| Sailing at the 2002 Asian Games | |
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| 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. [1]
| ● | Round | ● | 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 | ●● | ● | ●●● | ● | ●● | ●● |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
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