference play. The Spiders rush offense ranked eighth nationally, while its rush defense ranked seventh. Richmond's scoring defense finished 13th in the nation, while its total defense was ranked 11th.


2001 Rink Hockey World Championship
The 2001 Rink Hockey World Championship was the 35th edition of the Rink Hockey World Championship, held between 29 September and 7 October 2001, in San Juan, Argentina. It was disputed by 15 countries. The final watched Spain beating hosts Argentina to claim their 11th title.


2001 Rink Hockey World Championship, Format
The competition was disputed by 15 countries, divided in four groups of 3 or 4 teams each one.


2001 Rink Hockey World Championship, Format
Every game lasted 40 minutes, divided in 2 parts of 20 minutes.


2001 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2001 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth and latest round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 November 2001 at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet. It was also the final 500cc race in Grand Prix motorcycle racing history. This also marked the final Grand Prix win in the career of Daijiro Kato before his death caused by a crash in the 2003 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix race.


2001 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc classification
The race was held in two parts as rain caused its interruption; aggregate times from the two heats determined the final result.


2001 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.


2001 Robert Morris Colonials football team
The 2001 Robert Morris Colonials football team represented Robert Morris College, now Robert Morris University, as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC) during the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Colonials were led by 8th-year head coach Joe Walton and played their home games at Moon Stadium on the campus of Moon Area High School.


2001 Rochester mayoral election
The 2001 Rochester mayoral election took place on November 6, 2001 in the city of Rochester, New York, United States. Incumbent William A. Johnson Jr. was elected to a third term as mayor of Rochester.


2001 Rockingham 500
The 2001 Rockingham 500 was a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) motor race held on 22 September 2001 at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, Northamptonshire, England before 38,000 people. It was the 17th race of the 2001 CART season, the second (and final) event of the year to be held in Europe, and the series' first visit to the United Kingdom. Team Penske driver Gil de Ferran won the 140-lap race starting from second position. Kenny Bräck finished second for Team Rahal, and Newman/Haas Racing driver Cristiano da Matta was third.


2001 Rockingham 500
Drainage problems with the circuit caused the first two days of the event to be cancelled. Bräck — the season points leader heading into the race — was awarded the pole position. Due to a compacted schedule. the original distance of the race was reduced from 210 laps to 168 . Bräck lost the lead on the first lap to de Ferran, who held the first position for the next 44 laps. Bräck passed de Ferran to reclaim the lead on the 45th lap and remained the leader until the second round of pit stops.


2001 Rockingham 500
The race distance was further reduced by series race director Chris Kneifel from 168 to 140 laps because of fading daylight. De Ferran held the first position until a slower car delayed him and allowed Bräck to retake the lead on the race's penultimate lap. He held it until de Ferran made a race-winning overtake on the final lap. It was de Ferran's first victory of the season, his second on an oval track, and the sixth of his career. There were three cautions and five lead changes during the race.


2001 Rockingham 500
The result lowered Bräck's advantage over de Ferran in the Drivers' Championship to six points. Michael Andretti remained in third position though the revised gap to Hélio Castroneves in the battle for the position was two points. Da Matta's third-placed finish moved him from eighth to fifth. Honda's increased its lead over Ford Cosworth in the Manufacturers' Championship, while Toyota maintained third place, with four races left in the season.


2001 Rockingham 500, Background
The Rockingham 500 was confirmed as part of CART's 2001 series' schedule in July 2000. It was the conclusion of a two-week European stretch for the series; the American Memorial was held at EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Klettwitz, Germany one week earlier. The Rockingham 500 was the 17th of 21 scheduled races for 2001 by CART, and was held on 22 September at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, Northamptonshire, England. It was the first time that CART had visited the United Kingdom. CART hoped for a crowd of 40,000 at the track, which had a capacity of 52,000.


