Water polo at the 2002 Asian Games explained

Event:	Water polo
Games:	2002 Asian Games
Venue:	Changwon Swimming Pool
Dates:	30 September – 6 October 2002
Competitors:	78
Nations:	6
Prev:	1998
Next:	2006

Water polo was contested by men's teams at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea from September 30 to October 6, 2002. Six teams competed in two round robin groups. All games were staged at the Changwon Swimming Pool.

Schedule

P

Preliminary round

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	30th Mon	1st Tue	2nd Wed	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	6th Sun
	P	P	P		½		F

Medalists

Men

Alexandr Shvedov Sergey Drozdov Alexandr Gaidukov Sergey Gorovoy Askar Orazalinov Ivan Zaitsev Alexandr Shidlovskiy Alexandr Kuzov Yevgeniy Zhilyayev Artemiy Sevostyanov Yuriy Smoloviy Damir Temyrkhanov Alexandr Polukhin

Fumikazu Kubota Daisuke Nakagawa Satoshi Nagata Takuya Endo Koji Tanaka Masakazu Yamamoto Hiroyuki Matsubara Atsushi Naganuma Hiroshi Hoshiai Taichi Sato Yoshinori Shiota Kan Aoyagi Kenichi Sato

Ge Weiqing Zhang Weiteng Bai Jun Yu Lijun Xu Guanghao Li Jun Li Wenhua Wang Yong Zhu Junyi Han Zhidong Gui Jiye Zhao Jinwen Liao Qiuliang

Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1998 Asian Games.

Group A

• (Host)
• (3)
  • *

Group B

• (1)
• (2)*
  • *

* Withdrew.

Squads

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Results

All times are Korea Standard Time

Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Final round

Semifinals

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Gold medal match

Final standing

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		4	4	0	0
		4	3	0	1
		4	2	0	2
4		4	1	0	3
5		3	1	0	2
6		3	0	0	3

References

• All Asian Games Results

External links

• Official Website