2002 AFC Youth Championship, Group stage, Third-placed qualifiers
At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.


2002 AFC Youth Championship, Group stage, Third-placed qualifiers
UAE (best third-place) and India (second best third-place) qualified for the quarter-finals.


2002 AFC Youth Championship, Qualified teams for the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship
The following four teams from AFC qualified for the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.


2002 AFC Youth Championship qualification
The 2002 AFC Youth Championship qualifying competition is a men's under-19 football competition that determined the eleven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Qatar in the 2002 AFC Youth Championship final tournament.


2002 AFC Youth Championship qualification
A total of 40 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 1983 are eligible to participate.


2002 AFC Youth Championship qualification, Format
In each group, teams play each other once at a centralised venue. The eleven group winners qualify for the final tournament.


2002 AFF Championship
The 2002 AFF Championship, officially known as the 2002 Tiger Cup, was co-hosted by Indonesia and Singapore from November 2002 to 13 January 2003 and participated by all national teams of the member associations of the ASEAN Football Federation entered except for Brunei. The championship started off with group matches, where the top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals and the final.


2002 AFF Championship
In the final match between Thailand and Indonesia, Thailand took a 2–0 lead against hosts Indonesia by the end of the first half. However, the Indonesians battled back to level the score and force the game into a penalty shootout, which was won 4–2 by the Thais.


2002 AFF Championship, Team statistics
This table will show the ranking of teams throughout the tournament.


2002 AFF Championship squads
Below are the squads for the 2002 AFF Championship, co-hosted by Indonesia and Singapore, which took place between 15 and 29 December 2002. The players' listed age is their age on the tournament's opening day (15 December 2002).


2002 AFF U-17 Youth Championship
The 2002 AFF U-17 Youth Championship was the inaugural edition of the tournament. It took place from 19 February to 2 March 2002 with all 10 ASEAN Football Federation members taking part. It was co-hosted by Malaysia and Indonesia.


2002 AFF U-20 Youth Championship
The 2002 AFF U-20 Youth Championship was the inaugural edition of the tournament. It took place from 23 January to 3 February 2002 and was co-hosted by Thailand and Cambodia with all ten member nations of the ASEAN Football Federation taking part.


2002 AFL Grand Final
The 2002 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Brisbane Lions and the Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 2002. It was the 106th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2002 AFL season. The match, attended by 91,817 spectators, was won by the Brisbane Lions by a margin of 9 points, marking the club's second consecutive premiership victory, as well as its second overall since being established in 1997.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Background
The Lions had made it into their second consecutive grand final after finishing second on the AFL ladder with a 17–5 record, one game behind Port Adelaide, and overcoming Adelaide and Port Adelaide in their early finals. It was the club's second consecutive grand final, having defeated Essendon in the 2001 Grand Final.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Background
Collingwood had reached the finals for the first time since 1994, and found its way into its first premiership decider since the 1990 Grand Final. They finished fourth on the ladder with a 13–9 record, and not much was expected of them in the final month of the year. However, the Magpies upset minor premiers Port Adelaide by 13 points in a dramatic Qualifying Final at AAMI Stadium, earning a week's rest before beating Adelaide 13.13 (91) to 9.9 (63) in the preliminary final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Background
Jason Cloke from Collingwood was suspended during the week after being charged for striking Tyson Edwards in the nose during their preliminary final victory against Adelaide. This controversy dominated headlines during the week in the buildup to the grand final. Also in the week leading up to the grand final, Brisbane's Simon Black was awarded the Brownlow Medal.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary
In a tight and overall enthralling exhibition of Australian rules football, Brisbane withstood a brave challenge from Collingwood to win the 2002 AFL Grand Final by nine points, taking out their second successive flag. It was the first time since 1989 that the grand final was decided by less than four goals, with grand finals having often been one-sided affairs throughout the 1990s.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
The game was played in cold conditions with rain off-and-on throughout. In a tight, low-scoring first quarter, neither team could manage a goal until very late, Collingwood's Anthony Rocca kicking the first goal in the 27th minute. The quarter time score of 1.4 (10) vs 0.4 (4) was the lowest-scoring quarter in a grand final since 1960, and ended Brisbane's VFL/AFL record streak of 253 consecutive quarters in which it scored at least one goal.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter
Brisbane finally kicked its first goal in the 5th minute of the second quarter, Shaun Hart converting from general play in the forward pocket. Throughout the second quarter, Brisbane gained control of general play, but repeatedly failed to convert this advantage on the scoreboard. Collingwood regained the lead with a goal from a set shot and 50m penalty to Josh Fraser in the 14th minute, then extended it with another to Rocca from a down-field free kick in the 18th minute.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter
Simon Black kicked Brisbane's second goal in the 22nd minute, and Tarkyn Lockyer responded with a set shot goal in the 27th minute. By the 28th minute of the quarter, the score was Collingwood 4.4 (28) leading Brisbane 2.12 (24), the Lions having kicked 2.8 for the quarter from its repeated forward entries, although had not missed many easy shots, with Collingwood's defenders keeping the Lions to hurried or wide-angle shots.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter
But, two late goals – to Craig McRae in the 29th minute from a free kick with advantage at full forward, then Alastair Lynch from a 20m set shot – Brisbane took an eight point lead into half time. Overall in the second quarter, Brisbane had 24 inside-50s for 4.8 (32), and Collingwood had only eight for 3.0 (18).


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
After Brisbane's ground dominance in the second quarter, the third quarter was much more evenly contested, and early goals to Fraser for Collingwood (2nd minute), Lynch for Brisbane (4th minute) and Rocca (5th minute) brought the margin back within a goal. Collingwood regained the lead in the 12th minute when Nathan Buckley kicked his first goal. No goals were kicked over the next ten minutes, until Lynch regained the lead for Brisbane in the 22nd minute. Rocca then kicked his fourth goal to regain the lead in the 25th minute.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
As in the second quarter, Brisbane finished with two quick late goals – Jonathan Brown kicking his first goal in the 30th minute, then Michael Voss one minute later. Collingwood was the more wasteful in front of goal in the third quarter, kicking 4.6 (30) to Brisbane's 4.2 (26), and at three-quarter time, Brisbane led 8.14 (62) to 8.10 (58).


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter
A tight opening to the final quarter saw no score until the eighth minute, when Rocca famously lined up for his fifth goal from a 50m set shot near the boundary line. Rocca thought he had kicked a goal and began to celebrate, but the goal umpire ruled it a behind; Rocca was known for his long kicking, and the ball crossed the goal line above the height of the posts making it a difficult score to judge, but in its post match review, the AFL confirmed the goal umpire's decision.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter
Three minutes later, Josh Fraser marked with the flight of the ball in the goal square, and kicked his third goal to put Collingwood ahead by three points. Another chance to score for Collingwood off the ensuing centre clearance was rushed through for a behind, in what was Collingwood's last score of the game, as heavy rain began to fall.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter
In the 14th minute, a kick to a pack at full-forward ended with a free kick to Alastair Lynch, who kicked his fourth goal and put Brisbane back in front by two points. Both teams had opportunities over the next ten minutes, and a behind by Jason Akermanis in the 19th minute extended the lead to three points. Then, in the 24th minute with just under five minutes of game time remaining, Akermanis roved the front of a marking contest at full forward and kicked a goal to put Brisbane nine points ahead. There was no further score, and Brisbane won by the nine point margin.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Norm Smith Medal
Nathan Buckley of the Magpies was awarded the Norm Smith Medal for being judged the best player afield, despite the fact that he finished on the losing side. It was the third time a grand final player had won the Norm Smith Medal without being on the winning premiership team. Out of respect for his teammates, Buckley took the medal off as he returned from the dais. Buckley polled 12 votes for the medal, and teammate Anthony Rocca finished second with 8 votes; Nigel Lappin was the highest-placing Lion with 5 votes, Voss polled 4 and Simon Black 1.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Norm Smith Medal
To meet the timeline for compiling the votes, the panellists were asked to lodged their votes during the latter part of the final quarter, with some doing so as early as halfway through the quarter.


2002 AFL Grand Final, Match summary, Norm Smith Medal
Three of the five panellists famously claimed in the days after the match that they would have awarded more votes to Michael Voss had they voted after the final siren, as he had been pivotal in the dying minutes of the game – although it was never determined whether or not these extra votes would have been enough to make up the substantial eight vote gap to Buckley. Nevertheless, practices were changed to ensure votes were not cast until after the final siren from 2003 onwards.


2002 AFL Rising Star
The National AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a stand out young player in the Australian Football League. The 2002 medal was awarded to St Kilda player  Nick Riewoldt.


2002 AFL Rising Star, Eligibility
Every round, an Australian Football League rising star nomination is given to a stand out young player. To be eligible for the award, a player must be under 21 on 1 January of that year, have played 10 or fewer senior games and not been suspended during the season. At the end of the year, one of the 22 nominees is the winner of award.


