Karate at the 2002 Asian Games

Karate at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Yangsan College Gymnasium
Dates	October 11–12, 2002
Competitors	117 from 30 nations
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Karate was competed by men and women at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. Kata was contested along with Kumite. There were 11 gold medals contested for this sport. All competition took place at the Yangsan College Gymnasium on October 11 and 12. Each country was limited to having 5 athletes.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Yukimitsu Hasegawa  Japan	Wong Pak Cheong  Macau	Rayappan Jebamalai Edward  Sri Lanka
			Ku Jin Keat  Malaysia
Kumite −55 kg	Puvaneswaran Ramasamy  Malaysia	Otabek Kasimov  Uzbekistan	Bambang Maulidin  Indonesia
			Phạm Trần Nguyên  Vietnam
Kumite −60 kg	Kenichi Imai  Japan	Hossein Rouhani  Iran	Ilkhom Karimov  Uzbekistan
			Hussain Al-Qattan  Kuwait
Kumite −65 kg	Hasan Basri  Indonesia	Mehdi Amouzadeh  Iran	Shao Chih-kang  Chinese Taipei
			Nayef Al-Mutairi  Kuwait
Kumite −70 kg	Alireza Katiraei  Iran	Shattyk Kazhymukanov  Kazakhstan	Hsu Hsiang-ming  Chinese Taipei
			Magid Adwan  Qatar
Kumite −75 kg	Ahmad Munir  Kuwait	Jasem Vishgahi  Iran	Tong Kit Siong  Brunei
			Kim Byung-chul  South Korea
Kumite +75 kg	Mehran Behnamfar  Iran	Andrey Korolev  Kazakhstan	Jaber Al-Hammad  Kuwait
			Isroil Ismoilov  Tajikistan

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Atsuko Wakai  Japan	Lim Lee Lee  Malaysia	Cheung Pui Si  Macau
			Cherli Tugday  Philippines
Kumite −53 kg	Vũ Kim Anh  Vietnam	Eri Fujioka  Japan	Murugaiyan Srirajarajeswari  Malaysia
			Hsieh Ai-chen  Chinese Taipei
Kumite −60 kg	Premila Supramaniam  Malaysia	Chan Ka Man  Hong Kong	Kwan Man Fei  Macau
			Gretchen Malalad  Philippines
Kumite +60 kg	Nguyễn Trọng Bảo Ngọc  Vietnam	Sofiya Kaspulatova  Uzbekistan	Natalya Solodilova  Kazakhstan
			Emiko Honma  Japan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	1	1	5
2	Iran	2	3	0	5
3	Malaysia	2	1	2	5
4	Vietnam	2	0	1	3
5	Kuwait	1	0	3	4
6	Indonesia	1	0	1	2
7	Kazakhstan	0	2	1	3
	Uzbekistan	0	2	1	3
9	Macau	0	1	2	3
10	Hong Kong	0	1	0	1
11	Chinese Taipei	0	0	3	3
12	Philippines	0	0	2	2
13	Brunei	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
Total		11	11	22	44

Participating nations

A total of 117 athletes from 30 nations competed in karate at the 2002 Asian Games:

• Afghanistan (1)
• Brunei (5)
• Chinese Taipei (5)
• Hong Kong (4)
• India (2)
• Indonesia (5)
• Iran (5)
• Japan (5)
• Jordan (2)
• Kazakhstan (5)
• Kuwait (5)
• Laos (1)
• Macau (5)
• Malaysia (5)
• Nepal (5)
• North Korea (5)
• Pakistan (2)
• Palestine (3)
• Philippines (5)
• Qatar (5)
• South Korea (5)
• Sri Lanka (4)
• Syria (2)
• Tajikistan (5)
• Thailand (2)
• Timor-Leste (2)
• United Arab Emirates (5)
• Uzbekistan (5)
• Vietnam (5)
• Yemen (2)

References

• 2002 Asian Games Report, Pages 476–486

External links

• Official website