Athletics was contested from October 7 to October 14 at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan Asiad Main Stadium, Busan, South Korea. A total of 459 athletes from 39 nations took part in the competition. Afghanistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Laos and Maldives were the only nations without a representative in the events.
| Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Busan Asiad Main Stadium |
| Dates | 7–14 October 2002 |
| Competitors | 459 from 39 nations |
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Schedule
| ● | 1st day | ● | Final day | H | Heats | S | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 10th Thu | 11th Fri | 12th Sat | 13th Sun | 14th Mon | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 100 m | H | S | F | |||||||
| Men's 200 m | H | S | F | |||||||
| Men's 400 m | H | S | F | |||||||
| Men's 800 m | H | F | ||||||||
| Men's 1500 m | F | |||||||||
| Men's 5000 m | F | |||||||||
| Men's 10,000 m | F | |||||||||
| Men's 110 m hurdles | H | F | ||||||||
| Men's 400 m hurdles | H | F | ||||||||
| Men's 3000 m steeplechase | F | |||||||||
| Men's 4 × 100 m relay | H | F | ||||||||
| Men's 4 × 400 m relay | H | F | ||||||||
| Men's marathon | F | |||||||||
| Men's 20 km walk | F | |||||||||
| Men's high jump | F | |||||||||
| Men's pole vault | F | |||||||||
| Men's long jump | F | |||||||||
| Men's triple jump | F | |||||||||
| Men's shot put | F | |||||||||
| Men's discus throw | F | |||||||||
| Men's hammer throw | F | |||||||||
| Men's javelin throw | F | |||||||||
| Men's decathlon | ● | ● | ||||||||
| Women's 100 m | H | F | ||||||||
| Women's 200 m | H | F | ||||||||
| Women's 400 m | H | F | ||||||||
| Women's 800 m | H | F | ||||||||
| Women's 1500 m | F | |||||||||
| Women's 5000 m | F | |||||||||
| Women's 10,000 m | F | |||||||||
| Women's 100 m hurdles | H | F | ||||||||
| Women's 400 m hurdles | F | |||||||||
| Women's 4 × 100 m relay | F | |||||||||
| Women's 4 × 400 m relay | F | |||||||||
| Women's marathon | F | |||||||||
| Women's 20 km walk | F | |||||||||
| Women's high jump | F | |||||||||
| Women's pole vault | F | |||||||||
| Women's long jump | F | |||||||||
| Women's triple jump | F | |||||||||
| Women's shot put | F | |||||||||
| Women's discus throw | F | |||||||||
| Women's hammer throw | F | |||||||||
| Women's javelin throw | F | |||||||||
| Women's heptathlon | ● | ● | ||||||||
Medalists
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m | Jamal Al-Saffar Saudi Arabia | 10.24 | Nobuharu Asahara Japan | 10.29 | Chen Haijian China | 10.34 |
| 200 m | Shingo Suetsugu Japan | 20.38 | Gennadiy Chernovol Kazakhstan | 20.57 | Yang Yaozu China | 20.58 |
| 400 m | Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait | 44.93 =GR | Hamdan Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia | 44.95 | Rohan Pradeep Kumara Sri Lanka | 45.67 |
| 800 m | Rashid Mohamed Bahrain | 1:47.12 | K. M. Binu India | 1:47.57 | Li Huiquan China | 1:47.77 |
| 1500 m | Rashid Ramzi Bahrain | 3:47.33 | Dou Zhaobo China | 3:48.51 | Li Huiquan China | 3:48.55 |
| 5000 m | Mukhlid Al-Otaibi Saudi Arabia | 13:41.48 | Abdelhak Zakaria Bahrain | 13:43.82 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin Qatar | 13:44.42 |