2002 AFL Rising Star, Final voting
The seven members of the All-Australian team selection panel voted for the National AFL Rising Star for 2002, with each voter ranking their top 5 players from the 22 players nominated during the year. Nick Riewoldt was award 5 votes by six of the seven voters to win the award.


2002 AFL Under 18 Championships
The 2002 National AFL Under 18 Championships was the seventh edition of the AFL Under 18 Championships. Eight teams competed in the championships: Vic Metro, Vic Country, South Australia and Western Australia in Division 1, and New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory (NSW/ACT), Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania in Division 2. The competition was played over three rounds across two divisions. Vic Metro and NSW/ACT were the Division 1 and Division 2 champions, respectively. The Michael Larke Medal (for the best player in Division 1) was awarded to South Australia's Byron Schammer, and the Hunter Harrison Medal (for the best player in Division 2) was won by the Northern Territory's Anthony Corrie.


2002 AFL Under 18 Championships, Under 18 All-Australian team
The 2002 Under 18 All-Australian team was named on 6 July 2002:


2002 AFL Women's National Championships
The 2002 AFL Women's National Championships took place in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The tournament began on 29 June and ended on the  4 July 2002. The 2002 tournament was the eleventh Championship. The Senior-vics of Victoria won the 2002 Championship, defeating the Australian Capital Territory in the final. It was Victoria's 11th consecutive title.


2002 AFL draft
The 2002 AFL draft consisted of a pre-season draft, a national draft, a trade period and the elevation of rookies. The AFL draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.


2002 AFL draft
In 2002 there were 88 picks to be drafted between 16 teams in the national draft.


2002 AFL draft
Carlton forfeited its priority and first round draft picks due to gross salary cap breaches (it would have also forfeited its second round pick, but they had already traded it to Port Adelaide for Barnaby French). Carlton's punishment came on the back of a dismal 2002 season in which it won its first ever wooden spoon after 105 years of competition. The first pick therefore went to St Kilda, who finished second last during the 2002 AFL season.


2002 AFL draft
This was the first draft since their introduction in 1993 that no team received a priority pick, as St Kilda had a record of 5–16–1 (giving them 22 premiership points, above the 20.5 premiership points needed to qualify for a priority pick under the rules at the time).


2002 AFL draft, Rookie elevation
This list details 2002-listed rookies who were elevated to the senior list; it does not list players taken as rookies in the rookie draft which occurred during the 2002/03 off-season.


2002 AFL season
The 2002 Australian Football League season was the 106th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 13th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989.


2002 AFL season
See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.


2002 AFL season, Wizard Home Loans Cup
Port Adelaide defeated Richmond 10.11 (71) to 9.8 (62) in the final.


2002 AFL season, Ladder
All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 176. An additional 9 games were played during the finals series.


2002 AFL season, Finals series, Week two
Note: Adelaide played its "home" final at the MCG despite being ranked above Melbourne due to the agreement then in place with the Melbourne Cricket Club that at least one game each week of the finals be played at the MCG.


2002 AFL season, Match attendance
Total match attendance for all games was 5,643,908 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 91,817 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 84,894 people for the Collingwood v Essendon game in round 5.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships
The 2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier III of the 2002 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from September 30 through October 6, 2002. Kenneth Carlsen and Jill Craybas won the singles titles.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
Jeff Coetzee /  Chris Haggard defeated  Jan-Michael Gambill /  Graydon Oliver 7–6(7–4), 6–4


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles
Shinobu Asagoe /  Nana Miyagi defeated  Svetlana Kuznetsova /  Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario 6–4, 4–6, 6–4


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Rick Leach and David Macpherson were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Jan-Michael Gambill and Graydon Oliver.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Jeff Coetzee and Chris Haggard won in the final 7–6(7–4), 6–4 against Gambill and Oliver.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
The top five seeded teams received byes into the second round.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Lleyton Hewitt was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Paradorn Srichaphan.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Kenneth Carlsen won in the final 7–6(8–6), 6–3 against Magnus Norman.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
Liezel Huber and Rachel McQuillan were the defending champions, but none of them competed this year. Huber played in the Kremlin Cup at the same week.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
Shinobu Asagoe and Nana Miyagi won the title by defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 in the final. It was the 2nd title for Asagoe and the 19th title for Miyagi in their respective doubles careers.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
Monica Seles was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
Unseeded Jill Craybas won the title by defeating Silvija Talaja 2–6, 6–4, 6–4 in the final. It was the 1st title for Craybas in her singles career.


2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The first two seeds received a bye into the second round.


2002 AIHL season
The 2002 AIHL season was the third season of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). The Sydney Bears completed the double by winning the league premiership by finishing top of the league standings and claiming the Goodall Cup after defeating Adelaide Avalanche in the AIHL final.


2002 AIHL season, League business
The 2002 season saw the league expand from three teams to six with the introduction of the Melbourne Ice, Newcastle North Stars, and the West Sydney Ice Dogs. The league also secured the Goodall Cup as the trophy for the AIHL final victor for the first time (winners in 2000 and 2001 were backdated).


2002 AIHL season, Goodall Cup playoffs
The playoffs were held at Sydney's Blacktown Ice Arena. The Sydney Bears defeated the Adelaide Avalanche in the final to win the Goodall Cup. The Bears were the first team to win the Goodall Cup in the AIHL after it was transferred from the inter-state tournament.


2002 AIHL season, Statistics, Scoring leaders
List shows the ten top skaters sorted by points, then goals.


2002 AMA National Speedway Championship
The 2002 AMA National Speedway Championship Series was staged over three rounds, which were held at San Bernardino (August 14), Auburn (August 16) and Auburn (September 20). Billy Hamill successfully retained the title.


2002 AMA National Speedway Championship, Event format
Over the course of 20 heats, each rider raced against every other rider once. The field was then split into sections of four riders, with the top four entering the 'A' Final. Points were then awarded depending on where a rider finished in each final. The points in the 'A' Final were awarded thus, 20, 18, 16 and 14. Bonus points for were also awarded.


2002 ANAPROF
ANAPROF 2002 is the 2002 season of the Panamanian football league, ANAPROF. The season started on March 17, 2002 with the Torneo Apertura 2002 and finalized on November 24, 2002 with the Torneo Clausura 2002. The Apertura champion was Árabe Unido and the Clausura champion was Plaza Amador, on November 30, 2002 the ANAPROF 2002 final was played and Plaza Amador was crowned champion over Deportivo Árabe Unido.


2002 ANZ Tasmanian International
The 2002 ANZ Tasmanian International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia and was part of Tier V of the 2002 WTA Tour. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and ran from 6 January until 12 January 2002. Unseeded Martina Suchá won the singles title and earned $16,000 first-prize money.


2002 ANZ Tasmanian International, Finals, Doubles
Tathiana Garbin /  Rita Grande defeated  Catherine Barclay /  Christina Wheeler 6–2, 7–6(7–3)


2002 ARAG World Team Cup
The 2002 ARAG World Team Cup was a men's team tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 24th edition of the World Team Cup and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. It took place at the Rochusclub in Düsseldorf in Germany from May 19 through May 25, 2002.


2002 ARAG World Team Cup
Australia were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


2002 ARAG World Team Cup
Argentina defeated Russia in the final to win the title for the second time.


2002 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship
The 2002 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship was the 18th  edition of the tournament, and was played in Bangkok.


2002 ASB Bank Classic
The 2002 ASB Bank Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand and was part of Tier IV of the 2002 WTA Tour. It was the 17th edition of the tournament and was held from 31 December 2001 until 5 January 2002. Unseeded Anna Smashnova won the singles title and earned $22,000 first-prize money.


2002 ASB Bank Classic, Finals, Doubles
Nicole Arendt /  Liezel Huber defeated  Květa Hrdličková /  Henrieta Nagyová 7–5, 6–4


2002 ASCAR season
The 2002 ASCAR season was the 2nd season of United Kingdom-based NASCAR style stock car racing, originally known as ASCAR.


2002 ASCAR season, Race calendar
The season consisted of eight meetings with either two or three races taking place at each. The grid for the opening race of each meeting was set by a qualifying session with the second race grid being set by the finishing order of the first. Two meetings were held at the EuroSpeedway in Germany with the remaining six at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in the United Kingdom.


2002 ASFA Soccer League
The 2002 season of the ASFA Soccer League was the twenty second season of association football competition in American Samoa.


2002 ASFA Soccer League
PanSa Soccer Club won the championship, their third recorded title and third consecutively, with the winners of the 1998 league competition and a number of previous seasons unknown. PanSa lost only one game throughout the whole season and won the league by 8 points from second place team, Utulei FC, although it is unclear how many teams actually took part in the official league as an issue with late registration meant that 14 teams were denied entry to the league for the season.


