Water polo at the 2002 Asian Games

Water Polo was contested by men's teams at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea from September 30 to October 6, 2002. Six teams competed in two round robin groups. All games were staged at the Changwon Swimming Pool.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
2	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
3	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
Total		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Drozdov Alexandr Gaidukov Sergey Gorovoy Askar Orazalinov Ivan Zaitsev Alexandr Shidlovskiy Alexandr Kuzov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Artemiy Sevostyanov Yuriy Smolovy Damir Temyrkhanov Alexandr Polukhin	Japan (JPN) Fumikazu Kubota Daisuke Nakagawa Satoshi Nagata Takuya Endo Koji Tanaka Masakazu Yamamoto Hiroyuki Matsubara Atsushi Naganuma Hiroshi Hoshiai Taichi Sato Yoshinori Shiota Kan Aoyagi Kenichi Sato	China (CHN) Ge Weiqing Zhang Weiteng Bai Jun Yu Lijun Xu Guanghao Li Jun Li Wenhua Wang Yong Zhu Junyi Han Zhidong Gui Jiye Zhao Jinwen Liao Qiuliang

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	2	2	0	0	17	14	+3	4
China	2	1	0	1	16	13	+3	2
South Korea	2	0	0	2	12	18	−6	0

September 30 17:30	South Korea	7 – 9	Japan	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–3, 2–2, 0–2

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October 1 16:00	China	7 – 8	Japan	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–2, 3–1, 2–2

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October 2 17:30	South Korea	5 – 9	China	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–4, 0–0, 2–3

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kazakhstan	2	2	0	0	29	10	+19	4
Iran	2	1	0	1	17	15	+2	2
Singapore	2	0	0	2	9	30	−21	0

September 30 16:00	Kazakhstan	17 – 6	Singapore	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 6–2, 3–1, 3–2, 5–1

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October 1 17:30	Iran	13 – 3	Singapore	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 4–0, 3–1, 1–2, 5–0

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October 2 16:00	Kazakhstan	12 – 4	Iran	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–1, 4–0, 2–2

5th place match

October 4 14:30	South Korea	11 – 4	Singapore	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 3–0, 3–3, 2–0, 3–1

Final round

	Semi-final				Gold medal match
	October 4
	Japan	12
	Iran	9
					October 6
					Japan	10 (4)
					Kazakhstan (pen.)	10 (5)
					Bronze medal match
	October 4			October 6
	China	2		Iran	6
	Kazakhstan	9			China	10

Semi-finals

October 4 16:00	Japan	12 – 9	Iran	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–3, 4–3, 4–2

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October 4 17:30	China	2 – 9	Kazakhstan	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–2, 0–2, 0–2

Bronze medal match

October 6 16:00	Iran	6 – 10	China	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–4, 0–1, 3–3, 2–2

Gold medal match

October 6 17:30	Japan	14 – 15	Kazakhstan	Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–1, 3–3, 1–2, 3–2  OT: 2–2  PSO: 4–5

Final standing

Rank	Team
1 !	Kazakhstan
2 !	Japan
3 !	China
4	Iran
5	South Korea
6	Singapore

References

• busanasiangames.org
• All Asian Games Results