2002 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Doubles
The Bryans won in the final 7–6(7–1), 7–5 against Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor.


2002 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2002 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Singles
Tim Henman was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to David Nalbandian.


2002 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Singles
Nalbandian won in the final 6–4, 6–3, 6–2 against Fernando González.


2002 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2002 Davis Cup
The 2002 Davis Cup (also known as the 2002 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas for sponsorship purposes) was the 91st edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 130 teams entered the competition, 16 in the World Group, 28 in the Americas Zone, 32 in the Asia/Oceania Zone, and 54 in the Europe/Africa Zone. Kyrgyzstan made its first appearances in the tournament.


2002 Davis Cup
BNP Paribas became the Davis Cup's new Title Sponsor from this year's tournament, taking over from NEC, the previous sponsor since the 1981 tournament.


2002 Davis Cup
Russia defeated the defending champions France in the final, held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, on 29 November–1 December, to win their first title. This is the only time in the history of the competition that a two-set deficit has been turned around in a live fifth rubber of a Final.


2002 Davis Cup, World Group Qualifying Round
The eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I final round ties competed in the World Group Qualifying Round for spots in the 2003 World Group.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone
The Americas Zone was one of three Zones of Davis Cup competition in 2002.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III
The Group III tournament was held April 3-7, in San Salvador, El Salvador, on outdoor clay courts.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Americas Zone Group II in 2003. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in the relegation pool, from which the two bottom teams were demoted to the Americas Zone Group IV in 2003.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Promotion pool, Results of Individual Ties
Dominican Republic and Haiti promoted to Group II for 2003.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Relegation pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Relegation pool, Results of Individual Ties
Costa Rica and Panama demoted to Group IV for 2003.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV
The Group IV tournament was held April 1-6, in Calliaqua, Saint Vincent, on outdoor hard courts.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV, Format
The six teams played in a single Round-robin tournament . The top two teams  were promoted to the Americas Zone Group III in 2003.


2002 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV, Format, Results of Individual Ties
Bolivia and Saint Lucia promoted to Group III for 2003.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone
The Asia/Oceania Zone was one of three Zones of Davis Cup competition in 2002.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III
The Group III tournament was held April 10-14, in Tehran, Iran, on outdoor clay courts.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2003. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in the relegation pool, from which the two bottom teams were demoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV in 2003.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Relegation pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Relegation pool, Results of Individual Ties
Singapore and Saudi Arabia demoted to Group IV for 2003.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV
The Group IV tournament was held March 20-24, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on outdoor hard courts.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2003. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in a second pool to determine places 5-8.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2002 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Placement pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the placement group. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2002 Davis Cup World Group
The World Group was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2002. The first-round losers went into the Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, and the winners progress to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinalists were guaranteed a World Group spot for 2003.


2002 Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round
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2002 Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round
The World Group Qualifying Round were the main play-offs of 2002 Davis Cup. Winners advanced to the World Group, and loser were relegated in the Zonal Regions I.


2002 Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round, Teams
Bold indicates team has qualified for the 2003 Davis Cup World Group.


2002 Daytona 500
The 2002 Daytona 500, the 44th running of the event, was held on February 17 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida as the first of 36 races of the 2002 Winston Cup Season. Rookie Jimmie Johnson, driving the No. 48 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, won the pole with fellow Daytona 500 rookie Kevin Harvick qualifying second, making this the first time the field would be led by two first-time Daytona 500 participants. Ward Burton, driving the No.22 Dodge for Bill Davis Racing, won the race. This race was the last for long-time veteran driver Dave Marcis.


2002 Daytona 500
As part of the television contract signed at the end of the 1999 NASCAR season, the 2002 Daytona 500 was televised by NBC. Allen Bestwick provided the play-by-play in the booth with color commentators Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach, Jr. The prerace show was hosted by Bill Weber, who reported from the pits with Matt Yocum, Marty Snider, and Dave Burns. This was the first time NBC televised the Daytona 500.


2002 Daytona 500, Background
The 2002 Daytona 500 was the first of 36 scheduled stock car races of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, and the 44th running of the event. It was held on February 17, 2002, in Daytona Beach, Florida, at Daytona International Speedway, one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races; the others are Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway, and Talladega Superspeedway. Its standard track is a four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.0 km) superspeedway. Daytona's turns are banked at 31 degrees, and the front stretch—the location of the finish line—is banked at 18 degrees.


2002 Daytona 500, Background
The Daytona 500 was conceived by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., who built the Daytona International Speedway. The race was first held in 1959; it is the successor to shorter races held on beaches around Daytona Beach. It has been the opening round of the NASC AR season since 1982, and from 1988, it has been one of four events that require cars to run restrictor plates. The Daytona 500 is often regarded as NASCAR's most prestigious race because it offers the most prize money in American auto racing. Victory is considered equal to winning either the World Series, the Super Bowl or The Masters. The race is often called the "Great American Race" or the "Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing".


2002 Daytona 500, Background
In preparation for the race, NASCAR scheduled several test sessions on January 7–9 (for teams who finished in an odd-number position in the 2002 car owner points standings) and January 14–16, 2002 (for teams who finished in an even-number position in the 2002 car owner points standings). Every test session began at 9 a.m. EST, stopped at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST, and concluded at 5:00 p.m. EST.


2002 Daytona 500, Background
On January 7, Stacy Compton was fastest in the first session with a speed of 183.087 mph (294.650 km/h) and a speed of 183.120 mph (294.703 km/h) by Jimmie Johnson paced the second session. Johnson led the third and fourth sessions on January 8 with respective speeds of 183.109 mph (294.685 km/h) and 183.816 mph (295.823 km/h). On January 9, Johnson and Ward Burton led sessions five and six, respectively, with speeds of 183.415 mph (295.178 km/h) and 184.961 mph (297.666 km/h) respectively. The January 14 test sessions were cancelled due to rain; NASCAR officials elongated testing to January 17.


2002 Daytona 500, Background
On January 15 and 16, Jerry Nadeau, Michael Waltrip and Jeremy Mayfield paced sessions seven, eight and nine with speeds of 182.905 mph (294.357 km/h), 183.102 mph (294.674 km/h) and 183.221 mph (294.866 km/h) respectively. The final sessions on January 17 were paced by Waltrip and Mike Wallace with respective speeds of 183.255 mph (294.920 km/h) and 184.302 mph (296.605 km/h).


2002 Daytona 500, Background, Pre-race regulation changes
For the race, NASCAR mandated a series of rules regarding the aerodynamics of the cars. Restrictor plates had to have an opening of 7⁄8 in (22 mm) in every car, and their air dams were extended to 1.5 in (38 mm) forward on the front bumpers. The rear spoilers on the Dodge, Pontiac and Ford vehicles were required to be 6.5 in (170 mm), 55 in (1,400 mm) wide and angled at 55 degrees. All Chevrolet cars had their spoilers shortened by 1⁄4 in (6.4 mm).


2002 Daytona 500, Background, Pre-race regulation changes
After the Ford teams reported an aerodynamic deficiency to the remainder of the field during testing, NASCAR allowed them to lower the height of their spoilers by 1⁄4 in (6.4 mm) to 6.25 in (159 mm) and 57 in (1,400 mm) wide. This change created further complications for Ford when the manufacturer had to raise the rear deck lid on its vehicle by 1⁄2 in (13 mm) to 3⁄4 in (19 mm) in order to comply with the minimum height for its rear spoiler. Later, NASCAR installed an additional template on each of the four types of vehicle in an attempt to ensure the spoiler is positioned correctly.