2002 ASFA Soccer League
These teams then formed a breakaway league when 60% of their registration fees were withheld by the FFAS in order to pay legal costs. Within this breakaway league, Renegades and Konica Machine were unbeaten, although despite using the same name as the official league, their results are not included in the official history.


2002 ASP World Tour
The ASP World Tour is a professional competitive surfing league. It is run by the Association of Surfing Professionals.


2002 AT4
2002 AT4 is a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Amor group,   approximately 350 meters (1,100 feet) in diameter. It has an eccentric orbit that brings it sometimes close to Earth's orbit, and sometimes halfway between Mars and Jupiter. It is a dark D-type asteroid which means that it may be reddish in color.


2002 AT4
Due to its relatively low transfer cost of ~5.5 km/s, 2002 AT4 was under consideration by the European Space Agency as a candidate target for the Don Quijote mission to study the effects of impacting a spacecraft into an asteroid; however, it is no longer under consideration.


2002 AT4
2002 AT4 orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.0–2.7 AU once every 2 years and 7 months (932 days; semi-major axis of 1.87 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.45 and an inclination of 1° with respect to the ecliptic.


2002 ATP Challenger Series
The ATP Challenger Series is the second tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 2002 ATP Challenger Series calendar comprised 122 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $150,000.


2002 ATP Tour
The 2002 ATP Tour was the global elite men's professional tennis circuit organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2002 tennis season. The ATP Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organised by the ATP. The ATP Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the Tennis Masters Cup, the ATP Masters Series, the International Series Gold and the International Series tournaments.


2002 ATP Tour, Statistical information
List of players and titles won (Grand Slam and Masters Cup titles in bold), listed in order of most titles won:


2002 ATP Tour, Retirements
Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the ATP Rankings top 100 (singles) or top 50 (doubles) for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional tennis, became inactive (after not playing for more than 52 weeks), or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2002 season:


2002 AVC Cup Men's Club Tournament
The 2002 AVC Cup Men's Club Tournament was the 4th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Azadi Volleyball Hall, Tehran, Iran. Paykan of Iran won the tournament after beating Sanam.


2002 AVC Cup Women's Club Tournament
The 2002 AVC Cup Women's Club Tournament was the 4th staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Bangkok, Thailand.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega
The 2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega was a NASCAR Busch Series stock car race held on April 20, 2002, at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama. Johnny Sauter of Richard Childress Racing won the pole position, while Jason Keller of ppc Racing won the race. The race, however, was infamous for involving the largest accident in modern NASCAR history, which eliminated nearly three-quarters of the field early in the race.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Background
Because of a perceived aerodynamic advantage, several Chevrolet teams opted to run Pontiacs for the race.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Qualifying
Johnny Sauter qualified on pole position. Rich Markle was the only driver to not qualify.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Race
Sauter led the first eleven laps of the race, losing the lead on lap 12 to Stacy Compton. On lap 14, the largest crash in modern NASCAR history (1972–present) took place at the exit of turn two, with 31 cars being involved. Three cars (Stacy Compton, Jason Keller and Kenny Wallace) had cleared pole-sitter Johnny Sauter as the field started down the back-straightaway. Scott Riggs (fourth on the outside) tried to pass Wallace on the outside, but checked up, causing Shane Hmiel to get in the back of him.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Race
Subsequently, Kevin Grubb bumped Hmiel, causing both Riggs and Hmiel to turn sideways down the track and hit the right-rear of Sauter and the right-front of Joe Nemechek, respectively. The impact from Riggs' car caused Sauter's car to turn sideways and flip twice in the middle of the track, thus blocking the track and causing a massive pile-up behind.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Race
The drivers involved were Riggs, Hmiel, Sauter, Nemechek, Jack Sprague, Jeff Purvis, Jimmy Kitchens, Randy Lajoie, Kerry Earnhardt, Tony Raines, Bobby Hamilton, Jr., Ashton Lewis, Mike McLaughlin, Lyndon Amick, Greg Biffle, Jamie McMurray, Scott Wimmer, Ron Hornaday, Jr., Shane Hall, Tim Sauter, Jay Sauter, Michael Waltrip, Joe Ruttman, Jimmy Spencer, Mike Wallace, Mike Harmon, Jeff Fuller, and Coy Gibbs. At the time of the crash, 41 of the 43 cars were on the track.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Race
Of those, only Compton, Keller, Wallace (who were in front of the crash), C. W. Smith, Hank Parker, Jr., Casey Mears, Andy Kirby, Tim Fedewa, Larry Gunselman, and Chad Chaffin (all of whom either got slowed down in time to miss the crash or had lost the lead draft altogether and were elsewhere on the track) made it through without damage. This crash brought out a 40-minute red flag and caused one minor injury to Mike Harmon (required stitches for biting through his tongue). After the 40-minute delay to clean up, the race resumed on lap 20 with only seven cars on the lead lap. The remainder of the race featured two additional caution periods for debris: one from laps 76–80, and another from laps 93–95.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Race
Kenny Wallace led from laps 16 to 23, with Compton taking the lead on lap 24; Compton would lead until lap 40, when Keller held the lead for a lap. On lap 42, Compton regained first, leading for 25 laps, surrendering the lead to Jeff Purvis on lap 67. The next lap, Keller retook first, leading for the remainder of the race. Only three cars – Keller, Compton, and Tim Fedewa – finished on the lead lap.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Race
Kenny Wallace (engine), C.W. Smith (overheating), Purvis (engine), Lewis (crash), Biffle (engine), McMurray, Wimmer, Hornaday, Johnny Sauter, Hall, Tim Sauter, Nemechek, Waltrip, Ruttman, Spencer, Mike Wallace, Harmon, Fuller, Gibbs (crash), Brad Teague (overheating) and Christian Elder (engine) failed to finish. The race featured a total of six leaders and seven lead changes.


2002 Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Report, Race
The win was Keller's first career victory at a superspeedway, his seventh-career Busch win, and his second of the season. ppc Racing owners Greg Pollex and Keith Barnwell recorded their 26th and third wins, respectively.


2002 Aaron's 499
The 2002 Aaron's 499 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that was held on April 21, 2002, at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. won the race, his first of the season and the second of his four straight wins at Talladega. His teammate Michael Waltrip finished second and Kurt Busch finished third.


2002 Aaron's 499, Qualifying
The drivers who failed to qualify were Rick Mast, Shawna Robinson, Bobby Gerhart, and Dick Trickle. Jimmie Johnson won the pole.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
From the green flag, Jimmie Johnson got off to a good start, leading the first eight laps. On lap 8, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. passed Johnson and assumed the lead for all but two of the next 42 laps; Jeremy Mayfield led lap 33, and Michael Waltrip led lap 40. On lap 50, Sterling Marlin claimed the lead, and led two laps before Matt Kenseth passed him for the lead. Kenseth led until lap 56, when Earnhardt, Jr. regained the lead.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
Earnhardt, Jr. led until lap 65, when Mayfield assumed the lead, again for only a lap before losing the lead to Earnhardt. He continued to lead until lap 82 when Waltrip claimed it again. Waltrip led until lap 95, when Ryan Newman passed him and led lap 96. Earnhardt, Jr. claimed the lead on the next lap and led until lap 105, for a cycle of green flag pit stops. During these pit stops, the lead cycled through Mark Martin, Jeff Burton and Kenseth before returning to Earnhardt, Jr. on lap 114.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
On lap 116, the first caution came out for debris. Kenseth assumed the lead under caution, but Earnhardt, Jr. got the lead back at the restart on lap 120. Over the next few laps, the lead would change between Martin, Kenseth, and Newman, before Earnhardt, Jr. got a big lead on lap 131. He would lead the next 31 laps.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
On lap 141, Newman got out of the race when his car had an engine failure, and was credited with a last place finish.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
On lap 163, Dale Jarrett managed to take the lead away from Earnhardt, Jr. For the next two laps, Earnhardt, Jr. and Jarrett were racing almost side-by-side. A lap later, a very large crash on the back straightaway brought out the second caution. It started when Jimmie Johnson shuffled Kyle Petty out of line in turn 1. Coming on to the backstretch, Petty found a spot in line, but the whole field bunched up behind him, causing Mike Wallace to force Tony Stewart against the outside wall.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
A 24-car crash unfolded, one day after the largest recorded crash in NASCAR history (30 cars) occurred in exactly the same location in the Busch race. Collected alongside Wallace and Stewart were Steve Park, Rusty Wallace, Mike Skinner, Terry Labonte, Mark Martin, Casey Atwood, Bill Elliott, Johnny Benson, Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte, Jeremy Mayfield, Elliott Sadler, Kevin Harvick, Robby Gordon, Ricky Craven, Jimmy Spencer, John Andretti, Steve Grissom, Bobby Hamilton, Geoff Bodine, and Ricky Rudd.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
Sadler took the biggest hit in the wreck by slamming the corner of the inside wall on the right side, while Benson had to be pulled out of his car after it caught fire on pit road. However, all of the drivers involved escaped injury. It was the largest recorded Big One in Cup history until the following year's spring Talladega race.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
Earnhardt, Jr. assumed the lead from Jarrett after pit stops under caution and led the last 23 laps to win. With ten laps to go, oil leaked from Stewart's car and Martin's wounded car stalled. The race was temporarily red-flagged to clean the track. With four laps left, the green flag waved. Earnhardt, Jr. led the four lap shootout, managing to hold off Waltrip and beat his teammate to the line by 0.100 seconds. Attendance figures were never recorded for this event. All of the drivers were born in the United States of America. This would primarily become the status quo of the Sprint Cup Series until the introduction of Juan Pablo Montoya at the 2006 Ford 400.


