Sailing at the 2002 Asian Games

Sailing at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Busan Yachting Center
Dates	3–9 October 2002
Competitors	128 from 16 nations

Sailing was contested at the 2002 Asian Games from October 3 to October 9. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Busan Yachting Center. 15 Gold medals were awarded in the various classes competing, from the Olympic 470 and Mistral to the Junior Optimist, in a regatta that saw very few of the eleven scheduled races not completed for all classes.

Schedule

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Round

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Last round

Event↓/Date →	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	6th Sun	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed
Men's Mistral light	●●	●	●●●		●	●●●	●
Men's Mistral heavy	●●	●	●●●		●	●●●	●
Men's Raceboard light	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Men's Raceboard heavy	●●	●	●●●		●	●●	●●
Men's Optimist	●●	●	●●●		●●	●	●●
Men's Laser	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Men's 420	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Men's 470	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Women's Mistral	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Women's Optimist	●●	●	●●●		●●	●	●●
Women's Europe	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Women's 420	●●	●	●●●		●	●●	●●
Open Laser Radial	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Open OK	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Open Enterprise	●●	●	●●●		●	●●	●●

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral light	Zhou Yuanguo  China	Arun Homraruen  Thailand	Ikuo Inoue  Japan
Mistral heavy	Oka Sulaksana  Indonesia	Mo Zehai  China	Motokazu Kenjo  Japan
Raceboard light	Ok Duck-pil  South Korea	Gao Chuanwei  China	Chan King Yin  Hong Kong
Raceboard heavy	Sun Maochun  China	Suhaimee Moohammadkasem  Thailand	Hong A-ram  South Korea
Optimist	Shibuki Iitsuka  Japan	Zhu Ye  China	Teo Wee Chin  Singapore
Laser	Kim Ho-kon  South Korea	Kevin Lim  Malaysia	Kunio Suzuki  Japan
420	South Korea Lee Dong-woo Park Jong-woo	Thailand Damrongsak Vongtim Sittisak Musikul	China Tang Mingfeng Ma Zhicheng
470	South Korea Jung Sung-ahn Kim Dae-young	Japan Kazuto Seki Kenjiro Todoroki	Singapore Tan Wearn Haw Chung Pei Ming

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral	Lee Lai-shan  Hong Kong	Yin Jian  China	Masako Imai  Japan
Optimist	Xu Lijia  China	Yoko Kiuchi  Japan	Sarah Tan  Singapore
Europe	Lu Chunfeng  China	Maiko Sato  Japan	Hong Jin-young  South Korea
420	China Wang Yan Song Xiaqun	South Korea Kim Suk-kyong Her Jung-eun	Singapore Toh Liying Joan Huang

Open

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Laser Radial	Shen Sheng  China	Kim Jung-gon  South Korea	Rajesh Choudhary  India
OK	Jin Hong-chul  South Korea	Nitin Mongia  India	Veerasit Puangnak  Thailand
Enterprise	South Korea Jun Joo-hyun Jung Kwon	Pakistan Shehryar Arshad Muhammad Riaz	India Aashim Mongia Mahesh Ramchandran

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	6	4	1	11
2	South Korea (KOR)	6	2	2	10
3	Japan (JPN)	1	3	4	8
4	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	1	2
5	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	0	1
6	Thailand (THA)	0	3	1	4
7	India (IND)	0	1	2	3
8	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	0	1
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	0	4	4
Totals (10 entries)		15	15	15	45

Participating nations

A total of 128 athletes from 16 nations competed in sailing at the 2002 Asian Games:

•  China (16)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  Hong Kong (7)
•  India (11)
•  Indonesia (2)
•  Japan (11)
•  Kuwait (4)
•  Malaysia (8)
•  Myanmar (8)
•  Pakistan (8)
•  Philippines (4)
•  Qatar (3)
•  Singapore (12)
•  South Korea (19)
•  Sri Lanka (2)
•  Thailand (11)

References

• 2002 Asian Games Report, Pages 572–586

External links

• Official website