2002 Daytona 500, Background, Pre-race regulation changes
In other changes, NASCAR permitted teams to switch engines between the qualifying session and the race in an exception to its cost-cutting regulation mandating each team to use one engine per race weekend because of the Daytona 500 race format having two qualifying races to determine the majority of its starting order.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
Eight practice sessions were scheduled before the Sunday race. The first two were held on February 8 and lasted 120 and 110 minutes each. The next two on February 11 and 12 were shortened to 105 minutes. On February 13, two 45 minute practice sessions were scheduled. A session lasting 60 minutes was held the following day. The final practice session, scheduled for February 16, was cancelled because of rain. In the first practice session, Johnson was fastest with a lap of 48.639 seconds, ahead of his Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jeff Gordon and Jerry Nadeau in second and third.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
Ricky Rudd, Ward Burton, Dale Jarrett, Robert Pressley, Mike Wallace, Bill Elliott, and Kevin Harvick made up positions four to ten. Johnson led the second practice session later that day with a 48.685 seconds time. Rudd, Gordon, Ward Burton, Nadeau, Terry Labonte, Jarrett, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Johnny Benson Jr. and Waltrip rounded out the top ten drivers.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
54 cars entered first-round qualifying on February 9; due to NASCAR's qualifying procedure only 43 could race. Unlike most races during the season, the qualifying session determined the first two position, while the rest of the field qualified by the 2002 Gatorade 125s. Each driver was limited to two timed laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
Johnson was the fourth driver to venture onto the track; he took the maiden pole position of his career, and his first in a NASCAR-sanctioned event since he debuted in the series at the 1998 Busch Series, with a time of 48.431 seconds. He became the third rookie driver in history to claim pole position for the Daytona 500 after Loy Allen Jr. in the 1994 event and Skinner in the 1997 race.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
Johnson was joined on the grid's front row by Harvick who was sixteen-thousands of a second slower, after a driver error in the third and fourth turns on his second lap. This meant for the first time in history, the Daytona 500 featured two rookie drivers starting in the first two grid positions. After qualifying, Johnson said, "We've shown our hand during testing and practice. We didn't want to fool ourselves into thinking we had a magic three- or four-tenths hidden somewhere. We thought that some other guys had an ace in their back pockets, and we didn't expect Kevin Harvick to jump up there."


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
After the qualifying session, NASCAR vice-president of communications Jim Hunter stated no regulation changes would be considered until after the qualifying races. Notwithstanding this statement, NASCAR announced from the third practice session onward, teams entering Ford cars would be permitted to lower the height of their spoiler by a further 1⁄4 in (6.4 mm) to 6 in (150 mm) tall in an attempt to decrease aerodynamic drag produced, and in response to the manufacturer getting two of its cars in the first 20 positions in qualifying, and its sub-par results in the 2002 Budweiser Shootout.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
In the third practice session, Geoff Bodine went fastest with a lap of 47.776 seconds, ahead of Dave Blaney in second and Rudd third. Sterling Marlin was fourth-fastest, with Jeff Burton fifth and Dave Marcis sixth. Harvick, Greg Biffle, Ken Schrader, and Bobby Hamilton followed in the top ten.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
Second round qualifying was held during the afternoon on February 11 to allow drivers to improve their fastest times or set a lap in the event they were not able to in first round qualifying; the session's fastest driver, placing 27th-fastest was Kyle Petty, qualifying fastest of the four competitors who were in the session. Skinner, Norm Benning, and Kirk Shelmerdine were the three other drivers who competed in the session.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
Mark Martin led the fourth practice session with a time of 47.933 seconds, with Johnson, Rusty Wallace, Benson, Jeff Burton, Jarrett, Elliott Sadler, John Andretti, Nadeau and Biffle in positions two to ten. With ten minutes of the session remaining, Brett Bodine experienced understeer exiting the second corner, causing him to slow in a plethora of cars, and drift up the circuit. Hamilton, who was close by Bodine, made contact with the latter's left-rear quarter panel, turning Hamilton into Todd Bodine. That caused a chain reaction accident involving Tony Stewart, Jeff Burton, Jimmy Spencer, and Rudd.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
Hamilton, Jeff Burton and Todd Bodine ventured to the infield medical center, and were released after precautionary check-ups. Hamilton and Todd Bodine switched to back-up cars for the Gatorade 125s. Casey Atwood topped the fifth practice session with a 47.342 seconds lap. Elliott Sadler, Hermie Sadler, Marlin, Kenny Wallace, Shawna Robinson, Robby Gordon, Spencer, Mayfield, and Todd Bodine placed in second to tenth positions. A lap of 47.721 seconds gave Elliott the lead in the sixth session; Compton, Benson, Blaney, Andretti, Matt Kenseth, Hamilton, Brett Bodine, Waltrip and Sadler rounded out the session's top ten drivers.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
Gordon and Waltrip were the winners of the Gatorade 125s. The qualifying grid was finalized with Gordon third and Waltrip fourth. Earnhardt qualified fifth, ahead of Stewart, Schrader, Nadeau, Rudd, and Bobby Labonte. By qualifying for the race, Marcis broke Richard Petty's all-time record of 32 Daytona 500 starts with his 33rd, as Robinson became the second woman to progress to the race, and the first since Janet Guthrie at the 1980 edition. The eleven drivers who failed to qualify were Spencer, Hut Stricklin, Buckshot Jones, Biffle, Rick Mast, Bobby Gerhart, Hermie Sadler, Carl Long, Benning, Shelmerdine, and Dwayne Leik.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
In the final practice session, Harvick was fastest with a lap of 47.588 seconds; Sadler and Terry Labonte were second and third. Kurt Busch, Rudd, Andretti, Ricky Craven, Brett Bodine, Robby Gordon and Rusty Wallace followed in positions four to ten. Craven's engine failed as he was drafting Jarrett, prompting the latter to steer right to avoid a collision, and causing a four-car accident involving Petty, Terry Labonte, Marcis, and Brett Bodine on the backstretch.


