Events at the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships
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
10,000 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
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
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The men's 800 metres event at the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 10–12 August.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mikhail Kolganov  Kazakhstan	Salem Amer Al-Badri  Qatar	Adam Abdu Adam Ali  Qatar

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Abdulkabir Louraïbi	Bahrain	1:49.49	Q
2	3	Sajjad Moradi	Iran	1:50.96	Q
3	4	Mikhail Kolganov	Kazakhstan	1:51.69	Q
4	4	K.A. Jayakumar	India	1:52.38	Q
5	4	John Lozada	Philippines	1:52.56	Q
6	4	Hisato Suzuki	Japan	1:52.58	q
7	3	Redouane Jaddouh	Syria	1:52.84	Q
8	1	Salem Amer Al-Badri	Qatar	1:53.60	Q
9	1	Manoj Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka	1:53.80	Q
10	1	Akinori Mori	Japan	1:54.10	Q
11	1	Cho Jae-Deuk	South Korea	1:54.20	q
12	3	Mohamed Sifrath	Sri Lanka	1:54.50	q, SB
13	2	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh	Iran	1:54.79	Q
14	2	Adam Abdu Adam Ali	Qatar	1:55.14	Q
15	2	Sasidharan Primesh Kumar	India	1:55.36	Q
16	4	Ziad Aoun	Lebanon	1:55.64	q, PB
17	1	Thamy Huran Singh	Nepal	1:56.60	PB
18	3	Chen Fu-Pin	Chinese Taipei	1:57.96
19	2	Chidambaran Veeramani	Singapore	1:58.21	PB
20	2	Jimmy Anak Ahar	Brunei	2:00.81
21	3	Lee Phongsanith	Laos	2:05.52	PB
21	4	Mohammad Al-Azemi	Kuwait	2:05.52	SB
	1	Nader Halawa	Palestine	DNS
	2	Abdesalam Al-Dabaji	Palestine	DNS
	2	Chaminda Indika Wijekoon	Sri Lanka	DNS

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Abdulkabir Louraïbi	Bahrain	1:50.09	Q
2	2	Adam Abdu Adam Ali	Qatar	1:50.17	Q
3	2	Akinori Mori	Japan	1:50.55	Q
4	1	Mikhail Kolganov	Kazakhstan	1:51.02	Q
5	2	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh	Iran	1:51.02	q
6	1	Salem Amer Al-Badri	Qatar	1:51.25	Q
7	1	Sajjad Moradi	Iran	1:51.29	Q
8	1	Redouane Jaddouh	Syria	1:51.??	q
9	2	Manoj Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka	1:51.63
10	2	Sasidharan Primesh Kumar	India	1:51.09	[2]
11	1	John Lozada	Philippines	1:52.59
12	1	K.A. Jayakumar	India	1:52.77
13	1	Hisato Suzuki	Japan	1:53.43
14	2	Ziad Aoun	Lebanon	1:55.78
15	2	Cho Jae-Deuk	South Korea	1:56.31
	1	Mohamed Sifrath	Sri Lanka	DQ

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mikhail Kolganov	Kazakhstan	1:48.91
	Salem Amer Al-Badri	Qatar	1:48.95
	Adam Abdu Adam Ali	Qatar	1:49.25
4	Abdulkabir Louraïbi	Bahrain	1:49.55
5	Redouane Jaddouh	Syria	1:49.98
6	Akinori Mori	Japan	1:50.40
7	Sajjad Moradi	Iran	1:51.72
	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh	Iran	DQ