# Rowing at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's eight

The men's eight competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan was held from 30 September to 3 October at the Nakdong River.

## Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
| Monday, 30 September 2002 | 13:40 | Heats |
| Tuesday, 1 October 2002 | 13:50 | Repechage |
| Thursday, 3 October 2002 | 13:00 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

* Qualification: 1 → Final (FA), 2–4 → Repechage (R)

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Team | Time | Notes |
| 1 | China (CHN) Chen Lingbu Zhang Ningtao Dong Wenfeng Ma Weiguo Tian Qiqiang Chi Huanqi Zhou Qiang Li Xinghai Zhang Dechang | 5:49.07 | FA |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Hsu Wei-chieh Tseng Chien-feng Tsai Ming-chang Wu Chi-hsiu Huang Yu-lung Kung Tai-yuan Kao Kun-cheng Lin Jan-wei Ping Chia-hao | 6:21.35 | R |
| 3 | Pakistan (PAK) Allah Rakha Romay Khan Muhammad Nazir Azmat Javed Muhammad Afzal Zeeshan Majeed Naseer Ahmed Tahir Muhammad Adeel Sultan Aslam Hayat | 7:57.40 | R |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Team | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) Daisaku Takeda Hitoshi Hase Akio Yano Yasunori Tanabe Kazushige Ura Kazuaki Mimoto Atsushi Obata Kenji Miura Takehiro Kubo | 5:57.36 | FA |
| 2 | Uzbekistan (UZB) Vitaliy Silayev Dmitriy Tikhonov Nasrullo Nazarov Bahadir Davletyarov Ruslan Bichurin Sergey Makshov Vladimir Tremasov Dmitriy Krivo Sergey Yoqubov | 5:59.88 | R |
| 3 | India (IND) Roshan Lal R. K. Pillai Udaybir Singh Jenil Krishnan Inderpal Singh Sunil Kakde Kudrat Ali Paulose Pandari Kunnel K. V. Sajith | 6:04.18 | R |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) Im Gyu-sam Kim Dong-woan Jun Byung-koo Kim Nam-yeul Kim Jin-gi Lee Jae-yoon Baek In-ho Gang Dong-kyun Ga Woo-hyun | 6:06.21 | R |

### Repechage

* Qualification: 1–4 → Final (FA)
| Rank | Team | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Uzbekistan (UZB) Vitaliy Silayev Dmitriy Tikhonov Nasrullo Nazarov Bahadir Davletyarov Ruslan Bichurin Sergey Makshov Vladimir Tremasov Dmitriy Krivo Sergey Yoqubov | 6:00.08 | FA |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) Im Gyu-sam Kim Dong-woan Jun Byung-koo Kim Nam-yeul Kim Jin-gi Lee Jae-yoon Baek In-ho Gang Dong-kyun Ga Woo-hyun | 6:02.74 | FA |
| 3 | India (IND) Roshan Lal R. K. Pillai Udaybir Singh Jenil Krishnan Inderpal Singh Sunil Kakde Kudrat Ali Paulose Pandari Kunnel K. V. Sajith | 6:08.61 | FA |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Hsu Wei-chieh Tseng Chien-feng Tsai Ming-chang Wu Chi-hsiu Huang Yu-lung Kung Tai-yuan Kao Kun-cheng Lin Jan-wei Ping Chia-hao | 6:17.83 | FA |
| 5 | Pakistan (PAK) Allah Rakha Romay Khan Muhammad Nazir Azmat Javed Muhammad Afzal Zeeshan Majeed Naseer Ahmed Tahir Muhammad Adeel Sultan Aslam Hayat | 6:23.64 | |

### Final

| Rank | Team | Time |
| | China (CHN) Chen Lingbu Zhang Ningtao Dong Wenfeng Ma Weiguo Tian Qiqiang Chi Huanqi Zhou Qiang Li Xinghai Zhang Dechang | 6:28.67 |
| | Japan (JPN) Daisaku Takeda Hitoshi Hase Akio Yano Yasunori Tanabe Kazushige Ura Kazuaki Mimoto Atsushi Obata Kenji Miura Takehiro Kubo | 6:37.25 |
| | Uzbekistan (UZB) Vitaliy Silayev Dmitriy Tikhonov Nasrullo Nazarov Bahadir Davletyarov Ruslan Bichurin Sergey Makshov Vladimir Tremasov Dmitriy Krivo Sergey Yoqubov | 6:41.45 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) Im Gyu-sam Kim Dong-woan Jun Byung-koo Kim Nam-yeul Kim Jin-gi Lee Jae-yoon Baek In-ho Gang Dong-kyun Ga Woo-hyun | 6:52.27 |
| 5 | India (IND) Roshan Lal R. K. Pillai Udaybir Singh Jenil Krishnan Inderpal Singh Sunil Kakde Kudrat Ali Paulose Pandari Kunnel K. V. Sajith | 7:00.70 |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Hsu Wei-chieh Tseng Chien-feng Tsai Ming-chang Wu Chi-hsiu Huang Yu-lung Kung Tai-yuan Kao Kun-cheng Lin Jan-wei Ping Chia-hao | 7:20.29 |