2002 Daytona 500, Practice and qualifying
After the final practice session, and before the race, NASCAR allowed teams who entered Ford and Dodge cars to lower the rear spoilers by a further 1⁄4 in (6.4 mm) so that it was 5.75 in (146 mm) tall for Ford entries and 6.25 in (159 mm) on the Dodge vehicles in the series' attempt to continue to seek to create parity within the field.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
The drama started almost immediately as one of the pre-race favourites, shootout winner Tony Stewart, blew an engine on just the third lap. The race's first caution flew as another favourite,  Dale Earnhardt, Jr., ran over debris and cut a front right tire in turn 1 on lap 23 while running in second-place. He then staged a furious charge back into top 10 with a new nose after the tire tore up the right-front fender.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
Dave Marcis’ final Winston Cup start was brought to an end on lap 79 due to engine trouble, bringing out the second caution of the day. Just before halfway, Earnhardt, Jr. got into more trouble when he this time lost a rear tire in turn 4, then ended up driving through the infield grass as he tried to get onto pit road as the flailing rubber had damaged a brake line. This brought out a third caution. On the following restart, Brett Bodine spun off of Kenny Wallace's bumper, and the yellow flag came back out for the fourth time.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
On lap 138, rookie Shawna Robinson and Mike Skinner tangled exiting turn 2, bringing out the fifth caution of the day. But the course of the race took a twist on lap 148 when contact between Jeff Gordon and Kevin Harvick triggered the "Big One". The pair were battling for second place, when Harvick attempted to block Gordon on the approach to turn 1, but it came too late and the 29 car first jinked left down onto the apron, before spinning back across the track and collecting a number of cars.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
A total of 18 cars were caught up in the wreck, the same number of cars collected in the 2001 Daytona 500's Big One. These included Matt Kenseth, Ricky Rudd, Joe Nemechek, Ken Schrader, Jeremy Mayfield, John Andretti, Bobby Hamilton, Jerry Nadeau and Earnhardt, Jr. (his third incident of the race) amongst others.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
Polesitter Jimmie Johnson’s chances of victory were dashed on lap 173 when he blew a tire exiting the tri-oval towards turn 1. His car bounced off Jeff Green, spun through the infield grass and slid back across the track in a similar manner to Harvick’s, although luckily this time there were no cars behind him when the car rejoined the track. Although he kept the car off the wall, he was forced to pit for repairs and would eventually finish a lap down in 15th. The eighth caution of the day flew when Robby Gordon was spun coming off turn 2, setting up what appeared to be a 6-lap showdown to the finish, with defending cup champion and two-time 500 winner Jeff Gordon leading fellow two-time winner Sterling Marlin.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
As the field came down to the green, chaos ensued. A chain reaction began between the eighth and ninth positions after one driver missed a gear. Five cars were involved, including the defending Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip, who spun towards the pits and nearly hit the pace car being driven by Jay Leno. Up front, Marlin got a run on Gordon exiting the tri-oval, and managed to get his nose underneath the 24 car. Gordon threw a late block and spun across the nose of the Dodge, in almost a carbon copy of the incident between him and Harvick.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
Despite smoke caused by a damaged front right fender, Marlin beat Ward Burton back to the caution flag and maintained the lead, while Gordon rejoined at the tail of the lead lap. Rather than have the race finish under caution, the officials stopped the field on the backstretch so the track could be cleared by course officials and the drivers could race to the finish.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
Concerned about damage on his right front fender, Marlin got out of his car and tried to pull the fender away from the tire while the cars were stopped, and was told to stop by pace car driver Buster Auton. NASCAR deemed Marlin to be in breach of the rule forbidding any repair work during a red flag. When the cars restarted and pulled away under yellow, NASCAR penalized Marlin by sending him to the rear of the field.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
Burton inherited the lead for the 3-lap shootout, followed by fellow Virginia native Elliott Sadler and 1986 race winner Geoffrey Bodine. These three would remain pretty much single file to the finish, while a further eleven cars set about a frantic scrap from fourth on back. 3-time 500 winner Dale Jarrett collided with Mark Martin upon taking the white flag and became yet another car to be sent spinning through the grass entering turn 1.


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
Burton held off Sadler to claim the win, with Bodine finishing third just two years after a crash that nearly took his life in the Craftsman Truck Series' Daytona 250 at the same racetrack. Kurt Busch prevailed in the mad scrap for fourth, followed by Waltrip, Martin, top rookie Ryan Newman, the recovering cars of Marlin and Gordon, and Johnny Benson, Jr..


2002 Daytona 500, Race summary
Burton's Daytona 500 win was the first for Dodge since Richard Petty's win in the 1974 race. This was Phoenix Racing's best finish until Brad Keselowski won the 2009 Aaron's 499 at Talladega. As of 2017, this has been the only Daytona 500 to feature more than one trio of brothers. All three Bodine brothers (Geoff, Brett, and Todd) had started the Daytona 500 together, as had all three Wallace brothers (Rusty, Mike, and Kenny), but never all three brothers from both families in the same year.


2002 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 2002 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A–10). They were led by K. C. Keeler, who was in his first season as head coach of the Fightin' Blue Hens after taking over following Tubby Raymond'fs retirement. The team played its home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware.


2002 Delphi Indy 300
The 2002 Delphi Indy 300 was an Indy Racing League (IRL) motor race held on September 8, 2002, at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. It was the 14th of 15 scheduled rounds of the 2002 Indy Racing League and the second annual running of the event. Panther Racing driver Sam Hornish Jr. won the 200-lap race from pole position with the closest margin of victory in the IRL of 0.0024 seconds over Al Unser Jr. of Kelley Racing. Third place was Hemelgarn Racing's Buddy Lazier.


2002 Delphi Indy 300
Hornish won the second pole position of his IRL career by posting the fastest lap in qualifying. In the race, Hornish led until he was passed by Buddy Rice after the first restart that was necessitated by a caution to tend to Laurent Rédon's car on the 25th lap. Hornish retook it when he got ahead of Unser on lap 75 but lost it to Scott Sharp 42 laps later. Sharp lost the first position to Hornish on lap 151. Unser returned to the lead after he overtook Hélio Castroneves on the 167th lap. Unser and Hornish exchanged the lead for the rest of the race, and it was Hornish who edged out Unser to secure his fourth victory of the season, and the seventh of his career.


2002 Delphi Indy 300
There were five cautions and eighteen lead changes among four drivers during the course of the event. The result promoted Hornish to the top of the points' standings with 481 points. Castroneves, who led the championship before the race, dropped to second, while his Team Penske teammate Gil de Ferran fell to third after crashing heavily on the 52nd lap. Felipe Giaffone and Alex Barron maintained fourth and fifth with one race left in the season.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Background
The 2002 Delphi Indy 300 was confirmed as a part of the 2002 Indy Racing League (IRL) schedule for their racing series in June 2001. It was the second consecutive running of the race; it was the 14th race scheduled for 2002 by the IRL, out of 15, and was held at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois on September 8, 2002. At this late stage of the season, Helio Castroneves led the points standings with 437 points. He was one point ahead of his teammate Gil de Ferran in second, who in turn was seven points in front of Sam Hornish Jr. in third. Felipe Giaffone was fourth on 391 points, 73 ahead of Alex Barron in fifth.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Background
There was one driver change heading into the event. 1999 U.S. F2000 National Champion and two-time Indy Lights series winner Dan Wheldon joined Panther Racing to partner Hornish for the final two races of the season. He travelled to Chicagoland Speedway in June to further acquaint himself with IRL. Wheldon said he was looking forward to be associated and working with Panther Racing, and spoke of his feeling it was a good opportunity to learn with the team's personnel.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Background
1999 Indy Racing League champion Greg Ray was hired to drive the No. 20 Sam Schmidt Motorsports car for the rest of the season after asking his former manager A. J. Foyt to be released from his contract. Ray filled the place of the team's regular driver Richie Hearn who broke his foot at the Belterra Casino Indy 300 in August 2002.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Practice and qualifying
Four practice sessions were held before the Sunday race; two on Friday and Saturday. The first and second sessions lasted 90 minutes, the third 60 minutes and the fourth 30 minutes. The racers were split into two groups, which were each allowed to run laps for half a session. Conditions were warm and sunny for the Friday practice sessions. The first yellow caution flag came out when Hideki Noda's engine failed leaving the fourth turn and stopped on the backstretch; he did not participate in the second session because his team was changing his engine.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Practice and qualifying
The second was shown after Giaffone hit the outside retaining barrier between turns three and four, and Hornish was involved, bending his left-front suspension, his front wing and his chassis tub was punctured. Both drivers were uninjured. Buddy Rice was the session's fastest driver with a time of 24.4578 seconds, ahead of Eddie Cheever Jr. in second, and Billy Boat third. Vítor Meira and Sarah Fisher rounded out the top five.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Practice and qualifying
Hornish's left-front section of his car was repaired for the second session, where he recorded the fastest lap of 24.4910 seconds; Cheever was second and Rice third. Al Unser Jr. and Giaffone followed in the top five. Two caution flags came out for track inspections. The third practice session was held under sunny and warm weather conditions and had Unser set the fastest lap at 24.5953 seconds. He was followed by Rice in second, and Meira came third. Boat was fourth-quickest, and rounding out the top five was Robbie Buhl.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Practice and qualifying
An hour after the third practice session ended, the 25 drivers determined the starting grid through qualifying. Each driver ran two laps, and the competitor with the slowest time failed to qualify. Conditions were sunny and warm. Hornish eclipsed the track record at Chicagoland Speedway, to clinch his second pole position of the season and his career following the season-opening Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead–Miami Speedway, with a time of 24.5528 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Rice, who recorded a lap 0.0570 seconds slower than Hornish. Unser qualified third and Boat took fourth.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Practice and qualifying
Rounding out the top ten were Cheever, Wheldon, Laurent Rédon, Buhl, and Giaffone. Behind them the rest of the field lined up as de Ferran, Fisher, Jeff Ward, Eliseo Salazar, Airton Daré, Scott Sharp, Tony Renna, Alex Barron, Raul Boesel, Ray, Castroneves, Buddy Lazier, Will Langhorne, George Mack, and Noda. The driver who did not qualify was Scott Mayer because of fluctuating oil pressure; the IRL forbade him from participating due to inexperience. After qualifying, Hornish said he would put forward his strong form into the race, "When we start on the pole and the people were are running with for the championship are 11th and 20th or whatever, it helps out quite a bit."


