Wrestling at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Yangsan Gymnasium
Dates	2–8 October 2002
Competitors	196 from 24 nations

Wrestling was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea between 2 and 8 October 2002. The competition took place at Yangsan Gymnasium.

Schedule

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Dilshod Mansurov  Uzbekistan	Chikara Tanabe  Japan	Mohammad Rezaei  Iran
60 kg	Oyuunbilegiin Pürevbaatar  Mongolia	Song Jae-myung  South Korea	Ulan Nadyrbek Uulu  Kyrgyzstan
66 kg	Baek Jin-kuk  South Korea	Alireza Dabir  Iran	Norjingiin Bayarmagnai  Mongolia
74 kg	Cho Byung-kwan  South Korea	Yusup Abdusalomov  Tajikistan	Mehdi Hajizadeh  Iran
84 kg	Moon Eui-jae  South Korea	Magomed Kurugliyev  Kazakhstan	Shamil Aliev  Tajikistan
96 kg	Alireza Heidari  Iran	Aleksey Krupnyakov  Kyrgyzstan	Magomed Ibragimov  Uzbekistan
120 kg	Artur Taymazov  Uzbekistan	Abbas Jadidi  Iran	Palwinder Singh Cheema  India

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Asset Imanbayev  Kazakhstan	Kang Yong-gyun  North Korea	Uran Kalilov  Kyrgyzstan
60 kg	Kang Kyung-il  South Korea	Dilshod Aripov  Uzbekistan	Makoto Sasamoto  Japan
66 kg	Kim In-sub  South Korea	Daniar Kobonov  Kyrgyzstan	Kim Yun-mo  North Korea
74 kg	Kim Jin-soo  South Korea	Danil Khalimov  Kazakhstan	Parviz Zeidvand  Iran
84 kg	Shingo Matsumoto  Japan	Kim Jung-sub  South Korea	Mohammad Al-Ken  Syria
96 kg	Aleksey Cheglakov  Uzbekistan	Park Myung-suk  South Korea	Masoud Hashemzadeh  Iran
120 kg	Georgiy Tsurtsumia  Kazakhstan	Yang Young-jin  South Korea	Alireza Gharibi  Iran

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Zhong Xiue  China	Lidiya Karamchakova  Tajikistan	Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal  Mongolia
55 kg	Saori Yoshida  Japan	Lee Na-lae  South Korea	Naidangiin Otgonjargal  Mongolia
63 kg	Xu Haiyan  China	Kaori Icho  Japan	Ochirbatyn Myagmarsüren  Mongolia
72 kg	Kyoko Hamaguchi  Japan	Kang Min-jeong  South Korea	Yana Panova  Kyrgyzstan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	6	6	0	12
2	Japan (JPN)	3	2	1	6
3	Uzbekistan (UZB)	3	1	1	5
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	2	0	4
5	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2
6	Iran (IRI)	1	2	5	8
7	Mongolia (MGL)	1	0	4	5
8	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	2	3	5
9	Tajikistan (TJK)	0	2	1	3
10	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	1	2
11	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		18	18	18	54

Participating nations

A total of 196 athletes from 24 nations competed in wrestling at the 2002 Asian Games:

References

• 2002 Asian Games Report, Page 766–783
• Official website