Sailing at the 2002 Asian Games

Sailing
at the 2002 Asian Games
Sailing ; at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Busan Yachting Center
Dates	3–9 October
Competitors	128 from 16 nations
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Sailing was contested at the 2002 Asian Games from October 3 to October 9. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Busan Yachting Center. 15 Gold medals were awarded in the various classes competing, from the Olympic 470 and Mistral to the Junior Optimist, in a regatta that saw very few of the eleven scheduled races not completed for all classes.^[1]

Schedule[]

●	Round	●	Last round

Event↓/Date →	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed
Men's Mistral light	●●	●	●●●	●	●●●	●
Men's Mistral heavy	●●	●	●●●	●	●●●	●
Men's Raceboard light	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●
Men's Raceboard heavy	●●	●	●●●	●	●●	●●
Men's Optimist	●●	●	●●●	●●	●	●●
Men's Laser	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●
Men's 420	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●
Men's 470	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●
Women's Mistral	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●
Women's Optimist	●●	●	●●●	●●	●	●●
Women's Europe	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●
Women's 420	●●	●	●●●	●	●●	●●
Open Laser Radial	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●
Open OK	●●	●	●●●	●●	●●	●
Open Enterprise	●●	●	●●●	●	●●	●●

Medalists[]

Men[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral light details	Zhou Yuanguo China	Arun Homraruen Thailand	Japan
Mistral heavy details	Oka Sulaksana Indonesia	China	Motokazu Kenjo Japan
Raceboard light details	Ok Duck-pil South Korea	China	Chan King Yin Hong Kong
Raceboard heavy details	China	Thailand	South Korea
Optimist details	Shibuki Iitsuka Japan	China	Singapore
Laser details	Kim Ho-kon South Korea	Kevin Lim Malaysia	Kunio Suzuki Japan
420 details	South Korea	Thailand	China
470 details	South Korea Jung Sung-ahn Kim Dae-young	Japan Kazuto Seki Kenjiro Todoroki	Singapore Tan Wearn Haw

Women[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral details	Lee Lai Shan Hong Kong	Yin Jian China	Masako Imai Japan
Optimist details	Xu Lijia China	Japan	Singapore
Europe details	China	Maiko Sato Japan	South Korea
420 details	China Song Xiaqun	South Korea	Singapore Toh Liying

Open[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Laser Radial details	Shen Sheng China	South Korea	Rajesh Choudhary India
OK details	South Korea	India	Veerasit Puangnak Thailand
Enterprise details	South Korea	Pakistan	India Mahesh Ramchandran

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	6	4	1	11
2	South Korea (KOR)	6	2	2	10
3	Japan (JPN)	1	3	4	8
4	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	1	2
5	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	0	1
6	Thailand (THA)	0	3	1	4
7	India (IND)	0	1	2	3
8	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
8	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	0	1
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	0	4	4
Totals (10 nations)		15	15	15	45