2002 ASIAN GAMES

The '14th Asian Games' were held in Pusan, South Korea from September 29 2002 to October 14, 2002. A total number of 6,700 athletes competed, coming from 44 countries, in this edition of the Asiad. There were 38 sporting events and 18,000 journalists, officials and athletes.
It was the first time in the history of the Asian Games that all 44 member nations of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) participated. That included North Korea, which sent an unprecedented delegation to the South (including a shipload of fans) and Afghanistan, which returned to the Asian Games for the first time since the Taliban came to power nearly a decade ago. Body building made its debut.

Contents

Participating NOCs

Medals tally

Participating NOCs

National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are named according to their official IOC designations and arranged according to their official IOC country codes in 2002.

★ Afghanistan ★ Bangladesh ★ Bhutan ★ Bahrain ★ Brunei ★ Cambodia ★ People's Republic of China ★ Hong Kong, China ★ Indonesia ★ India ★ Islamic Republic of Iran ★ Iraq ★ Jordan ★ Japan ★ Kazakhstan

★ Kyrgyzstan ★ Korea ★ Saudi Arabia ★ Kuwait ★ Lao People's Democratic Republic ★ Lebanon ★ Macau, China ★ Malaysia ★ Maldives ★ Mongolia ★ Myanmar ★ Nepal ★ Oman ★ Pakistan ★ Philippines

★ Palestine ★ Democratic People's Republic of Korea ★ Qatar ★ Singapore ★ Sri Lanka ★ Syria ★ Thailand ★ Tajikistan ★ Turkmenistan ★ Chinese Taipei ★ United Arab Emirates ★ Uzbekistan ★ Vietnam ★ Yemen

Medals tally

2002 Asian Games medal count
Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1		150	84	74	308
2	South Korea	96	80	84	260
3	Japan	44	74	72	190
4		20	26	30	76
5		15	12	24	51
6		14	19	10	43
7		10	17	25	52
8		10	12	13	35
9		9	11	13	33
10	Iran	8	14	14	36
11		7	1	1	9
12		6	8	16	30
13		5	2	10	17
14		4	7	12	23
15		4	7	7	18
16		4	6	11	21
17		4	5	8	17
18		3	7	16	26
19		3	2	2	7
20		2	4	6	12
21		2	1	5	8
22		2	1	3	6
23		1	6	6	13
24		1	5	6	12
25		1	2	1	4
26		1	1	12	14
27		1	0	0	1
28		0	2	4	6
29		0	2	2	4
30		0	2	1	3
31		0	1	0	1
32		0	0	3	3
33		0	0	3	3
34		0	0	2	2
35		0	0	2	2
36	Afghanistan	0	0	1	1
37		0	0	1	1
38		0	0	1	1
39		0	0	1	1
Total		427	421	502	1350