India at the
2002 Asian Games
IOC codeIND
NOCIndian Olympic Association
in Busan
Flag bearerDhanraj Pillay 
Medals
Ranked 7th
Gold
11
Silver
12
Bronze
13
Total
36
Asian Games appearances (overview)

India competed at the 2002 Asian Games held in Busan, South Korea. India was ranked 8th with 10 gold medals. Sunita Rani's gold and bronze medals, which she won in the women's 1,500 m and 5,000 m was reinstated after she appealed in the dope scam. India moved up to the seventh spot from the previous eighth spot in the medals table.[1][2]

Medal table

Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Athletics 7 6 4 17
Tennis 1 1 2 4
Cue Sports 1 1 1 3
Kabaddi 1 0 0 1
Golf 1 0 0 1
Shooting 0 2 0 2
Sailing 0 1 2 3
Hockey 0 1 0 1
Taekwondo 0 0 1 1
Equestrian 0 0 1 1
Rowing 0 0 1 1
Wrestling 0 0 1 1
Total 11 12 13 36

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Saraswati Saha Athletics Women's 200 metres
 Gold K. M. Beenamol Athletics Women's 400 metres
 Gold Sunita Rani Athletics Women's 1500 metres
 Gold Neelam Jaswant Singh Athletics Women's Discus Throw
 Gold Anju Bobby George Athletics Women's Long Jump
 Gold Manjeet Kaur
Soma Biswas
K. M. Beenamol
Jincy Phillip 		Athletics Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
 Gold Bahadur Singh Sagoo Athletics Men's Shot Put
 Gold Men's Team Kabaddi Men
 Gold Shiv Kapur Golf Men's Individual
 Gold Leander Paes
Mahesh Bhupathi 		Tennis Men's Double
 Gold Yasin Merchant
Rafat Habib 		Cue sports Snooker Doubles
 Silver K. M. Beenamol Athletics Women's 400 metres
 Silver Madhuri Singh Athletics Women's 800 metres
 Silver Bobby Aloysius Athletics Women's High Jump
 Silver Soma Biswas Athletics Women's Heptathlon
 Silver K. M. Binu Athletics Men's 800 metres
 Silver Purakkotte Ramachandran
K. J. Manoj Lal
Satvir Singh
Bhupinder Singh 		Athletics Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
 Silver Geet Sethi
Alok Kumar 		Cue sports English Billiards Doubles
 Silver Manavjit Singh Sandhu
Mansher Singh
Anwer Sultan 		Shooting Men's Trap Team
 Silver Anjali Bhagwat
Deepali Deshpande
Suma Shirur 		Shooting Women's 10 metre Air Rifle Team
 Silver Nitin Mongia Sailing OK Dinghy
 Silver Men's Team Hockey Men
 Silver Manisha Malhotra
Mahesh Bhupathi 		Tennis Mixed Double
 Bronze Sunita Rani Athletics Women's 5000 metres
 Bronze J. J. Shobha Athletics Women's Heptathlon
 Bronze Shakti Singh Athletics Men's Shot Put
 Bronze Anil Kumar Athletics Men's Discus Throw
 Bronze Vishal Uppal
Mustafa Ghouse 		Tennis Men's Double
 Bronze Leander Paes
Sania Mirza 		Tennis Mixed Double
 Bronze Geet Sethi Cue sports English Billiards Singles
 Bronze Palwinder Singh Cheema Wrestling Men's freestyle 120 kg
 Bronze Jenil Krishnan
Inderpal Singh
Roshan Lal
Paulose Pandari Kunnel 		Rowing Men's Coxless Four
 Bronze Indrajit Lamba
Bhagirath Singh
Rajesh Pattu
Deep Kumar Ahlawat 		Equestrian Team Eventing
 Bronze Rajesh Choudhary Sailing Laser Radial
 Bronze Aashim Mongia
Mahesh Ramchandran 		Sailing Enterprise
 Bronze Surendra Bhandari Taekwondo Men's 58 kg

Athletics

Men

Track & road events

Athletes Event Heats Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Anand Menezes 200 m 21.53 5 Q 21.77 8 did not advance
Purukottam Ramachandran 400 m 46.79 2 Q 47.42 4 Q 46.15 5
Paramjit Singh 47.58 4 Q 47.50 5 did not advance
K.M. Binu 800 m 1:47.63 2 Q — 1:47.57 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Kuldeep Kumar 1500 m — 3:49.37 7
Gulab Chand 10000 m DNF
Anil Kumar Prakash
Clifford Joshua (H)
Piyush Kumar
Sanjay Ghosh
Anand Menezes 		Men's 4 × 100 metres relay 39.71 3 Q — 39.36 4
Bhupinder Singh
Purukottam Ramachandran
Paramjit Singh (H)
Jata Shankar (H)
Manoj Lal
Satvir Singh 		Men's 4 × 400 metres relay 3:06.14 2 Q — 3:04.22 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Field events