2001 Rockingham 500, Background
The track is a four-turn 1.479-mile (2.380 km) oval that has banking of up to 7.9 degrees. Prior to the race, Team Rahal driver Kenny Bräck led the Drivers' Championship on 131 points, ahead of Gil de Ferran in second and Michael Andretti third. Hélio Castroneves was a close fourth with 111 points, ahead of fifth-placed Scott Dixon with 86 points. Honda led the Constructors' Championship with 257 points; Ford Cosworth were in second on 224 points, two ahead of Toyota in a close third place.


2001 Rockingham 500, Background
Bräck said his car's engine and chassis had been fast on oval tracks and felt that he and his team would compete for the victory at Rockingham. Da Matta stated that he had good results in the lower category formulas at tracks across England, and he had good memories about competing in the country, and hoped the race at Rockingham would be "interesting" having heard of a smooth track surface. Following a major accident involving Alex Zanardi at the season's previous race, his team Mo Nunn Racing announced they would participate at Rockingham but entered only one car.


2001 Rockingham 500, Background
All crew members who worked on Zanardi's car were sent to the United States to recover from the incident, although his wife protested the decision. Mo Nunn Racing announced that the car would return for the next race of the year (at the Grand Prix of Houston), and revealed the week after Rockingham that Indy Lights Series driver Casey Mears would participate in the season's four remaining races.


2001 Rockingham 500, Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions were scheduled to be held before the Sunday race: two on Thursday and one on Friday. The first session was due to last 105 minutes, and the second and third sessions 90 minutes. Heavy rain three days beforehand caused the local clay to absorb a large amount of water. Only a small amount of evaporation had occurred due to low ambient temperatures. Race officials examined water that emerged through the track's surface in several areas on Thursday. The track surface had been drilled through overnight in an effort to drain collected water and prevent further seepage.


2001 Rockingham 500, Practice and qualifying
Later, CART's jet dryer was used on the track. Although a dry surface was created, water continued to appear through it. CART chief steward Chris Kneifel drove the pace car onto the track at 3:00 p.m. British Summer Time (UTC+1) along with 26 cars and 23 secondary vehicles under caution for five installation laps in separate groups. No improvement was reported, and CART cancelled remainder of the day's activities an hour later.


2001 Rockingham 500, Practice and qualifying
Course officials resumed work by drilling shafts into the surface to form a well in an attempt to reduce the drainage problem before the start of Friday's scheduled sessions. It was mooted by some British press publications that the race would be moved to the track's infield road course. This was unfeasible since the circuit did not hold a licence from motorsport's world governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, to race on it, and the teams had not brought a suitable aerodynamic package. Drainage problems continued to affect the track and the qualifying session was cancelled.


2001 Rockingham 500, Practice and qualifying
The starting order was determined by the drivers order in the points' standings. The pole position was awarded to Bräck, his sixth of the season. He was joined on the grid's front row by de Ferran. Andretti, Castroneves, Dixon, Dario Franchitti, Patrick Carpentier, Cristiano da Matta, Roberto Moreno and Tony Kanaan rounded out the top ten. Drying efforts continued overnight with additional equipment and extra workers from across England brought in to improve the track's drainage. Five jet dryers were taken onto the circuit with additional fuel transported from Sywell Aerodrome to help them carry out their operation. Additionally, thousands of small holes were created in the track's surface to release moisture.


