# 2002 Asian Athletics Championships

The 14th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 9–12 August 2002.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Jamal Al-Saffar Saudi Arabia | 10.43 | Gennadiy Chernovol Kazakhstan | 10.50 | Salem Mubarak Al-Yami Saudi Arabia | 10.52 |
| 200 metres details | Gennadiy Chernovol Kazakhstan | 20.73 | Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait | 20.92 | Sittichai Suwonprateep Thailand | 21.04 |
| 400 metres details | Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait | 45.21 | Hamdan Obah Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia | 45.43 | Sugath Tillakaratne Sri Lanka | 45.73 |
| 800 metres details | Mihail Kolganov Kazakhstan | 1:48.91 | Salem Amer Al-Badri Qatar | 1:48.95 | Adam Abdu Adam Ali Qatar | 1:49.25 |
| 1500 metres details | Abdulrahman Sulaiman Qatar | 3:45.98 | Rashid Ramzi Bahrain | 3:46.41 | Jamal Noor Yousef Qatar | 3:46.85 |
| 5000 metres details | Khamis Seif Abdullah Qatar | 14:16.81 | Abdulhak Zakaria Bahrain | 14:19.92 | Nasser Sulaiman Qatar | 14:19.97 |
| 10,000 metres details | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar | 30:19.62 | Aman Majid Awadh Qatar | 30:21.05 | Jagannath Lakade India | 30:39.44 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Khamis Seif Abdullah Qatar | 8:16.0 | Saad Shadad Al-Asmari Saudi Arabia | 8:16.7 | Ali Abu Bakr Kamal Qatar | 8:37.4 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Liu Xiang China | 13.56 | Mubarak Ata Mubarak Saudi Arabia | 13.96 | Mohamed Faiz Malaysia | 14.33 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Mubarak Al-Nubi Qatar | 48.67 CR | Hideaki Kawamura Japan | 48.85 | Yevgeniy Meleshenko Kazakhstan | 49.56 |
| 20 kilometres walk details | Eiichi Yoshizawa Japan | 1:26:51 | Toshihito Fujinohara Japan | 1:28:06 | Shin Il-yong South Korea | 1:31:07 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Thailand Sittichai Suwonprateep Ekkachai Janthana Vissanu Sophanich Reanchai Srihawong | 38.99 | Saudi Arabia Khalifa Al-Sagar Salem Al-Yami Mubarak Mubarak Jamal Al-Saffar | 39.16 | Qatar Mohd Sultan Al-Sheeb Khalid Yousuf Al-Obaidi Abdullah Khamis Al-Hamad Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi | 39.39 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Sri Lanka Rohan Pradeep Kumara Ranga Wimalawansa Prasanna Amarasekara Sugath Thilakaratne | 3:03.35 | India Satbir Singh K. Suresh Anil Kumar Rohil Jata Shankar | 3:06.76 | Japan Suguru Matsumoto Yukihiro Mukai Yoshihiro Chiba Hideaki Kawamura | 3:07.09 |
| High jump details | Cui Kai China | 2.19 | Salem Nasser Bakhit Bahrain | 2.15 | Loo Kum Zee Malaysia | 2.15 |
| Pole vault details | Daichi Sawano Japan | 5.40 | Kim Se-in South Korea | 5.40 | Grigoriy Yegorov Kazakhstan | 5.20 |
| Long jump details | Hussein Taher Al-Sabee Saudi Arabia | 8.09 | Cai Xiaobao China | 7.95w | Huang Le China | 7.91w |
| Triple jump details | Mouled Salem Al-Ahmadi Saudi Arabia | 16.61 | Kazuyoshi Ishikawa Japan | 16.42 | Mohammed Hamdi Awadh Qatar | 16.18 |
| Shot put details | Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar | 19.22 | Navpreet Singh India | 18.97 | Kim Jae-il South Korea | 17.98 |
| Discus throw details | Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari Qatar | 64.43 CR | Abbas Samimi Iran | 60.49 | Nuer Maimaiti China | 60.39 |
| Hammer throw details | Koji Murofushi Japan | 80.45 CR | Hiroaki Doi Japan | 70.27 | Viktor Ustinov Uzbekistan | 69.25 |
| Javelin throw details | Li Rongxiang China | 82.75 CR | Sergey Voynov Uzbekistan | 79.70 | Park Jae-myong South Korea | 79.22 |
| Decathlon details | Ahmed Hassan Moussa Qatar | 7670 pts | Pavel Andreev Uzbekistan | 7428 pts | Takuro Hirata Japan | 7344 pts |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri Lanka | 11.29 CR | Qin Wangping China | 11.56 | Lyubov Perepelova Uzbekistan | 11.60 |