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Practice and qualifying
The final practice session was held on Saturday afternoon in hot weather conditions. The first caution came after eighteen minutes when race officials located debris in turn two. Nine minutes later, Wheldon slowed in the fourth turn with his engine failing, and engaged neutral gear before stopping. Hornish led with a lap of 24.3401 seconds with Unser Jr. second. Third was Rice, Wheldon fourth, and Cheever fifth.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
The conditions on the grid were dry and sunny. The air temperature was at 86 °F (30 °C) with the track temperature at 113 °F (45 °C) and calm winds. USAC Chaplin Dave Cochran began pre-race ceremonies with an invocation. Singer Elle Gerdes performed the national anthem, and chairman, president, and CEO of the Delphi Corporation J.T. Battenberg commanded the drivers to start their engines. The race began at 12:10 p.m. Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00). Hornish maintained his pole position advantage to lead the field on the run into the first corner.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
After starting eleventh, de Ferran was seventh by the start of lap four. Nine laps later, de Ferran overtook Meira in turn two for sixth. The first caution flag was brought out on the next lap when Rédon's engine failed in turn two, and he returned to pit road to retire. During the caution, several drivers chose to make pit stops for fuel and tires. Ward and Noda made a pit stop to have new front wings installed on their cars for aerodynamic purposes. The green flag was shown on lap 25 to resume racing.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
Hornish held his lead into turn one, but he lost it to Rice who passed him on the left two corners later. De Ferran was now running in fifth by lap 28. Three laps later, Unser lost the third position to Boat in turn one. On the 43rd lap, Unser overtook de Ferran around the right of him for fourth place at turn three. On lap 46, Unser used Noda's slower car to pass Hornish for second at turn one.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
Unser drew alongside Rice for one lap, and led the field by 0.0375 seconds on the 48th lap. Hornish got by Rice soon after. On lap 52, the second caution flag was shown. De Ferran swerved to avoid Renna's lapped car which slowed with no fuel pressure, and lost control of his vehicle going into turn two due to air catching his front wing. De Ferran struck the right-hand side wall, sustaining heavy damage to the right-hand corner of his car, and stopped on the backstretch. Debris from his car landed on the circuit.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
Safety crews shut off de Ferran's car so the IRL medical team could take him to the medical helicopter. He was transported to St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields, Illinois with a concussion and a hairline fracture on his left wrist. The field made pit stops for tires, fuel and replacement front wings for aerodynamic reasons during the 22 lap caution. Unser led the field back to green flag racing on the 74th lap. Hornish retook the lead from Unser on the left lane in the third corner on that lap.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
On lap 87, Hornish's lead of 0.6869 seconds was reduced to nothing when Salazar's rear wing fell backward; he spun on the backstretch, but no other car came into contact with him, causing the third caution flag. As with the previous two cautions, several drivers made pit stops for fuel, tyres and new front wings for aerodynamic purposes.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
On lap 94, racing resumed with Hornish leading the pack of cars into turn one. Castroneves was up to sixth by the 108th lap. Six laps later, the fourth caution flag was necessitated when debris was observed lying on the track. Several drivers, including Hornish, went down pit road for tires and fuel. Sharp won the race off pit road, and assumed the lead for the restart on lap 120. On that lap, Boat slowed in turn four with an electrical issue that shut down his engine. He entered pit road to retire.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
Hornish and Lazier drew alongside each other at turn two in the battle for second place on the 136th lap. Hornish passed Lazier for second three laps later. By lap 144, Sharp had been sufficiently gained upon by Hornish who got alongside him for the lead in the fourth turn. Sharp edged him out by 0.0042 seconds on that lap. On the 145th lap, green flag pit stops began with Lazier entering pit road for tires and fuel. Sharp made his pit stop from first six laps later. On lap 153, Daré hit the right-hand side wall on the exit of turn two. His car sustained heavy rear damage but he clambered out without external aid. The crash prompted the fifth (and final) caution flag. Pit stops for fuel and tires continued to be made under caution.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
Castroneves led the field into the first turn at the lap 166 restart. On the following lap, Unser became the new leader with Hornish returning to second. Hornish retook the lead from Unser on the 169th lap. On the next lap, Unser attempted to re-pass Hornish but the latter responded by blocking his path. Unser did manage to overtake Hornish on lap 172 but the latter retook the lead before the start-finish line. Boesel got by Rice and Cheever to move into sixth during lap 173.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
On the 178th lap, Hornish went up the track slightly, and Unser moved underneath him to lead the lap. As the rest of the field formed into a pack, Hornish and Unser raced alongside each other and exchanged the lead for the remaining 21 laps but Hornish achieved his fourth victory of the season, and the seventh of his career. Hornish's margin of victory over Unser was 0.0024 seconds (about 3 in (76 mm)), the closest finish in IRL history. Second went to Unser, and Lazier took third.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race
Castroneves came fourth after losing out to Lazier for third on the final lap, and Cheever took fifth. Giaffone, Sharp, Meira, Rice, and Wheldon completed the top ten finishers. Behind them, the last of the classified finishers were Boesel, Barron, Mack, and Ray. There were eighteen lead changes amongst four different drivers during the course of the race. Hornish led nine times for a total of 102 laps, more than any other driver.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race, Post-race
Hornish appeared in victory lane to celebrate his fourth victory of the season in front of the crowd; he earned $126,600 for winning the race. He said of his success at Chicagoland Speedway, "The fastest way around is to push another car around. But it's really hard to pass when you have to push a car aside. Having a guy that's experienced like Al, and all the races I've been in with him and all the respect I have for him, it's just like a high-speed pace lap."


