# Karate at the 2002 Asian Games

Karate was competed by men and women at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. Kata was contested along with Kumite. There were 11 gold medals contested for this sport. All competition took place at the Yangsan College Gymnasium on October 11 and 12. Each country was limited to having 5 athletes.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary rounds & Repechage | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 11th Fri | 11th Fri | 12th Sat | 12th Sat |
| Men's kata | P | F | | |
| Men's kumite 55 kg | | | P | F |
| Men's kumite 60 kg | | | P | F |
| Men's kumite 65 kg | | | P | F |
| Men's kumite 70 kg | | | P | F |
| Men's kumite 75 kg | P | F | | |
| Men's kumite +75 kg | P | F | | |
| Women's kata | P | F | | |
| Women's kumite 53 kg | P | F | | |
| Women's kumite 60 kg | P | F | | |
| Women's kumite +60 kg | P | F | | |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Kata details | Yukimitsu Hasegawa Japan | Wong Pak Cheong Macau | Rayappan Jebamalai Edward Sri Lanka |
| Kata details | Yukimitsu Hasegawa Japan | Wong Pak Cheong Macau | Ku Jin Keat Malaysia |
| Kumite −55 kg details | Puvaneswaran Ramasamy Malaysia | Otabek Kasimov Uzbekistan | Bambang Maulidin Indonesia |
| Kumite −55 kg details | Puvaneswaran Ramasamy Malaysia | Otabek Kasimov Uzbekistan | Phạm Trần Nguyên Vietnam |
| Kumite −60 kg details | Kenichi Imai Japan | Hossein Rouhani Iran | Ilkhom Karimov Uzbekistan |
| Kumite −60 kg details | Kenichi Imai Japan | Hossein Rouhani Iran | Hussain Al-Qattan Kuwait |
| Kumite −65 kg details | Hasan Basri Indonesia | Mehdi Amouzadeh Iran | Shao Chih-kang Chinese Taipei |
| Kumite −65 kg details | Hasan Basri Indonesia | Mehdi Amouzadeh Iran | Nayef Al-Matrouk Kuwait |
| Kumite −70 kg details | Alireza Katiraei Iran | Shattyk Kazhymukanov Kazakhstan | Hsu Hsiang-ming Chinese Taipei |
| Kumite −70 kg details | Alireza Katiraei Iran | Shattyk Kazhymukanov Kazakhstan | Magid Adwan Qatar |
| Kumite −75 kg details | Ahmad Muneer Kuwait | Jasem Vishkaei Iran | Tong Kit Siong Brunei |
| Kumite −75 kg details | Ahmad Muneer Kuwait | Jasem Vishkaei Iran | Kim Byung-chul South Korea |
| Kumite +75 kg details | Mehran Behnamfar Iran | Andrey Korolev Kazakhstan | Jaber Al-Hammad Kuwait |
| Kumite +75 kg details | Mehran Behnamfar Iran | Andrey Korolev Kazakhstan | Isroil Ismoilov Tajikistan |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Kata details | Atsuko Wakai Japan | Lim Lee Lee Malaysia | Cheung Pui Si Macau |
| Kata details | Atsuko Wakai Japan | Lim Lee Lee Malaysia | Cherli Tugday Philippines |
| Kumite −53 kg details | Vũ Kim Anh Vietnam | Eri Fujioka Japan | Murugaiyan Srirajarajeswari Malaysia |
| Kumite −53 kg details | Vũ Kim Anh Vietnam | Eri Fujioka Japan | Hsieh Ai-chen Chinese Taipei |
| Kumite −60 kg details | Premila Supramaniam Malaysia | Chan Ka Man Hong Kong | Kwan Man Fei Macau |
| Kumite −60 kg details | Premila Supramaniam Malaysia | Chan Ka Man Hong Kong | Gretchen Malalad Philippines |
| Kumite +60 kg details | Nguyễn Trọng Bảo Ngọc Vietnam | Sofiya Kaspulatova Uzbekistan | Natalya Solodilova Kazakhstan |
| Kumite +60 kg details | Nguyễn Trọng Bảo Ngọc Vietnam | Sofiya Kaspulatova Uzbekistan | Emiko Honma Japan |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Iran (IRI) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Malaysia (MAS) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Vietnam (VIE) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Kuwait (KUW) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | Indonesia (INA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Macau (MAC) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Brunei (BRU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Tajikistan (TJK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | Totals (17 entries) | 11 | 11 | 22 | 44 |

## Participating nations

A total of 117 athletes from 30 nations competed in karate at the 2002 Asian Games:
* Afghanistan (1)
* Brunei (5)
* Chinese Taipei (5)
* Hong Kong (4)
* India (2)
* Indonesia (5)
* Iran (5)
* Japan (5)
* Jordan (2)
* Kazakhstan (5)
* Kuwait (5)
* Laos (1)
* Macau (5)
* Malaysia (5)
* Nepal (5)
* North Korea (5)
* Pakistan (2)
* Palestine (3)
* Philippines (5)
* Qatar (5)
* South Korea (5)
* Sri Lanka (4)
* Syria (2)
* Tajikistan (5)
* Thailand (2)
* Timor-Leste (2)
* United Arab Emirates (5)
* Uzbekistan (5)
* Vietnam (5)
* Yemen (2)