2002 Aaron's 499, Race recap
Ryan Newman's last-place finish was the only DNF due to a problem other than crash damage. Winnings for this race ranged from the winner's purse of $184,830 ($265,943.18 when adjusted for inflation) to the humble last-place winnings of $58,022 ($83,485.12 when adjusted for inflation). Compared to the previous day's Busch race crash, in which only three cars had finished on the lead lap, 21 cars finished on the lead lap in the Cup race.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso
The 2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Fairmont Acapulco Princess in Acapulco in Mexico that was part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier III of the 2002 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from February 25 through March 3, 2002.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso, Finals, Men's Doubles
Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Martin Damm /  David Rikl 6–1, 3–6, [10–2]


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso, Finals, Women's Doubles
Virginia Ruano Pascual /  Paola Suárez defeated  Tina Križan /  Katarina Srebotnik 7–5, 6–1


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Men's Doubles
Donald Johnson and Gustavo Kuerten were the defending champions but only Johnson competed that year with Jared Palmer.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Men's Doubles
Johnson and Palmer lost in the semifinals to Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Men's Doubles
The Bryan brothers won in the final 6–1, 3–6, [10–2] against Martin Damm and David Rikl.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Men's Singles
Gustavo Kuerten was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Men's Singles
Carlos Moyá won in the final 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–4) against Fernando Meligeni.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Women's Doubles
María José Martínez Sánchez and Anabel Medina Garrigues were the defending champions, but none competed this year. Martínez Sánchez decided to compete in Scottsdale at the same week.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Women's Doubles
Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez won the title by defeating Tina Križan and Katarina Srebotnik 7–5, 6–1 in the final.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Women's Singles
Amanda Coetzer was the defending champion, but lost in quarterfinals to Paola Suárez.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Women's Singles
Katarina Srebotnik won the title by defeating Paola Suárez 6–7(1–7), 6–4, 6–2 in the final.


2002 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso – Women's Singles, Seeds
The first two seeds received a bye into the second round.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Abkhazia on 2 March 2002 to elect the third convocation of the People's Assembly. The elections had originally been scheduled for 24 November 2001, but had to be postponed due to the October 2001 Chechen incursion into the lower Kodori Valley. Candidates supporting President Vladislav Ardzinba won all 35 seats.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Campaign
All candidates were nominated by initiative groups. Initially, 106 initiative groups registered with the Central Election Commission, but only 100 completed the necessary paperwork. Of the 100 nominated candidates, only 89 agreed to run. The Central Election Commission refused to register fourteen candidates on the ground that some of their collected signatures were supposedly forged, seven of which appealed the decision with the Supreme Court. In four cases, the court confirmed the Commission's decision, while in the cases of outgoing Vice Speaker Ruslan Kharabua, Givi Gabnia and Anatoli Khashba, it ordered further investigation by experts. The court eventually ruled in favour of Khashba, and he was registered as a candidate.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Campaign
On 26 February, Aitaira held an extraordinary congress at which it called for the elections to be declared invalid and for new elections to be organised at a later date, due to various violations favouring pro-government candidates and the refusal of the Central Election Commission to register eight of its candidates. In contrast, Apsny and Amtsakhara called for the elections to go through as planned. Fourteen candidates withdrew in protest: Irina Agrba, Izida Chania, Iakub Lakoba, Dalila Pilia, Viktor Bartsyts, Vadim Smyr, Leonid Lakerbaia, Roman Geria, Zurab Otyrba, Appolon Shinkuba, Oleg Damenia, Valeri Bigvava,  Gennadi Alamia and Natella Akaba. In addition, Vladimir Mukba withdrew for family reasons and Aiba Azaret in favour of Sergei Dbar.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Campaign
Following the withdrawal of these sixteen candidates, 63 candidates contested the 35 constituencies, with twelve constituencies only having a single candidate; eighteen constituencies had two candidates and five constituencies had three. The candidates included 45 Abkhazians, seven Russians, five Armenians, three Georgians, one Greek, one Kabardian and one Cherkessian. Four were women.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Conduct
Ethnic Georgians displaced during the conflict were prevented from voting, whilst state radio and television supported pro-government candidates.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Conduct
The Central Election Commission was subordinated to the Cabinet of Ministers and the procedures it implemented did not correspond to election law — the period for collecting signatures was too short and the forms did not allow for surplus signatures to compensate for any that might be disqualified. Voter lists contained people that had died or emigrated and double entries at two places of residence. Observers reported pressure on local administrations and voters.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Results
Preliminary turnout was 61.2%. The elections were decided in the first round in 30 out of 35 constituencies. Among the elected deputies were 21 Abkhaz, three Georgians, three Armenians, two Russians and one Kabardin. None of the female candidates was elected in the first round. Outgoing Speaker Sokrat Jinjolia lost the election in constituency no. 31.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Results
In constituencies no. 3, 4, 5 and 11, no candidate achieved a first round majority and a second round was held on 16 March.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Results
Central Election Commission Chairman Sergei Smyr claimed that in constituency no. 2, a number of residents had put pressure on voters to abstain. Later, Smyr declared that while the local election commission deemed the election to have been invalid, the Central Election Commission disagreed, and so the matter was brought before the Supreme Court.


2002 Abkhazian parliamentary election, Rerun in constituency no. 2
The repeated election in constituency no. 2 was originally planned for 18 May, but on 1 May the Central Election Commission decided to postpone it to 23 June, to give candidate Leonid Osia more time to prepare after he lost his court case against the decision to repeat the election. Nonetheless, only Garik Samanba participated in the rerun.


2002 Acura Classic
The 2002 Acura Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in San Diego in the United States. It was part of Tier II of the 2002 WTA Tour. It was the 24th edition of the tournament and was held from July 29 through August 4, 2002. First-seeded Venus Williams won her third consecutive singles title at the event and earned $115,000 first-prize money as well as 220 ranking points.


2002 Acura Classic, Finals, Doubles
Elena Dementieva /  Janette Husárová defeated  Daniela Hantuchová /  Ai Sugiyama, 6–2, 6–4


2002 Acura Classic – Doubles
Cara Black and Elena Likhovtseva were the defending champions, but lost in semifinals to tournament winners Elena Dementieva and Janette Husárová


2002 Acura Classic – Doubles
Dementieva and Husárová defeated Daniela Hantuchová and Ai Sugiyama 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


2002 Acura Classic – Singles
Venus Williams was the defending champion and successfully defended her title by defeating Jelena Dokic 6–2, 6–2 in the final.


2002 Adelaide Festival
The Adelaide Festival of Arts is Australia’s premier performing arts event. The 2002 Adelaide festival was the most controversial festival held since its establishment in 1960, described as the “worst-run, worst financed and worst marketed Festivals of all time”, resulting in the resignation of Artistic Director Peter Sellars and near bankruptcy of the festival.


2002 Adelaide Festival, Vision
The initial appointment of internationally acclaimed American Opera Director Peter Sellars in 2000 was seen positively by media and the arts communities, described as an “inspired choice of artistic director”. Peter Sellars commented “I think South Australia is where the future not only of this country is going to be written, but where the future of the industrialized world is going to be written”. Peter Sellars was the first artistic director appointed from overseas since the 1994 Festival and the first American.


2002 Adelaide Festival, Vision
The 2002 Adelaide Festival had a vision markedly different from previous festivals, and intentionally moved away from the typical arts festival model used across the world. Sellars critiqued what he described as a “shopping trolley” approach to arts festival management, where "exotic tidbits are brought to the table of an overstuffed population" i.e. a director fills the ‘festival trolley’ with pre-existing work from around the world, rather than generating it locally. The 2002 festival was centred around three themes of the “Right to Cultural Diversity”, "Truth and Reconciliation", and "Ecological Sustainability".


2002 Adelaide Festival, Vision
Its purpose was empowerment and recognition to groups and creativity usually marginalised or colonised by hierarchical concepts of high culture. It was to privilege the local and the communal against the individual and virtuosic. It was to make us get real about the serious failures of our society to deal with Indigenous and social justice questions and to recognise that screen and media forms are the dominant modes in the digital economy.


