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
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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. ^[1]

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 Laser	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Boys' Optimist	●●	●	●●●		●●	●	●●
Men's 420	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Men's 470	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Women's Mistral	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Women's Europe	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Girls' Optimist	●●	●	●●●		●●	●	●●
Women's 420	●●	●	●●●		●	●●	●●
Open Laser Radial	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Open OK	●●	●	●●●		●●	●●	●
Open Enterprise	●●	●	●●●		●	●●	●●

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral light details	Zhou Yuanguo   China	Arun Homraruen   Thailand	Ikuo Inoue   Japan
Mistral heavy details	Oka Sulaksana   Indonesia	Mo Zehai   China	Motokazu Kenjo   Japan
Raceboard light details	Ok Duck-pil   South Korea	Gao Chuanwei   China	Chan King Yin   Hong Kong
Raceboard heavy details	Sun Maochun   China	Suhaimee Moohammadkasem   Thailand	Hong A-ram   South Korea
Laser details	Kim Ho-kon   South Korea	Kevin Lim   Malaysia	Kunio Suzuki   Japan
Optimist details	Shibuki Iitsuka   Japan	Zhu Ye   China	Teo Wee Chin   Singapore
420 details	South Korea Lee Dong-woo Park Jong-woo	Thailand Damrongsak Vongtim Sittisak Musikul	China Tang Mingfeng Ma Zhicheng
470 details	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 details	Lee Lai Shan   Hong Kong	Yin Jian   China	Masako Imai   Japan
Europe details	Lu Chunfeng   China	Maiko Sato   Japan	Hong Jin-young   South Korea
Optimist details	Xu Lijia   China	Yoko Kiuchi   Japan	Sarah Tan   Singapore
420 details	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 details	Shen Sheng   China	Kim Jung-gon   South Korea	Rajesh Choudhary   India
OK details	Jin Hong-chul   South Korea	Nitin Mongia   India	Veerasit Puangnak   Thailand
Enterprise details	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

1. "XIV Asian Games – Sailing – Final Report". Asian Yachting. Retrieved 2 June 2014.

• 2002 Asian Games Report, Pages 572–586

External links

• Official website