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
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
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 marathon competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 14 October at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium.^[1]

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

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

World Record	Khalid Khannouchi (USA)	2:05:38	London, United Kingdom	14 April 2002
Asian Record	Toshinari Takaoka (JPN)	2:06:16	Chicago, United States	13 October 2002
Games Record	Takeyuki Nakayama (JPN)	2:08:21	Seoul, South Korea	5 October 1986

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Lee Bong-ju (KOR)	2:14:04
	Koji Shimizu (JPN)	2:17:47
	Ryuji Takei (JPN)	2:18:38
4	Lim Jin-soo (KOR)	2:21:08
5	Foaad Ali Abubaker (QAT)	2:25:27
6	Gong Ke (CHN)	2:27:50
7	Arjun Kumar Basnet (NEP)	2:28:23
8	Roy Vence (PHI)	2:28:51
9	Jumah Omar Al-Noor (QAT)	2:30:11
10	Allan Ballester (PHI)	2:32:12
11	I Gusti Gede Karangasem (INA)	2:34:30
12	Yam Bahadur Pudasaini (NEP)	2:36:21
13	Zaw Min Htwe (MYA)	2:41:27
14	Xavier do Rego (TMP)	2:41:36
—	Sergey Zabavsky (TJK)	DNF

• Results