India at the 2002 Asian Games

India at the
2002 Asian Games
India at the; 2002 Asian Games
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
in Busan
Flag bearer	Dhanraj Pillay
Medals; Ranked 7th	Gold 11 Silver 12 Bronze 13 Total 36
Asian Games appearances (overview)
	1951; 1954; 1958; 1962; 1966; 1970; 1974; 1978; 1982; 1986; 1990; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022; 2026;

India competed at the 2002 Asian Games held in Busan, South Korea. India was ranked 8th with 10 gold medals. Sunita Rani's gold and bronze medals, which she won in the women's 1,500 m and 5,000 m was reinstated after she appealed in the dope scam. India moved up to the seventh spot from the previous eighth spot in the medals table.^[1]^[2]

Medal table

Total	11	12	13	36
Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	7	6	4	17
Tennis	1	1	2	4
Cue Sports	1	1	1	3
Kabaddi	1	0	0	1
Golf	1	0	0	1
Shooting	0	2	0	2
Sailing	0	1	2	3
Hockey	0	1	0	1
Taekwondo	0	0	1	1
Equestrian	0	0	1	1
Rowing	0	0	1	1
Wrestling	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Saraswati Saha	Athletics	Women's 200 metres
Gold	K. M. Beenamol	Athletics	Women's 400 metres
Gold	Sunita Rani	Athletics	Women's 1500 metres
Gold	Neelam Jaswant Singh	Athletics	Women's Discus Throw
Gold	Anju Bobby George	Athletics	Women's Long Jump
Gold	Manjeet Kaur Soma Biswas K. M. Beenamol Jincy Phillip	Athletics	Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
Gold	Bahadur Singh Sagoo	Athletics	Men's Shot Put
Gold	Men's Team	Kabaddi	Men
Gold	Shiv Kapur	Golf	Men's Individual
Gold	Leander Paes Mahesh Bhupathi	Tennis	Men's Double
Gold	Yasin Merchant Rafat Habib	Cue sports	Snooker Doubles
Silver	K. M. Beenamol	Athletics	Women's 400 metres
Silver	Madhuri Singh	Athletics	Women's 800 metres
Silver	Bobby Aloysius	Athletics	Women's High Jump
Silver	Soma Biswas	Athletics	Women's Heptathlon
Silver	K. M. Binu	Athletics	Men's 800 metres
Silver	Purakkotte Ramachandran K. J. Manoj Lal Satvir Singh Bhupinder Singh	Athletics	Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Silver	Geet Sethi Alok Kumar	Cue sports	English Billiards Doubles
Silver	Manavjit Singh Sandhu Mansher Singh Anwer Sultan	Shooting	Men's Trap Team
Silver	Anjali Bhagwat Deepali Deshpande Suma Shirur	Shooting	Women's 10 metre Air Rifle Team
Silver	Nitin Mongia	Sailing	OK Dinghy
Silver	Men's Team	Hockey	Men
Silver	Manisha Malhotra Mahesh Bhupathi	Tennis	Mixed Double
Bronze	Sunita Rani	Athletics	Women's 5000 metres
Bronze	J. J. Shobha	Athletics	Women's Heptathlon
Bronze	Shakti Singh	Athletics	Men's Shot Put
Bronze	Anil Kumar	Athletics	Men's Discus Throw
Bronze	Vishal Uppal Mustafa Ghouse	Tennis	Men's Double
Bronze	Leander Paes Sania Mirza	Tennis	Mixed Double
Bronze	Geet Sethi	Cue sports	English Billiards Singles
Bronze	Palwinder Singh Cheema	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 120 kg
Bronze	Jenil Krishnan Inderpal Singh Roshan Lal Paulose Pandari Kunnel	Rowing	Men's Coxless Four
Bronze	Indrajit Lamba Bhagirath Singh Rajesh Pattu Deep Kumar Ahlawat	Equestrian	Team Eventing
Bronze	Rajesh Choudhary	Sailing	Laser Radial
Bronze	Aashim Mongia Mahesh Ramchandran	Sailing	Enterprise
Bronze	Surendra Bhandari	Taekwondo	Men's 58 kg

Athletics

Men

Track & road events

Athletes	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
Athletes	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Anand Menezes	200 m	21.53	5 Q	21.77	8	did not advance
Purukottam Ramachandran	400 m	46.79	2 Q	47.42	4 Q	46.15	5
Paramjit Singh	400 m	47.58	4 Q	47.50	5	did not advance
K.M. Binu	800 m	1:47.63	2 Q	—		1:47.57
Kuldeep Kumar	1500 m	—				3:49.37	7
Gulab Chand	10000 m	DNF
Anil Kumar Prakash Clifford Joshua (H) Piyush Kumar Sanjay Ghosh Anand Menezes	Men's 4 × 100 metres relay	39.71	3 Q	—		39.36	4
Bhupinder Singh Purukottam Ramachandran Paramjit Singh (H) Jata Shankar (H) Manoj Lal Satvir Singh	Men's 4 × 400 metres relay	3:06.14	2 Q	—		3:04.22

