Water polo at the 2002 Asian Games

Venue	Changwon Swimming Pool
Dates	30 September – 6 October 2002
Competitors	78 from 6 nations
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Water polo was contested by men's teams at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea from September 30 to October 6, 2002. Six teams competed in two round robin groups. All games were staged at the Changwon Swimming Pool.

Schedule

P	Preliminary round	½	Semifinals	F	Finals

Event↓/Date →	30th Mon	1st Tue	2nd Wed	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	6th Sun
Men	P	P	P		½		F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Kazakhstan Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Drozdov Alexandr Gaidukov Sergey Gorovoy Askar Orazalinov Ivan Zaitsev Alexandr Shidlovskiy Alexandr Kuzov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Artemiy Sevostyanov Yuriy Smoloviy Damir Temyrkhanov Alexandr Polukhin	Japan Fumikazu Kubota Daisuke Nakagawa Satoshi Nagata Takuya Endo Koji Tanaka Masakazu Yamamoto Hiroyuki Matsubara Atsushi Naganuma Hiroshi Hoshiai Taichi Sato Yoshinori Shiota Kan Aoyagi Kenichi Sato	China Ge Weiqing Zhang Weiteng Bai Jun Yu Lijun Xu Guanghao Li Jun Li Wenhua Wang Yong Zhu Junyi Han Zhidong Gui Jiye Zhao Jinwen Liao Qiuliang

Draw

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

Group A

South Korea (Host)
China (3)
Japan
~~Sri Lanka~~*

Group B

Kazakhstan (1)
~~Uzbekistan (2)~~*
Iran
~~India~~*
Singapore

* Withdrew.

Squads

China	Iran	Japan	Kazakhstan
Ge Weiqing Zhang Weiteng Bai Jun Yu Lijun Xu Guanghao Li Jun Li Wenhua Wang Yong Zhu Junyi Han Zhidong Gui Jiye Zhao Jinwen Liao Qiuliang	Alireza Shahidipour Bahman Mouchehkiani Alireza Amirian Ahmad Nesaei Majid Gholami Vahid Rezaei Ali Saleh Saeid Mirmehdi Kambiz Rakhshanimehr Ali Akbar Shirjian Hamed Dalil-Heirati Mohsen Rezvani Meisam Jafari	Fumikazu Kubota Daisuke Nakagawa Satoshi Nagata Takuya Endo Koji Tanaka Masakazu Yamamoto Hiroyuki Matsubara Atsushi Naganuma Hiroshi Hoshiai Taichi Sato Yoshinori Shiota Kan Aoyagi Kenichi Sato	Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Drozdov Alexandr Gaidukov Sergey Gorovoy Askar Orazalinov Ivan Zaitsev Alexandr Shidlovskiy Alexandr Kuzov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Artemiy Sevostyanov Yuriy Smoloviy Damir Temyrkhanov Alexandr Polukhin
Singapore	South Korea
Ng Ker Wei Shawn Khoo Nicholas Tan Darrell Ee Lee Sai Meng Lau Chok Yee Alvin Lee Derek Lee Marcus Ng Terence Tan Matthew Lui Yip Ren Kai David Wee	Jin Man-keun Jang Dong-bok Lee Min-soo Kim Hyun-jong Maeng Sung-hoon Kim Ki-woo Kim Ji-ho Ma Jae-min Shin Kwang-ho Hong In-ki Kim Hong-ryang Lee Myung-woo Baek Won-ki

Results

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

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	2	2	0	17	14	+3	4	Semifinals
2	China	2	1	1	16	13	+3	2	Semifinals
3	South Korea	2	0	2	12	18	−6	0	5th place match

Source: Results

30 September 17:30	South Korea	7–9	Japan	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–3, 2–2, 0–2

1 October 16:00	China	7–8	Japan	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–2, 3–1, 2–2

2 October 17:30	South Korea	5–9	China	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–4, 0–0, 2–3

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kazakhstan	2	2	0	29	10	+19	4	Semifinals
2	Iran	2	1	1	17	15	+2	2	Semifinals
3	Singapore	2	0	2	9	30	−21	0	5th place match

Source: Results

30 September 16:00	Kazakhstan	17–6	Singapore	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 6–2, 3–1, 3–2, 5–1

1 October 17:30	Iran	13–3	Singapore	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 4–0, 3–1, 1–2, 5–0

2 October 16:00	Kazakhstan	12–4	Iran	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–1, 4–0, 2–2

5th place match

4 October 14:30	South Korea	11–4	Singapore	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 3–0, 3–3, 2–0, 3–1

Final round

Semifinals		Gold medal match

4 October

Japan	12
		6 October
Iran	9
		Japan	10 (4)
4 October
		Kazakhstan (p)	10 (5)
China	2

Kazakhstan	9
		Bronze medal match

		6 October

		Iran	6

		China	10

Semifinals

4 October 16:00	Japan	12–9	Iran	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–3, 4–3, 4–2

4 October 17:30	China	2–9	Kazakhstan	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–2, 0–2, 0–2

Bronze medal match

6 October 16:00	Iran	6–10	China	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–4, 0–1, 3–3, 2–2

Gold medal match

6 October 17:30	Japan	14–15	Kazakhstan	Changwon Swimming Pool, Changwon
	Score by quarters: 1–1, 3–3, 1–2, 3–2 OT: 2–2 PSO: 4–5