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{{Infobox Athletics Championships
|Name = 2002 Asian Championships
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|Size = 220
|Host city = {{flagicon|SRI}} [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]]
|Optional caption = 
|Nations participating =
|Athletes participating =
|Events = 43
|Dates = 9–12 August
|Stadium =
|Previous = [[2000 Asian Athletics Championships|Jakarta 2000]]
|Next = [[2003 Asian Athletics Championships|Manila 2003]]
}}
'''The 14th [[Asian Athletics Championships]]''' were held in [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]] on 9–12 August 2002.

==Results==
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=== Men ===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|100 metres|Men}}
| [[Jamal Al-Saffar]] <br> {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}} || 10.43
| [[Gennadiy Chernovol]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 10.50
| [[Salem Mubarak Al-Yami]] <br> {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}} || 10.52
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|200 metres|Men}}
| [[Gennadiy Chernovol]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 20.73
| [[Fawzi Al-Shammari]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kuwait}} || 20.92
| [[Sittichai Suwonprateep]] <br> {{flagcountry|Thailand}} || 21.04
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|400 metres|Men}}
| [[Fawzi Al-Shammari]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kuwait}} || 45.21
| [[Hamdan Obah Al-Bishi]] <br> {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}} || 45.43
| [[Sugath Tillakaratne]] <br> {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}} || 45.73
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|800 metres|Men}}
| [[Mihail Kolganov]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 1:48.91
| [[Salem Amer Al-Badri]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 1:48.95
| [[Adam Abdu Adam Ali]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 1:49.25
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|1500 metres|Men}}
| [[Abdulrahman Sulaiman]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 3:45.98
| [[Rashid Ramzi]] <br> {{flagcountry|Bahrain}} || 3:46.41
| [[Jamal Noor Yousef]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 3:46.85
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|5000 metres|Men}}
| [[Khamis Seif Abdullah]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 14:16.81
| [[Abdulhak Zakaria]] <br>  {{flagcountry|Bahrain}} || 14:19.92
| [[Nasser Sulaiman]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 14:19.97
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|10,000 metres|Men}}
| [[Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 30:19.62
| [[Aman Majid Awadh]] <br>  {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 30:21.05
| [[Jagannath Lakade]] <br> {{flagcountry|India}} || 30:39.44
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|3000 metres steeplechase|Men}}
| [[Khamis Seif Abdullah]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 8:16.0
| [[Saad Shadad Al-Asmari]] <br> {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}} || 8:16.7
| [[Ali Abu Bakr Kamal]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 8:37.4
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|110 metres hurdles|Men}}
| [[Liu Xiang (hurdler)|Liu Xiang]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 13.56
| [[Mubarak Ata Mubarak]] <br> {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}} || 13.96
| [[Mohamed Faiz]] <br> {{flagcountry|Malaysia}} || 14.33
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|400 metres hurdles|Men}}
| [[Mubarak Al-Nubi]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 48.67 CR
| [[Hideaki Kawamura]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 48.85
| [[Yevgeniy Meleshenko]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 49.56
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|20 kilometres walk|Men}}
| [[Eiichi Yoshizawa]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 1:26:51
| [[Toshihito Fujinohara]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 1:28:06
