Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games

Athletics was contested from October 7 to October 14 at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan Asiad Main Stadium, Busan, South Korea. A total of 460 athletes (comprising 281 men and 179 women) from 39 nations took part in the competition. Afghanistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Laos and Maldives were the only nations without a representative in the events.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Jamal Al-Saffar  Saudi Arabia	10.24	Nobuharu Asahara  Japan	10.29	Chen Haijian  China	10.34
200 m	Shingo Suetsugu  Japan	20.38	Gennadiy Chernovol  Kazakhstan	20.57	Yang Yaozu  China	20.58
400 m	Fawzi Al-Shammari  Kuwait	44.93 =GR	Hamdan Al-Bishi  Saudi Arabia	44.95	Rohan Pradeep Kumara  Sri Lanka	45.67
800 m	Rashid Mohamed  Bahrain	1:47.12	K. M. Binu  India	1:47.57	Li Huiquan  China	1:47.77
1500 m	Rashid Ramzi  Bahrain	3:47.33	Dou Zhaobo  China	3:48.51	Li Huiquan  China	3:48.55
5000 m	Mukhlid Al-Otaibi  Saudi Arabia	13:41.48	Abdelhak Zakaria  Bahrain	13:43.82	Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin  Qatar	13:44.42
10000 m	Mukhlid Al-Otaibi  Saudi Arabia	28:41.89	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	28:43.53	Abdelhak Zakaria  Bahrain	28:46.11
110 m hurdles	Liu Xiang  China	13.27 GR	Satoru Tanigawa  Japan	13.83	Park Tae-kyong  South Korea	13.89
400 m hurdles	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily  Saudi Arabia	48.42 GR	Mubarak Al-Nubi  Qatar	48.98	Dai Tamesue  Japan	49.29
3000 m steeplechase	Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin  Qatar	8:30.52 GR	Yoshitaka Iwamizu  Japan	8:31.75	Shared silver
			Abubaker Ali Kamal  Qatar
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand Reanchai Seeharwong Vissanu Sophanich Ekkachai Janthana Sittichai Suwonprateep	38.82 GR	Japan Hisashi Miyazaki Shingo Suetsugu Hiroyasu Tsuchie Nobuharu Asahara	38.90	China Shen Yunbao Chen Haijian Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming	39.09
4 × 400 m relay	Saudi Arabia Hamed Al-Bishi Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily Mohammed Al-Salhi Hamdan Al-Bishi	3:02.47	India Purakkotte Ramachandran Manoj Lal Satvir Singh Bhupinder Singh	3:04.22	Sri Lanka Rohan Pradeep Kumara Ranga Wimalawansa Prasanna Amarasekara Sugath Thilakaratne	3:04.37
Marathon	Lee Bong-ju  South Korea	2:14:04	Koji Shimizu  Japan	2:17:47	Ryuji Takei  Japan	2:18:38
20 km walk	Valeriy Borisov  Kazakhstan	1:24:20	Yu Chaohong  China	1:24:23	Satoshi Yanagisawa  Japan	1:25:33
High jump	Lee Jin-taek  South Korea	2.23	Wang Zhouzhou  China	2.19	Shared silver
			Cui Kai  China
			Kim Tae-hoi  South Korea
Pole vault	Grigoriy Yegorov  Kazakhstan	5.40	Satoru Yasuda  Japan	5.40	Fumiaki Kobayashi  Japan	5.20
Long jump	Hussein Al-Sabee  Saudi Arabia	8.14 GR	Li Dalong  China	7.99	Al-Waleed Abdulla  Qatar	7.80
Triple jump	Salem Al-Ahmedi  Saudi Arabia	16.60	Lao Jianfeng  China	16.57	Takashi Komatsu  Japan	16.34
Shot put	Bahadur Singh Sagoo  India	19.03	Bilal Saad Mubarak  Qatar	18.98	Shakti Singh  India	18.27
Discus throw	Wu Tao  China	60.76	Abbas Samimi  Iran	60.44	Anil Kumar  India	59.81
Hammer throw	Koji Murofushi  Japan	78.72 GR	Hiroaki Doi  Japan	69.57	Ye Kuigang  China	68.18
Javelin throw	Li Rongxiang  China	82.21	Yukifumi Murakami  Japan	78.77	Sergey Voynov  Uzbekistan	78.74
Decathlon	Qi Haifeng  China	8041	Dmitriy Karpov  Kazakhstan	7995	Ahmad Hassan Moussa  Qatar	7683

