# 2002 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

The 2002 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the tenth edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. It took place from 28 to 31 October in Bangkok, Thailand. A total of 43 events were contested, which were divided equally between male and female athletes aside from the men's 3000 metres steeplechase.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Liu Dapeng (CHN) | 10.74 | Suryo Agung Wibowo (INA) | 10.81 | Masaya Aikawa (JPN) | 10.83 |
| 200 metres | Shinji Takahira (JPN) | 21.03 | Liu Haitao (CHN) | 21.14 | Huang Wei (CHN) | 21.16 |
| 400 metres | Yuki Yamaguchi (JPN) | 47.11 | Manoi Pushpa Kumara (SRI) | 47.38 | Sudam Marandi (IND) | 47.93 |
| 800 metres | Adam Abdou (QAT) | 1:47.17 | Sajjad Moradi (IRI) | 1:48.30 | Ghamanda Ram (IND) | 1:48.37 |
| 1500 metres | Abdul Rahman Suleiman (QAT) | 3:53.52 | Abubaker Kamal (QAT) | 3:53.58 | Sajjad Moradi (IRI) | 3:54.22 |
| 5000 metres | Yasuhiro Tago (JPN) | 14:41.08 | Tomoyuki Honda (JPN) | 14:41.08 | Yousef Abu Kwaik (PLE) | 15:33.04 |
| 10,000 metres | Tomoyuki Honda (JPN) | 30:07.06 | Muresh Kumar Yadav (IND) | 32:16.60 | Amnuay Tongmit (THA) | 33:54.00 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Wu Youjia (CHN) | 14.18 | Muhd Faiz Mohamad (MAS) | 14.28 | Jang Seung-Han (KOR) | 14.51 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Tsuneaki Tanaka (JPN) | 51.43 | Takayuki Koike (JPN) | 51.56 | Patlavath Shankar (IND) | 52.14 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Abubaker Kamal (QAT) | 8:53.47 =CR | Shuji Yoshioka (JPN) | 8:53.61 | Mehdi Javanhamd (IRI) | 9:16.80 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Japan (JPN) Masaya Aikawa Yasutaka Matsunaga Shinji Takahira Hiroyuki Noda | 39.30 CR | Thailand (THA) Wachara Sondee Samarn Yanphiboon Nutdanee Sanoh Siriroj Darasuriyong | 40.08 | Iran (IRI) Hossein Ghaemi M. Abbaszadeh Payman Rajabi Mohammad Akefian | 40.86 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Japan (JPN) Hiroyuki Noda Yuki Yamaguchi Shinji Takahira Yushi Nakata | 3:07.51 | India (IND) Patlavath Shankar Karaka Appa Rao A. Kubule Sudam Marandi | 3:10.06 | Iran (IRI) Hasham Khazadi Payman Rajabi Mohammad Akefian G. Pachmahaleh | 3:10.95 |
| 10,000 metres walk | Fumihiro Kobayashi (JPN) | 42:00.53 CR | Chen Guangdong (CHN) | 44:11.50 | Mabrouk Mohamed (QAT) | 45:23.36 |
| High jump | Zhu Wannan (CHN) | 2.19 m | Park Jun-Hwan (KOR) Andrey Podurov (UZB) | 2.15 m | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| Pole vault | Leonid Andreev (UZB) | 5.20 m =CR | Kang Chung-Keun (KOR) | 5.10 m | Takuro Mori (JPN) | 5.10 m |
| Long jump | Abdullah Al-Waleed (QAT) | 7.82 m | Zhu Kai (CHN) | 7.70 m | Chao Chih-chien (TPE) | 7.70 m |
| Triple jump | Gu Junjie (CHN) | 16.73 m CR | Li Yanxi (CHN) | 16.57 m | Mohammad Hazzory (SYR) | 16.17 m |
| Shot put | Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi (QAT) | 20.29 m CR | Ranvijay Singh (IND) | 19.28 m | Amit Tyagi (IND) | 18.61 m |
| Discus throw | Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi (QAT) | 63.17 m CR | Xu Yongyi (CHN) | 61.04 m | Zhang Yuhao (CHN) | 59.58 m |
| Hammer throw | Ali Al-Zinkawi (KUW) | 74.93 m CR | Zhang Dapeng (CHN) | 71.61 m | Mohamed Al-Kaabi (QAT) | 70.32 m |
| Javelin throw | Jeong Sang-Jin (KOR) | 75.36 m | Kazuki Yamamoto (JPN) | 73.93 m | Chou Yi-Chen (TPE) | 71.84 m |
