# Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games

Athletics was contested from October 7 to October 14 at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan Asiad Main Stadium, Busan, South Korea. A total of 459 athletes from 39 nations took part in the competition. Afghanistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Laos and Maldives were the only nations without a representative in the events.

## Schedule

| ● | 1st day | ● | Final day | H | Heats | S | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 9th Wed | 10th Thu | 12th Sat | 13th Sun | 14th Mon |
| Men's 100 m | H | S | F | | | | | | |
| Men's 200 m | | | | H | S | F | | | |
| Men's 400 m | H | S | S | F | F | | | | |
| Men's 800 m | | H | H | F | F | | | | |
| Men's 1500 m | | | | | | | F | | |
| Men's 5000 m | | | | | | F | | | |
| Men's 10,000 m | F | | | | | | | | |
| Men's 110 m hurdles | | H | H | F | F | | | | |
| Men's 400 m hurdles | H | F | F | | | | | | |
| Men's 3000 m steeplechase | | | | F | F | | | | |
| Men's 4 × 100 m relay | | | | | | H | | F | |
| Men's 4 × 400 m relay | | | | | | | H | F | |
| Men's marathon | | | | | | | | | F |
| Men's 20 km walk | F | | | | | | | | |
| Men's high jump | | | | | | F | | | |
| Men's pole vault | | F | F | | | | | | |
| Men's long jump | | | | | | | F | | |
| Men's triple jump | | | | F | F | | | | |
| Men's shot put | | F | F | | | | | | |
| Men's discus throw | | | | | | | | F | |
| Men's hammer throw | | F | F | | | | | | |
| Men's javelin throw | | | | | | | F | | |
| Men's decathlon | | | | ● | ● | ● | | | |
| Women's 100 m | | H | F | | | | | | |
| Women's 200 m | | | | H | H | F | | | |
| Women's 400 m | | H | H | | | F | | | |
| Women's 800 m | H | F | F | | | | | | |
| Women's 1500 m | | | | | | F | | | |
| Women's 5000 m | | | | | | | F | | |
| Women's 10,000 m | | F | F | | | | | | |
| Women's 100 m hurdles | | | | H | H | F | | | |
| Women's 400 m hurdles | | F | F | | | | | | |
| Women's 4 × 100 m relay | | | | | | | | F | |
| Women's 4 × 400 m relay | | | | | | | | F | |
| Women's marathon | | | | | | | | F | |
| Women's 20 km walk | F | | | | | | | | |
| Women's high jump | | | | | | | | F | |
| Women's pole vault | | | | F | F | | | | |
| Women's long jump | F | | | | | | | | |
| Women's triple jump | | | | | | | | F | |
| Women's shot put | | | | F | F | | | | |
| Women's discus throw | | | | | | F | | | |
| Women's hammer throw | | | | | | | F | | |
| Women's javelin throw | F | | | | | | | | |
| Women's heptathlon | ● | ● | ● | | | | | | |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Jamal Al-Saffar Saudi Arabia | 10.24 | Nobuharu Asahara Japan | 10.29 | Chen Haijian China | 10.34 |
| 200 m details | Shingo Suetsugu Japan | 20.38 | Gennadiy Chernovol Kazakhstan | 20.57 | Yang Yaozu China | 20.58 |
| 400 m details | Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait | 44.93 =GR | Hamdan Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia | 44.95 | Rohan Pradeep Kumara Sri Lanka | 45.67 |
| 800 m details | Rashid Mohamed Bahrain | 1:47.12 | K. M. Binu India | 1:47.57 | Li Huiquan China | 1:47.77 |
| 1500 m details | Rashid Ramzi Bahrain | 3:47.33 | Dou Zhaobo China | 3:48.51 | Li Huiquan China | 3:48.55 |
| 5000 m details | Mukhlid Al-Otaibi Saudi Arabia | 13:41.48 | Abdelhak Zakaria Bahrain | 13:43.82 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin Qatar | 13:44.42 |
| 10,000 m details | Mukhlid Al-Otaibi Saudi Arabia | 28:41.89 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar | 28:43.53 | Abdelhak Zakaria Bahrain | 28:46.11 |