| [[Shin Il-yong]] <br> {{flagcountry|South Korea}} || 1:31:07
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|4 × 100 metres relay|Men}}
|  {{flagcountry|Thailand}}<br />[[Sittichai Suwonprateep]]<br />[[Ekkachai Janthana]]<br />[[Vissanu Sophanich]]<br />[[Reanchai Srihawong]] || 38.99
|  {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}}<br />[[Khalifa Al-Sagar]]<br />[[Salem Al-Yami]]<br />[[Mubarak Mubarak]]<br />[[Jamal Al-Saffar]] || 39.16 
|  {{flagcountry|Qatar}}<br />[[Mohd Sultan Al-Sheeb]]<br />[[Khalid Yousuf Al-Obaidi]]<br />[[Abdullah Khamis Al-Hamad]]<br />[[Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi]] || 39.39
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|4 × 400 metres relay|Men}}
|  {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}}<br>[[Rohan Pradeep Kumara]]<br>[[Ranga Wimalawansa]]<br>[[Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara|Prasanna Amarasekara]]<br>[[Sugath Thilakaratne]] || 3:03.35
|  {{flagcountry|India}}<br />[[Satbir Singh (athlete)|Satbir Singh]]<br />[[K. Suresh]]<br />[[Anil Kumar Rohil]]<br />[[Jata Shankar]] || 3:06.76
|  {{flagcountry|Japan}}<br>[[Suguru Matsumoto]]<br />[[Yukihiro Mukai]]<br />[[Yoshihiro Chiba]]<br />[[Hideaki Kawamura]] || 3:07.09
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|High jump|Men}}
| [[Cui Kai]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 2.19
| [[Salem Nasser Bakhit]] <br> {{flagcountry|Bahrain}} || 2.15
| [[Loo Kum Zee]] <br> {{flagcountry|Malaysia}} || 2.15
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Pole vault|Men}}
| [[Daichi Sawano]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 5.40 
| [[Kim Se-in]] <br> {{flagcountry|South Korea}} || 5.40
| [[Grigoriy Yegorov]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 5.20
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Long jump|Men}}
| [[Hussein Taher Al-Sabee]] <br> {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}} || 8.09
| [[Cai Xiaobao]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 7.95w
| [[Huang Le]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 7.91w
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Triple jump|Men}}
| [[Mouled Salem Al-Ahmadi]] <br> {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}} || 16.61
| [[Kazuyoshi Ishikawa]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 16.42
| [[Mohammed Hamdi Awadh]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 16.18
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Shot put|Men}}
| [[Bilal Saad Mubarak]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 19.22
| [[Navpreet Singh]] <br> {{flagcountry|India}} || 18.97
| [[Kim Jae-il]] <br> {{flagcountry|South Korea}} || 17.98
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Discus throw|Men}}
| [[Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 64.43 CR
| [[Abbas Samimi]] <br> {{flagcountry|Iran}} || 60.49
| [[Nuer Maimaiti]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 60.39
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Hammer throw|Men}}
| [[Koji Murofushi]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 80.45 CR
| [[Hiroaki Doi]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 70.27
| [[Viktor Ustinov]] <br> {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}} || 69.25
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Javelin throw|Men}}
| [[Li Rongxiang]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 82.75 CR
| [[Sergey Voynov]] <br> {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}} || 79.70
| [[Park Jae-myong]] <br> {{flagcountry|South Korea}} || 79.22
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Decathlon|Men}}
| [[Ahmed Hassan Moussa (athlete)|Ahmed Hassan Moussa]] <br> {{flagcountry|Qatar}} || 7670 pts
| [[Pavel Andreev (decathlete)|Pavel Andreev]] <br> {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}} || 7428 pts 
| [[Takuro Hirata]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 7344 pts 
|- bgcolor= e8e8e8
|colspan=7|{{Sports record codes}}
|}

=== Women ===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|100 metres|Women}}