Athletes Event Final
Result Rank
Anil Kumar Discus Throw 59.81 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Shakti Singh Shot Put 18.27 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Bahadur Singh Sagoo 19.03 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Harminder Singh Javelin Throw 75.93 6
Pramod Tiwari Hammer Throw 64.54 6

Badminton

Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank
Abhinn Shyam Gupta Men's Singles  Hendrawan (INA)
L 0-2(5-15,5-15) 		did not advance
Pullela Gopichand  Francisco Yong (TMP)
W 2-0(15-0,15-0) 		 Boonsak Ponsana (THA)
W 2-0(17-15,15-6) 		 Shon Seung-mo (KOR)
L 0-2(9-15,11-15) 		did not advance

Field hockey

Men

Team

Preliminary

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
 South Korea 3 2 1 0 19 2 +17 7 Semifinals
 India 3 2 1 0 9 2 +7 7 Semifinals
 Japan 3 1 0 2 4 10 −6 3
 Hong Kong 3 0 0 3 5 23 −18 0
30 September
10:00
India  5–1  Hong Kong
Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan
2 October
12:30
India  3–0  Japan
Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan
4 October
15:00
South Korea  1–1  India
Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan

Knockout round

Semifinals

10 October
14:00
Pakistan  3–4  India
Abbas field hockey ball 10', 26'
Sh. Muhammad field hockey ball 63' 		Report Pillay field hockey ball 6', 21'
D. Singh field hockey ball 41'
GA Singh field hockey ball 67'
Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan
Umpires:
Murray Grime (AUS)

Final

12 October
15:00
South Korea  1st place, gold medalist(s) 4–3  India 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Keon-wook field hockey ball 24'
Woon-kon field hockey ball 30', 68'
Seung-tae field hockey ball 44' 		Report J. Singh field hockey ball 48', 60'
GA Singh field hockey ball 53'
Gangseo Hockey Stadium, Busan
Umpires:
Colin Hutchinson (IRE)

Women

Team

Preliminary round

Pool

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  South Korea (H) 3 2 0 1 8 4 +4 6 Gold-medal match
2  China 3 2 0 1 5 2 +3 6
3  Japan 3 2 0 1 7 6 +1 6 Bronze-medal match
4  India 3 0 0 3 2 10 −8 0
Source: Reddif
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.[3]
(H) Hosts

Fixtures

5 October 2002
12:30
China  2–0  India
Chen Z. field hockey ball 38', 61' Report
7 October 2002
15:00
India  0–5  South Korea
Report Oh field hockey ball 32'
Kim J. field hockey ball 48'
Lee M. field hockey ball 59'
Kim E. field hockey ball 61', 67'
9 October 2002
15:00
India  2–3  Japan
Suman field hockey ball 59'
Jyoti field hockey ball 66' 		Report Miura field hockey ball 19', 69'
Kato field hockey ball 63'

Final round

Bronze-medal match

11 October 2002
12:00
Japan  2–0  India
Morimoto field hockey ball 29', 44' Report

Football

Men

Team Coach: England Stephen Constantine

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Club
1 1GK Rajat Ghosh Dastidar (1979-10-08)8 October 1979 (aged 22) India Mohun Bagan
3 2DF Satish Kumar Bharti (1982-01-26)26 January 1982 (aged 20) India Mohun Bagan
4 2DF Debjit Ghosh (1974-02-23)23 February 1974 (aged 28) India Mohun Bagan
6 3MF Shanmugam Venkatesh (1978-11-21)21 November 1978 (aged 23) India East Bengal
7 3MF Tomba Singh (1982-04-03)3 April 1982 (aged 20) India Salgaocar
8 3MF Renedy Singh (1979-06-20)20 June 1979 (aged 23) India Mohun Bagan
9 4FW Abhishek Yadav (1980-06-10)10 June 1980 (aged 22) India Mahindra United
10 4FW Bijen Singh (1979-02-10)10 February 1979 (aged 23) India Dempo
11 3MF Jo Paul Ancheri (1975-08-02)2 August 1975 (aged 27) India JCT Mills
12 4FW Alex Ambrose (1982-09-08)8 September 1982 (aged 20) India Salgaocar
13 2DF Manitombi Singh (1981-06-10)10 June 1981 (aged 21) India Salgaocar
14 2DF Mahesh Gawli (1980-01-23)23 January 1980 (aged 22) India Churchill Brothers
15 4FW Bhaichung Bhutia (1976-12-15)15 December 1976 (aged 25) India Mohun Bagan
16 2DF Samir Subash Naik (1979-08-08)8 August 1979 (aged 23) India Dempo
17 2DF Deepak Mondal (1979-10-12)12 October 1979 (aged 22) India East Bengal
18 3MF Krishnan Nair Ajayan (1979-05-30)30 May 1979 (aged 23) India State Bank of Travancore
19 4FW Parveen Kumar (1980-07-02)2 July 1980 (aged 22) India Punjab Police
20 1GK Sangram Mukherjee (1981-11-06)6 November 1981 (aged 20) India East Bengal
21 1GK Naseem Akhtar (1980-07-10)10 July 1980 (aged 22) India Mahindra United

