Event↓/Date → | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | Men's 50 m freestyle | | | | | | H | F |
Men's 100 m freestyle | | | | H | F | | |
Men's 200 m freestyle | | H | F | | | | |
Men's 400 m freestyle | | | H | F | | | |
Men's 1500 m freestyle | | | | | F | |
Men's 100 m backstroke | | | | H | F | | |
Men's 200 m backstroke | | | | | | H | F |
Men's 100 m breaststroke | H | F | | | | | |
Men's 200 m breaststroke | | | H | F | | | |
Men's 100 m butterfly | | | | H | F | | |
Men's 200 m butterfly | | H | F | | | | |
Men's 200 m individual medley | H | F | | | | | |
Men's 400 m individual medley | | | | | H | F | |
Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | | | H | F | | | |
Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | F | | | | | |
Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay | | | | | H | F | |
Women's 50 m freestyle | | | | | H | F | |
Women's 100 m freestyle | | | H | F | | | |
Women's 200 m freestyle | H | F | | | | | |
Women's 400 m freestyle | | | | H | F | | |
Women's 800 m freestyle | | | | | | F |
Women's 100 m backstroke | | | H | F | | | |
Women's 200 m backstroke | | | | | H | F | |
Women's 100 m breaststroke | | H | F | | | | |
Women's 200 m breaststroke | | | | H | F | | |
Women's 100 m butterfly | | | H | F | | | |
Women's 200 m butterfly | H | F | | | | | |
Women's 200 m individual medley | | H | F | | | | |
Women's 400 m individual medley | | | | | | H | F |
Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | | | | F | | |
Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | | F | | | | |
Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay | | | | | | F |
50 m freestyle {{DetailsLink|Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 50 metre freestyle}} | Kim Min-suk|KOR|2002 Asian Games}} | 22.86 | Shared gold | | {{flagIOC2medalist|Issei Nakanishi|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 23.14 |
Ravil Nachaev|UZB|2002 Asian Games}} |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle}}Chen Zuo|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 50.76 | Liu Yu|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 50.83 | Daisuke Hosokawa|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 51.22 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle}}Liu Yu|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}Yoshihiro Okumura|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:49.36 | Yosuke Ichikawa|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:50.66 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 400 metre freestyle}}Shunichi Fujita|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}Yu Cheng|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 3:54.57 | Han Kyu-chul|KOR|2002 Asian Games}} | 3:56.10 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metre freestyle}}Yu Cheng|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianR>swimming}}Cho Sung-mo|KOR|2002 Asian Games}} | 15:12.32 | Han Kyu-chul|KOR|2002 Asian Games}} | 15:22.38 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke}}Atsushi Nishikori|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 55.17 | Alex Lim|MAS|2002 Asian Games}} | 55.18 | Tomomi Morita|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 55.32 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke}}Wu Peng|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:00.40 | Takashi Nakano|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:00.76 | Naoya Sonoda|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:01.22 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 100 metre breaststroke}}Kosuke Kitajima|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}Zeng Qiliang|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:03.04 | Yoshihisa Yamaguchi|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:03.22 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke}}Kosuke Kitajima|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{WR>swimming}}Daisuke Kimura|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:13.60 | Ratapong Sirisanont|THA|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:15.81 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 100 metre butterfly}}Takashi Yamamoto|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}Kohei Kawamoto|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 53.22 | Jin Hao|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 53.56 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre butterfly}}Wu Peng|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}Takashi Yamamoto|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:57.18 | Takeshi Matsuda|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:57.26 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley}}Takahiro Mori|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianR>swimming}}Jiro Miki|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:02.07 | Ouyang Kunpeng|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:03.34 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 400 metre individual medley}}Wu Peng|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianR>swimming}}Takahiro Mori|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 4:16.63 | Shinya Taniguchi|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 4:17.03 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay}}CHN|2002 Asian Games}} Huang Shaohua Jin Hao Chen Zuo Liu Yu | | {{AsianR>swimming}}JPN|2002 Asian Games}} Naoki Nagura Yoshihiro Okumura Daisuke Hosokawa