# India at the 2002 Asian Games

India competed at the 2002 Asian Games held in Busan, South Korea. India was ranked 8th with 10 gold medals. Sunita Rani's gold and bronze medals, which she won in the women's 1,500 m and 5,000 m was reinstated after she appealed in the dope scam. India moved up to the seventh spot from the previous eighth spot in the medals table.

## Medal table

| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Athletics | 7 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
| Tennis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Cue Sports | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kabaddi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Golf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Shooting | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Sailing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Hockey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Taekwondo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Equestrian | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rowing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Wrestling | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 11 | 12 | 13 | 36 |

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Saraswati Saha | Athletics | Women's 200 metres |
| Gold | K. M. Beenamol | Athletics | Women's 400 metres |
| Gold | Sunita Rani | Athletics | Women's 1500 metres |
| Gold | Neelam Jaswant Singh | Athletics | Women's Discus Throw |
| Gold | Anju Bobby George | Athletics | Women's Long Jump |
| Gold | Manjeet Kaur Soma Biswas K. M. Beenamol Jincy Phillip | Athletics | Women's 4 × 400 metres relay |
| Gold | Bahadur Singh Sagoo | Athletics | Men's Shot Put |
| Gold | Men's Team | Kabaddi | Men |
| Gold | Shiv Kapur | Golf | Men's Individual |
| Gold | Leander Paes Mahesh Bhupathi | Tennis | Men's Double |
| Gold | Yasin Merchant Rafat Habib | Cue sports | Snooker Doubles |
| Silver | K. M. Beenamol | Athletics | Women's 400 metres |
| Silver | Madhuri Singh | Athletics | Women's 800 metres |
| Silver | Bobby Aloysius | Athletics | Women's High Jump |
| Silver | Soma Biswas | Athletics | Women's Heptathlon |
| Silver | K. M. Binu | Athletics | Men's 800 metres |
| Silver | Purakkotte Ramachandran K. J. Manoj Lal Satvir Singh Bhupinder Singh | Athletics | Men's 4 × 400 metres relay |
| Silver | Geet Sethi Alok Kumar | Cue sports | English Billiards Doubles |
| Silver | Manavjit Singh Sandhu Mansher Singh Anwer Sultan | Shooting | Men's Trap Team |
| Silver | Anjali Bhagwat Deepali Deshpande Suma Shirur | Shooting | Women's 10 metre Air Rifle Team |
| Silver | Nitin Mongia | Sailing | OK Dinghy |
| Silver | Men's Team | Hockey | Men |
| Silver | Manisha Malhotra Mahesh Bhupathi | Tennis | Mixed Double |
| Bronze | Sunita Rani | Athletics | Women's 5000 metres |
| Bronze | J. J. Shobha | Athletics | Women's Heptathlon |
| Bronze | Shakti Singh | Athletics | Men's Shot Put |
| Bronze | Anil Kumar | Athletics | Men's Discus Throw |
| Bronze | Vishal Uppal Mustafa Ghouse | Tennis | Men's Double |
| Bronze | Leander Paes Sania Mirza | Tennis | Mixed Double |
| Bronze | Geet Sethi | Cue sports | English Billiards Singles |
| Bronze | Palwinder Singh Cheema | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 120 kg |
| Bronze | Jenil Krishnan Inderpal Singh Roshan Lal Paulose Pandari Kunnel | Rowing | Men's Coxless Four |
| Bronze | Indrajit Lamba Bhagirath Singh Rajesh Pattu Deep Kumar Ahlawat | Equestrian | Team Eventing |
| Bronze | Rajesh Choudhary | Sailing | Laser Radial |
| Bronze | Aashim Mongia Mahesh Ramchandran | Sailing | Enterprise |
| Bronze | Surendra Bhandari | Taekwondo | Men's 58 kg |

## Athletics
### Men

Track & road events
| Athletes | Event | Heats | Heats | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athletes | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Anand Menezes | 200 m | 21.53 | 5 Q | 21.77 | 8 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Purukottam Ramachandran | 400 m | 46.79 | 2 Q | 47.42 | 4 Q | 46.15 | 5 |
| Paramjit Singh | 400 m | 47.58 | 4 Q | 47.50 | 5 | did not advance | did not advance |
| K.M. Binu | 800 m | 1:47.63 | 2 Q | — | — | 1:47.57 | |
| Kuldeep Kumar | 1500 m | — | — | — | — | 3:49.37 | 7 |
| Gulab Chand | 10000 m | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF |
| Anil Kumar Prakash Clifford Joshua (H) Piyush Kumar Sanjay Ghosh Anand Menezes | Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | 39.71 | 3 Q | — | — | 39.36 | 4 |
| Bhupinder Singh Purukottam Ramachandran Paramjit Singh (H) Jata Shankar (H) Manoj Lal Satvir Singh | Men's 4 × 400 metres relay | 3:06.14 | 2 Q | — | — | 3:04.22 | |
Field events
| Athletes | Event | Final | Final |
| Athletes | Event | Result | Rank |
| Anil Kumar | Discus Throw | 59.81 | |
| Shakti Singh | Shot Put | 18.27 | |
| Bahadur Singh Sagoo | Shot Put | 19.03 | |
| Harminder Singh | Javelin Throw | 75.93 | 6 |
| Pramod Tiwari | Hammer Throw | 64.54 | 6 |