Preliminary round

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  China 3 3 0 0 9 0 +9 9
2  India 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
3  Turkmenistan 3 1 0 2 4 8 −4 3
4  Bangladesh 3 0 0 3 1 9 −8 0
Source: RSSSF
India 3–0 Bangladesh
Bhutia 46', 65'
R. Singh 66'
Munsu Football Stadium, Ulsan
Turkmenistan 1–3 India
W. Baýramow 21' Bhutia 53', 77'
Yadav 56'
Yangsan Stadium, Yangsan
China 2–0 India
Yu Tao 16', 45+1'
Yangsan Stadium, Yangsan


Kabaddi

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1  India 5 5 0 0 224 84 +140 10
2  Bangladesh 5 3 0 2 174 91 +83 6[a]
3  Pakistan 5 3 0 2 87 106 −19 6[a]
4  Japan 5 2 0 3 83 107 −24 4
5  Malaysia 5 1 0 4 65 145 −80 2[b]
6  Sri Lanka 5 1 0 4 64 164 −100 2[b]
Source: Report
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Match points difference against the teams which scored 25% or more of the league points: BAN +4, PAK −55.
  2. ^ a b Match points difference against the teams which scored 25% or more of the league points: MAS −78, SRI −102.
4 October
11:00 		India  47–21  Malaysia Tongmyong University, Busan
(32–9)
4 October
15:00 		India  53–21  Japan Tongmyong University, Busan
(39–3)
5 October
11:00 		Bangladesh  14–37  India Tongmyong University, Busan
(7–24)
6 October
17:00 		India  50–21  Sri Lanka Tongmyong University, Busan
(27–6)
7 October
14:00 		India  37–7  Pakistan Tongmyong University, Busan
(23–4)

Final standing

Rank Team Pld W D L
1st place, gold medalist(s)  India 5 5 0 0
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Bangladesh 5 3 0 2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Pakistan 5 3 0 2

Volleyball

Men

Team

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR
1  South Korea 4 4 0 8 12 0 MAX 302 198 1.525
2  Iran 4 3 1 7 9 5 1.800 327 301 1.086
3  India 4 2 2 6 8 6 1.333 336 308 1.091
4  Qatar 4 1 3 5 3 10 0.300 251 305 0.823
5  Macau 4 0 4 4 1 12 0.083 214 318 0.673
Source: Results
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total
02 Oct 16:00 South Korea  3–0  India 25–22 25–17 27–25     77–64
03 Oct 16:00 India  2–3  Iran 20–25 23–25 39–37 28–26 12–15 122–128
04 Oct 12:00 Macau  0–3  India 13–25 16–25 21–25     50–75
08 Oct 10:00 India  3–0  Qatar 25–22 25–17 25–14     75–53

Rank round

 
5th–8th place5th–6th place
 
      
 
10 October
 
 
 Chinese Taipei3
 
12 October
 
 Qatar0
 
 Chinese Taipei1
 
10 October
 
 India3
 
 India3
 
 
 Pakistan0
 

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total
10 Oct 12:00 India  3–0  Pakistan 25–15 25–17 25–15     75–47

5th–6th place

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total
12 Oct 14:00 Chinese Taipei  1–3  India 23–25 21–25 25–18 32–34   101–102

References

  1. ^ "75 years of independence, 75 iconic moments from Indian sports: No 21 - Shiv Kapur's golf gold at 2002 Asian Games". Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  2. ^ "ASIAN GAMES BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA:India: Ranked 7". Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  3. ^ Regulations
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