| 200 metres details | Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri Lanka | 22.84 =CR | Lyubov Perepelova Uzbekistan | 23.76 | Yan Jiankui China | 23.85 |
| 400 metres details | Tatyana Roslanova Kazakhstan | 52.61 | Zamira Amirova Uzbekistan | 53.87 | Nguyen Thi Tinh Vietnam | 54.57 |
| 800 metres details | Miho Sugimori Japan | 2:03.59 | Tatyana Borisova Kyrgyzstan | 2:03.67 | Zamira Amirova Uzbekistan | 2:04.48 |
| 1500 metres details | Tatyana Borisova Kyrgyzstan | 4:16.27 | Svetlana Lukasheva Kazakhstan | 4:18.63 | Mizuho Nasukawa Japan | 4:19.27 |
| 5000 metres details | Ham Bong-Sil North Korea | 15:42.88 | Akiko Kawashima Japan | 15:44.08 | Mizuho Nasukawa Japan | 16:24.63 |
| 10,000 metres details | Ham Bong-Sil North Korea | 34:44.92 | Jo Bun-Hui North Korea | 35:00.63 | Lashram Aruna Devi India | 35:38.70 |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Yvonne Kanazawa Japan | 13.40 | Sriyani Kulawansa Sri Lanka | 13.43 | Trecia Roberts Thailand | 13.60 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Natalya Torshina Kazakhstan | 55.81 | Song Yinglan China | 56.49 | Makiko Yoshida Japan | 57.04 |
| 20 kilometres walk details | Gao Kelian China | 1:36:57 | Jian Xingli China | 1:37:02 | Ryoko Tadamasa Japan | 1:42:43 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | China Ni Xiaoli Yan Jiankui Huang Mei Qin Wangping | 43.94 | Uzbekistan Guzel Khubbieva Anza Kazakova Ludmila Dmitriadi Lyubov Perepelova | 44.85 | Thailand Trecia Roberts Oramoch Klomdee Supawadee Khawpeag Juthamass Thawonchavoen | 44.89 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | India J.J. Shobha Soma Biswas Sunita Dahiya Sagardeep Kaur | 3:37.48 | Japan Miho Sugimori Mayu Kida Sakie Nobuoka Makiko Yoshida | 3:38.29 | Sri Lanka Menaka Wickremasinghe Lalani Gunawardena Swarnamali Edirisinghe Damayanthi Dharsha | 3:42.71 |
| High jump details | Tatyana Efimenko Kyrgyzstan | 1.92 | Bobby Aloysius India | 1.84 | Marina Korzhova Kazakhstan | 1.84 |
| Pole vault details | Gao Shuying China | 4.20 CR | Masumi Ono Japan | 4.20 CR | Ni Putu Desy Margawati Indonesia | 4.10 NR |
| Long jump details | Yelena Kashcheyeva Kazakhstan | 6.61 | Lerma Gabito Philippines | 6.40w | Marestella Torres Philippines | 6.40w |
| Triple jump details | Wu Lingmei China | 13.83 | Mariya Sokova Uzbekistan | 13.81 | Yelena Parfenova Kazakhstan | 13.11 |
| Shot put details | Juthaporn Krasaeyan Thailand | 18.05 | Cheng Xiaoyan China | 17.39 | Sumi Ichioka Japan | 16.12 |
| Discus throw details | Li Yanfeng China | 60.06 | Harwant Kaur India | 57.60 | Swaranjeet Kaur India | 55.05 |
| Hammer throw details | Gu Yuan China | 71.10 CR | Huang Chih-Feng Chinese Taipei | 58.19 | Hardeep Kaur India | 57.82 |
| Javelin throw details | Ma Ning China | 57.15 | Xue Juan China | 56.04 | Lee Young-Sun South Korea | 53.72 |
| Heptathlon details | Svetlana Kazanina Kazakhstan | 5841 pts | J. J. Shobha India | 5775 pts | Wang Hailan China | 5635 pts |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 10 | 6 | 4 | 20 |
| 2 | Qatar | 8 | 2 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | Japan | 5 | 7 | 7 | 19 |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | North Korea | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | India | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| 11 | Kuwait | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 13 | Bahrain | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 14 | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 15 | Philippines | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Iran | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | Totals (20 entries) | 43 | 43 | 43 | 129 |