Tbh, I don’t know for sure.
In 2015 the German winner mentioned the following information:
So we assumed his information is accurate, and there was no Italian deck for the 2001 tournament. We do however know there are Italian Pokémon VS cards:
So that only left the 2002 World Championship as option, for which we unfortunately have barely information as you already mentioned.
Here the three threads where most of this information is coming from:
- Tropical mega battle 1999-2001 (February 2015 - March 2016): this is the thread the quote above comes from
- TMB 2000/2001 vs-sets in other languages (May 2020 - June 2020): this is the thread the bottom picture above comes from; and we now also know the Swedish; Danish; and Dutch decks that were given out were all in English
- VS English card list (July 2020): just an overview of the known pictures/scans of the VS cards that I’m aware of
Greetz,
Quuador