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

Women

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

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  China (CHN) 14 14 13 41
2  India (IND) 7 6 4 17
3  Saudi Arabia (KSA) 7 1 0 8
4  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 3 4 5 12
5  South Korea (KOR) 3 2 1 6
6  Japan (JPN) 2 13 8 23
7  Bahrain (BRN) 2 1 1 4
8  Sri Lanka (SRI) 2 0 2 4
9  Qatar (QAT) 1 4 3 8
10  Thailand (THA) 1 1 2 4
11  Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) 1 1 0 2
12  Kuwait (KUW) 1 0 0 1
 North Korea (PRK) 1 0 0 1
14  Uzbekistan (UZB) 0 1 3 4
15  Iran (IRI) 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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