Field events

Athletes	Event	Final
Athletes	Event	Result	Rank
Anil Kumar	Discus Throw	59.81
Shakti Singh	Shot Put	18.27
Bahadur Singh Sagoo	Shot Put	19.03
Harminder Singh	Javelin Throw	75.93	6
Pramod Tiwari	Hammer Throw	64.54	6

Badminton

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Abhinn Shyam Gupta	Men's Singles	Hendrawan (INA) L 0-2(5-15,5-15)	did not advance
Pullela Gopichand	Men's Singles	Francisco Yong (TMP) W 2-0(15-0,15-0)	Boonsak Ponsana (THA) W 2-0(17-15,15-6)	Shon Seung-mo (KOR) L 0-2(9-15,11-15)	did not advance

Field hockey

Men

Team

Preliminary

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
South Korea	3	2	1	0	19	2	+17	7	Semifinals
India	3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7	Semifinals
Japan	3	1	0	2	4	10	−6	3
Hong Kong	3	0	0	3	5	23	−18	0

30 September
10:00

India	5–1	Hong Kong

Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan

2 October
12:30

India	3–0	Japan

Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan

4 October
15:00

South Korea	1–1	India

Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan

Knockout round

Semifinals

10 October
14:00

Pakistan	3–4	India
Abbas 10', 26' Sh. Muhammad 63'	Report	Pillay 6', 21' D. Singh 41' GA Singh 67'

Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan
Umpires:
Murray Grime (AUS)

Final

12 October
15:00

South Korea	4–3	India
Keon-wook 24' Woon-kon 30', 68' Seung-tae 44'	Report	J. Singh 48', 60' GA Singh 53'

Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan
Umpires:
Colin Hutchinson (IRE)

Women

Team

Preliminary round

Pool

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea (H)	3	2	1	8	4	+4	6	Gold-medal match
2	China	3	2	1	5	2	+3	6	Gold-medal match
3	Japan	3	2	1	7	6	+1	6	Bronze-medal match
4	India	3	0	3	2	10	−8	0	Bronze-medal match

Source: Reddif
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.^[3]
(H) Hosts

Fixtures

5 October 2002
12:30

China	2–0	India
Chen Z. 38', 61'	Report

7 October 2002
15:00

India	0–5	South Korea
	Report	Oh 32' Kim J. 48' Lee M. 59' Kim E. 61', 67'

9 October 2002
15:00

India	2–3	Japan
Suman 59' Jyoti 66'	Report	Miura 19', 69' Kato 63'

Final round

Bronze-medal match

11 October 2002
12:00

Japan	2–0	India
Morimoto 29', 44'	Report

Football

Men

Team Coach: Stephen Constantine

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Rajat Ghosh Dastidar	(1979-10-08)8 October 1979 (aged 22)	Mohun Bagan
3	2DF	Satish Kumar Bharti	(1982-01-26)26 January 1982 (aged 20)	Mohun Bagan
4	2DF	Debjit Ghosh	(1974-02-23)23 February 1974 (aged 28)	Mohun Bagan
6	3MF	Shanmugam Venkatesh	(1978-11-21)21 November 1978 (aged 23)	East Bengal
7	3MF	Tomba Singh	(1982-04-03)3 April 1982 (aged 20)	Salgaocar
8	3MF	Renedy Singh	(1979-06-20)20 June 1979 (aged 23)	Mohun Bagan
9	4FW	Abhishek Yadav	(1980-06-10)10 June 1980 (aged 22)	Mahindra United
10	4FW	Bijen Singh	(1979-02-10)10 February 1979 (aged 23)	Dempo
11	3MF	Jo Paul Ancheri	(1975-08-02)2 August 1975 (aged 27)	JCT Mills
12	4FW	Alex Ambrose	(1982-09-08)8 September 1982 (aged 20)	Salgaocar
13	2DF	Manitombi Singh	(1981-06-10)10 June 1981 (aged 21)	Salgaocar
14	2DF	Mahesh Gawli	(1980-01-23)23 January 1980 (aged 22)	Churchill Brothers
15	4FW	Bhaichung Bhutia	(1976-12-15)15 December 1976 (aged 25)	Mohun Bagan
16	2DF	Samir Subash Naik	(1979-08-08)8 August 1979 (aged 23)	Dempo
17	2DF	Deepak Mondal	(1979-10-12)12 October 1979 (aged 22)	East Bengal
18	3MF	Krishnan Nair Ajayan	(1979-05-30)30 May 1979 (aged 23)	State Bank of Travancore
19	4FW	Parveen Kumar	(1980-07-02)2 July 1980 (aged 22)	Punjab Police
20	1GK	Sangram Mukherjee	(1981-11-06)6 November 1981 (aged 20)	East Bengal
21	1GK	Naseem Akhtar	(1980-07-10)10 July 1980 (aged 22)	Mahindra United

