Weightlifting was contested from September 30 to October 10 at the 2002 Asian Games in Pukyong National University Gymnasium, Busan, South Korea.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Wu Meijin  China	Wang Shin-yuan  Chinese Taipei	Yang Chin-yi  Chinese Taipei
62 kg details	Le Maosheng  China	Im Yong-su  North Korea	Cho Hyo-won  South Korea
69 kg details	Zhang Guozheng  China	Erwin Abdullah  Indonesia	Mehdi Panzvan  Iran
77 kg details	Sergey Filimonov  Kazakhstan	Mohammad Hossein Barkhah  Iran	Mohammad Ali Falahatinejad  Iran
85 kg details	Song Jong-shik  South Korea	Hadi Panzvan  Iran	Bakhtiyor Nurullaev  Uzbekistan
94 kg details	Bakhyt Akhmetov  Kazakhstan	Kourosh Bagheri  Iran	Lee Ung-jo  South Korea
105 kg details	Said Saif Asaad  Qatar	Cui Wenhua  China	Hossein Tavakkoli  Iran
+105 kg details	Hossein Rezazadeh  Iran	Igor Khalilov  Uzbekistan	Munehiro Morita  Japan

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Li Zhuo  China	Kay Thi Win  Myanmar	Raema Lisa Rumbewas  Indonesia
53 kg details	Ri Song-hui  North Korea	Udomporn Polsak  Thailand	Meng Xianjuan  China
58 kg details	Zhou Yan  China	Wandee Kameaim  Thailand	Tanti Pratiwi  Indonesia
63 kg details	Liu Xia  China	Khin Moe Nwe  Myanmar	Kuo Ping-chun  Chinese Taipei
69 kg details	Liu Chunhong  China	Pawina Thongsuk  Thailand	Mya Sanda Oo  Myanmar
75 kg details	Sun Ruiping  China	Tatyana Khromova  Kazakhstan	Kim Soon-hee  South Korea
+75 kg details	Tang Gonghong  China	Jang Mi-ran  South Korea	Moon Kyung-ae  South Korea

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	9	1	1	11
2	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	1	0	3
3	Iran (IRI)	1	3	3	7
4	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	4	6
5	North Korea (PRK)	1	1	0	2
6	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	0	1
7	Thailand (THA)	0	3	0	3
8	Myanmar (MYA)	0	2	1	3
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	2	3
	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	2	3
11	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	1	1	2
12	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		15	15	15	45

A total of 143 athletes from 30 nations competed in weightlifting at the 2002 Asian Games:

• Men's results
• Women's results

• Weightlifting Database