Basketball at the 2002 Asian Games

Basketball was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea between 28 September and 14 October 2002. The competition took place at Geumjeong Gymnasium and Sajik Arena.

Basketball at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Geumjeong Gymnasium Sajik Arena
Date	28 September – 14 October 2002
Competitors	213 from 14 nations

Schedule

P

Preliminary round

S

Second round

C

Classification

½

Semifinals

B

Bronze medal match

G

Gold medal match

Event↓/Date →	28th Sat	29th Sun	30th Mon	1st Tue	2nd Wed	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	6th Sun	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed	10th Thu	11th Fri	12th Sat	13th Sun	14th Mon
Men	P	P	P		S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	C		½	B	G
Women						P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P		½	B	G

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	South Korea Choo Seung-gyun Shin Ki-sung Kim Seung-hyun Cho Sang-hyun Lee Kyu-sup Hyun Joo-yup Moon Kyung-eun Seo Jang-hoon Bang Sung-yoon Chun Hee-chul Lee Sang-min Kim Joo-sung	China Guo Shiqiang Liu Wei Gong Xiaobin Zhang Cheng Hu Weidong Chen Ke Li Nan Liu Yudong Zhu Fangyu Yao Ming Mengke Bateer Du Feng	Kazakhstan Roman Muravyov Fedor Zakharchenko Alexey Yeropkin Vitaliy Lopatin Alexandr Yemelyanov Mikhail Dedov Yevgeniy Issakov Sergey Vdovin Vitaliy Strebkov Yevgeniy Ovsyannikov Alexandr Derbush Boris Tikhonenko
Women	China Song Xiaoyun Zhang Hanlan Pan Wei Miao Bo Miao Lijie Ren Lei Sui Feifei Liu Xiaohong Chen Luyun Zhang Xiaoni Chen Xiaoli Chen Nan	South Korea Kim Yeong-ok Chun Joo-weon Kim Ji-yoon Lee Eun-ju Jang Sun-hyoung Lee Mi-sun Beon Yeon-ha Park Jung-eun Hong Hyun-hee Lee Jong-ae Jung Sun-min Kim Kwe-ryong	Chinese Taipei Chu Yung-hsu Chien Wei-chuan Chiang Feng-chun Mai Ya-hui Chao Pi-feng Huang Shiau-jie Chang Hui-yin Cheng Hui-yun Tsai Pei-ying Tang Su-tuan Chen Yi-ju Liu Chun-yi

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
3	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1998 Asian Games.

Men

Group A

• China (1)
• Hong Kong (11)
• Lebanon*

Group B

• South Korea (2)
• Japan (10)
• Kuwait*
• Mongolia

Group C

• Philippines (3)
• United Arab Emirates (8)
• India*

Group D

• Kazakhstan (4)
• Chinese Taipei (5)
• Qatar

* Lebanon and India withdrew, India was replaced by North Korea and Kuwait moved to Group A to balance the number of teams in each group.

Women

Group A

• Japan (1)
• Chinese Taipei (4)
• Lebanon*
• India*

Group B

• China (2)
• South Korea (3)
• Malaysia
• Uzbekistan

* Lebanon and India withdrew, The remaining teams played in a round-robin competition.

Final standing

Men

Further information: Basketball at the 2002 Asian Games – Men

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	South Korea	7	7	0
	China	7	6	1
	Kazakhstan	7	4	3
4	Philippines	7	4	3
5	North Korea	6	3	3
6	Japan	6	2	4
7	Chinese Taipei	6	2	4
8	Hong Kong	6	1	5
9	Qatar	5	4	1
10	Kuwait	5	2	3
11	United Arab Emirates	5	1	4
12	Mongolia	5	0	5

Women

Further information: Basketball at the 2002 Asian Games – Women

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	7	7	0
	South Korea	7	5	2
	Chinese Taipei	7	4	3
4	Japan	7	2	5
5	Uzbekistan	5	1	4
6	Malaysia	5	0	5

References

• Results Men
• Results Women

External links

• Official website