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 high jump competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 10 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	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
Asian Record	Zhu Jianhua (CHN)	2.39	Eberstadt, West Germany	10 June 1984
Games Record	Zhu Jianhua (CHN)	2.33	New Delhi, India	1 December 1982

Rank	Athlete	Attempt								Result	Notes
		1.95	2.00	2.05	2.10	2.15	2.19	2.23	2.27
	Lee Jin-taek (KOR)	–	–	–	–	O	O	O	XXX	2.23
	Wang Zhouzhou (CHN)	–	–	O	O	O	O	XXX		2.19
	Cui Kai (CHN)	–	–	O	O	O	O	XXX		2.19
	Kim Tae-hoi (KOR)	–	–	–	O	O	O	XXX		2.19
5	Salem Nasser Bakheet (BRN)	–	–	–	O	O	XXO	XXX		2.19
6	Omar Al-Masrahi (KSA)	–	–	O	O	XO	XXX			2.15
6	Chen Hung-chieh (TPE)	–	–	O	O	XO	XX–	X		2.15
8	Yuriy Pakhlyayev (KAZ)	–	–	O	O	XXX				2.10
8	Jean-Claude Rabbath (LIB)	–	–	–	O	XXX				2.10
8	Manjula Kumara (SRI)	–	–	O	O	XXX				2.10
11	Takahiro Uchida (JPN)	–	–	XO	O	XXX				2.10
12	Loo Kum Zee (MAS)	–	O	O	XO	XXX				2.10
13	Nguyễn Duy Bằng (VIE)	–	O	O	XXO	XXX				2.10
14	Khalil Al-Khalil (KUW)	O	O	O	XXX					2.05
14	Sean Guevara (PHI)	–	O	O	XXX					2.05

• Results