Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Busan Asiad Main Stadium
Date	October 7, 2002
Competitors	8 from 6 nations
Medalists
Valeriy Borisov   Kazakhstan   Yu Chaohong   China   Satoshi Yanagisawa   Japan

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 s'chase		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
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		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 20 kilometres walk competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 7 October at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium.

Schedule

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

Date	Time	Event
Monday, 7 October 2002	08:30	Final

Records

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

World Record	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	1:17:22	Turku, Finland	28 April 2002
Asian Record	Li Zewen (CHN)	1:18:32	Poděbrady, Czech Republic	19 April 1997
Games Record	Yu Guohui (CHN)	1:20:25	Bangkok, Thailand	13 December 1998

Results

Legend

• DSQ — Disqualified

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Valeriy Borisov (KAZ)	1:24.20
	Yu Chaohong (CHN)	1:24.23
	Satoshi Yanagisawa (JPN)	1:25:33
4	Kim Dong-young (KOR)	1:26:04
5	Waleed Ahmed Al-Sabahy (QAT)	1:29:54
6	Nishantha Nayanananda (SRI)	1:31:51
—	Yuki Yamazaki (JPN)	DSQ
—	Zhu Hongjun (CHN)	DSQ

References

• 2002 Asian Games Official Report, Page 132
• Results