| [[Susanthika Jayasinghe]] <br> {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}} || 11.29 CR
| [[Qin Wangping]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 11.56
| [[Lyubov Perepelova]] <br> {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}} || 11.60
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|200 metres|Women}}
| [[Susanthika Jayasinghe]] <br> {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}} || 22.84 =CR
| [[Lyubov Perepelova]] <br> {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}} || 23.76
| [[Yan Jiankui]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 23.85
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|400 metres|Women}}
| [[Tatyana Roslanova]]  <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 52.61
| [[Zamira Amirova]] <br> {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}} || 53.87
| [[Nguyen Thi Tinh]]  <br> {{flagcountry|Vietnam}} || 54.57
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|800 metres|Women}}
| [[Miho Sato|Miho Sugimori]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 2:03.59
| [[Tatyana Borisova]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kyrgyzstan}} || 2:03.67
| [[Zamira Amirova]] <br> {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}} || 2:04.48
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|1500 metres|Women}}
| [[Tatyana Borisova]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kyrgyzstan}} || 4:16.27
| [[Svetlana Lukasheva]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 4:18.63
| [[Mizuho Nasukawa]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 4:19.27
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|5000 metres|Women}}
| [[Ham Bong-Sil]] <br> {{flagcountry|North Korea}} || 15:42.88
| [[Akiko Kawashima]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 15:44.08
| [[Mizuho Nasukawa]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 16:24.63
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|10,000 metres|Women}}
| [[Ham Bong-Sil]] <br> {{flagcountry|North Korea}} || 34:44.92
| [[Jo Bun-Hui]] <br> {{flagcountry|North Korea}} || 35:00.63
| [[Lashram Aruna Devi]] <br> {{flagcountry|India}} || 35:38.70
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|100 metres hurdles|Women}}
| [[Yvonne Kanazawa]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 13.40
| [[Sriyani Kulawansa]] <br> {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}} || 13.43
| [[Trecia Roberts]] <br> {{flagcountry|Thailand}} || 13.60
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|400 metres hurdles|Women}}
| [[Natalya Torshina]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 55.81
| [[Song Yinglan]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 56.49  
| [[Makiko Yoshida]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 57.04
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|20 kilometres walk|Women}}
| [[Gao Kelian]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 1:36:57
| [[Jian Xingli]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 1:37:02
| [[Ryoko Sakakura|Ryoko Tadamasa]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}}|| 1:42:43
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|4 × 100 metres relay|Women}}
|  {{flagcountry|China}}<br/>[[Ni Xiaoli]]<br/>[[Yan Jiankui]]<br/>[[Huang Mei]]<br/>[[Qin Wangping]] || 43.94
|  {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}}<br/>[[Guzel Khubbieva]]<br/>[[Anza Kazakova]]<br/>[[Ludmila Dmitriadi]]<br/>[[Lyubov Perepelova]] || 44.85
|  {{flagcountry|Thailand}}<br/>[[Trecia Roberts]]<br/>[[Oramoch Klomdee]]<br/>[[Supawadee Khawpeag]]<br/>[[Juthamass Thawonchavoen]] || 44.89
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|4 × 400 metres relay|Women}}
|  {{flagcountry|India}}<br />[[J.J. Shobha]]<br />[[Soma Biswas]]<br />[[Sunita Dahiya]]<br />[[Sagardeep Kaur]] || 3:37.48  
|  {{flagcountry|Japan}}<br />[[Miho Sugimori]]<br />[[Mayu Kida]]<br />[[Sakie Nobuoka]]<br />[[Makiko Yoshida]] || 3:38.29
|  {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}}<br />[[Menaka Wickremasinghe]]<br />[[Lalani Gunawardena]]<br />[[Swarnamali Edirisinghe]]<br />[[Damayanthi Dharsha]] || 3:42.71
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|High jump|Women}}