2002 Adelaide Festival, Financial Issues
Peter Sellars convinced the Adelaide Festival Board to accept a new programming model consisting of nine additional Associate Directors and numerous Advisory committees. These additional staff were estimated to add an cumulative expense of $1.8 million over two years leading up to the program. Sellars expected this additional cost to eventually be supported by the associate director's finding their own private sponsorships, but this was never achieved. This unrealistic expectation may have come from Sellar's work in American contexts where private support is much more common, whereas in Australia the mix of government, corporate and philanthropic funding is markedly different, especially in Adelaide where few major corporations have their headquarters.


2002 Adelaide Festival, Financial Issues
There were several additional factors that are seen to have contributed to financial difficulties sponsorship. The Sydney Olympics in 2000 had further limited availability of sponsorship money, and the 2001 September 11 attacks created an environment global uncertainty. Furthermore, in March 2001 it was revealed that the 2000 Adelaide Festival had resulted in a $1.5 million deficit, and the collapse of Ansett Airlines, a major sponsor for the Festival left a gap in the budget of $250,000.


2002 Adelaide Festival, Controversial Advertising
A TV ad for the festival was developed - but not aired -  featuring Adolf Hitler's face superimposed onto famous artists. The add suggested that if Hitler become an artist then the holocaust might have been avoided and “the world would have been a very different place through the power of good of the arts”. As a result of this, major sponsor Telstra withdrew its sponsorship, valued at $500,000. The ad was never aired, and Telstra eventually came back on board as a sponsor of the Festival. A replacement ad was aired consisting of a series of written inspirational quotes about the arts, ending with a voiceover saying “It doesn't matter what you think so long as you think”.


2002 Adelaide Festival, Festival Program Launch
Partly due to the September 11 attacks and collapse of Ansett Airlines, the festival program launch had to be pushed back from early October to October 31, 2001, which meant that Sellars would not be able to attend since he was to be in Paris at the time to direct an Opera. Instead he recorded a video speech, but that did not arrive from Paris in time, so the CEO Sue Nattrass spoke instead. The absence of Sellars, criticism of festival content by media and artists, and a front-page story in The Advertiser just four days before titled “Hitler to Promote Festival” (relating to the proposed TV advertisement) contributed to negative feelings about the festival.


2002 Adidas International
The 2002 Adidas International was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney in Australia that was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 2002 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from 6 through 13 January 2002. Roger Federer and Martina Hingis won the singles titles.


2002 Adidas International, Finals, Men's Doubles
Donald Johnson /  Jared Palmer defeated  Joshua Eagle /  Sandon Stolle 6–4, 6–4


2002 Adidas International, Finals, Women's Doubles
Lisa Raymond /  Rennae Stubbs defeated  Martina Hingis /  Anna Kournikova by Walkover


2002 Adidas International – Men's Doubles
Daniel Nestor and Sandon Stolle were the defending champions but only Stolle competed that year with Joshua Eagle.


2002 Adidas International – Men's Doubles
Eagle and Stolle lost in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer.


2002 Adidas International – Men's Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2002 Adidas International – Men's Singles
Lleyton Hewitt was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


2002 Adidas International – Men's Singles
Roger Federer won in the final 6–3, 6–3 against Juan Ignacio Chela.


2002 Adidas International – Men's Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2002 Adidas International – Women's Doubles
Anna Kournikova and Barbara Schett were the defending champions, but played this year with different partners. Kournikova teamed up with Martina Hingis and reached the final before been forced to withdraw, while Schett teamed up with Silvia Farina Elia and lost in semifinals.


2002 Adidas International – Women's Doubles
Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs won the title by walkover, after Hingis had to withdraw due to a heat exhaustion and a minor thigh injury. It was the 28th title for Raymond and the 32nd title for Stubbs in their respective doubles careers.


2002 Adidas International – Women's Singles
Martina Hingis was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, by defeating Meghann Shaughnessy 6–2, 6–3 in the final. It was the 1st title for Hingis in the season and the 39th in her career.


2002 Adidas International – Women's Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2002 Adora terrorist attack
The 2002 Adora terrorist attack was an attack on residents of the Israeli settlement of Adora by Palestinian militants. The attack was carried out by two Palestinian militants, who entered the community on April 27, 2002, and proceeded to shoot people in their homes and in the streets. In the attack, four civilians were killed and seven were injured.


2002 Adora terrorist attack
Adora is located in the Judean Mountains, in the Southern West Bank, northwest of Hebron.


2002 Adora terrorist attack, Context
The attack occurred during the Second Intifada. It occurred several days after Israeli forces killed the Palestinian militant, Marwan Zalloum, a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for the attack.


2002 Adora terrorist attack, Attack
The attack took place in the morning on the Jewish Sabbath. Many of the Adora residents were attending Sabbath prayers in the synagogue when the attack began.


2002 Adora terrorist attack, Attack
The two attackers entered the settlement by cutting a 3-foot wide hole in the security fence, but no alarm was triggered as the fence was not electrified. The attackers were wearing IDF uniforms and black flak jackets to confuse responders. They were armed with an M-17 and a Kalashnikov assault riffle. The element of surprise allowed the attackers to stay in the settlement for about 15 minutes.


2002 Adora terrorist attack, Attack
Shortly after 9:00am one of the attackers entered the Shefi family house and began to search for family members room to room. He first found the 5-year-old girl Danielle Shefi in her bed, who he proceeded to shoot dead. He then found her brothers Eliad (4) and Uriel (2), who he shot and injured, then he found their mother, Shir Shefi, who he also shot and injured.


2002 Adora terrorist attack, Attack
The attacker then moved to the Harari family house, where he failed to gain entry, so shot out the windows.


2002 Adora terrorist attack, Attack
The second attacker attempted to gain entry to the Eliezer family home by knocking at the door, but after this failed he entered the Greenberg home, where he shot Vladimir and Katya Greenberg in their beds, killing the wife and injuring the husband.


2002 Adora terrorist attack, Attack
When the local security team arrived, at first they mistook the attackers for IDF soldiers and called out to them. Responder Arik Becker was killed in the initial round of gunfire. Israeli police joined the security team, causing the attackers to flee. Ya’akov Katz was killed in a burst of gunfire while the attackers were running through the streets.


2002 Adora terrorist attack, Attack
The attackers fled through a hole in the security fence in the direction of the village of Tuffah. One of the attackers was later killed by IDF troops.


2002 Adur District Council election
Elections to Adur District Council were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party gained control of the council from no overall control. Overall turnout was 33%.


2002 Adur District Council election
The Conservatives won 9 of the 14 seats up for election after the Liberal Democrats did not stand any candidates.


2002 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships
The 7th Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Žvejų rūmai hall, Klaipėda, Lithuania from July 29 to July 31, 2002.


2002 Africa Cup
The 2002 Africa Cup (officially called at those time "Africa Top Six") was the third edition of highest level rugby union tournament in AfricaSix teams participated to this tournament valid also as final round of African qualification for 2003 Rugby World Cup. For this reason, at the tournament participated the winner of first round, the Madadagascar. The teams were divided in two pools, with a final between the winner of each pool. A second division was also played


2002 Africa Cup, Finals
The aggregate results was drawn 33-33. Namibia won thanks the number of tries scored.


2002 Africa Cup, second division
The 2002 Africa Cup second division was the second edition of lower level rugby union tournament in Africa. The teams were divided in two pools, with a final between the winner of each pool.


2002 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash
The 2002 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash occurred on 26 July 2002 when an Africa One Antonov An-26 (9Q-CMC) faced a rejected takeoff at Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. As a result of the rejected takeoff, the nose gear and the main gear legs collapsed, and the Aviation Safety Network said "The aircraft was reportedly damaged beyond repair." No deaths or injuries occurred.


2002 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash
The accident aircraft, which had been carrying dozens of tons of freight goods, had been overloaded. The air company had only declared three tons of freight. Simplice Kibanza, the chairperson of the management committee of the Régie des Voies Aériennes de la République Démocratique du Congo (RVA), the DRC airspace regulatory agency, announced that as a result of the accident, the RVA created an emergency action plan to allow for the coordination of emergency services at N'Djili Airport in the event of an accident or incident. The airport previously had no such plan.