| 10,000 m | Mukhlid Al-Otaibi Saudi Arabia | 28:41.89 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar | 28:43.53 | Abdelhak Zakaria Bahrain | 28:46.11 |
| 110 m hurdles | Liu Xiang China | 13.27 GR | Satoru Tanigawa Japan | 13.83 | Park Tae-kyong South Korea | 13.89 |
| 400 m hurdles | Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily Saudi Arabia | 48.42 GR | Mubarak Al-Nubi Qatar | 48.98 | Dai Tamesue Japan | 49.29 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin Qatar | 8:30.52 GR | Yoshitaka Iwamizu Japan | 8:31.75 | Shared silver | |
| Abubaker Ali Kamal Qatar | ||||||
| 4 × 100 m relay | Thailand Reanchai Seeharwong Vissanu Sophanich Ekkachai Janthana Sittichai Suwonprateep | 38.82 GR | Japan Hisashi Miyazaki Shingo Suetsugu Hiroyasu Tsuchie Nobuharu Asahara | 38.90 | China Shen Yunbao Chen Haijian Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming | 39.09 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Saudi Arabia Hamed Al-Bishi Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily Mohammed Al-Salhi Hamdan Al-Bishi | 3:02.47 | India Purukottam Ramachandran K. J. Manoj Lal Satvir Singh Bhupinder Singh | 3:04.22 | Sri Lanka Rohan Pradeep Kumara Ranga Wimalawansa Prasanna Amarasekara Sugath Thilakaratne | 3:04.37 |
| Marathon | Lee Bong-ju South Korea | 2:14:04 | Koji Shimizu Japan | 2:17:47 | Ryuji Takei Japan | 2:18:38 |
| 20 km walk | Valeriy Borisov Kazakhstan | 1:24:20 | Yu Chaohong China | 1:24:23 | Satoshi Yanagisawa Japan | 1:25:33 |
| High jump | Lee Jin-taek South Korea | 2.23 | Wang Zhouzhou China | 2.19 | Shared silver | |
| Cui Kai China | ||||||
| Kim Tae-hoi South Korea | ||||||
| Pole vault | Grigoriy Yegorov Kazakhstan | 5.40 | Satoru Yasuda Japan | 5.40 | Fumiaki Kobayashi Japan | 5.20 |
| Long jump | Hussein Al-Sabee Saudi Arabia | 8.14 GR | Li Dalong China | 7.99 | Al-Waleed Abdulla Qatar | 7.80 |
| Triple jump | Salem Al-Ahmadi Saudi Arabia | 16.60 | Lao Jianfeng China | 16.57 | Takashi Komatsu Japan | 16.34 |
| Shot put | Bahadur Singh Sagoo India | 19.03 | Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar | 18.98 | Shakti Singh India | 18.27 |
| Discus throw | Wu Tao China | 60.76 | Abbas Samimi Iran | 60.44 | Anil Kumar India | 59.81 |
| Hammer throw | Koji Murofushi Japan | 78.72 GR | Hiroaki Doi Japan | 69.57 | Ye Kuigang China | 68.18 |
| Javelin throw | Li Rongxiang China | 82.21 | Yukifumi Murakami Japan | 78.77 | Sergey Voynov Uzbekistan | 78.74 |
| Decathlon | Qi Haifeng China | 8041 | Dmitriy Karpov Kazakhstan | 7995 | Ahmad Hassan Moussa Qatar | 7683 |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m | Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri Lanka | 11.15 GR | Lyubov Perepelova Uzbekistan | 11.38 | Qin Wangping China | 11.51 |
| 200 m | Saraswati Saha India | 23.28 | Ni Xiaoli China | 23.34 | Viktoriya Kovyreva Kazakhstan | 23.48 |
| 400 m | Damayanthi Dharsha Sri Lanka | 51.13 GR | K. M. Beenamol India | 52.04 | Svetlana Bodritskaya Kazakhstan | 52.10 |
| 800 m | K. M. Beenamol India | 2:04.17 | Madhuri Saxena India | 2:04.94 | Zamira Amirova Uzbekistan | 2:05.05 |
| 1500 m | Sunita Rani India | 4:06.03 GR | Tatyana Borisova Kyrgyzstan | 4:12.53 | Yoshiko Ichikawa Japan | 4:13.42 |
| 5000 m | Sun Yingjie China | 14:40.41 GR | Kayoko Fukushi Japan | 14:55.19 | Sunita Rani India | 15:18.77 |
| 10,000 m | Sun Yingjie China | 30:28.26 GR | Kayoko Fukushi Japan | 30:51.81 | Xing Huina China | 31:42.58 |
| 100 m hurdles | Feng Yun China | 12.96 | Su Yiping China | 13.01 | Trecia Roberts Thailand | 13.07 |
| 400 m hurdles | Natalya Torshina Kazakhstan | 56.13 | Song Yinglan China | 56.43 | Yao Yuehua China | 56.56 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | China Zeng Xiujun Yan Jiankui Huang Mei Qin Wangping | 43.84 | Thailand Jutamass Tawoncharoen Supavadee Khawpeag Orranut Klomdee Trecia Roberts | 44.25 | Uzbekistan Anna Kazakova Guzel Khubbieva Lyudmila Dmitriadi Lyubov Perepelova | 44.32 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | India Jincy Phillip Manjeet Kaur Soma Biswas K. M. Beenamol | 3:30.84 | Kazakhstan Tatyana Roslanova Natalya Torshina Olga Tereshkova Svetlana Bodritskaya | 3:31.72 | China Qin Wangping Bo Fanfang Hou Xiufen Chen Yuxiang | 3:32.43 |
| Marathon | Ham Bong-sil North Korea | 2:33:35 | Harumi Hiroyama Japan | 2:34:44 | Hiromi Ominami Japan | 2:37:48 |
| 20 km walk | Wang Qingqing China | 1:33:40 GR | Gao Kelian China | 1:33:59 | Svetlana Tolstaya Kazakhstan | 1:35:03 |
| High jump | Tatyana Efimenko Kyrgyzstan | 1.90 | Bobby Aloysius India | 1.88 | Shared silver | |
| Marina Korzhova Kazakhstan | ||||||
| Pole vault | Gao Shuying China | 4.35 GR | Masumi Ono Japan | 4.10 | Qin Xia China | 4.00 |
| Long jump | Anju Bobby George India | 6.53 | Maho Hanaoka Japan | 6.47 | Yelena Koshcheyeva Kazakhstan | 6.30 |
| Triple jump | Huang Qiuyan China | 14.28 GR | Zhang Hao China | 13.89 | Tatyana Bocharova Kazakhstan | 13.26 |
| Shot put | Li Meiju China | 18.62 | Lee Myung-sun South Korea | 18.50 | Juttaporn Krasaeyan Thailand | 17.53 |
| Discus throw | Neelam Jaswant Singh India | 64.55 GR | Song Aimin China | 61.80 | Ma Shuli China | 59.89 |
| Hammer throw | Gu Yuan China | 70.49 GR | Liu Yinghui China | 66.73 | Masumi Aya Japan | 62.18 |
| Javelin throw | Lee Young-sun South Korea | 58.87 GR | Liang Lili China | 58.77 | Ha Xiaoyan China | 58.29 |
| Heptathlon | Shen Shengfei China | 5911 | Soma Biswas India | 5899 | J. J. Shobha India | 5870 |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China (CHN) | 14 | 14 | 13 | 41 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 7 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 13 | 8 | 23 |
| 7 | Bahrain (BRN) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Qatar (QAT) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Kuwait (KUW) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | 45 | 49 | 42 | 136 | |
Participating nations
A total of 459 athletes from 39 nations competed in athletics at the 2002 Asian Games:
- Bahrain (6)
- Bangladesh (2)
- Cambodia (1)
- China (64)
- Chinese Taipei (14)
- Hong Kong (6)
- India (37)
- Indonesia (3)
- Iran (4)
- Japan (63)
- Jordan (1)
- Kazakhstan (19)
- Kuwait (7)
- Kyrgyzstan (2)
- Lebanon (3)
- Macau (2)
- Malaysia (8)
- Mongolia (1)
- Myanmar (2)
- Nepal (5)
- North Korea (3)
- Oman (5)
- Pakistan (3)
- Palestine (2)
- Philippines (13)
- Qatar (31)
- Saudi Arabia (26)
- Singapore (1)
- South Korea (62)
- Sri Lanka (13)
- Syria (1)
- Tajikistan (4)
- Thailand (23)
- Timor-Leste (2)
- Turkmenistan (1)
- United Arab Emirates (2)
- Uzbekistan (12)
- Vietnam (4)
- Yemen (1)
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