# Weightlifting at the 2002 Asian Games

Weightlifting was contested from September 30 to October 10 at the 2002 Asian Games in Pukyong National University Gymnasium, Busan, South Korea.

## Schedule

| A | Group A |
| Event↓/Date → | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 6th Sun | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 10th Thu |
| Men's 56 kg | | A | | | | | | | | |
| Men's 62 kg | | | A | | | | | | | |
| Men's 69 kg | | | | A | | | | | | |
| Men's 77 kg | | | | | A | | | | | |
| Men's 85 kg | | | | | | | A | | | |
| Men's 94 kg | | | | | | | | A | | |
| Men's 105 kg | | | | | | | | | A | |
| Men's +105 kg | | | | | | | | | | A |
| Women's 48 kg | A | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's 53 kg | | A | | | | | | | | |
| Women's 58 kg | | | A | | | | | | | |
| Women's 63 kg | | | | A | | | | | | |
| Women's 69 kg | | | | | | A | | | | |
| Women's 75 kg | | | | | | | A | | | |
| Women's +75 kg | | | | | | | | A | | |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 56 kg details | Wu Meijin China | Wang Shin-yuan Chinese Taipei | Yang Chin-yi Chinese Taipei |
| 62 kg details | Le Maosheng China | Im Yong-su North Korea | Cho Hyo-won South Korea |
| 69 kg details | Zhang Guozheng China | Erwin Abdullah Indonesia | Mehdi Panzvan Iran |
| 77 kg details | Sergey Filimonov Kazakhstan | Mohammad Hossein Barkhah Iran | Mohammad Ali Falahatinejad Iran |
| 85 kg details | Song Jong-shik South Korea | Hadi Panzvan Iran | Bakhtiyor Nurullaev Uzbekistan |
| 94 kg details | Bakhyt Akhmetov Kazakhstan | Kourosh Bagheri Iran | Lee Ung-jo South Korea |
| 105 kg details | Said Saif Asaad Qatar | Cui Wenhua China | Hossein Tavakkoli Iran |
| +105 kg details | Hossein Rezazadeh Iran | Igor Khalilov Uzbekistan | Munehiro Morita Japan |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 48 kg details | Li Zhuo China | Kay Thi Win Myanmar | Raema Lisa Rumbewas Indonesia |
| 53 kg details | Ri Song-hui North Korea | Udomporn Polsak Thailand | Meng Xianjuan China |
| 58 kg details | Zhou Yan China | Wandee Kameaim Thailand | Tanti Pratiwi Indonesia |
| 63 kg details | Liu Xia China | Khin Moe Nwe Myanmar | Kuo Ping-chun Chinese Taipei |
| 69 kg details | Liu Chunhong China | Pawina Thongsuk Thailand | Mya Sanda Oo Myanmar |
| 75 kg details | Sun Ruiping China | Tatyana Khromova Kazakhstan | Kim Soon-hee South Korea |
| +75 kg details | Tang Gonghong China | Jang Mi-ran South Korea | Moon Kyung-ae South Korea |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 9 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Iran (IRI) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Qatar (QAT) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Myanmar (MYA) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 15 | 15 | 15 | 45 |

## Participating nations

A total of 143 athletes from 30 nations competed in weightlifting at the 2002 Asian Games:
* Bahrain (3)
* Bangladesh (1)
* China (15)
* Chinese Taipei (10)
* India (5)
* Indonesia (5)
* Iran (8)
* Japan (12)
* Jordan (1)
* Kazakhstan (9)
* Kuwait (1)
* Kyrgyzstan (3)
* Lebanon (2)
* Malaysia (1)
* Mongolia (4)
* Myanmar (7)
* Nepal (2)
* North Korea (6)
* Pakistan (3)
* Philippines (2)
* Qatar (4)
* South Korea (15)
* Syria (1)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Thailand (8)
* Timor-Leste (1)
* Turkmenistan (2)
* Uzbekistan (6)
* Vietnam (3)
* Yemen (2)