# Fencing at the 2002 Asian Games

Fencing at the 2002 Asian Games was held in Gangseo Gymnasium, Busan, South Korea from September 29 to October 4, 2002.

## Schedule

| P | Pools | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 29th Sun | 29th Sun | 30th Mon | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri |
| Men's individual épée | P | F | | | | | | | |
| Men's team épée | | | | | | | F | | |
| Men's individual foil | P | F | | | | | | | |
| Men's team foil | | | | | | | F | | |
| Men's individual sabre | | | | | P | F | | | |
| Men's team sabre | | | | | | | | | F |
| Women's individual épée | | | | | P | F | | | |
| Women's team épée | | | | | | | | | F |
| Women's individual foil | | | P | F | | | | | |
| Women's team foil | | | | | | | | F | |
| Women's individual sabre | | | P | F | | | | | |
| Women's team sabre | | | | | | | | F | |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Zhao Gang China | Wang Lei China | Sergey Shabalin Kazakhstan |
| Team épée details | Kazakhstan Alexandr Axenov Dmitriy Dimov Sergey Shabalin Alexey Shipilov | China Wang Lei Xie Yongjun Zhao Chunsheng Zhao Gang | South Korea Kim Jeong-gwan Ku Kyo-dong Lee Sang-yup Yang Roy-sung |
| Individual foil details | Wang Haibin China | Kim Sang-hun South Korea | Wu Hanxiong China |
| Team foil details | China Wang Haibin Wu Hanxiong Zhang Jie Zhou Rui | South Korea Choi Byung-chul Kim Sang-hun Kim Young-ho Lee Kwan-haeng | Japan Yusuke Fukuda Takashi Okano Naoto Okazaki Hayato Shibuki |
| Individual sabre details | Lee Seung-won South Korea | Wang Jingzhi China | Kim Doo-hong South Korea |
| Team sabre details | South Korea Kim Doo-hong Lee Hyuk Lee Seung-won Seo Seong-jun | China Chen Feng Wang Jingzhi Zhao Chunsheng Zhou Hanming | Kazakhstan Yevgeniy Frolov Sergey Sleptsov Sergey Smirnov Igor Tsel |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Kim Hee-jeong South Korea | Hyun Hee South Korea | Shen Weiwei China |
| Team épée details | South Korea Hyun Hee Kim Hee-jeong Kim Mi-jung Lee Keum-nam | China Li Na Shen Weiwei Zhang Li Zhong Weiping | Hong Kong Bjork Cheng Cheung Yi Nei Ho Ka Lai Yeung Chui Ling |
| Individual foil details | Zhang Lei China | Lim Mi-kyung South Korea | Seo Mi-jung South Korea |
| Team foil details | South Korea Lim Mi-kyung Nam Hyun-hee Oh Tae-young Seo Mi-jung | China Liu Yuan Ma Na Meng Jie Zhang Lei | Japan Yuko Arai Madoka Hisagae Chieko Sugawara Mika Uchiyama |
| Individual sabre details | Lee Shin-mi South Korea | Lee Gyu-young South Korea | Tan Xue China |
| Team sabre details | China Bao Yingying Huang Haiyang Tan Xue Zhang Ying | South Korea Cho Kyung-mi Kim Hee-yeon Lee Gyu-young Lee Shin-mi | Japan Madoka Hisagae Miyuki Kano Chiyo Ogawa Chieko Sugawara |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 |

## Participating nations

A total of 154 athletes from 17 nations competed in fencing at the 2002 Asian Games:
* China (23)
* Hong Kong (13)
* Japan (15)
* Jordan (3)
* Kazakhstan (12)
* Kuwait (10)
* Kyrgyzstan (8)
* Lebanon (3)
* Macau (4)
* Palestine (3)
* Philippines (12)
* Qatar (5)
* Saudi Arabia (8)
* South Korea (24)
* Thailand (5)
* Turkmenistan (3)
* Uzbekistan (3)