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race, Post-race
Unser spoke of his enjoyment of competing against Hornish, and the duel reminded him of his close victory over Scott Goodyear at the 1992 Indianapolis 500, "We just came up short again. I honestly thought that we won the race. I thought I had him. It was that close. I tell you, they don't come any closer than that. ", and, "That was the closest wheel-to-wheel racing I think you'll see in the country today. There are fenders on those cars down south for a reason, and that's to rub on each other."


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race, Post-race
Third-placed Lazier revealed his team got out of sequence during the fuel pit stops but it later worked in their favor, "We were just running wheel to wheel, as close as you could get. I'd get a run on someone, and my momentum would be stopped, and four or five guys would get by me until I would get my momentum back. But if you're patient and you bide your time, then you'll start picking them off. It was a lot of fun out there, but it sure was hair-raising."


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race, Post-race
Cheever accused Castroneves of blocking him and intentionally putting him in danger during the final laps of the event, "I want to sit down with (IRL vice president of operations) Brian (Barnhart) and show him the last laps with Helio Castroneves. I want Brian's opinion on whether or not that is blocking. (Castroneves) totally moved me under the white line. Those aren't the rules of the game." Castroneves responded to Cheever by saying, "As far as I'm concerned, my friend, I was racing, I was trying to be there and win the race and, hey, tough luck.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race, Post-race
In that particular time, he might be frustrated because he couldn't pass the guy and he tried to attack him. I know Eddie and hopefully he doesn't have any hard feelings." Four days after the race, Castroneves and Rice were issued fines of an undisclosed amount of money for transgressing rules 8.1 and 8.3 of the IRL regulations. Barnhardt said of his reasoning in issuing the fines, "What makes this type of racing possible is a code of ethics that's been developed by the drivers and Indy Racing League officials over the past seven years. Both Helio and Buddy displayed actions on the track during the race Sunday that were not appropriate."


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race, Post-race
De Ferran was released from hospital a day later. He was later deemed unfit to compete in the season-closing Chevy 500 at Texas Motor Speedway that occurred one week later by Henry Block, the IRL's director of medical services. Block stated it was more appropriate not to put de Ferran at further risk because of his injuries, "Recovery periods for any type of concussion vary for many reasons, but rarely do symptoms completely disappear in seven to 10 days." De Ferran spoke of his disappointment but said he would respect Block's decision.


2002 Delphi Indy 300, Race, Post-race
He was replaced by Championship Auto Racing Teams driver Max Papis for the Chevy 500. With his victory, Hornish became the new leader in the points' standings with 481 points. Castroneves fell to second with 469 points, while his teammate de Ferran was still third with 443 points despite his accident. With 419 and 336 points respectively, Giaffone and Barron rounded out the top five.


2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
The 2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida in the United States and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. It was the 10th edition of the tournament and ran from March 4 through March 11, 2002. Fifth-seeded Davide Sanguinetti won the singles title.


2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles
Martin Damm /  Cyril Suk defeated  David Adams /  Ben Ellwood 6–4, 6–7(5–7), [10–5]


2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Doubles
Jan-Michael Gambill and Andy Roddick were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Doubles
Martin Damm and Cyril Suk won in the final 6–3, 6–7(5–7), [10–5] against David Adams and Ben Ellwood.


2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Singles
Jan-Michael Gambill was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Davide Sanguinetti.


2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Singles
Sanguinetti won in the final 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 against Andy Roddick.


2002 Demise Honours
A list of Honours was released on 5 August 2002, and made appointments and promotions within the Royal Victorian Order, as well as awards of the Royal Victorian Medal, on the demise of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in 2002. The Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood recognising distinguished personal service to the Sovereign, and remains in the personal gift of the monarch.


2002 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election
The Democratic Party leadership election was held on 1 December 2002 for the 30-member 5th Central Committee of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, including chairman and two vice-chairman posts. Incumbent vice-chairman was elected as chairman uncontestedly, succeeding founding chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming.


2002 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election, Eligibility
The Central Committee was elected by the party congress. All public office holders, including the members of the Legislative Council and District Councils, are eligible to vote in the party congress. Every 30 members can also elect a delegate who holds one vote in the congress.


2002 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election, Overview
Founding chairman Martin Lee stepped down according to the four-term limit. There was only Yeung Sum's team contested for the posts. Yeung Sum received 121 votes for and 9 votes against, 2 more votes against him than Martin Lee in 2000. Albert Ho Chun-yan and Lee Wing-tat elected as Vice-Chairmen, receiving 132 and 129 votes of confidence respectively. Albert Chan Wai-yip, the pro-grassroots "radical" legislator for the New Territories West constituency quit the party as he said he would if Yeung Sum became chairman.


2002 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election, Overview
After the election, Yeung Sum said since the party was marginalised by Beijing, the Democratic Party was accused of playing negative role in the "one country, two systems" and unification with Taiwan. Therefore, his task would be establishing normal relationship with the central and also SAR governments, and forming solidarity within the party.


2002 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election, Overview
The elected members of the 5th Central Committee are listed as following:


2002 Denali earthquake
The 2002 Denali earthquake occurred at 22:12:41 UTC (1:12 PM Local Time) November 3 with an epicenter 66 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska, United States. This 7.9 Mw earthquake was the largest recorded in the United States in 37 years (after the 1965 Rat Islands earthquake). The shock was the strongest ever recorded in the interior of Alaska. Due to the remote location, there were no fatalities and only one injury.


2002 Denali earthquake
Due to the shallow depth, it was felt at least as far away as Seattle and it generated seiches on bodies of water as far away as Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. About 20 houseboats were damaged by a seiche on a lake in Washington State.


2002 Denali earthquake, Tectonic setting
The Denali-Totschunda fault is a major dextral (right lateral) strike-slip system, similar in scale to the San Andreas fault system. In Alaska, moving from east to west, the plate interactions change from a transform boundary between Pacific and North American plates to a collision zone with a microplate, the Yakutat terrane, which is in the process of being accreted to the North American plate, to a destructive boundary along the line of the Aleutian islands. The Denali-Totschunda fault system is one of the structures that accommodate the accretion of the Yakutat terrane.


2002 Denali earthquake, Earthquake characteristics
On October 23, 2002, there was a magnitude 6.7 earthquake located on the Denali fault. Because of its location close to the November 3 event and the fact that it preceded it by only 11 days, this earthquake is regarded as a foreshock. The calculated stress transfer from this foreshock indicates that is brought the Denali fault at the location of the mainshock epicenter closer to failure.


2002 Denali earthquake, Earthquake characteristics
The initial rupture on November 3 was on a thrust fault segment, the previously unknown Susitna Glacier thrust, to the south of the Denali fault. The epicenter lies just 25 kilometers (16 mi) east of the October 23 foreshock. The rupture then jumped to the main Denali Fault strand propagating for a further 220 km (137 mi) before jumping again onto the Totschunda Fault and rupturing another 70 km (43 mi) of fault plane. The total surface rupture was ca. 340 km (211 mi).


2002 Denali earthquake, Earthquake characteristics
There is evidence of local supershear propagation inferred from ground motions.


2002 Denali earthquake, Earthquake damage
Minor damage was reported over a wide area but the only examples of severe damage were on highways that crossed the fault trace and areas that suffered liquefaction, e.g. Northway Airport. Several bridges were damaged but none so severely that they were closed to traffic.


2002 Denali earthquake, Earthquake damage
Due to the general self-sufficiency of those living near the fault rupture, very few lifeline systems were compromised. These people tend to get water from private wells, heat their homes and cook their meals with gas furnaces and stoves, and maintain individual septic systems.