| Decathlon | Hong Qingyanq (CHN) | 7471 pts CR | Akira Kano (JPN) | 7076 pts | Rifat Artikov (UZB) | 6809 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Zhu Yuanhong (CHN) | 11.97 | Nongnuch Sanrat (THA) | 12.00 | Leng Mei (CHN) | 12.23 |
| 200 metres | Lao Yuqing (CHN) | 24.20 | He Ying (CHN) | 24.33 | Natsuko Nagashima (JPN) | 24.63 |
| 400 metres | Sathi Geetha (IND) | 54.30 | Asami Tanno (JPN) | 54.72 | Bindu Rani (IND) | 54.85 |
| 800 metres | Ji Siyu (CHN) | 2:08.04 | No Yoo-Yeon (KOR) | 2:08.53 | Anna Klyushkina (KGZ) | 2:09.45 |
| 1500 metres | No Yoo-Yeon (KOR) | 4:27.15 | Ji Siyu (CHN) | 4:28.32 | An Un Suk (PRK) | 4:29.29 |
| 3000 metres | Zhang Yuhong (CHN) | 9:36.53 | Ri Chung Sim (PRK) | 9:39.20 | Kim Hyon Hui (PRK) | 9:43.05 |
| 10,000 metres | Zhang Yuhong (CHN) | 34:44.33 | Ri Chung Sim (PRK) | 36:08.41 | Kim Hyon Hui (PRK) | 36:40.35 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Ji Fangqian (CHN) | 13.85 | Fumiko Kumagai (JPN) | 13.97 | Saori Kaneko (JPN) | 14.17 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Xiao Hongfan (CHN) | 59.28 | Galina Pedan (KGZ) | 60.52 | Chisa Nishio (JPN) | 60.66 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | China (CHN) Leng Mei Zhu Yuanhong Lao Yuqing He Ying | 45.53 | Thailand (THA) Nongnuch Sanrat Supapon Loulert Sangwan Jaksunin M. Mapa | 45.61 | Japan (JPN) Natsuko Nagashima Kayoko Kurimoto Fumiko Kumagai Saori Kaneko | 46.35 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | India (IND) Pinki Pramanik Chitra Soman Bindu Rani Sathi Geetha | 3:40.50 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) Assem Ziadanova Olga Tereshkova Olga Tsurikova Nadezhda Rudneva | 3:42.44 | Japan (JPN) Asami Tanno Kaori Takemoto Natsuko Nagashima Chisa Nishio | 3:44.48 |
| 10,000 metres walk | Natsuki Kimura (JPN) | 49:03.38 CR | Yoko Oura (JPN) | 49:08.08 | Hu Ming (CHN) | 49:19.90 |
| High jump | Li Rong (CHN) | 1.79 m | Yuko Watanabe (JPN) | 1.76 m | Anna Ustinova (KAZ) | 1.76 m |
| Pole vault | Wu Sha (CHN) | 3.90 m | Jasmaniah Osman (MAS) | 3.70 m | Hsu Hsueh-Chin (TPE) | 3.40 m |
| Long jump | Wang Lina (CHN) | 6.29 m | Bi Xiaohui (CHN) | 6.26 m | Ruta Patkar (IND) | 6.14 m |
| Triple jump | Yu Shaohua (CHN) | 13.71 m | Niu Nana (CHN) | 13.41 m | Tatyana Bocharova (KAZ) | 13.32 m |
| Shot put | Zhang Xiaoyu (CHN) | 18.18 m | Zhang Yuan (CHN) | 16.40 m | Seema Antil (IND) | 14.47 m |
| Discus throw | Xu Shaoyang (CHN) | 62.54 m CR | Ma Xuejun (CHN) | 57.56 m | Seema Antil (IND) | 57.40 m |
| Hammer throw | Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) | 66.10 m CR | Wei Xiaoyan (CHN) | 54.04 m | Kang Na-Ru (KOR) | 53.04 m |
| Javelin throw | Geng Aihua (CHN) | 54.50 m | Suman Devi (IND) | 52.33 m | Ayako Yamazaki (JPN) | 48.89 m |
| Heptathlon | Yang Shaodan (CHN) | 5211 pts | Mizuyo Kasahara (JPN) | 5041 pts | Natalya Filatova (UZB) | 4485 pts |

## 2002 Medal Table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 22 | 13 | 4 | 39 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 9 | 10 | 8 | 27 |
| 3 | Qatar (QAT) | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | India (IND) | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Kuwait (KUW) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 12 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 | Palestine (PLE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Syria (SYR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 43 | 44 | 42 | 129 |