# Wrestling at the 2002 Asian Games

Wrestling was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea between 2 and 8 October 2002. The competition took place at Yangsan Gymnasium.

## Schedule

| ● | Round | ● | Last round | P | Preliminary rounds | F | Semifinals & Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 4th Fri | 6th Sun | 7th Mon | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 8th Tue |
| Men's freestyle 55 kg | | | | | | P | F | F | | |
| Men's freestyle 60 kg | | | | | | | P | P | P | F |
| Men's freestyle 66 kg | | | | | | P | F | F | | |
| Men's freestyle 74 kg | | | | | | | P | P | P | F |
| Men's freestyle 84 kg | | | | | | P | F | F | | |
| Men's freestyle 96 kg | | | | | | | P | P | P | F |
| Men's freestyle 120 kg | | | | | | P | P | F | | |
| Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg | P | P | F | | | | | | | |
| Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg | | P | P | P | F | | | | | |
| Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg | P | F | F | | | | | | | |
| Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg | | P | P | P | F | | | | | |
| Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg | P | P | F | | | | | | | |
| Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg | | P | P | P | F | | | | | |
| Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg | P | P | F | | | | | | | |
| Women's freestyle 48 kg | P | F | F | | | | | | | |
| Women's freestyle 55 kg | | | | | | ● | ● | ● | | |
| Women's freestyle 63 kg | | P | P | P | F | | | | | |
| Women's freestyle 72 kg | | | | | | | ● | ● | ● | ● |

## Medalists
### Men's freestyle

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 55 kg details | Dilshod Mansurov Uzbekistan | Chikara Tanabe Japan | Mohammad Rezaei Iran |
| 60 kg details | Oyuunbilegiin Pürevbaatar Mongolia | Song Jae-myung South Korea | Ulan Nadyrbek Uulu Kyrgyzstan |
| 66 kg details | Baek Jin-kuk South Korea | Alireza Dabir Iran | Norjingiin Bayarmagnai Mongolia |
| 74 kg details | Cho Byung-kwan South Korea | Yusup Abdusalomov Tajikistan | Mehdi Hajizadeh Iran |
| 84 kg details | Moon Eui-jae South Korea | Magomed Kurugliyev Kazakhstan | Shamil Aliev Tajikistan |
| 96 kg details | Alireza Heidari Iran | Aleksey Krupnyakov Kyrgyzstan | Magomed Ibragimov Uzbekistan |
| 120 kg details | Artur Taymazov Uzbekistan | Abbas Jadidi Iran | Palwinder Singh Cheema India |

### Men's Greco-Roman

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 55 kg details | Asset Imanbayev Kazakhstan | Kang Yong-gyun North Korea | Uran Kalilov Kyrgyzstan |
| 60 kg details | Kang Kyung-il South Korea | Dilshod Aripov Uzbekistan | Makoto Sasamoto Japan |
| 66 kg details | Kim In-sub South Korea | Daniar Kobonov Kyrgyzstan | Kim Yun-mo North Korea |
| 74 kg details | Kim Jin-soo South Korea | Danil Khalimov Kazakhstan | Parviz Zeidvand Iran |
| 84 kg details | Shingo Matsumoto Japan | Kim Jung-sub South Korea | Mohammad Al-Ken Syria |
| 96 kg details | Aleksey Cheglakov Uzbekistan | Park Myung-suk South Korea | Masoud Hashemzadeh Iran |
| 120 kg details | Georgiy Tsurtsumia Kazakhstan | Yang Young-jin South Korea | Alireza Gharibi Iran |

### Women's freestyle

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg details | Zhong Xiue China | Lidiya Karamchakova Tajikistan | Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal Mongolia |
| 55 kg details | Saori Yoshida Japan | Lee Na-lae South Korea | Naidangiin Otgonjargal Mongolia |
| 63 kg details | Xu Haiyan China | Kaori Icho Japan | Ochirbatyn Myagmarsüren Mongolia |
| 72 kg details | Kyoko Hamaguchi Japan | Kang Min-jeong South Korea | Yana Panova Kyrgyzstan |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | China (CHN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Iran (IRI) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 7 | Mongolia (MGL) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Tajikistan (TJK) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | India (IND) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Syria (SYR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 |

## Participating nations

A total of 196 athletes from 24 nations competed in wrestling at the 2002 Asian Games:
* Afghanistan (8)
* Bangladesh (2)
* China (14)
* Chinese Taipei (2)
* India (16)
* Iran (14)
* Japan (17)
* Jordan (2)
* Kazakhstan (13)
* Kyrgyzstan (13)
* Lebanon (1)
* Mongolia (11)
* North Korea (6)
* Pakistan (2)
* Palestine (2)
* Philippines (8)
* Qatar (11)
* South Korea (17)
* Syria (7)
* Tajikistan (6)
* Turkmenistan (7)
* Uzbekistan (12)
* Vietnam (3)
* Yemen (2)