## Badminton

| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Abhinn Shyam Gupta | Men's Singles | Hendrawan (INA) L 0-2(5-15,5-15) | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Pullela Gopichand | Men's Singles | Francisco Yong (TMP) W 2-0(15-0,15-0) | Boonsak Ponsana (THA) W 2-0(17-15,15-6) | Shon Seung-mo (KOR) L 0-2(9-15,11-15) | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Field hockey
### Men

Team
* Devesh Chauhan
* Bharat Chettri
* Dilip Tirkey
* Jugraj Singh
* Kamalpreet Singh
* Dinesh Nayak
* Viren Rasquinha
* Vikram Pillay
* Ignace Tirkey
* Bimal Lakra
* Dhanraj Pillay
* Deepak Thakur
* Prabhjot Singh
* Daljit Singh Dhillon
* Gagan Ajit Singh
* Tejbir Singh

### Preliminary
#### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| South Korea | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 2 | +17 | 7 | Semifinals |
| India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 7 | Semifinals |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 23 | −18 | 0 | |
* 30 September 10:00
| India | 5–1 | Hong Kong |
* Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan
* 2 October 12:30
| India | 3–0 | Japan |
* Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan
* 4 October 15:00
| South Korea | 1–1 | India |
* Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan

### Knockout round
#### Semifinals

* 10 October 14:00
| Pakistan | 3–4 | India |
| Abbas 10', 26' Sh. Muhammad 63' | Report | Pillay 6', 21' D. Singh 41' GA Singh 67' |
* Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan Umpires: Murray Grime (AUS)

#### Final

* 12 October 15:00
| South Korea | 4–3 | India |
| Keon-wook 24' Woon-kon 30', 68' Seung-tae 44' | Report | J. Singh 48', 60' GA Singh 53' |
* Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan Umpires: Colin Hutchinson (IRE)

### Women

Team
* Tingonleima Chanu
* Amandeep Kaur
* Suman Bala
* Suraj Lata Devi
* Sita Gussain
* Sumrai Tete
* Pritam Rani Siwach
* Mamta Kharab
* Jyoti Sunita Kullu
* Helen Mary
* Masira Surin
* Adline Kerketta
* Kanti Baa
* Manjinder Kaur
* Saba Anjum Karim
* Sanggai Chanu

### Preliminary round
#### Pool

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | South Korea (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 | Gold-medal match |
| 2 | China | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 | Gold-medal match |
| 3 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 6 | Bronze-medal match |
| 4 | India | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 0 | Bronze-medal match |

#### Fixtures

* 5 October 2002 12:30
| China | 2–0 | India |
| Chen Z. 38', 61' | Report | |
* 7 October 2002 15:00
| India | 0–5 | South Korea |
| | Report | Oh 32' Kim J. 48' Lee M. 59' Kim E. 61', 67' |
* 9 October 2002 15:00
| India | 2–3 | Japan |
| Suman 59' Jyoti 66' | Report | Miura 19', 69' Kato 63' |

### Final round
#### Bronze-medal match

* 11 October 2002 12:00
| Japan | 2–0 | India |
| Morimoto 29', 44' | Report | |

## Football
### Men

Team Coach: Stephen Constantine
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club |
| 1 | 1GK | Rajat Ghosh Dastidar | (1979-10-08)8 October 1979 (aged 22) | Mohun Bagan |
| 3 | 2DF | Satish Kumar Bharti | (1982-01-26)26 January 1982 (aged 20) | Mohun Bagan |
| 4 | 2DF | Debjit Ghosh | (1974-02-23)23 February 1974 (aged 28) | Mohun Bagan |
| 6 | 3MF | Shanmugam Venkatesh | (1978-11-21)21 November 1978 (aged 23) | East Bengal |
| 7 | 3MF | Tomba Singh | (1982-04-03)3 April 1982 (aged 20) | Salgaocar |
| 8 | 3MF | Renedy Singh | (1979-06-20)20 June 1979 (aged 23) | Mohun Bagan |
| 9 | 4FW | Abhishek Yadav | (1980-06-10)10 June 1980 (aged 22) | Mahindra United |
| 10 | 4FW | Bijen Singh | (1979-02-10)10 February 1979 (aged 23) | Dempo |
| 11 | 3MF | Jo Paul Ancheri | (1975-08-02)2 August 1975 (aged 27) | JCT Mills |
| 12 | 4FW | Alex Ambrose | (1982-09-08)8 September 1982 (aged 20) | Salgaocar |
| 13 | 2DF | Manitombi Singh | (1981-06-10)10 June 1981 (aged 21) | Salgaocar |
| 14 | 2DF | Mahesh Gawli | (1980-01-23)23 January 1980 (aged 22) | Churchill Brothers |
| 15 | 4FW | Bhaichung Bhutia | (1976-12-15)15 December 1976 (aged 25) | Mohun Bagan |
| 16 | 2DF | Samir Subash Naik | (1979-08-08)8 August 1979 (aged 23) | Dempo |
| 17 | 2DF | Deepak Mondal | (1979-10-12)12 October 1979 (aged 22) | East Bengal |
| 18 | 3MF | Krishnan Nair Ajayan | (1979-05-30)30 May 1979 (aged 23) | State Bank of Travancore |
| 19 | 4FW | Parveen Kumar | (1980-07-02)2 July 1980 (aged 22) | Punjab Police |
| 20 | 1GK | Sangram Mukherjee | (1981-11-06)6 November 1981 (aged 20) | East Bengal |
| 21 | 1GK | Naseem Akhtar | (1980-07-10)10 July 1980 (aged 22) | Mahindra United |