2002 African Championships in Athletics
The 13th African Championships in Athletics were held in Tunis and Radès, Tunisia in August, 2002.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres
The men's 10,000 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
The men's 100 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6–7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Wind:Heat 1: +2.4 m/s, Heat 2: +2.1 m/s, Heat 3: +2.6 m/s, Heat 4: +0.7 m/s, Heat 5: +2.3 m/s


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: +1.9 m/s, Heat 2: +1.2 m/s (or +2.1 m/s), Heat 3: +2.6 m/s


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles
The men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6–7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
The men's 200 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 9–10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Wind:Heat 1: +0.8 m/s, Heat 2: +0.8 m/s, Heat 3: +1.9 m/s, Heat 4: +1.6 m/s


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 8.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 8.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6–8.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 8–9.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 9–10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 8–9.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
The men's discus throw event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 8.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
The men's high jump event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
The men's javelin throw event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
The men's long jump event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
The men's shot put event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 10 kilometres walk
The women's 10 kilometres walk event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 9.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
The women's 100 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6–7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Wind:Heat 1: +4.7 m/s, Heat 2: +3.9 m/s, Heat 3: +3.9 m/s


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
The women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 9–10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres
The women's 200 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 9–10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Wind:Heat 1: +1.5 m/s, Heat 2: +3.3 m/s, Heat 3: +1.5 m/s


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 8.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7–8.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres
The women's 5000 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6–7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw
The women's hammer throw event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 9.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
The women's heptathlon event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6–7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
The women's high jump event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
The women's javelin throw event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 8.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
The women's long jump event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 8.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
The women's pole vault event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 7.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
The women's shot put event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 10.


2002 African Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The women's triple jump event at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics was held in Radès, Tunisia on August 6.


2002 African Cup Winners' Cup
The 2002 African Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Wydad AC in two-legged final victory against Asante Kotoko This was the twenty-eighth season that the tournament took place for the winners of each African country's domestic cup. Thirty-seven sides entered the competition.


2002 African Cup Winners' Cup
Three teams were disqualified for not showing up during the different stages of the competition, starting with Togolese side Sara Sport who failed to arrive for the 1st leg of the preliminary round, then South Africans Kaizer Chiefs who failed to arrive for the 2nd leg of the first round and finally the Réunion representative Jeanne d'Arc who failed to show up for their 2nd leg match of the second round. The last two teams both failed to show up for their 2nd leg match against the Malagasy side US Transfoot.


2002 African Cup of Nations
The 2002 African Cup of Nations was the 23rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa (CAF). It was hosted by Mali. Just like in 2000, the field of sixteen teams was split into four groups of four. Cameroon won its fourth championship (repeating as champions), beating Senegal on penalty kicks 3–2 after a goalless draw.


2002 African Cup of Nations, Host selection
The organization of the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations was awarded to Mali on 5 February 1998 by the CAF Executive Committee meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso during the 1998 African Cup of Nations. Voters had a choice between five countries : Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia and Mali.


2002 African Cup of Nations, Host selection
This was the first time that Mali had hosted the competition.


2002 African Cup of Nations Final
The 2002 African Cup of Nations Final was a football match that took place on 13 February 2002 at the Stade du 26 Mars in Bamako, Mali, to determine the winner of the 2002 African Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).


2002 African Cup of Nations Final
Cameroon won the title for the fourth time by beating Senegal 3–2 on penalties.


2002 African Cup of Nations qualification
This page details the process of qualifying for the 2002 African Cup of Nations.


2002 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying rounds, Preliminary round
The quarter finalists of 2000 Africa Cup of Nations received a bye to the group stage. These teams are: Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia.


2002 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying rounds, Preliminary round
Togo win 4–2 on penalties after 2–2 after extra time.


2002 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying rounds, Preliminary round
Libya won 8–7 on penalty shootout after 4–4 on aggregate.


2002 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying rounds, Preliminary round
Lesotho won 3-2 on penalty shootout after 1–1 after extra time.


2002 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying rounds, Group round
Qualifying took place between 2 September 2000 and 17 June 2001.


2002 African Cup of Nations qualification, Qualifying rounds, Group round, Group 5
Guinea were excluded on 19 March 2001, after the Guinean sports minister had failed to meet a third FIFA deadline to reinstall the Guinean FF functionaries.


2002 African Cup of Nations squads
The 2002 African Cup of Nations squads is given as follows:


2002 African Judo Championships
The 2002 African Judo Championships was organised by the African Judo Union in Cairo, Egypt from 4 October 2002 to 7 October 2002.


2002 African Men's Handball Championship
The 2002 African Men's Handball Championship was the 15th edition of the African Men's Handball Championship, held in Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco, from 19 to 28 April 2002. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2003 World Championship in Portugal.


2002 African Men's Handball Championship
Tunisia win their sixth title beating Algeria in the final game 25–22.


2002 African U-19 Women's Championship
The 2002 African U-19 Women's Championship was the first edition of the African under-19 women's football championship. The winners of the tournament Nigeria have qualified to the 2002 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.


2002 African Women's Championship
The 2002 Women's African Football Championship was the fifth edition of the African Women's Championship (now known as the Africa Women Cup of Nations), the biennial international football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa. It was held in Nigeria between 7 December and 20 December 2002.


2002 African Women's Championship
The tournament determined the CAF's two qualifiers for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup — the winner Nigeria and the runner-up Ghana. Nigeria won its fifth title, beating Ghana 2–0 in the final.


2002 African Women's Championship, Host selection
In January 2001, the Botswana Football Association  had confirmed that the country has submitted a bid to host the tournament. It is unknown if they withdrew from bidding later.


2002 African Women's Championship, Host selection
Nigeria were elected as hosts in March 2002 after there were no serious takers for the tournament. Nigerian officials were approached by the CAF at the 2002 African Cup of Nations finals in Mali and were keen to host the tournament. Nigeria had hosted the tournament previously, in 1998.


2002 African Women's Championship, Qualification
Nigeria qualified automatically as both hosts and defending champions, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took place from August to October 2002.


2002 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format
Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).


2002 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format
The seven winners of the final round qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams
Ethiopia and Mali made their first appearances in the tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship, Format
The eight teams were divided into two groups of four teams each. The top two teams in the groups advanced to the semi-finals. The finalists of the tournament qualified for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States.


2002 African Women's Championship, Format
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss).


2002 African Women's Championship, Results, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time is played.


2002 African Women's Championship, Results, Knockout stage, Final
The match was held up for about 5 minutes after fans pelted a linesman with sachets of water after Alberta Sackey had not been given offside (but missed the chance anyway).


2002 African Women's Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup
The following two teams from CAF qualified for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification
The 2002 African Women's Championship qualification process was organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to decide the participating teams of the 2002 African Women's Championship. Nigeria qualified automatically as both hosts and defending champions, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took place from August to October 2002.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Teams
A record 21 national teams participated in the qualifying process.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Format
Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Format
The seven winners of the final round qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Zambia won by default and advanced to the second round.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Ethiopia won by default and advanced to the second round.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Tanzania won 5–4 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Angola won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Gabon won 8–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Senegal won by default and advanced to the second round.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
4–4 on aggregate. Mali won on the away goals rule and advanced to the second round.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Second round
South Africa won 8–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Second round
Ethiopia won 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Second round
Zimbabwe won 10–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Second round
1–1 on aggregate. Angola won the penalty shoot-out 5–4 and qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Second round
Cameroon won 4–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Second round
Ghana won 6–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Second round
0–0 on aggregate. Mali won the penalty shoot-out 5–4 and qualified for the final tournament.


2002 African Women's Championship qualification, Goalscorers
Angolan Jacinta Ramos, Gabonese Géraldine Okawe, South African Joanne Solomon and Zimbabwean Nomsa Moyo were the top scorers in the qualifying process. In total, 70 goals were scored by 44 different players.


2002 African Women's Handball Championship
The 2002 African Women's Handball Championship was the 15th edition of the African Women's Handball Championship, held in Morocco from 19 to 28 April 2002. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2003 World Women's Handball Championship.


2002 Afyon earthquake
The Afyon Province of western Turkey was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw on 23 February 2002 at 10:11 local time (07:11 UTC). It had a maximum felt intensity of VIII (severe) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. It damage hundreds of buildings and caused the deaths of 44 people and a further 318 injuries.


2002 Afyon earthquake, Tectonic setting
Most of western Turkey lies in an area of extensional tectonics that extends into the Aegean Sea. The cause of the extension is thought to be the rollback of the subducting slab of the African Plate that dips northwards beneath the Aegean. The overall N–S extension has resulted in a series of NW–SE to W–E trending seismically active normal faults with associated rift basins. The Afyon–Akşehir Graben lies in the hanging-wall of the low-angle Sultandağı Fault and contains nearly 1 km of late Miocene to Quaternary sedimentary fill. Part of this fault ruptured during a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in December 2000.


2002 Afyon earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake had a magnitude in the range 6.2–6.7 Mw . The observed focal mechanism is consistent with normal faulting along a fault trending WSW–ENE, although the local trend of the basin-bounding fault is closer to WNW–ESE. The distribution of the aftershocks, however, is consistent with a rupture along part of the Sultandağı Fault of about 40 km in length. It also suggests that the rupture propagation was almost unidirectional towards the northwest, with the mainshock close to the southeastern end of the rupture.