Hiroaki Akebe | 3:23.43 | KOR|2002 Asian Games}} Sung Min Ko Yun-ho Kim Min-suk Han Kyu-chul | 3:23.58 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay}}JPN|2002 Asian Games}} Shunichi Fujita Yoshihiro Okumura Daisuke Hosokawa Yosuke Ichikawa | | {{AsianR>swimming}}CHN|2002 Asian Games}} Wu Peng Chen Zuo Yu Cheng Liu Yu | 7:25.36 | KOR|2002 Asian Games}} Choi Won-il Ko Yun-ho Kim Bang-hyun Han Kyu-chul | 7:29.36 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay}}JPN|2002 Asian Games}} Atsushi Nishikori Kosuke Kitajima Takashi Yamamoto Yoshihiro Okumura | | {{AsianR>swimming}}CHN|2002 Asian Games}} Ouyang Kunpeng Zeng Qiliang Jin Hao Chen Zuo | 3:42.07 | KOR|2002 Asian Games}} Sung Min Son Sung-uk Yoo Jung-nam Ko Yun-ho | 3:46.44 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 50 metre freestyle}}Xu Yanwei|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 25.42 | Sun So-eun|KOR|2002 Asian Games}} | 25.63 | Zhou Xiaowei|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 25.76 |
100 m freestyle {{DetailsLink|Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle}} | {{flagIOC2medalist|Xu Yanwei|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 54.92 | Tomoko Nagai|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 55.51 | Shared silver | |
Yang Yu|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 200 metre freestyle}}Yang Yu|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}Xu Yanwei|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:59.42 | Tomoko Nagai|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:00.52 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 400 metre freestyle}}Sachiko Yamada|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}Chen Hua|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 4:12.24 | Tang Jingzhi|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 4:15.82 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle}}Chen Hua|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianR>swimming}}Sachiko Yamada|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 8:28.77 | Zhang Yan|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 8:44.80 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke}}Zhan Shu|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:01.82 | Noriko Inada|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:02.16 | Aya Terakawa|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:02.35 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 200 metre backstroke}}Reiko Nakamura|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:11.44 | Aya Terakawa|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:12.38 | Zhan Shu|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:13.25 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 100 metre breaststroke}}Luo Xuejuan|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianR>swimming}}Qi Hui|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:08.35 | Fumiko Kawanabe|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:10.11 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 200 metre breaststroke}}Qi Hui|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}Luo Xuejuan|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:24.67 | Fumiko Kawanabe|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:29.82 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 100 metre butterfly}}Zhou Yafei|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 58.88 | Yuko Nakanishi|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:00.18 | Joscelin Yeo|SGP|2002 Asian Games}} | 1:01.06 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 200 metre butterfly}}Yuko Nakanishi|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:08.99 | Maki Mita|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:11.57 | Liu Yin|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:12.07 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 200 metre individual medley}}Qi Hui|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:13.94 | Zhou Yafei|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:14.67 | Maiko Fujino|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 2:16.37 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley}}Qi Hui|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 4:40.37 | Maiko Fujino|JPN|2002 Asian Games}} | 4:43.49 | Zhou Yafei|CHN|2002 Asian Games}} | 4:47.09 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay}}CHN|2002 Asian Games}} Yang Yu Zhu Yingwen Ju Jielei Xu Yanwei | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}JPN|2002 Asian Games}} Maki Mita Tomoko Nagai Norie Urabe Sachiko Yamada | 3:44.59 | KOR|2002 Asian Games}} Ryu Yoon-ji Kim Hyun-joo Shim Min-ji Sun So-eun | 3:44.81 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay}}CHN|2002 Asian Games}} Zhu Yingwen Tang Jingzhi Xu Yanwei Yang Yu | | {{AsianGR>swimming}}JPN|2002 Asian Games}} Maki Mita Tomoko Nagai Sachiko Yamada Norie Urabe | 8:02.76 | KOR|2002 Asian Games}} Ha Eun-ju Kim Ye-sul Kim Hyun-joo Shim Min-ji | 8:19.62 |
| {{DetailsLink>Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay}}CHN|2002 Asian Games}} Zhan Shu Luo Xuejuan Zhou Yafei Xu Yanwei | | {{AsianR>swimming}}JPN|2002 Asian Games}} Noriko Inada Fumiko Kawanabe Yuko Nakanishi Tomoko Nagai | 4:05.75 | KOR|2002 Asian Games}} Shim Min-ji Ku Hyo-jin Park Kyung-hwa Sun So-eun | 4:13.41 |
A total of 220 athletes from 28 nations competed in swimming at the 2002 Asian Games:
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