| 110 m hurdles details | Liu Xiang China | 13.27 GR | Satoru Tanigawa Japan | 13.83 | Park Tae-kyong South Korea | 13.89 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily Saudi Arabia | 48.42 GR | Mubarak Al-Nubi Qatar | 48.98 | Dai Tamesue Japan | 49.29 |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin Qatar | 8:30.52 GR | Yoshitaka Iwamizu Japan | 8:31.75 | Shared silver | |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin Qatar | 8:30.52 GR | Abubaker Ali Kamal Qatar | 8:31.75 | Shared silver | |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Thailand Reanchai Seeharwong Vissanu Sophanich Ekkachai Janthana Sittichai Suwonprateep | 38.82 GR | Japan Hisashi Miyazaki Shingo Suetsugu Hiroyasu Tsuchie Nobuharu Asahara | 38.90 | China Shen Yunbao Chen Haijian Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming | 39.09 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | Saudi Arabia Hamed Al-Bishi Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily Mohammed Al-Salhi Hamdan Al-Bishi | 3:02.47 | India Purukottam Ramachandran Manoj Lal Satvir Singh Bhupinder Singh | 3:04.22 | Sri Lanka Rohan Pradeep Kumara Ranga Wimalawansa Prasanna Amarasekara Sugath Thilakaratne | 3:04.37 |
| Marathon details | Lee Bong-ju South Korea | 2:14:04 | Koji Shimizu Japan | 2:17:47 | Ryuji Takei Japan | 2:18:38 |
| 20 km walk details | Valeriy Borisov Kazakhstan | 1:24:20 | Yu Chaohong China | 1:24:23 | Satoshi Yanagisawa Japan | 1:25:33 |
| High jump details | Lee Jin-taek South Korea | 2.23 | Wang Zhouzhou China | 2.19 | Shared silver | |
| High jump details | Lee Jin-taek South Korea | 2.23 | Cui Kai China | 2.19 | Shared silver | |
| High jump details | Lee Jin-taek South Korea | 2.23 | Kim Tae-hoi South Korea | 2.19 | Shared silver | |
| Pole vault details | Grigoriy Yegorov Kazakhstan | 5.40 | Satoru Yasuda Japan | 5.40 | Fumiaki Kobayashi Japan | 5.20 |
| Long jump details | Hussein Al-Sabee Saudi Arabia | 8.14 GR | Li Dalong China | 7.99 | Al-Waleed Abdulla Qatar | 7.80 |
| Triple jump details | Salem Al-Ahmedi Saudi Arabia | 16.60 | Lao Jianfeng China | 16.57 | Takashi Komatsu Japan | 16.34 |
| Shot put details | Bahadur Singh Sagoo India | 19.03 | Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar | 18.98 | Shakti Singh India | 18.27 |
| Discus throw details | Wu Tao China | 60.76 | Abbas Samimi Iran | 60.44 | Anil Kumar India | 59.81 |
| Hammer throw details | Koji Murofushi Japan | 78.72 GR | Hiroaki Doi Japan | 69.57 | Ye Kuigang China | 68.18 |
| Javelin throw details | Li Rongxiang China | 82.21 | Yukifumi Murakami Japan | 78.77 | Sergey Voynov Uzbekistan | 78.74 |
| Decathlon details | Qi Haifeng China | 8041 | Dmitriy Karpov Kazakhstan | 7995 | Ahmad Hassan Moussa Qatar | 7683 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri Lanka | 11.15 GR | Lyubov Perepelova Uzbekistan | 11.38 | Qin Wangping China | 11.51 |
| 200 m details | Saraswati Saha India | 23.28 | Ni Xiaoli China | 23.34 | Viktoriya Kovyreva Kazakhstan | 23.48 |
| 400 m details | Damayanthi Dharsha Sri Lanka | 51.13 GR | K. M. Beenamol India | 52.04 | Svetlana Bodritskaya Kazakhstan | 52.10 |
| 800 m details | K. M. Beenamol India | 2:04.17 | Madhuri Singh India | 2:04.94 | Zamira Amirova Uzbekistan | 2:05.05 |
| 1500 m details | Sunita Rani India | 4:06.03 GR | Tatyana Borisova Kyrgyzstan | 4:12.53 | Yoshiko Ichikawa Japan | 4:13.42 |
| 5000 m details | Sun Yingjie China | 14:40.41 GR | Kayoko Fukushi Japan | 14:55.19 | Sunita Rani India | 15:18.77 |