2002 Afyon earthquake, Earthquake
A large aftershock, measuring 5.8–6.0 Mw , occurred roughly two hours after the mainshock near the western end of the Sultandağı Fault.


2002 Afyon earthquake, Earthquake
Analysis of the coulomb stress transfer associated with the M6.0 earthquake on 15 December 2000 suggests that these stress changes triggered the 2002 mainshock. The epicentre of the mainshock lies near the termination of the rupture associated with the earlier earthquake, consistent with this interpretation.


2002 Afyon earthquake, Damage
There was significant damage in 8 of the 18 districts in Afyon Province and some damage in Akşehir in Konya Province. A total of 4,051 residential and 339 commercial buildings either collapsed or were badly damaged. A further 10,402 residential and 884 commercial buildings suffered either low or medium levels of damage. The town of Çay suffered the most damage and had the greatest number of fatalities.


2002 Afyon earthquake, Damage
The most damaged building type was the traditional Himis style, which consists of timber frames with adobe and rubble infill and heavy roofs. Collapse of this building type was responsible for causing most of the deaths and injuries in this earthquake.


2002 Air Canada Cup
The 2002 Air Canada Cup was Canada's 24th annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, played April 22–28, 2002 at the K. C. Irving Regional Centre in Bathurst, New Brunswick. The Tisdale Trojans from Saskatchewan defeated the Dartmouth Subways from Nova Scotia 6-2 in the gold medal game to win the national title.


2002 Air Canada Cup
This season's Air Canada Cup gained extra attention from media and hockey scouts as 14-year-old prodigy Sidney Crosby competed as a member of the Dartmouth Subways. He led them to a berth in the championship game, the first time that a team from Atlantic Canada had ever advanced to the gold medal game. Crosby led the round robin in scoring with 18 points in five games and was named the Most Valuable Player. Other notable players competing at the 2002 Air Canada Cup were Olivier Latendresse, Guillaume Latendresse, Andrew Gordon, Shaun Heshka, Tyson Strachan, Jay Rosehill, and Torrey Mitchell.


2002 Air Force Falcons football team
The 2002 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were a member of the Mountain West Conference. The Falcons were coached by Fisher DeBerry and played their home games at Falcon Stadium. They finished the season 8–5, 4–3 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for third place. They were invited to the San Francisco Bowl where they lost to Virginia Tech.


2002 Air Force Falcons football team, Roster
# Name Pos Ht Wt Yr Rk Hometown (High School)


2002 Akron Zips football team
The 2002 Akron Zips football team represented the University of Akron in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. Akron competed as a member of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The Zips were led by head coach Lee Owens.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA", "Bama" or "The Tide") represented the University of Alabama in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 108th overall season, 70th as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and its 11th within the SEC Western Division. The team was led by head coach Dennis Franchione, in his second year, and played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
They finished the season with a record of 10–3 (6–2 in the SEC) to finish in first place in the SEC West; however, the team was ineligible to compete in the 2002 SEC Championship Game or a bowl game due to a two-year postseason ban imposed as part of the penalty for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) violations.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Summary
The team was led by second-year head coach Dennis Franchione. The team began the season with a 4–1 record, only losing a very close game to then #8 ranked Oklahoma. On October 5, the Crimson Tide lost another hard-fought game to the #4 Georgia 27–25 at home. The team would then defeat their next five opponents by an average of 24.4 points. In the 2002 Iron Bowl, the team was defeated by the Auburn Tigers by a score of 17–7. The team would end their season by defeating Hawaii. Though the team finished at 10–3 (6–2) and atop the SEC West standings, they were ineligible to play in the postseason due to receiving NCAA sanctions in 2001.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Summary
On December 5, head coach Dennis Franchione left the University of Alabama to take a head coaching job at Texas A&M which was left vacant by the firing of R. C. Slocum.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Middle Tennessee
In the only game that Alabama would play at Legion Field in 2002, the Crimson Tide would score a season opening win for the first time since 1999.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
The first road game of the year for Alabama would prove to be one of the most exciting game of the year. Despite trailing 23-3 at halftime, Alabama roared back in the second half with 24 unanswered points to take a 27-23 lead late into the 4th quarter. Oklahoma however, scored the last 14 points to win 37-27.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, North Texas
In the first game of the season at Bryant-Denny Stadium, The Crimson Tide would go over 500 yards of offense for the first time this season and win their first non-conference game at Bryant Denny Stadium since 1999. This game also was the first time since 1986 Alabama would not sellout their game at Bryant-Denny Stadium snapping a streak of 56 straight sellouts in Tuscaloosa.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss
For the second straight week, Alabama would hold their opponent to under 150 yards of total offense to win their third game of the season. This would be  Ahmaad Galloway final game at Alabama as he would tear his ACL in the 4th quarter.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Arkansas
Shaud Williams would take the opening play 80 yards for a touchdown as the Crimson Tide beat Arkansas on the road for the first time since 1996.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Georgia would use a Billy Bennett 32 yard field goal to beat Alabama in the first meeting between teams since 1995.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
Santonio Beard tied Shaun Alexander record of five rushing touchdowns in a game as Alabama dominated Ole Miss on Homecoming.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
For the first time since 1994, Alabama beat Tennessee snapping a seven year win streak that the Vols had. To date, this was the longest streak by any opponent over the Tide.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
For the second year in a row, the Crimson Tide traveled to Vanderbilt and for the 18th straight time Alabama would beat Vanderbilt. This would be the last time Alabama would meet Vanderbilt until 2006 snapping a 50 consecutive seasons streak of playing.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Alabama used their offense in the first half and their defense in the second half to preserve second straight win against the Bulldogs for the first time since 1994-95. This game was not televised making it the first Alabama game since 1995 not to be on live television.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU
Alabama defense would record a shutout for the first time since 1997 as the defeated the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn
Alabama would trail for the first time since the Georgia game earlier in the season as Auburn would upset Alabama to continue their undefeated mark in Iron Bowl's played in Tuscaloosa.


2002 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Hawaii
Alabama would clinch 10 wins for the first time since 1999 as Alabama beat Hawaii to end the season 10-3. This would be Dennis Franchione last game as coach at Alabama as he would leave to be Texas A&M Head Coach on December 4th, 2002.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election
The 2002 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on November 5. The race pitted incumbent Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat, against Representative Bob Riley, a Republican, and Libertarian nominee John Sophocleus.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election
The result was an extremely narrow victory for Riley. The certified results showed Riley with 672,225 votes to Siegelman's 669,105 (a difference of 3,120 votes, or 0.23% of the 1,367,053 votes cast). Sophocleus garnered 23,272 votes, and 2,451 votes were for write-in candidate. The close and controversial election was marked by high turnout.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Primaries
Both of the principal contestants in the general election campaign faced primary-election opponents whose opposition turned out to be less than expected. The primaries were held on June 4, 2002.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Campaign
The closeness of the general election contest was reflected in its intensity and fervor. At one point in the campaign, a clash erupted between the two principal campaigns over disclosure of the identities of large contributors to the Riley campaign. President George W. Bush appeared in Alabama at a July event, and a private reception with a $50,000 admission was held to benefit the Riley campaign. Riley's campaign initially refused to identify the donors attending the event.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Campaign
Later, under pressure from the Siegelman campaign, Riley called on the national Republican Party, which had hosted the event, to release the names of donors. The Riley campaign was subjected to editorial criticism when the voluminous reports released made it difficult to trace the sources of donations from the event to Riley.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Campaign
During the campaign, actor and National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston came to Alabama to campaign for Republican congressional candidates. While in the state, Heston released a written statement endorsing Siegelman, despite the fact that Riley had made a point of being seen in public with Heston. Spokesmen for both Riley and the Alabama Republican Party issued statements insinuating that Siegelman had taken advantage of Heston's recently diagnosed Alzheimer's disease to secure the endorsement. After a firestorm of criticism from the NRA and editorial pages, the Republican spokesmen apologized to Heston, but not to Siegelman.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Campaign
Riley received the endorsements of The Birmingham News, the Mobile Press-Register, the Business Council of Alabama, and the Auburn University Trustee Improvement PAC, an alumni group which opposed Siegelman's choices for trustees at the school. In addition to the NRA, Siegelman was endorsed by The Montgomery Advertiser, The Anniston Star, The Tuscaloosa News, and various labor groups, including the Alabama State Employees Association. Siegelman was also endorsed by Alabama Education Association executive secretary Paul Hubbert, although the Association itself remained officially neutral.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Campaign
The campaign set new spending records for an Alabama gubernatorial race. Even before the final weeks of the campaign, the candidates had raised over $17,000,000. Riley, who raised and spent over twice the sum Siegelman raised, was primarily backed by business groups and insurance companies. Siegelman received substantial contributions from labor groups and affiliates of the Alabama Education Association. Both candidates were the beneficiaries of national party funding, and contributions from political action committees made donations to both candidates difficult to trace.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Campaign
Polls taken in the final days of the campaign reflected the eventual close outcome.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Results by congressional district
Despite winning 4 out of 7 congressional districts, Riley lost his old district by around 7% after it was redistricted to become more Democratic.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Aftermath controversy
Riley's victory was controversial, and caused many commentators to recall the Florida election recount of 2000. Initial returns showed Riley narrowly losing to Siegelman. Siegelman gave a victory speech on election night, and the Associated Press initially declared him the winner. However, officials in Baldwin County conducted a recount and retabulation of that county's votes after midnight, and after Democratic Party observers had gone home for the night. Approximately 6,000 votes initially credited to Siegelman were either removed from the total or reassigned to Riley in the recount, turning the statewide result in Riley's favor.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Aftermath controversy
Local Republican officials claimed the earlier returns were the result of a "computer glitch." Democratic requests to repeat the recount with Democratic observers present were rejected by Alabama courts and then-Attorney General Bill Pryor. Siegelman and his supporters complained that these judges (and Pryor) were either elected as Republicans or appointed by Republican presidents.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Aftermath controversy
After over a week of fights in courtrooms and in the media, Siegelman, on November 18, 2002,  made a televised address, saying that, "I've decided that a prolonged election controversy would hurt Alabama, would hurt the very people that we worked so hard to help", and abandoned his efforts to secure a recount of the Baldwin County vote, allowing Riley to take office.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Aftermath controversy
In response to the allegation of a "computer glitch", Siegelman later stated: "[N]ow one would expect that if there was some kind of computer glitch or some kind of computer programming error, that it might have affected more than one race, but it further raised suspicions about vote stealing when the votes came back and they were certified, and the only person who lost votes was Don Siegelman, the Democrat, and the only person who gained votes was Bob Riley, the Republican."