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Susanthika Jayasinghe  Sri Lanka	11.15 GR	Lyubov Perepelova  Uzbekistan	11.38	Qin Wangping  China	11.51
200 m	Saraswati Saha  India	23.28	Ni Xiaoli  China	23.34	Viktoriya Kovyreva  Kazakhstan	23.48
400 m	Damayanthi Dharsha  Sri Lanka	51.13 GR	K. M. Beenamol  India	52.04	Svetlana Bodritskaya  Kazakhstan	52.10
800 m	K. M. Beenamol  India	2:04.17	Madhuri Singh  India	2:04.94	Zamira Amirova  Uzbekistan	2:05.05
1500 m	Sunita Rani  India	4:06.03 GR	Tatyana Borisova  Kyrgyzstan	4:12.53	Yoshiko Ichikawa  Japan	4:13.42
5000 m	Sun Yingjie  China	14:40.41 GR	Kayoko Fukushi  Japan	14:55.19	Sunita Rani  India	15:18.77
10000 m	Sun Yingjie  China	30:28.26 GR	Kayoko Fukushi  Japan	30:51.81	Xing Huina  China	31:42.58
100 m hurdles	Feng Yun  China	12.96	Su Yiping  China	13.01	Trecia Roberts  Thailand	13.07
400 m hurdles	Natalya Torshina  Kazakhstan	56.13	Song Yinglan  China	56.43	Yao Yuehua  China	56.56
4 × 100 m relay	China Zeng Xiujun Yan Jiankui Huang Mei Qin Wangping	43.84	Thailand Jutamass Tawoncharoen Supavadee Khawpeag Orranut Klomdee Trecia Roberts	44.25	Uzbekistan Anna Kazakova Guzel Khubbieva Lyudmila Dmitriadi Lyubov Perepelova	44.32
4 × 400 m relay	India Jincy Philip Manjeet Kaur Soma Biswas K. M. Beenamol	3:30.84	Kazakhstan Tatyana Roslanova Natalya Torshina Olga Tereshkova Svetlana Bodritskaya	3:31.72	China Qin Wangping Bo Fanfang Hou Xiufen Chen Yuxiang	3:32.43
Marathon	Ham Bong-sil  North Korea	2:33:35	Harumi Hiroyama  Japan	2:34:44	Hiromi Ominami  Japan	2:37:48
20 km walk	Wang Qingqing  China	1:33:40 GR	Gao Kelian  China	1:33:59	Svetlana Tolstaya  Kazakhstan	1:35:03
High jump	Tatyana Efimenko  Kyrgyzstan	1.90	Bobby Aloysius  India	1.88	Shared silver
			Marina Korzhova  Kazakhstan
Pole vault	Gao Shuying  China	4.35 GR	Masumi Ono  Japan	4.10	Qin Xia  China	4.00
Long jump	Anju Bobby George  India	6.53	Maho Hanaoka  Japan	6.47	Yelena Koshcheyeva  Kazakhstan	6.30
Triple jump	Huang Qiuyan  China	14.28 GR	Zhang Hao  China	13.89	Tatyana Bocharova  Kazakhstan	13.26
Shot put	Li Meiju  China	18.62	Lee Myung-sun  South Korea	18.50	Juttaporn Krasaeyan  Thailand	17.53
Discus throw	Neelam Jaswant Singh  India	64.55 GR	Song Aimin  China	61.80	Ma Shuli  China	59.89
Hammer throw	Gu Yuan  China	70.49 GR	Liu Yinghui  China	66.73	Masumi Aya  Japan	62.18
Javelin throw	Lee Young-sun  South Korea	58.87 GR	Liang Lili  China	58.77	Ha Xiaoyan  China	58.29
Heptathlon	Shen Shengfei  China	5911	Soma Biswas  India	5899	J. J. Shobha  India	5870

Medal table

1	China	14	14	13	41
2	India	7	6	4	17
3	Saudi Arabia	7	1	0	8
4	Kazakhstan	3	4	5	12
5	South Korea	3	2	1	6
6	Japan	2	13	8	23
7	Bahrain	2	1	1	4
8	Sri Lanka	2	0	2	4
9	Qatar	1	4	3	8
10	Thailand	1	1	2	4
11	Kyrgyzstan	1	1	0	2
12	Kuwait	1	0	0	1
	North Korea	1	0	0	1
14	Uzbekistan	0	1	3	4
15	Iran	0	1	0	1
Total		45	49	42	136

Participating nations

A total of 459 athletes from 39 nations competed in athletics at the 2002 Asian Games:

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References

• 2002 Asian Games Official Report, Pages 112–172

External links

• Results - GBR Athletics