2002 Denali earthquake, Earthquake damage
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System crosses the rupture trace; the pipeline suffered some minor damage to supports. There was no oil spillage, as the pipeline at that location was designed to move laterally along beams to withstand major movement on the Denali Fault. The pipeline was shut down for three days to allow for inspections but was then reopened.


2002 Denmark Open darts
2002 Denmark Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Denmark in 2002.


2002 Denver Broncos season
The 2002 season was the Denver Broncos' 43rd in professional football and their 33rd in the National Football League.


2002 Denver Broncos season
With the sudden retirement of Terrell Davis in the preseason, Denver had to rely on rookie Clinton Portis, who provided an instant spark to the Broncos running game. Despite his contribution, however, the Broncos finished with a 9–7 record and narrowly missed the postseason.


2002 Derby City Council election
The 2002 Derby City Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Derby City Council in England. The whole council was up for election after boundary changes since the last election in 2000 had increased the number of seats by 7. The Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2002 Detroit Lions season
The 2002 season was the Detroit Lions' 73rd in the National Football League. It was the Lions’ inaugural season at the new Ford Field in Downtown Detroit and their first in the city since the team left Tiger Stadium after the 1974 season. Following the season, Marty Mornhinweg was fired and Steve Mariucci was hired as the Lions' head coach. The Lions entered the 2002 season looking to improve on their 2–14 record from 2001 and make the playoffs for the first time since 1999.


2002 Detroit Lions season
They improved on their record, winning 3 games, but continued to disappoint, as the Lions began the season 0–3. By week 9, the Lions had a 3–5 record after a win over the Dallas Cowboys. However, after that win, the Lions lost their remaining 8 games to finish the season 3–13 and failed to reach the playoffs. The Lions also went 0–8 on the road for the second straight season. As a result, Marty Mornhinweg was fired after the season. In his 2 seasons as head coach, the Lions went 5–27 for a winning percentage of .156.


2002 Detroit Lions season, Regular season
In addition to their regular games against NFC North rivals, the Lions under the NFL's new scheduling formula played games against teams from the NFC South and from the AFC East. They also played the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals, who had the fourth best records from 2001 of the teams placed in their respective divisions.


2002 Detroit Shock season
The 2002 WNBA season was the fifth season for the Detroit Shock. The team went 0–13 in their first thirteen games, finishing with a franchise worst 9–23.


2002 Detroit Tigers season
The Detroit Tigers 2002 season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Detroit Tigers making a valiant attempt to win the AL Central. However, despite their best efforts and clutch performances, their division winning goal came up far short. They finished last in the division.


2002 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season
On July 2, the Tigers and White Sox set a Major League Baseball record by combining to hit for 12 home runs in one game. The box score for the Home Runs is as follows:


2002 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2002 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2002 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
The 2002 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the sixteenth season of premier German touring car championship and also third season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. There were ten race weekends with two races; a 30 km qualifying race and a 100 km main race at each event.


2002 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Teams and drivers
The following manufacturers, teams and drivers competed in the 2002 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Dunlop.


2002 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Race calendar and winners
Unlike the previous two seasons, only six rounds were held in Germany, after Nürburging went from three weekends to just one. The two rounds were replaced by Zolder in Belgium and Donington Park in the United Kingdom. This was the first-ever season that all Hockenheimring DTM rounds would raced in newly-renovated Hockenheimring layout despite the first Hockenheimring round still utilized shorter layout.


2002 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Championship standings
Each round featured a "Qualifying Race", and the "Main Race".


2002 Dhivehi League, Overview
Club Valencia won the Dhivehi League. Victory Sports Club won the Maldives National Championship.


2002 Djurgårdens IF season
In the 2002 season, Djurgårdens IF competed in the Allsvenskan, the Svenska Cupen, and the UEFA Cup.


2002 Djurgårdens IF season, Squad information, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2002 Dominican Republic parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 2002. The result was a victory for the opposition Dominican Revolutionary Party-led alliance, which won 73 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 51.0%.


2002 Dove Award nominees
2002 Dove Award Nominees for the thirty-third annual ceremony of the Dove Awards.


2002 Dove Award nominees, Nominees, Rock Album of the Year
Dally, Ben Dally, Max Hsu, Melissa Brock, Tricia Brock, Andrew Wilson, Dave Ghazarian; Inpop


2002 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Doubles
Yayuk Basuki and Caroline Vis were the defending champions, but Basuki did not compete this year. Vis teamed up with Alexandra Fusai and lost in quarterfinals to tournament winners Barbara Rittner and María Vento-Kabchi.


2002 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Doubles
Barbara Rittner and María Vento-Kabchi won the title by defeating Sandrine Testud and Roberta Vinci 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


2002 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Singles
Martina Hingis was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.


2002 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Singles
Amélie Mauresmo won the title by defeating Sandrine Testud 6–4, 7–6(7–3) in the final.


2002 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2002 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open
The 2002 Dubai Tennis Championships and Dubai Duty Free Women's Open were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates that were part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 2002 WTA Tour. The men's tournament was held from February 25 through March 3, 2002 while the women's tournament was held from February 18 through February 23, 2002. Fabrice Santoro and Amélie Mauresmo won the singles titles.


2002 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open, Finals, Men's Doubles
Mark Knowles /  Daniel Nestor defeated  Joshua Eagle /  Sandon Stolle 3–6, 6–3, [13–11]


2002 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open, Finals, Women's Doubles
Barbara Rittner /  María Vento-Kabchi defeated  Sandrine Testud /  Roberta Vinci 6–3, 6–2


2002 Dubai Tennis Championships – Doubles
Joshua Eagle and Sandon Stolle were the defending champions but lost in the final 3–6, 6–3, [13–11] against Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor.


2002 Dubai Tennis Championships – Singles
Juan Carlos Ferrero was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Younes El Aynaoui.


2002 Dubai Tennis Championships – Singles
Fabrice Santoro won in the final 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 against El Aynaoui.


2002 Dubai Tennis Championships – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2002 Dubai World Cup
The 2002 Dubai World Cup was a horse race held at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse on Saturday 23 March 2002. It was the 7th running of the Dubai World Cup.


2002 Dubai World Cup
The winner was Godolphin's Street Cry, a four-year-old bay or brown colt trained in Dubai by Saeed bin Suroor and ridden by Jerry Bailey. Street Cry's victory was a record fourth in the race for Bailey, the third for bin Suroor and the second for Godolphin.


2002 Dubai World Cup
Street Cry was originally trained in the United States by Eoin Harty and finished third the Breeders' Cup Juvenile before being transferred to Saeed bin Suroor's stable in 2001. As a three-year-old he ran only three times, and recorded a win in the UAE 2000 Guineas. In the following year he was prepared for the World Cup by winning the second round of the Al Maktoum Challenge in February. In the 2002 Dubai World Cup he started the 9/2 second favourite and won by four and a quarter lengths from the Argentinian-bred outsider Sei Mei with the 2/5 favourite Sakhee four and a quarter lengths away in third place.


2002 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 2002 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team participated as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They played their homes games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. The team was led by head coach Carl Franks.


2002 Dutch Figure Skating Championships
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2002 Dutch Figure Skating Championships
The 2002 Dutch Figure Skating Championships took place between 22 and 23 December 2001 in Groningen. Skaters competed in the disciplines of ladies' singles and ice dancing.


2002 Dutch TT
The 2002 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 2002 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 June 2002 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands.