| 10,000 m details | Sun Yingjie China | 30:28.26 GR | Kayoko Fukushi Japan | 30:51.81 | Xing Huina China | 31:42.58 |
| 100 m hurdles details | Feng Yun China | 12.96 | Su Yiping China | 13.01 | Trecia Roberts Thailand | 13.07 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Natalya Torshina Kazakhstan | 56.13 | Song Yinglan China | 56.43 | Yao Yuehua China | 56.56 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | China Zeng Xiujun Yan Jiankui Huang Mei Qin Wangping | 43.84 | Thailand Jutamass Tawoncharoen Supavadee Khawpeag Orranut Klomdee Trecia Roberts | 44.25 | Uzbekistan Anna Kazakova Guzel Khubbieva Lyudmila Dmitriadi Lyubov Perepelova | 44.32 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | India Jincy Phillip Manjeet Kaur Soma Biswas K. M. Beenamol | 3:30.84 | Kazakhstan Tatyana Roslanova Natalya Torshina Olga Tereshkova Svetlana Bodritskaya | 3:31.72 | China Qin Wangping Bo Fanfang Hou Xiufen Chen Yuxiang | 3:32.43 |
| Marathon details | Ham Bong-sil North Korea | 2:33:35 | Harumi Hiroyama Japan | 2:34:44 | Hiromi Ominami Japan | 2:37:48 |
| 20 km walk details | Wang Qingqing China | 1:33:40 GR | Gao Kelian China | 1:33:59 | Svetlana Tolstaya Kazakhstan | 1:35:03 |
| High jump details | Tatyana Efimenko Kyrgyzstan | 1.90 | Bobby Aloysius India | 1.88 | Shared silver | |
| High jump details | Tatyana Efimenko Kyrgyzstan | 1.90 | Marina Korzhova Kazakhstan | 1.88 | Shared silver | |
| Pole vault details | Gao Shuying China | 4.35 GR | Masumi Ono Japan | 4.10 | Qin Xia China | 4.00 |
| Long jump details | Anju Bobby George India | 6.53 | Maho Hanaoka Japan | 6.47 | Yelena Koshcheyeva Kazakhstan | 6.30 |
| Triple jump details | Huang Qiuyan China | 14.28 GR | Zhang Hao China | 13.89 | Tatyana Bocharova Kazakhstan | 13.26 |
| Shot put details | Li Meiju China | 18.62 | Lee Myung-sun South Korea | 18.50 | Juttaporn Krasaeyan Thailand | 17.53 |
| Discus throw details | Neelam Jaswant Singh India | 64.55 GR | Song Aimin China | 61.80 | Ma Shuli China | 59.89 |
| Hammer throw details | Gu Yuan China | 70.49 GR | Liu Yinghui China | 66.73 | Masumi Aya Japan | 62.18 |
| Javelin throw details | Lee Young-sun South Korea | 58.87 GR | Liang Lili China | 58.77 | Ha Xiaoyan China | 58.29 |
| Heptathlon details | Shen Shengfei China | 5911 | Soma Biswas India | 5899 | J. J. Shobha India | 5870 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 14 | 14 | 13 | 41 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 7 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 13 | 8 | 23 |
| 7 | Bahrain (BRN) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Qatar (QAT) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Kuwait (KUW) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 45 | 49 | 42 | 136 |

## Participating nations

A total of 459 athletes from 39 nations competed in athletics at the 2002 Asian Games:
* Bahrain (6)
* Bangladesh (2)
* Cambodia (1)
* China (64)
* Chinese Taipei (14)
* Hong Kong (6)
* India (37)
* Indonesia (3)
* Iran (4)
* Japan (63)
* Jordan (1)
* Kazakhstan (19)
* Kuwait (7)
* Kyrgyzstan (2)
* Lebanon (3)
* Macau (2)
* Malaysia (8)
* Mongolia (1)
* Myanmar (2)
* Nepal (5)
* North Korea (3)
* Oman (5)
* Pakistan (3)
* Palestine (2)
* Philippines (13)
* Qatar (31)
* Saudi Arabia (26)
* Singapore (1)
* South Korea (62)
* Sri Lanka (13)
* Syria (1)
* Tajikistan (4)
* Thailand (23)
* Timor-Leste (2)
* Turkmenistan (1)
* United Arab Emirates (2)
* Uzbekistan (12)
* Vietnam (4)
* Yemen (1)