2001 Rockingham 500, Practice and qualifying
Rockingham Motor Speedway's chief executive David Grace apologised for the delays and denied the anticipation of a drainage problem. He added that the operators were advised by experts. CART's chairman and CEO Joseph Heitzler rejected suggestions that it was the incorrect decision to stage the race in September as he had been informed that the month was one of the driest of the year. Carpentier argued that circuit personnel should have been prepared a month beforehand, while Kanaan voiced his concerns about the situation for everybody. The 15,000 spectators who were in attendance on Thursday were issued cash refunds.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
Problems on the back straight had been mostly rectified although a damp track surface in the first and fourth turns was created by water coming from under the grandstands. Race officials deliberated on the morning of the race and declared the track safe after repairs were completed. The drivers took to the track at 11:15 a.m local time for a ten-minute practice session. Carpentier set the fastest time of 27.075 seconds; Franchitti and Jimmy Vasser rounded out the top three. A second 90-minute session began at 12:20 p.m. local time.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
Kanaan recorded the session's quickest lap at 24.719 seconds, ahead of Bräck and Tracy in second and third. Three yellow caution flags were shown: the first was for Max Papis who cut his right-rear tyre, the second was for Maurício Gugelmin who slid out of the groove and hit the turn one outside barrier. His car slid across the wall and stopped at the corner's exit. The final stoppage was for a track inspection after Castroneves' pit crew reported a cut right rear tyre.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
All drivers participated in an eight-minute installation session which saw Kanaan continue his good form by setting the fastest lap. Tracy and Dixon rounded out the top three. Weather conditions at the race's start were partly cloudy and mild with an air temperature ranging from 11 to 19 °C (52 to 66 °F), and a track temperature between 16 to 20 °C (61 to 68 °F). The race was due to be held over 210 laps originally but the compacted schedule reduced it to 168. Approximately 38,000 people attended the race.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
Oriol Servià's car failed to start and his pit crew worked quickly to allow him to take the start. Michel Jourdain Jr. had problems starting his engine but was able to join the field. The race started at 4:45 p.m. local time. Bräck maintained his pole position advantage heading into the first turn with de Ferran driving to his right. De Ferran passed Bräck on the back straight to take over first place and held it to lead the first lap.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
The race's first caution was necessitated on the same lap when Papis spun on the frontstretch, and slid backwards towards the first corner before getting his car facing in the racing direction. Vasser made contact with Tora Takagi who was sent into the frontstretch barrier. Bruno Junqueira and Memo Gidley spun in avoidance; the latter regained control of his car while Junqueira struck the outside wall, causing him to become the race's first retirement. Max Wilson spun while gaining optimum tyre temperature and fell to the rear of the field.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
The race restarted on the ninth lap with de Ferran leading Bräck and Andretti. Wilson delayed Bräck on the 23rd lap allowing de Ferran to establish a two-second lead over him. Wilson received a warning from the series' race control. Franchitti passed Castroneves for the fourth position seven laps later. Christian Fittipaldi attempted to lap Gidley on lap 37, but the latter drove defensively, causing Fittipaldi to slow, and Vasser, Adrián Fernández, and Carpentier overtook him.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
Bräck closed the gap with de Ferran over the next fifteen laps as they moved towards slower cars. Bräck got a run on de Ferran and overtook him at the bottom of the first turn to take over the lead on lap 46, while Andretti lost fourth place to Franchitti on the same lap. Jourdain's car generated oversteer and he spun leaving turn four, and slid down the frontstretch triggering the second caution on the 50th lap. Franchitti drove right in avoidance.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
Castroneves avoided hitting Jourdain's car, which remained at the bottom of the first turn and, though his vehicle lost one of its shock covers, he regained control of his car and continued. Fittipaldi reported to his team that he had a problem with either his gearbox or drivetrain and drove slowly into the pit lane on lap 53 becoming the race's second retirement. The leaders elected to make pit stops on the same lap under caution. Da Matta gained the most positions, moving from sixth to third, and Bräck remained the leader at the lap-57 restart. Bräck pulled away from the rest of the field, until de Ferran drew closer to him by the start of the 80th lap.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
Da Matta, Andretti, and Franchitti contended for third position until the field closed up because of the presence of slower cars. The third caution was shown fourteen laps later when Adrián Fernández lost engine power driving into the second turn; he steered to the bottom of the track on the backstretch to retire. Oil was laid on the track heading into turn two, and marshals were required to dry it. Kniefel announced on lap 90 that he had reduced the number of laps to be run from 168 to 140 because of fading sunlight.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
All of the leaders (including Bräck) chose to make pit stops for fuel and tyres under caution on lap 100. Castroneves passed da Matta and Andretti around the inside in the pit lane and Newman/Haas Racing believed he had committed an infraction. The team informed CART of Castroneves' passing, which was observed by their co-owner Paul Newman.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