2002 Dutch TT, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seven has concluded.


2002 Dutch general election
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 15 May 2002. The elections were amongst the most dramatic in Dutch history, not just in terms of the electoral results, as they were completely overshadowed by the assassination of leader Pim Fortuyn only nine days before election day.


2002 Dutch general election
Fortuyn had led the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) party, a right-wing populist party that represented his political views. He had drawn controversy in the campaign with his views on Islam, attacked the government's immigration policies and had also questioned many aspects of government by the previous 'purple' cabinets of Wim Kok, which he blamed for everything from crime to waiting lists in health services. After his death, the LPF made its general election debut with 17% of the vote, coming in second place. The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), which took a neutral stance towards Fortuyn, gained seats to become the country's largest political party. On the other hand, the three parties in the government all lost a significant number of seats.


2002 Dutch general election
Two months after the election Jan Peter Balkenende formed his first cabinet, with a coalition of the CDA, the LPF and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). However, the LPF was unstable due to its lack of strong leadership and its members' lack of experience; this resulted in the new cabinet resigning before the end of the year.


2002 Dutch general election, Background
Prime Minister Wim Kok had been in power since the 1994 general election in a coalition between his Labour Party (PvdA), the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and Democrats 66 (D66). The government, which won a second term in the 1998 general election, was often referred to as a 'purple' coalition due to the participation of the 'red' Labour Party and the 'blue' VVD. During its time in power, the government had often enjoyed high approval ratings and presided over a strong economy.


2002 Dutch general election, Background
They had also introduced innovative social legislation, such as the introduction of same-sex marriage and euthanasia. Kok announced in December 2001 that he would retire from the premiership at the next election. Ad Melkert then replaced Kok as the party leader. The Christian Democratic Appeal, the largest opposition party, was led by newly elected leader Jan Peter Balkenende. Balkenende was at the time considered to be an interim leader who lacked charisma or experience, but his campaign would ultimately prove relatively successful.


2002 Dutch general election, Campaign
At the start of the year, Melkert and the VVD leader Hans Dijkstal appeared to be the frontrunners in the race to become Prime Minister. The situation changed with the arrival of the controversial politician Pim Fortuyn. Fortuyn was a critic of Islam and had questioned whether its culture was compatible with Western society even before the September 11 attacks. He was elected the leader of Liveable Netherlands in November 2001, but he was expelled from the party after making controversial comments in an interview with De Volkskrant on 9 February 2002.


2002 Dutch general election, Campaign
Fortuyn had described Islam as a "backward culture", criticizing its attitude to homosexuality (he himself was openly gay). Part of the reason for the uproar was that the Dutch word for "backward" (achterlijk) can also be used in an insulting sense (with a similar meaning to the word "retarded"); Fortuyn stated he used the word in the former sense. Two days later, he formed his own party, the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) in order to contest to the upcoming general election, while maintaining the leadership over the local Livable Rotterdam party.


2002 Dutch general election, Campaign
In the 2002 municipal elections, held on 6 March, Liveable Rotterdam took 35% of the vote in the city of Rotterdam, a city with a high immigrant population. They formed the city's first non-Labour government since the Second World War. In the same month, he released the book De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars (The Wreckage of eight purple years) criticising the record of the governing coalition. The Economist described the rise in support for Fortuyn as a shock for the Dutch political establishment and their traditional system of consensus.


2002 Dutch general election, Campaign
The government resigned on 16 April - only a month before polling day - after the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation published the Srebrenica: a 'safe' area report, criticizing the Dutch government's handling of the events that led to the Srebenica massacre in 1995. However, the ministers remained in office as a caretaker government until after the elections and the formation of the next government, and the date of the election was not changed.


2002 Dutch general election, Campaign
On 6 May, Fortuyn was assassinated in Hilversum by Volkert van der Graaf. Months later, Van der Graaf stated his motivation was his belief that Fortuyn was exploiting Muslims as "scapegoats" and targeting "the weak members of society" in seeking political power. The murder was a shock to the Netherlands; it was denounced by Kok and other Dutch politicians and other national leaders. It was the country's first political assassination in modern times.


2002 Dutch general election, Result
The great losers of the election were Labour Party, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Democrats 66, the coalition parties of the 'purple' cabinets. Especially the Labour Party under the technocratic leadership of Ad Melkert suffered a landslide defeat.


2002 Dutch general election, Result
The Christian Democratic Appeal was the surprising winner of the election, gaining 14 seats (from 29 to 43) and becoming the largest party in the House of Representatives. This success is in part owed to its new leader Jan Peter Balkenende, who went on to become prime minister, and to its neutral attitude in the debate with Fortuyn, not having participated in the supposed ‘demonization’ by the political Left.


2002 Dutch general election, Result
Fortuyn's former party Livable Netherlands also contested the election. While they had been overshadowed by Fortuyn, they also entered the House of Representatives, winning 2 seats.


2002 Dutch general election, Result
The 15 May 2002 election was the beginning of a year of political chaos in the Netherlands following the LPF leader's assassination on 6 May the same year. The power vacuum resulted in violent internal conflicts in LPF, which eventually led to the fall of the first Balkenende cabinet (CDA-LPF-VVD), which governed from 22 July 2002 to 16 October 2002. The CDA once again became a coalition party after eight years in opposition (1994–2002) in a government which, however, became the shortest-ruling Dutch cabinet since the Second World War, lasting less than five months.


2002 Dwars door Vlaanderen
The 2002 Dwars door Vlaanderen was the 57th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 27 March 2002. The race started in Kortrijk and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Baden Cooke.


2002 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
The 2002 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen was the 45th edition of the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 30 March 2002. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Dario Pieri of the Alessio team.


2002 EA Sports 500
The 2002 EA Sports 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series stock car race held on October 6, 2002, at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama.


2002 EA Sports 500, Summary
The race was the 30th in the 2002 Winston Cup season, and was broadcast by NBC. Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports was awarded the pole position after qualifying was canceled, while Dale Earnhardt, Jr. of Dale Earnhardt, Inc., who won the previous race, led the most laps and won his second consecutive EA Sports 500. The race was also the first Winston Cup race at Talladega after the track had installed SAFER barriers. Vocal group Little Big Town performed the national anthem, while former National Football League quarterback Ken Stabler was the grand marshal.


2002 EA Sports 500, Summary
To spread out the tightly-grouped packs, NASCAR officials reduced the size of the fuel cells from 22 US gallons (83 L) to 13 US gallons (49 L). The race also featured a record $250,000 leader bonus if the winner of the race becomes the Cup points leader, with Johnson, Mark Martin, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Rusty Wallace being the eligible drivers.


2002 EA Sports 500, Summary, Race
On the warm-up lap, Mark Martin's steering box locked, causing him to crash into pole-sitter Jimmie Johnson. As a result of the incident, Martin was black-flagged, while Johnson's crew chief Chad Knaus requested NASCAR to inspect the car and repair the damaged right front fender. Johnson made a pit stop on lap one. Jeff Gordon led the first three laps, but on lap 125, he was forced to move the car to the garage after his crew found smoke under the hood, ending his race. Gordon was not the only Hendrick Motorsports to fail to finish; the other Hendrick drivers, Johnson, Terry Labonte and Joe Nemechek, also failed to finish due to engine problems.