### Preliminary round
#### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | China | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | +9 | 9 |
| 2 | India | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 |
| 3 | Turkmenistan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 3 |
| 4 | Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 0 |

## Kabaddi

* Ram Mehar Singh
* Shamsher Singh
* Neer Gulia
* B. C. Ramesh
* Manpreet Singh
* Ramesh Kumar
* Sunder Singh
* Jagdish Kumble
* B. C. Suresh
* K. K. Jagdeesha
* Dinesh Kumar
* Sanjeev Kumar
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | India | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 224 | 84 | +140 | 10 |
| 2 | Bangladesh | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 174 | 91 | +83 | 6 |
| 3 | Pakistan | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 87 | 106 | −19 | 6 |
| 4 | Japan | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 83 | 107 | −24 | 4 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 65 | 145 | −80 | 2 |
| 6 | Sri Lanka | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 64 | 164 | −100 | 2 |
* 1 2 Match points difference against the teams which scored 25% or more of the league points: BAN +4, PAK −55.
* 1 2 Match points difference against the teams which scored 25% or more of the league points: MAS −78, SRI −102.
| 4 October 11:00 | India | 47–21 | Malaysia | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 4 October 11:00 | | (32–9) | | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 4 October 15:00 | India | 53–21 | Japan | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 4 October 15:00 | | (39–3) | | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 5 October 11:00 | Bangladesh | 14–37 | India | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 5 October 11:00 | | (7–24) | | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 6 October 17:00 | India | 50–21 | Sri Lanka | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 6 October 17:00 | | (27–6) | | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 7 October 14:00 | India | 37–7 | Pakistan | Tongmyong University, Busan |
| 7 October 14:00 | | (23–4) | | Tongmyong University, Busan |

### Final standing

| Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| India | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Bangladesh | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |

## Volleyball
### Men

Team
* M. S. Rajesh
* Tom Joseph
* Abhijeet Bhattacharya
* Joby Joseph
* Ravikanth Reddy
* Avnish Kumar Yadav
* P. V. Sunil Kumar
* Yejju Subba Rao
* Raghuveer Singh
* Arun Jakhmola
* Amir Singh
* K. J. Kapil Dev

### Preliminary round
#### Pool A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR |
| 1 | South Korea | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 0 | MAX | 302 | 198 | 1.525 |
| 2 | Iran | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1.800 | 327 | 301 | 1.086 |
| 3 | India | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1.333 | 336 | 308 | 1.091 |
| 4 | Qatar | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 0.300 | 251 | 305 | 0.823 |
| 5 | Macau | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 0.083 | 214 | 318 | 0.673 |
| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total |
| 02 Oct | 16:00 | South Korea | 3–0 | India | 25–22 | 25–17 | 27–25 | | | 77–64 |
| 03 Oct | 16:00 | India | 2–3 | Iran | 20–25 | 23–25 | 39–37 | 28–26 | 12–15 | 122–128 |
| 04 Oct | 12:00 | Macau | 0–3 | India | 13–25 | 16–25 | 21–25 | | | 50–75 |
| 08 Oct | 10:00 | India | 3–0 | Qatar | 25–22 | 25–17 | 25–14 | | | 75–53 |

### Rank round

| 5th–8th place | 5th–8th place | 5th–6th place | 5th–6th place |
| 10 October | 10 October |
| Chinese Taipei | 3 |
| Chinese Taipei | 3 | 12 October | 12 October |
| Qatar | 0 | 12 October | 12 October |
| Qatar | 0 | Chinese Taipei | 1 |
| 10 October | 10 October | | Chinese Taipei | 1 |
| 10 October | 10 October | India | 3 |
| India | 3 | India | 3 |
| Pakistan | 0 | | |

#### Semifinals

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total |
| 10 Oct | 12:00 | India | 3–0 | Pakistan | 25–15 | 25–17 | 25–15 | | | 75–47 |

#### 5th–6th place

| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Total |
| 12 Oct | 14:00 | Chinese Taipei | 1–3 | India | 23–25 | 21–25 | 25–18 | 32–34 | | 101–102 |