# Sailing at the 2002 Asian Games

Sailing was contested at the 2002 Asian Games from October 3 to October 9. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Busan Yachting Center. 15 Gold medals were awarded in the various classes competing, from the Olympic 470 and Mistral to the Junior Optimist, in a regatta that saw very few of the eleven scheduled races not completed for all classes.

## Schedule

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| Event↓/Date → | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed |
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| Women's 420 | ●● | ● | ●●● | ● | ●● | ●● |
| Open Laser Radial | ●● | ● | ●●● | ●● | ●● | ● |
| Open OK | ●● | ● | ●●● | ●● | ●● | ● |
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## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Mistral light details | Zhou Yuanguo China | Arun Homraruen Thailand | Ikuo Inoue Japan |
| Mistral heavy details | Oka Sulaksana Indonesia | Mo Zehai China | Motokazu Kenjo Japan |
| Raceboard light details | Ok Duck-pil South Korea | Gao Chuanwei China | Chan King Yin Hong Kong |
| Raceboard heavy details | Sun Maochun China | Suhaimee Moohammadkasem Thailand | Hong A-ram South Korea |
| Optimist details | Shibuki Iitsuka Japan | Zhu Ye China | Teo Wee Chin Singapore |
| Laser details | Kim Ho-kon South Korea | Kevin Lim Malaysia | Kunio Suzuki Japan |
| 420 details | South Korea Lee Dong-woo Park Jong-woo | Thailand Damrongsak Vongtim Sittisak Musikul | China Tang Mingfeng Ma Zhicheng |
| 470 details | South Korea Jung Sung-ahn Kim Dae-young | Japan Kazuto Seki Kenjiro Todoroki | Singapore Tan Wearn Haw Chung Pei Ming |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Mistral details | Lee Lai-shan Hong Kong | Yin Jian China | Masako Imai Japan |
| Optimist details | Xu Lijia China | Yoko Kiuchi Japan | Sarah Tan Singapore |
| Europe details | Lu Chunfeng China | Maiko Sato Japan | Hong Jin-young South Korea |
| 420 details | China Wang Yan Song Xiaqun | South Korea Kim Suk-kyong Her Jung-eun | Singapore Toh Liying Joan Huang |

### Open

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Laser Radial details | Shen Sheng China | Kim Jung-gon South Korea | Rajesh Choudhary India |
| OK details | Jin Hong-chul South Korea | Nitin Mongia India | Veerasit Puangnak Thailand |
| Enterprise details | South Korea Jun Joo-hyun Jung Kwon | Pakistan Shehryar Arshad Muhammad Riaz | India Aashim Mongia Mahesh Ramchandran |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Indonesia (INA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | India (IND) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Singapore (SIN) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 15 | 15 | 15 | 45 |

## Participating nations

A total of 128 athletes from 16 nations competed in sailing at the 2002 Asian Games:
* China (16)
* Chinese Taipei (2)
* Hong Kong (7)
* India (11)
* Indonesia (2)
* Japan (11)
* Kuwait (4)
* Malaysia (8)
* Myanmar (8)
* Pakistan (8)
* Philippines (4)
* Qatar (3)
* Singapore (12)
* South Korea (19)
* Sri Lanka (2)
* Thailand (11)