De Ferran gained the lead and maintained it at the lap-104 restart. Bräck attempted to pass de Ferran around the outside of the first turn for first place but was unable to get ahead. De Ferran pulled away from the rest of the field. Dixon drove into the pit lane and became the race's fifth (and final) retirement on the 106th lap. His pit crew claimed his car was damaged following contact with Servià during the caution period. Kanaan was closely following Andretti but was held up by the driver, which allowed Paul Tracy to pass him.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
The move caused Kannan's car to develop understeer and Vasser overtook him. Carpentier set the race's fastest lap during the 134th lap, completing a circuit in 25.521 seconds. On lap 138, Bräck drafted slower cars while Papis slowed de Ferran in turn four. Bräck passed de Ferran around the outside driving into the first turn to take the lead on the same lap. On the final lap, Bräck led de Ferran by two-tenths of a second.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
As the two drivers entered the back straight, De Ferran drafted up to the outside of Bräck and closed up to him in the second and third corners. De Ferran steered right and overtook Bräck for the lead in the fourth turn's entrance. Both drivers avoided making contact at the corner's edge; de Ferran defended and Bräck slowed to avoid a collision with him.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race
De Ferran remained the leader for the rest of the final lap to win his first victory of the season, his second on an oval track, and the sixth of his career. He became the eleventh driver to win a race in 2001, tying a record established in the 2000 season. Bräck finished second, ahead of Castroneves in third, and Da Matta fourth. Andretti, Tracy, Vasser, Kanaan, Franchitti, and Servià rounded out the top ten finishers. Papis, Townsend Bell, Moreno, Alex Tagliani, Bryan Herta, Carpentier, Shinji Nakano, Gidley, Jourdain, Gugelmin and Wilson were the last of the classified finishers. There were five lead changes in the race; two drivers reached the front of the field. De Ferran's led three times for a total of 84 laps, which was the highest of any competitor. The attrition rate was low, with 21 of the 26 starters finishing the race.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
The top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and in a later press conference. De Ferran stated that: "I think first of all, I'd like to say that we're still running under a little bit of a cloud with all of the things that happened in the U.S. last week and what happened to (Alex) Zanardi is still in all of our minds." He said that he was "glad" to have taken part in the race and that the victory was special for him because his wife is from England.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
De Ferran earned US$100,000 (£68,600) for the victory. Bräck said that he had no complaint over the last-lap loss and that it was a "tough" and "exciting" race. He said the remaining four races of the season were "crucial" and that the "very close" battle for the championship was not over. He stated that he was looking forward to those events and hoped they would play into his favour. Castroneves congratulated de Ferran on securing the victory, saying that it was "a quick and busy day" for the people who were involved in the event. He was glad that the race was able to be held, and hoped to achieve a good result at the next race of the season.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
The circuit received a mixed response from the drivers. De Ferran described it as "very, very fast" and felt the first and second turns was similar to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The fourth corner reminded him of Homestead-Miami Speedway and what the former Club corner at the Silverstone Circuit used to be like. Da Matta said the circuit was faster than the drivers anticipated though he felt the speeds of the cars drove at exceeded those normally considered safe and that overtaking was difficult.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Tracy stated the Rockingham Motor Speedway was a good track to drive on, and felt it would be "a great facility" to show CART in the United Kingdom. Drivers did not criticise the problems that affected the event. De Ferran stated that similar problems had occurred at several race tracks across the United States. He said that the advice he would give to CART was to avoid holding the race in September. Bräck stated he did not know of a similar event where it had taken longer than expected to dry the track. Heitzler said the series would return to Rockingham Motor Speedway in 2002, and pledged that any problems with circuit drainage would not reoccur.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Two hours after the race, Castroneves was deemed to have overtaken under caution and was demoted from third to fourth. Castroneves stated that he did not understand why the non-appealable penalty was issued after the race and that it appeared "very unfair". Da Matta stated he believed Castroneves had not abided by the series' regulations and forgot a change in the pit lane speed limit. Nevertheless, he was happy that he was able to finish third, and revealed that his team held their own celebration after hearing about the penalty.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Although Servià finished tenth, race officials had recorded his result as 15th. His team manager Phil Howard met with CART officials to discuss the issue and Servià's final finishing position was corrected to tenth. Ninth-place finisher Franchitti said his car was good in the event's first half, although as the temperature dropped it became "nervous" entering and exiting the track's turns in the race's second stint, and stated he could have dealt with his result had he gained his desired finishing position.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Media reactions to the race were positive. Kevin Eason of The Times said, "What the inaugural Rockingham 500 CART FedEx race in Britain lacked in quantity, it made up for with driving of the highest quality." He reserved praise for de Ferran's last lap overtake on Bräck, calling it "astonishing". Writing for The Sunday Telegraph, Brough Scott stated, "Births have always come with their share of noise, difficulty, danger and the odd touch of absurdity.


