Canoeing at the 2002 Asian Games

Canoeing and Kayaking were held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea from October 10 to October 12. Men's and women's competition were held in Kayak and men's competition in Canoe with all events having taken place at the Nakdong River Rowing and Canoeing Courses. The competition included only flatwater events.

Canoeing at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Nakdong River
Dates	10–12 October 2002
Competitors	107 from 14 nations
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Schedule

H

Heats

S

Semifinal

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	10th Thu	11th Fri		12th Sat
Men's C-1 500 m				F
Men's C-1 1000 m	F
Men's C-2 500 m				F
Men's C-2 1000 m	F
Men's K-1 500 m				F
Men's K-1 1000 m	F
Men's K-2 500 m				F
Men's K-2 1000 m	F
Men's K-4 500 m				F
Men's K-4 1000 m	F
Women's K-1 500 m		H	S	F
Women's K-2 500 m				F
Women's K-4 500 m				F

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 m details	Meng Guanliang  China	Park Chang-kyu  South Korea	Kaisar Nurmaganbetov  Kazakhstan
C-1 1000 m details	Meng Guanliang  China	Kaisar Nurmaganbetov  Kazakhstan	Dmitriy Kovalenko  Uzbekistan
C-2 500 m details	China Wang Bing Yang Wenjun	Kazakhstan Alexandr Buglakov Alexey Cherchenko	South Korea Jun Kwang-rak Park Chang-kyu
C-2 1000 m details	China Wang Bing Yang Wenjun	Japan Taito Ambo Masanobu Ozono	South Korea Lee Byung-tak Lee Seung-woo
K-1 500 m details	Anton Ryakhov  Uzbekistan	Jung Kwang-soo  South Korea	Qu Xianwu  China
K-1 1000 m details	Liu Haitao  China	Nam Sung-ho  South Korea	Anton Ryakhov  Uzbekistan
K-2 500 m details	Kazakhstan Dmitriy Kaltenberger Dmitriy Torlopov	South Korea Jung Kwang-soo Nam Sung-ho	Uzbekistan Aleksey Babadjanov Mikhail Tarasov
K-2 1000 m details	Kazakhstan Dmitriy Kaltenberger Dmitriy Torlopov	South Korea Jung Kwang-soo Nam Sung-ho	China Liu Mingguang Yin Yijun
K-4 500 m details	Kazakhstan Yevgeniy Alexeyev Nikolay Bogachkin Sergey Sergin Yevgeniy Yegorov	China Lin Yongjing Liu Haitao Qu Xianwu Song Zhongbo	Uzbekistan Sergey Borzov Anton Ryakhov Dmitry Strykov Danila Turchin
K-4 1000 m details	China Lin Yongjing Liu Haitao Song Zhongbo Wan Wenjie	Kazakhstan Yevgeniy Alexeyev Nikolay Bogachkin Sergey Sergin Yevgeniy Yegorov	Japan Masaru Dobashi Junji Matsuda Naoki Onoto Masashi Saiki

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m details	Zhong Hongyan  China	Yuliya Borzova  Uzbekistan	Natalya Sergeyeva  Kazakhstan
K-2 500 m details	China Xu Linbei Zhong Hongyan	Kazakhstan Natalya Sergeyeva Ellina Uzhakhova	Uzbekistan Antonina Moskaleva Nadejda Pishulina
K-4 500 m details	Uzbekistan Yuliya Borzova Tatiana Levina Antonina Moskaleva Nadejda Pishulina	China Fan Lina Gao Yi He Jing Zhong Hongyan	Japan Miho Adachi Shinobu Kitamoto Yumiko Suzuki Mikiko Takeya

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	8	2	2	12
2	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	3	4	2	9
3	Uzbekistan (UZB)	2	1	5	8
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	5	2	7
5	Japan (JPN)	0	1	2	3
Totals (5 entries)		13	13	13	39

Participating nations

A total of 107 athletes from 14 nations competed in canoeing at the 2002 Asian Games:

•  China (15)
•  Chinese Taipei (3)
•  Hong Kong (5)
•  Indonesia (8)
•  Iran (6)
•  Japan (12)
•  Kazakhstan (14)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Mongolia (3)
•  North Korea (6)
•  Philippines (2)
•  South Korea (16)
•  Tajikistan (2)
•  Uzbekistan (14)