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 sprint events.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 m	Meng Guanliang  China	Park Chang-kyu  South Korea	Kaisar Nurmaganbetov  Kazakhstan
C-1 1000 m	Meng Guanliang  China	Kaisar Nurmaganbetov  Kazakhstan	Dmitriy Kovalenko  Uzbekistan
C-2 500 m	China Wang Bing Yang Wenjun	Kazakhstan Alexandr Buglakov Alexey Cherchenko	South Korea Jun Kwang-rak Park Chang-kyu
C-2 1000 m	China Wang Bing Yang Wenjun	Japan Taito Ambo Masanobu Ozono	South Korea Lee Byung-tak Lee Seung-woo
K-1 500 m	Anton Ryakhov  Uzbekistan	Jung Kwang-soo  South Korea	Qu Xianwu  China
K-1 1000 m	Liu Haitao  China	Nam Sung-ho  South Korea	Anton Ryakhov  Uzbekistan
K-2 500 m	Kazakhstan Dmitriy Kaltenberger Dmitriy Torlopov	South Korea Jung Kwang-soo Nam Sung-ho	Uzbekistan Aleksey Babadjanov Mikhail Tarasov
K-2 1000 m	Kazakhstan Dmitriy Kaltenberger Dmitriy Torlopov	South Korea Jung Kwang-soo Nam Sung-ho	China Liu Mingguang Yin Yijun
K-4 500 m	Kazakhstan Yevgeniy Alexeyev Nikolay Bogachkin Sergey Sergin Yevgeniy Yegorov	China Lin Yongjing Liu Haitao Qu Xianwu Song Zhongbo	Uzbekistan Sergey Borzov Anton Ryakhov Dmitriy Strijkov Danila Turchin
K-4 1000 m	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	Zhong Hongyan  China	Yulia Borzova  Uzbekistan	Natalya Sergeyeva  Kazakhstan
K-2 500 m	China Xu Linbei Zhong Hongyan	Kazakhstan Natalya Sergeyeva Ellina Uzhakhova	Uzbekistan Antonina Moskaleva Nadejda Pishulina
K-4 500 m	Uzbekistan Yulia 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	8	2	2	12
2	Kazakhstan	3	4	2	9
3	Uzbekistan	2	1	5	8
4	South Korea	0	5	2	7
5	Japan	0	1	2	3
Total		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)

References

• 2002 Asian Games Official Reports, Pages 344–356
• Results

External links

• Official Website