Karate at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Yangsan College Gymnasium
Dates	11–12 October 2002
Competitors	117 from 30 nations
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Karate was competed by men and women at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. Kata was contested along with Kumite. There were 11 gold medals contested for this sport. All competition took place at the Yangsan College Gymnasium on October 11 and 12. Each country was limited to having 5 athletes.

Schedule

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Yukimitsu Hasegawa  Japan	Wong Pak Cheong  Macau	Rayappan Jebamalai Edward  Sri Lanka
			Ku Jin Keat  Malaysia
Kumite −55 kg details	Puvaneswaran Ramasamy  Malaysia	Otabek Kasimov  Uzbekistan	Bambang Maulidin  Indonesia
			Phạm Trần Nguyên  Vietnam
Kumite −60 kg details	Kenichi Imai  Japan	Hossein Rouhani  Iran	Ilkhom Karimov  Uzbekistan
			Hussain Al-Qattan  Kuwait
Kumite −65 kg details	Hasan Basri  Indonesia	Mehdi Amouzadeh  Iran	Shao Chih-kang  Chinese Taipei
			Nayef Al-Matrouk  Kuwait
Kumite −70 kg details	Alireza Katiraei  Iran	Shattyk Kazhymukanov  Kazakhstan	Hsu Hsiang-ming  Chinese Taipei
			Magid Adwan  Qatar
Kumite −75 kg details	Ahmad Muneer  Kuwait	Jasem Vishkaei  Iran	Tong Kit Siong  Brunei
			Kim Byung-chul  South Korea
Kumite +75 kg details	Mehran Behnamfar  Iran	Andrey Korolev  Kazakhstan	Jaber Al-Hammad  Kuwait
			Isroil Ismoilov  Tajikistan

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Atsuko Wakai  Japan	Lim Lee Lee  Malaysia	Cheung Pui Si  Macau
			Cherli Tugday  Philippines
Kumite −53 kg details	Vũ Kim Anh  Vietnam	Eri Fujioka  Japan	Murugaiyan Srirajarajeswari  Malaysia
			Hsieh Ai-chen  Chinese Taipei
Kumite −60 kg details	Premila Supramaniam  Malaysia	Chan Ka Man  Hong Kong	Kwan Man Fei  Macau
			Gretchen Malalad  Philippines
Kumite +60 kg details	Nguyễn Trọng Bảo Ngọc  Vietnam	Sofiya Kaspulatova  Uzbekistan	Natalya Solodilova  Kazakhstan
			Emiko Honma  Japan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	3	1	1	5
2	Iran (IRI)	2	3	0	5
3	Malaysia (MAS)	2	1	2	5
4	Vietnam (VIE)	2	0	1	3
5	Kuwait (KUW)	1	0	3	4
6	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	1	2
7	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	2	1	3
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	2	1	3
9	Macau (MAC)	0	1	2	3
10	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	0	1
11	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	3	3
12	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	2	2
13	Brunei (BRU)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		11	11	22	44

Participating nations

A total of 117 athletes from 30 nations competed in karate at the 2002 Asian Games: