Lifesaving at the 2001 World Games – Men's beach flags

Lifesaving – men's beach flags
at the 2001 World Games
Lifesaving – men's beach flags ; at the 2001 World Games
Venue	Iwaki Island Park, Iwaki, Japan
Date	26 August 2001
Competitors	25 from 9 nations
Medalists
	Sergio González
	Waleed Damon
	Hidenobu Tadano

The men's beach flags in lifesaving at the 2001 World Games took place on 26 August 2001 at the Iwaki Island Park in Iwaki, Japan.^[1]

Competition format

A total of 25 athletes entered the competition. The best five athletes from each heat advances to the final.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Note
1	Jason O'Pray	Australia	Q
2	Waleed Damon	South Africa	Q
3	Renaat Dreesen	Belgium	Q
4	Maik Hofmann	Germany	Q
5	Sergio González	Spain	Q
	Ryan Cox	Great Britain
	Alessandro Giraldo	Italy
	Takuya Iritani	Japan
	Hugo Byman	Netherlands
	Federico De Marco	Italy
	Futoshi Kikuchi	Japan
	Ryan Brown	Great Britain
	Jonathan del Amo	Spain

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Note
1	Danilo Mollari	Italy	Q
2	Lutz Heimann	Germany	Q
3	Hidenobu Tadano	Japan	Q
4	Luke Turner	Australia	Q
5	Stephen Short	Australia	Q
	Freek Lemmens	Belgium
	Daan Pelders	Netherlands
	Bart Geerts	Belgium
	Bart Laumen	Netherlands
	Nick Polkinghorne	Great Britain
	Graeme Willcox	South Africa
	Matthias Löwenberg	Germany