| [[Tatyana Efimenko]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kyrgyzstan}} || 1.92
| [[Bobby Aloysius]]  <br> {{flagcountry|India}} || 1.84
| [[Marina Korzhova]] <br>{{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 1.84
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Pole vault|Women}}
| [[Gao Shuying]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 4.20 CR
| [[Masumi Ono]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 4.20 CR
| [[Ni Putu Desy Margawati]] <br> {{flagcountry|Indonesia}} || 4.10 NR
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Long jump|Women}}
| [[Yelena Kashcheyeva]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 6.61
| [[Lerma Gabito]] <br> {{flagcountry|Philippines}} || 6.40w
| [[Marestella Torres]] <br> {{flagcountry|Philippines}} || 6.40w
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Triple jump|Women}}
| [[Wu Lingmei]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 13.83
| [[Mariya Sokova]] <br> {{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}} || 13.81
| [[Yelena Parfenova]]  <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 13.11
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Shot put|Women}}
| [[Juthaporn Krasaeyan]] <br> {{flagcountry|Thailand}} || 18.05
| [[Cheng Xiaoyan]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 17.39
| [[Sumi Ichioka]] <br> {{flagcountry|Japan}} || 16.12
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Discus throw|Women}}
| [[Li Yanfeng]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 60.06
| [[Harwant Kaur]] <br> {{flagcountry|India}} || 57.60
| [[Swaranjeet Kaur]] <br> {{flagcountry|India}} || 55.05
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Hammer throw|Women}}
| [[Gu Yuan]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 71.10 CR
| [[Huang Chih-Feng]] <br> {{flagcountry|TPE}} || 58.19
| [[Hardeep Kaur]] <br> {{flagcountry|India}} || 57.82
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Javelin throw|Women}}
| [[Ma Ning (javelin thrower)|Ma Ning]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 57.15
| [[Xue Juan (javelin thrower)|Xue Juan]] <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 56.04
| [[Lee Young-Sun]] <br> {{flagcountry|South Korea}} || 53.72
|-
| {{AthleticsLink|Heptathlon|Women}}
| [[Svetlana Kazanina]] <br> {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}} || 5841 pts 
| [[Jagadeeshappa Javur Shobha|J. J. Shobha]] <br> {{flagcountry|India}} || 5775 pts 
| [[Wang Hailan]]  <br> {{flagcountry|China}} || 5635 pts 
|- bgcolor= e8e8e8
|colspan=7|{{Sports record codes}}
|}

== Medal table ==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = SRI
 | flag_template  = flagcountry
 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_CHN = 10 | silver_CHN = 6 | bronze_CHN = 4
 | gold_QAT = 8 | silver_QAT = 2 | bronze_QAT = 6
 | gold_KAZ = 6 | silver_KAZ = 2 | bronze_KAZ = 4
 | gold_JPN = 5 | silver_JPN = 7 | bronze_JPN = 7
 | gold_KSA = 3 | silver_KSA = 4 | bronze_KSA = 1
 | gold_SRI = 3 | silver_SRI = 1 | bronze_SRI = 2 | host_SRI = yes
 | gold_KGZ = 2 | silver_KGZ = 1 | bronze_KGZ = 0
 | gold_PRK = 2 | silver_PRK = 1 | bronze_PRK = 0
 | gold_THA = 2 | silver_THA = 0 | bronze_THA = 3
 | gold_IND = 1 | silver_IND = 5 | bronze_IND = 4
 | gold_KUW = 1 | silver_KUW = 1 | bronze_KUW = 0
 | gold_UZB = 0 | silver_UZB = 6 | bronze_UZB = 3
 | gold_BHR = 0 | silver_BHR = 3 | bronze_BHR = 0
 | gold_KOR = 0 | silver_KOR = 1 | bronze_KOR = 4
 | gold_PHI = 0 | silver_PHI = 1 | bronze_PHI = 1
 | gold_TPE = 0 | silver_TPE = 1 | bronze_TPE = 0
 | gold_IRI = 0 | silver_IRI = 1 | bronze_IRI = 0
 | gold_MAS = 0 | silver_MAS = 0 | bronze_MAS = 2
 | gold_INA = 0 | silver_INA = 0 | bronze_INA = 1
 | gold_VIE = 0 | silver_VIE = 0 | bronze_VIE = 1
}}

==See also==
*[[2002 in athletics (track and field)]]

==References==
*[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/asc.htm Medalists at GBR Athletics]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131101085936/http://sportfieber.pytalhost.com/l/leichtathletik/2002/2002.Asian%20Championships.pdf Full results]

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