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.
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Men |
 Kazakhstan (KAZ)Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Drozdov Alexandr Gaidukov Sergey Gorovoy Askar Orazalinov Ivan Zaitsev Alexandr Shidlovskiy Alexandr Kuzov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Artemiy Sevostyanov Yuriy Smoloviy 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 |
Draw
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1998 Asian Games.
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* Withdrew.
Squads
| China |
 Iran |
Japan |
Kazakhstan |
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 Singapore |
 South Korea |
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Results
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
Preliminary round
Group A
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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 |
| 30 September 17:30 |
South Korea |
7–9 | Japan |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–3, 2–2, 0–2 | ||||
| 1 October 16:00 |
China |
7–8 | Japan |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–2, 3–1, 2–2 | ||||
| 2 October 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 |
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| 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 |
| 30 September 16:00 |
Kazakhstan |
17–6 | Singapore |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 6–2, 3–1, 3–2, 5–1 | ||||
| 1 October 17:30 |
Iran |
13–3 | Singapore |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 4–0, 3–1, 1–2, 5–0 | ||||
| 2 October 16:00 |
Kazakhstan |
12–4 | Iran |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–1, 4–0, 2–2 | ||||
5th place match
| 4 October 14:30 |
South Korea |
11–4 | Singapore |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 3–0, 3–3, 2–0, 3–1 | ||||
Final round
| Semifinals | Gold medal match | ||||||
| 4 October | |||||||
| Japan |
12 | ||||||
| Iran |
9 | ||||||
| 6 October | |||||||
| Japan |
10 (4) | ||||||
| Kazakhstan (p) |
10 (5) | ||||||
| Bronze medal match | |||||||
| 4 October | 6 October | ||||||
| China |
2 | Iran |
6 | ||||
| Kazakhstan |
9 | China |
10 | ||||
Semifinals
| 4 October 16:00 |
Japan |
12–9 | Iran |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–3, 4–3, 4–2 | ||||
| 4 October 17:30 |
China |
2–9 | Kazakhstan |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–2, 0–2, 0–2 | ||||
Bronze medal match
| 6 October 16:00 |
Iran |
6–10 | China |
Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Score by quarters: 1–4, 0–1, 3–3, 2–2 | ||||
Gold medal match
| 6 October 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 | Pld | W | D | L |
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Kazakhstan | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
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Japan | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
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China | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Iran | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | South Korea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Singapore | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
References
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