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Aftermath controversy
A number of analyses of the competing claims were undertaken at the time, with conflicting results. In one such study, Auburn University political scientist James H. Gundlach concluded that a detailed analysis of the returns, compared with 1998 results and returns from undisputed counties, "strongly suggests a systematic manipulation of the voting results." The Gundlach study also suggested a mechanism by which this could have been effected, and proposed a conclusion that Siegelman won. An earlier analysis reported by the Associated Press, using a less sophisticated comparison of gubernatorial and legislative returns, was claimed to indicate that the revised returns were more accurate, and that Riley probably won. The Gundlach paper offers a refutation of the conclusions of the Associated Press study.


2002 Alabama gubernatorial election, Aftermath controversy
Largely as a result of this controversy, the Alabama Legislature later amended the election code to provide for automatic, supervised recounts in close races. Riley took office January 20, 2003.


2002 Alamo Bowl
The 2002 Alamo Bowl featured the Wisconsin Badgers and the Colorado Buffaloes.


2002 Alamo Bowl
Colorado got on the board first, following a 91-yard interception return by Colorado cornerback Donald Strickland. Anthony Davis scored Wisconsin's first points, as he rushed 7 yards for a touchdown, to tie the game at 7. Colorado quarterback Robert Hodge threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver D. J. Hackett, to give Colorado a 14–7 lead.


2002 Alamo Bowl
Brooks Bollinger connected with wide receiver Brandon Williams for a 10-yard touchdown pass to tie the game at 14. He later threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Darrin Charles to give Wisconsin a 21–14 lead, that held during halftime. Chris Brown rushed four yards for a touchdown in the third quarter, to tie the game at 21.


2002 Alamo Bowl
Zac Colvin threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Hackett to give Colorado a 28–21 lead. In the fourth quarter, Bollinger rushed one yard for a touchdown to tie the game at 28 in the final minute. The game headed into overtime, where the Wisconsin defense pushed Colorado backward, forcing them to take a 45-yard FG, which missed wide right. Wisconsin then just needed to stay in FG range, and Mike Allen kicked a 37-yard field goal to win the game for Wisconsin, 31–28.


2002 Alaska Aces season
The 2002 Alaska Aces season was the 17th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2002 Alaska Aces season, Finals stint
The Alaska Aces made it to the finals twice in the 2002 season, they lost to Purefoods TJ Hotdogs in seven games for the Governor's Cup title. After placing fourth in the Commissioner's Cup, the Aces reach the All-Filipino Cup finals with a 2-1 series win over top-seeded Red Bull Thunder in their best-of-three semifinals. Alaska went on to play the Coca-Cola Tigers in the championship, the Aces lost in four games to the first-year ballclub in the best-of-five finals series.


2002 Alaska gubernatorial election
The 2002 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 2002, for the post of Governor of Alaska. Republican U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski defeated Democratic Lieutenant Governor Fran Ulmer. Murkowski became the first Republican elected governor of Alaska since Jay Hammond in 1978.


2002 Alaska gubernatorial election, Primaries
Incumbent Democratic Governor Tony Knowles was term limited from running again. Lieutenant Governor Fran Ulmer easily won the Democratic primary on August 27 against outsiders Michael Beasley and Bruce Lemke, neither of whom did much campaigning. Meanwhile, Senator Frank Murkowski also gained an easy win in the Republican primary.


2002 Alaska gubernatorial election, Campaign
Murkowski started the campaign as the clear favorite as Ulmer, despite being lieutenant governor, had a lot less name recognition. Polls initially showed Ulmer about 20 percent behind Murkowski but as the campaign continued Ulmer closed on Murkowski in the polls by concentrating on local issues such as the state budget and by portraying herself as a moderate. By October polls showed the candidates about level with one poll on October 17 showing Ulmer at 46% and Murkowski at 43%.


2002 Alaska gubernatorial election, Campaign
The biggest issue in the campaign was the economy and what to do about the projected budget shortfall in Alaska. The issue dominated the October debates between the two candidates in Fairbanks and Anchorage. Ulmer argued that the state should consider introducing a statewide tax for the first time since 1980 if the budget reserve fell too far and that state spending should be capped. However Murkowski opposed any new taxes and called his opponent pro-tax. He said that new oil prospects, high oil prices and revenues from other resources could close the gap in the budget.


2002 Alaska gubernatorial election, Campaign
President George Bush made an advertisement supporting Murkowski, who also received support from Republicans Gale Norton, Ted Stevens and Don Young. Ulmer received support from former Republican Governor Jay Hammond, Governor Tony Knowles and called on voters to support her so that Murkowski could stay working as Senator for Alaska in Congress. During the campaign Murkowski refused to say whom he would appoint to serve his remaining two years as U.S. senator but after the election appointed his daughter Lisa Murkowski, majority leader in the Alaska House of Representatives, to fill the seat.


2002 Alaska gubernatorial election, Election results
U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski won the election with 55.85% of the vote, the highest percentage for any Alaska gubernatorial candidate up to that time.


2002 Albanian Supercup
Albanian Supercup 2002 is the ninth edition of the Albanian Supercup since its establishment in 1989. The match was contested between the Albanian Cup 2002 winners KF Tirana and the 2001–02 Albanian Superliga champions Dinamo Tirana.


2002 Albanian Supercup
KF Tirana thrashed the blue team by 6-0, this being the biggest win so far in an Albanian Supercup final.


2002 Albanian presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Albania on 24 June 2002, the fifth such elections since the collapse of the communist regime in 1991. Under pressure from international organization, Alfred Moisiu was chosen by Sali Berisha and Fatos Nano as a consensus candidate for the presidency after the end of Rexhep Meidani's term. Moisiu was found fitting for that post since he was a researcher, was politically neutral, was known as an effective mediator (a quality much appreciated in Albania, which tends to inner quarrels) and had a decisive pro-Western and NATO orientation.


2002 Albanian presidential election
The medias in Albania emphasized the extraordinary cooperative spirit between the Socialist and the Democratic Parties; Moisiu was a candidate approved by both Sali Berisha and Fatos Nano. Neither Nano nor former president Meidani ran for the presidency, as they had no chance to gather the necessary three fifths of the vote. Meidani was found to be too close to the Socialists, and therefore conservative candidates would not support him.


2002 Albanian presidential election
The President of Albania is elected through a secret vote and without debate by the Parliament of Albania by a majority of three-fifths majority of all its members. The Constitution of Albania sets a limit to a maximum of two terms in office. When this majority is not reached in the first round of voting, a second round takes place within seven days. If such a majority is still not reached, a third round must take place within a further period of seven days.


2002 Albanian presidential election
If even in the first three rounds no candidate has attained the necessary majority, a further two rounds must be held within seven days, with the majority needed to win being reduced to an absolute majority (50% + 1 vote) vote of the total members of the Parliament. If after five rounds of voting no candidate has attained the necessary majority outlined for each round of voting in the Parliament, the Parliament will be dissolved and a general election must occur within 60 days.