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
But never can all the elements have been mixed as heavily as in yesterday's much-delayed launch of the Rockingham 500, which opened and closed with overtaking manoeuvres dramatic enough to take your breath away."


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Richard Williams of The Guardian wrote, "the 38,000 people who had battled against uncertainty and Silverstone-style traffic jams to see US single-seater cars racing on a banked oval track for the first time in Britain were rewarded with a race that fully reflected the present strengths of a branch of motor sport that can trace its roots back to the first running of the Indianapolis 500 race in 1911." The Associated Press stated that despite the race almost being cancelled it became "one of CART's most dramatic of the season."


2001 Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
The result meant de Ferran reduced Bräck's Drivers' Championship lead to six points. Andretti remained in third, but his advantage over Castroneves was reduced to two points. Da Matta's third-place finish advanced him from eighth to fifth. Honda increased their advantage over Ford Cosworth in the Manufacturers' Championship to be 38 points ahead, while Toyota remained in third with four races left in the season. Highlights of the race were broadcast the day after on the BBC Two sports programme Sunday Grandstand with commentary from Leigh Diffey and former racing driver Mark Blundell. It was due to be broadcast live in the United States on ESPN but was moved to ESPN2 and aired via tape delay at 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time.


2001 Rogers AT&T Cup – Doubles
Martina Hingis and Nathalie Tauziat were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.


2001 Rogers AT&T Cup – Doubles
Kimberly Po-Messerli and Nicole Pratt won in the final 6–3, 6–1, against Tina Križan and Katarina Srebotnik.


2001 Rogers AT&T Cup – Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2001 Rogers AT&T Cup – Singles
Martina Hingis was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.


2001 Rogers AT&T Cup – Singles
Serena Williams won in the final 6–1, 6–7(7–9), 6–3, against Jennifer Capriati.


2001 Rogers AT&T Cup – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2001 Romanian Figure Skating Championships
The 2001 Romanian Figure Skating Championships were the national championships of the 2000–01 figure skating season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles. The results were used to choose the Romanian teams to the 2001 World Championships and the 2001 European Championships.


2001 Rome municipal election
Municipal elections were held in Rome on 13 May 2001, the same day of Italian general elections.


2001 Rome municipal election
The outgoing Mayor Francesco Rutelli, prevented to run for a third consecutive term by the Italian law on local government, had resigned from his position on 8 January that year to run as the main candidate of the centre-left coalition in the national general election.


2001 Rome municipal election
The two main candidates were the former Minister of Cultural Heritage, former Deputy Prime Minister and current secretary of the Democrats of the Left (DS) party Walter Veltroni and the liberal-conservative MEP Antonio Tajani, a prominent member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) party.


2001 Rome municipal election
Since none of the candidates obtained the majority of votes on the first round, a second round vote was held on 27 May 2001.


