At the 2001 Mediterranean Games, the athletics events were held in Tunis and Radès in Tunisia from 11 to 14 September 2001.^[1] Italy topped the medal table with 9 gold medals and 30 medals in total, shortly followed by France which also had 9 golds but 23 medals overall. Greece had the next greatest medal haul and the hosts Tunisia won 9 medals, two of which were gold. A total of 10 new Games records were set during the competition.

A total of 46 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 23 by female athletes. This was the first time that the male and female event programmes had reached parity as a number of new events were introduced for women, including: 3000 metres steeplechase, pole vault and hammer throw. Two women's events were modified: the javelin model was changed and the 10 km racewalk was extended to a 20 kilometres racewalk. This was also the final time that marathon races were held at the Mediterranean Games as they were replaced by the half marathon from 2005 onwards.

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Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Men's events
Manuel Martínez	Shot put	Spain	21.03 m	GR
Diego Fortuna	Discus throw	Italy	64.40 m	GR
Nicola Vizzoni	Hammer throw	Italy	78.49 m	GR
Women's events
Asmae Leghzaoui	10,000 metres	Morocco	31:16.94	GR
Élodie Olivarès	3000 metres steeplechase†	France	9:44.68	GR
Patricia Girard	100 metres hurdles	France	12.82	GR
Dana Cervantes	Pole vault†	Spain	4.10	GR
Florence Ezeh	Hammer throw†	France	64.59	GR
Claudia Coslovich	Javelin throw†	Italy	62.02	GR
Erica Alfridi	20 kilometres race walk†	Italy	1:36:47	GR
Key:0000 WR — World record  • AR — Area record  • GR — Games record  • NR — National record

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• † = New event or model

  *   Host nation (Tunisia)

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	9	14	7	30
2	France	9	6	8	23
3	Greece	5	6	6	17
4	Algeria	5	3	1	9
5	Turkey	5	2	2	9
6	Morocco	4	5	1	10
7	Spain	4	3	8	15
8	Tunisia*	2	2	5	9
9	Croatia	2	2	1	5
10	Cyprus	1	0	1	2
11	Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia)	0	2	2	4
12	Slovenia	0	1	1	2
13	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Libya	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		46	46	46	138

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