Preliminary round

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	China	3	3	0	9	0	+9	9
2	India	3	2	1	6	3	+3	6
3	Turkmenistan	3	1	2	4	8	−4	3
4	Bangladesh	3	0	3	1	9	−8	0

Source: RSSSF

27 September

19:03

India	3–0	Bangladesh
Bhutia 46', 65' R. Singh 66'

Munsu Football Stadium, Ulsan

30 September

16:33

Turkmenistan	1–3	India
W. Baýramow 21'		Bhutia 53', 77' Yadav 56'

Yangsan Stadium, Yangsan

3 October

19:03

China	2–0	India
Yu Tao 16', 45+1'

Yangsan Stadium, Yangsan

Kabaddi

Ram Mehar Singh
Shamsher Singh
Neer Gulia
B. C. Ramesh
Manpreet Singh
Ramesh Kumar
Sunder Singh
Jagdish Kumble
B. C. Suresh
K. K. Jagdeesha
Dinesh Kumar
Sanjeev Kumar

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	India	5	5	0	224	84	+140	10
2	Bangladesh	5	3	2	174	91	+83	6^[a]
3	Pakistan	5	3	2	87	106	−19	6^[a]
4	Japan	5	2	3	83	107	−24	4
5	Malaysia	5	1	4	65	145	−80	2^[b]
6	Sri Lanka	5	1	4	64	164	−100	2^[b]

Source: Report
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Match points difference against the teams which scored 25% or more of the league points: BAN +4, PAK −55.
^ ^a ^b Match points difference against the teams which scored 25% or more of the league points: MAS −78, SRI −102.

4 October 11:00	India	47–21	Malaysia	Tongmyong University, Busan
		(32–9)

4 October 15:00	India	53–21	Japan	Tongmyong University, Busan
		(39–3)

5 October 11:00	Bangladesh	14–37	India	Tongmyong University, Busan
		(7–24)

6 October 17:00	India	50–21	Sri Lanka	Tongmyong University, Busan
		(27–6)

7 October 14:00	India	37–7	Pakistan	Tongmyong University, Busan
		(23–4)

Final standing

Team	Pld	W	L
India	5	5	0
Bangladesh	5	3	2
Pakistan	5	3	2

Volleyball

Men

Team

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	South Korea	4	4	0	8	12	0	MAX	302	198	1.525
2	Iran	4	3	1	7	9	5	1.800	327	301	1.086
3	India	4	2	2	6	8	6	1.333	336	308	1.091
4	Qatar	4	1	3	5	3	10	0.300	251	305	0.823
5	Macau	4	0	4	4	1	12	0.083	214	318	0.673

Source: Results

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
02 Oct	16:00	South Korea	3–0	India	25–22	25–17	27–25			77–64
03 Oct	16:00	India	2–3	Iran	20–25	23–25	39–37	28–26	12–15	122–128
04 Oct	12:00	Macau	0–3	India	13–25	16–25	21–25			50–75
08 Oct	10:00	India	3–0	Qatar	25–22	25–17	25–14			75–53

Rank round

5th–8th place		5th–6th place

10 October

Chinese Taipei	3
		12 October
Qatar	0
		Chinese Taipei	1
10 October
		India	3
India	3

Pakistan	0

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Oct	12:00	India	3–0	Pakistan	25–15	25–17	25–15			75–47

5th–6th place

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
12 Oct	14:00	Chinese Taipei	1–3	India	23–25	21–25	25–18	32–34		101–102

References

^ "75 years of independence, 75 iconic moments from Indian sports: No 21 - Shiv Kapur's golf gold at 2002 Asian Games". Retrieved 8 April 2023.
^ "ASIAN GAMES BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA:India: Ranked 7". Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
^ Regulations

[table_hth_BAN0.64996714454608-4] Match points difference against the teams which scored 25% or more of the league points: BAN +4, PAK −55.

[table_hth_MAS0.64996714454608-5] Match points difference against the teams which scored 25% or more of the league points: MAS −78, SRI −102.

[1] "75 years of independence, 75 iconic moments from Indian sports: No 21 - Shiv Kapur's golf gold at 2002 Asian Games". Retrieved 8 April 2023.

[2] "ASIAN GAMES BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA:India: Ranked 7". Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

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