2001 Rome municipal election, Background
Following the end of the Legislature XIII of Italy, Rutelli was chosen to lead the centre-left coalition during the 2001 general election and resigned as Mayor of Rome on 8 January 2001, just two days after the end of the Great Jubilee on which he had spent all his second term.


2001 Rome municipal election, Background, Mayoral election
The centre-right coalition, led by Antonio Tajani, had been heavily defeated by Rutelli in the 1997 election. Tajani rejected a formal alliance with the far-right parties and preferred a liberal-conservative coalition, like the one which supported Silvio Berlusconi in the general election.


2001 Rome municipal election, Background, Mayoral election
Thanks to the overlap with the general election, which saw a huge victor of the House of Freedoms alliance, the centre-right coalition unexpectedly succeeded to win the majority of votes across the city. Although a strong performance of his coalition, Tajani wasn't able to win the race and on the second round he had to concede to Veltroni, who showed to have a strong support in the city. Despite the lower number of votes, the centre-left coalition obtained the majority of seats in the City Council thanks to the electoral system's mechanisms.


2001 Rome municipal election, Voting System
The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.


2001 Rome municipal election, Voting System
The election of the city council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.


2001 Rome municipal election, Municipi election
Table below shows the results for each municipio with the percentage for each coalition on the first round:


2001 Rome municipal election, Municipi election
Table below shows the results for each municipio with the percentage for each coalition on the second round:


2001 Ronde van Nederland
These are the results for the 41st edition of the Ronde van Nederland cycling race, which was held from August 28 to September 1, 2001. The race started in Rotterdam and finished in Landgraaf.


2001 Rose Bowl
The 2001 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2001. It was the 87th Rose Bowl Game, and matched the champions of the Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences.


2001 Rose Bowl
The University of Washington Huskies defeated the Purdue University Boilermakers 34–24. Washington senior quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo was named the Player Of The Game.


2001 Rose Bowl, Teams, Washington Huskies
In the 2000 season, the Huskies shared the Pacific-10 Conference title with Oregon and Oregon State. Washington had given Oregon State their only defeat of the year 33-30. Oregon gave Washington their only defeat of the year 23-16. Oregon State beat Oregon in the 2000 Civil War game 23-13. Ultimately, it was a 23-37 loss at Wisconsin by Oregon earlier in the season that decided the Rose Bowl representative. With two losses, by the multiple team tie rules Oregon was out of the running. This left Oregon State and Washington, and the Huskies won the head to head matchup with the Beavers. Washington, Oregon State, and Oregon were ranked fourth, fifth, and ninth, respectively, in the final regular season AP football poll.


2001 Rose Bowl, Teams, Washington Huskies
It was the fourteenth Rose Bowl appearance for Washington, but their first since going to three straight in the early 1990s under head coach Don James. Despite their record and ranking, the Huskies were a slight underdog to Purdue.


2001 Rose Bowl, Teams, Purdue Boilermakers
The Big Ten champion Purdue Boilermakers were led by quarterback Drew Brees. They did not have a particularly auspicious start, winning against Central Michigan and Kent State before losing at Notre Dame. They defeated Minnesota, but then lost at struggling Penn State. The Boilermakers made surprising wins in October starting with Michigan, at Northwestern, at Wisconsin, and finishing with Ohio State. A 30-10 drubbing at the hands of Michigan State set them back, but a win over Indiana and losses by Michigan and Ohio State left them in a three-way tie with Northwestern and Michigan. Purdue got the Rose Bowl invitation by virtue of the head-to-head victories over both teams.


2001 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
Washington, led by senior quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo, the Rose Bowl MVP, finished the season at 11–1 and was ranked third in the final polls. Rick Neuheisel became the only former Rose Bowl MVP to win a Rose Bowl as head coach.


2001 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
Oregon State and Oregon both won their bowl games, and the final rankings were Washington 3rd, Oregon State 4th, and Oregon 7th in the final AP poll. Oklahoma, who was undefeated and beat Florida State in the Orange Bowl, was named the national champion. Washington's victory broke a four-game win streak by the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl.


