# Water polo at the 2002 Asian Games

Water polo was contested by men's teams at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea from September 30 to October 6, 2002. Six teams competed in two round robin groups. All games were staged at the Changwon Swimming Pool.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 6th Sun |
| Men | P | P | P | | ½ | | F |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Kazakhstan Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Drozdov Alexandr Gaidukov Sergey Gorovoy Askar Orazalinov Ivan Zaitsev Alexandr Shidlovskiy Alexandr Kuzov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Artemiy Sevostyanov Yuriy Smoloviy Damir Temyrkhanov Alexandr Polukhin | Japan Fumikazu Kubota Daisuke Nakagawa Satoshi Nagata Takuya Endo Koji Tanaka Masakazu Yamamoto Hiroyuki Matsubara Atsushi Naganuma Hiroshi Hoshiai Taichi Sato Yoshinori Shiota Kan Aoyagi Kenichi Sato | China Ge Weiqing Zhang Weiteng Bai Jun Yu Lijun Xu Guanghao Li Jun Li Wenhua Wang Yong Zhu Junyi Han Zhidong Gui Jiye Zhao Jinwen Liao Qiuliang |

## Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1998 Asian Games.
* Withdrew.

## Squads

| China | Iran | Japan | Kazakhstan |
| Ge Weiqing Zhang Weiteng Bai Jun Yu Lijun Xu Guanghao Li Jun Li Wenhua Wang Yong Zhu Junyi Han Zhidong Gui Jiye Zhao Jinwen Liao Qiuliang | Alireza Shahidipour Bahman Mouchehkiani Alireza Amirian Ahmad Nesaei Majid Gholami Vahid Rezaei Ali Saleh Saeid Mirmehdi Kambiz Rakhshanimehr Ali Akbar Shirjian Hamed Dalil-Heirati Mohsen Rezvani Meisam Jafari | Fumikazu Kubota Daisuke Nakagawa Satoshi Nagata Takuya Endo Koji Tanaka Masakazu Yamamoto Hiroyuki Matsubara Atsushi Naganuma Hiroshi Hoshiai Taichi Sato Yoshinori Shiota Kan Aoyagi Kenichi Sato | Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Drozdov Alexandr Gaidukov Sergey Gorovoy Askar Orazalinov Ivan Zaitsev Alexandr Shidlovskiy Alexandr Kuzov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Artemiy Sevostyanov Yuriy Smoloviy Damir Temyrkhanov Alexandr Polukhin |
| Singapore | South Korea | | |
| Ng Ker Wei Shawn Khoo Nicholas Tan Darrell Ee Lee Sai Meng Lau Chok Yee Alvin Lee Derek Lee Marcus Ng Terence Tan Matthew Lui Yip Ren Kai David Wee | Jin Man-keun Jang Dong-bok Lee Min-soo Kim Hyun-jong Maeng Sung-hoon Kim Ki-woo Kim Ji-ho Ma Jae-min Shin Kwang-ho Hong In-ki Kim Hong-ryang Lee Myung-woo Baek Won-ki | | |

## Results

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

### Preliminary round
#### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 14 | +3 | 4 | Semifinals |
| 2 | China | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 13 | +3 | 2 | Semifinals |
| 3 | South Korea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 18 | −6 | 0 | 5th place match |
| 30 September 17:30 | South Korea | 7–9 | Japan | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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| 1 October 16:00 | China | 7–8 | Japan | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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| 2 October 17:30 | South Korea | 5–9 | China | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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#### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Kazakhstan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 10 | +19 | 4 | Semifinals |
| 2 | Iran | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 15 | +2 | 2 | Semifinals |
| 3 | Singapore | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 30 | −21 | 0 | 5th place match |
| 30 September 16:00 | Kazakhstan | 17–6 | Singapore | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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| 1 October 17:30 | Iran | 13–3 | Singapore | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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| 2 October 16:00 | Kazakhstan | 12–4 | Iran | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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### 5th place match

| 4 October 14:30 | South Korea | 11–4 | Singapore | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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### Final round

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 4 October | 4 October |
| Japan | 12 |
| Japan | 12 | 6 October | 6 October |
| Iran | 9 | 6 October | 6 October |
| Iran | 9 | Japan | 10 (4) |
| 4 October | 4 October | | Japan | 10 (4) |
| 4 October | 4 October | Kazakhstan (p) | 10 (5) |
| China | 2 | Kazakhstan (p) | 10 (5) |
| Kazakhstan | 9 | | |
| Kazakhstan | 9 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | 6 October | 6 October |
| | | Iran | 6 |
| | | China | 10 |

#### Semifinals

| 4 October 16:00 | Japan | 12–9 | Iran | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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| 4 October 17:30 | China | 2–9 | Kazakhstan | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
| Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |||

#### Bronze medal match

| 6 October 16:00 | Iran | 6–10 | China | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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#### Gold medal match

| 6 October 17:30 | Japan | 14–15 | Kazakhstan | Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon |
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## Final standing

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | Kazakhstan | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| | Japan | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| | China | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Iran | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | South Korea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Singapore | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |