Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's hammer throw

Men's hammer throw at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Busan Asiad Main Stadium
Date	October 8, 2002 (2002-10-08)
Competitors	9 from 8 nations
Medalists
Koji Murofushi    Japan   Hiroaki Doi    Japan   Ye Kuigang    China

Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's hammer throw competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 8 October at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium.

Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74	Stuttgart, West Germany	30 August 1986
Asian Record	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	83.47	Toyota, Japan	14 July 2001
Games Record	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	78.57	Bangkok, Thailand	13 December 1998

Results

Legend

• X — Failure

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Result	Notes
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Koji Murofushi (JPN)	76.00	78.72	76.89	78.48	X	78.58	78.72	GR
	Hiroaki Doi (JPN)	X	63.59	66.76	69.01	69.57	68.02	69.57
	Ye Kuigang (CHN)	63.01	66.91	68.18	65.68	66.78	66.55	68.18
4	Viktor Ustinov (UZB)	X	65.73	63.58	65.08	X	X	65.73
5	Hou Chin-hsien (TPE)	63.46	63.85	64.08	64.95	64.14	61.51	64.95
6	Pramod Tiwari (IND)	62.14	61.77	X	X	64.54	X	64.54
7	Nasser Al-Hussaini (KUW)	62.73	62.47	60.49	64.17	63.07	64.29	64.29
8	Lee Yun-chul (KOR)	62.57	61.77	61.87	X	X	X	62.57
9	Dilshod Nazarov (TJK)	X	X	58.39				58.39

References

• 2002 Asian Games Official Report, Page 143
• Results