2001 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
This was Purdue's second Rose Bowl appearance, both of Purdue's starting Rose Bowl quarterbacks (Bob Griese and Brees) started and won the Super Bowl.


2001 Royal Bank Cup
The 2001 Royal Bank Cup is the 31st Junior "A" 2001 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.


2001 Royal Bank Cup
The Royal Bank Cup was competed for by the winners of the Doyle Cup, Anavet Cup, Dudley Hewitt Cup, the Fred Page Cup and a host city.


2001 Royal Bank Cup
The tournament was hosted by the Flin Flon Bombers and Flin Flon, Manitoba.


2001 Royal Bank Cup, The Playoffs, Round Robin
Note: x- denotes teams who have advanced to the semi-final.


2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens
The 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the third edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens and was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina. New Zealand defeated Australia to win the tournament for the first time. This was the first major rugby event ever held in South America.


2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying
The qualification process of men's teams for the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Automatic qualification was extended to the host and the eight quarterfinalists of the previous World Cup. The remaining spots were contested in each of the five regions' respective tournaments.


2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying, Africa
Africa had two tournaments as a qualifier. First on 29 April was a preliminary round-robin tournament in Abidjan where Ivory Coast and Tunisia finished the highest. They then joined ten other teams in Nairobi for a 23–24 June tournament. Kenya and Zimbabwe both advance as finalists of the tournament.


2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying, Americas
The Americas had two tournaments to serve as a qualifier. First was a 22–23 January tournament in Port of Spain for the Caribbean zone, from which Trinidad and Tobago emerged victorious. It then joins another nine teams in a deciding inter-Americas tournament in Santiago for three spots on 6-7 May.


2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying, Asia
A two-day tournament was held in Kuala Lumpur to determine the three teams to join South Korea at the World Cup Sevens.


2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying, Europe
There were two separate tournaments in Europe, both qualifying three nations among sixteen. The first took place in Heidelberg on 10–11 June. The second in Madrid took place between 30 June and 1 July.


2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying, Oceania
The Oceania qualifying tournament took place in Rarotonga. After a six-team round robin, the two leading teams faced off for the championship, from which the host won and qualified for the World Cup.


2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens squads
Here is an overview of the teams which took part at the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens.


2001 Russian Figure Skating Championships
The 2001 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по фигурному катанию на коньках 2001) took place in Moscow from December 26 through 29th, 2000. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The results were one of the criteria used to pick the Russian teams to the 2001 World Championships and the 2001 European Championships.


2001 Russian Figure Skating Championships
This was also the 1st Russian Figure Skating Championships that National Anthem of Russia that was heard.


2001 Russian First Division
The 2001 Russian First Division was the 10th edition of Russian First Division. There were 18 teams.


2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по лёгкой атлетике в помещении 2001) was the 10th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Russia. It was held on 16–18 February at the Alexander Gomelsky Universal Sports Hall CSKA in Moscow. A total of 28 events (14 for men and 14 for women) were contested over the three-day competition. It was used for selection of the Russian team for the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships.


2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships
Three individual championship records were set at the competition: Lyudmila Galkina won the women's long jump in 7.00 m (22 ft 11+1⁄2 in), Tatyana Lebedeva won the women's triple jump in 15.00 m (49 ft 2+1⁄2 in), and Olga Kotlyarova set a time of 50.72 seconds to win the women's 400 metres.


2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships
The Russian Combined Events Indoor Championships was held separately on 16–18 February in Chelyabinsk at the Ural State University of Physical Culture arena. In the decathlon, fourth placer Nikolai Averyanov set a Russian under-23 record of 5571 points.


2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships, International team selection
Following the results of the championships, taking into account the qualifying standards, the Russian team for the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships included:


2001 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships, International team selection, Women
† Had exemption for selection and allowed not to compete at the national championships ‡ Later withdrew from the international competition


2001 Russian Top Division
Spartak Moscow won their sixth consecutive Russian title, and ninth overall.