2002 EA Sports 500, Summary, Race
In the end, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. won his third consecutive Talladega race after leading the last 39 laps, making him the first driver to win both Talladega races (EA Sports 500 and the Aaron's 499) since his father accomplished the feat in 1999. Though Talladega has been known for featuring crashes known as "The Big One", no cautions occurred during the race. It would be the last incident-free race in NASCAR's premiership until the 2012 Auto Club 400, which raced 125 laps of 200 before the caution took place for rain that ended the race on Lap 129, and the 2019 Pennzoil 400, which only was stopped twice for end-of-segment breaks.


2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 41st tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 16, 2002. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final five games were played at the Olympic Arena (subsequently renamed Herb Brooks Arena) in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Harvard received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and tenth seeds, the second and ninth seeds, the third seed and eighth seeds, the fourth seed and seventh seeds and the fifth seed and sixth seeds played a best-of-three series with the three highest-seeded winners advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two winners playing in the Four vs. Five matchup. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game.


2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the winner of the four vs. five game while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.


2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the first round of the Ttournament.


2002 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup
The 2002 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup was the twenty-sixth edition of EHF's competition for women's handball national cup champions. It ran from January 11 to May 18, 2002.


2002 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup
Like the previous edition, the trophy was won by a team from the former Soviet Union. Lada Togliatti, founded four years earlier, defeated 1984 and 1989 EHF Cup champion Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea in the final, becoming the competition's fourth champion from Russia. Lada also won its first Russian Superleague in this season.


2002 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 2002 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as a member of Conference USA during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their eleventh season under head coach Steve Logan, the team compiled a 4–8 record (4–5 in Conference USA).


2002 East End murders
In 2002, a crime spree involving the murders of two women and one teenage girl occurred in the East End area of Houston, Texas. The three perpetrators were two adult men and one teenage boy: Edgardo Rafael Cubas Matamoros (born February 7, 1979), a Honduran citizen; Walter Alexander Sorto (born August 10, 1977), a Salvadoran citizen; and Eduardo Navarro, a 15-year-old boy at the time of the crimes.


2002 East End murders, Crimes
One victim, 15-year old Esmeralda Alvarado, was a 10th grade (sophomore) student at Lamar High School. Alvarado, a Hispanic girl, resided in the East End. On January 18, 2002, she disappeared after leaving her boyfriend's house. Alvarado was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by the three perpetrators; she was shot in the head. Her body was placed in a field, in an industrial zone on the block of 18000 Market Street. Her body was discovered on Tuesday January 22, 2002.


2002 East End murders, Crimes
The other murder victims, 24-year old Roxana Aracelie Capulin and 38-year old Maria Moreno Rangel, were waitresses, employed at the El Mirador restaurant, an East End establishment acquired by Capulin's family in 1994. Capulin's family had immigrated from El Salvador. On May 31, 2002, the two women disappeared and on July 1, their corpses were found in Capulin's vehicle. They had been shot to death and had their eyes and mouths covered with tape.


2002 East End murders, Perpetrators
Cubas, an illegal immigrant, originated from the San Miguel neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras and worked at a shopping center in the Comayagüela area. He left his hometown in 2000. Cubas had a common law wife from Houston, and his father was also resident in Houston. Cubas supported himself by cleaning offices and installing insulation. He did not previously have a criminal record.


2002 East End murders, Perpetrators
Sorto, also an illegal immigrant, had been convicted of unlawfully carrying a weapon in 1999 and for committing aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. For the former, he received a 10-day jail sentence, and for the latter, he received a sentence of probation for ten years in December 2000. Sorto was married and had children.


2002 East End murders, Perpetrators
The teenage boy was enrolled in Daniel Ortiz, Jr. Middle School as an 8th grader before his arrest.


2002 East End murders, Trial and punishment
Sorto entered a police station in an attempt to claim a reward for solving the crimes. He confessed to committing crimes after his arrest. On the day of Sorto's arrest, the teenage boy was arrested at his residence. Cubas was arrested while on the job at a construction site in Tomball, Texas. Gilberto Villarreal, one of Cubas's lawyers, stated that in addition to Alvarado, Cubas also confessed to killing Capulin.


2002 East End murders, Trial and punishment
Prosecutors sought the death penalty for Sorto and Cubas. Navarro was under 18 years of age at the time of the crimes, and therefore was ineligible for the death penalty. Navarro served as the getaway driver during the deaths of Capulin and Rangel. He was to be tried as an adult.


2002 East End murders, Trial and punishment
In November 2003 Sorto was sentenced to death for the murders of Capulin and Rangel.


2002 East End murders, Trial and punishment
Frances "Poppy" Northcutt and Villarreal were Cubas's defense attorneys. During his trial, seven of Cubas's relatives traveled to Houston to provide testimony; they were residents of Honduras. Cubas was convicted of the capital murder of Alvarado on May 10, 2004. He was sentenced to death on May 22, 2004 after the jury deliberated for two and one half hours.


2002 East End murders, Trial and punishment
Male death row inmates in Texas are housed in the Polunsky Unit in West Livingston.


2002 East End murders, Trial and punishment
Cubas's execution was originally scheduled for January 16, 2014, but the execution date was rescinded.


2002 East Timorese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in East Timor for the first time on 14 April 2002 under UN administration. As expected, the former president of the East Timorese resistance movement, Conselho Nacional da Resistencia Timorense, Xanana Gusmão, running as an independent candidate but with the unofficial support of small opposition parties like the Democratic Party, won a large majority.


2002 East Timorese presidential election
Gusmão only had one challenger, former FRETILIN president Francisco Xavier do Amaral, who had been sworn in as president when East Timor declared independence on 28 November 1975, though his term was short-lived as Indonesia invaded on 5 December. Do Amaral, now head of a new party, the ASDT, had admitted that he fully expected to lose to Gusmão, but felt that running was symbolically important, demonstrating the strength of East Timor's democracy by ensuring that Gusmão had competition in the race.


2002 Eastbourne Borough Council election
The 2002 Eastbourne Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Eastbourne Borough Council in East Sussex, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 3. The Liberal Democrats gained overall control of the council from the Conservative Party.


2002 Eastbourne Borough Council election, Background
Before the election the Conservatives controlled the council with 18 seats, compared to 12 for the Liberal Democrats. The whole council was elected after boundary changes reduced the number of wards from 10 to 9 and the number of councillors from 30 to 27.


2002 Eastbourne Borough Council election, Election result
The Liberal Democrats gained a majority of 3 on the council with 15 seats, compared to 12 for the Conservatives. Over a quarter of the Liberal Democrat councillors elected were new to the role, with the Liberal Democrat gains in Old Town and St Anthony's wards being reported as crucial to them taking control. Overall turnout at the election was 33.9%, up from 30.9% in 2000.


2002 Eastbourne Borough Council election, Election result
The Liberal Democrat success was put down to controversy over the Old Town library, issues such as anti-social behaviour and abandoned cars, and boundary changes.


2002 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
The 2002 Eastern Illinois Panthers represented Eastern Illinois University as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by 16th-year head coach Bob Spoo, the Panthers compiling an overall record of 8–4 and shared the OVC title with a mark of 5–1 in conference play. They were invited to the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship playoff, where they lost to Western Illinois in the first round.


2002 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
Quarterback Tony Romo's efforts earned him the Walter Payton Award given to the most outstanding offensive player in NCAA Division I-AA, now known as NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. Despite not being selected at the 2003 NFL Draft, Romo later signed with the Dallas Cowboys as a free agent, eventually landing the starting job in 2006 season, and earned four Pro Bowl selections before his retirement in 2016.


2002 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State
Tony Romo was 13-14 for 120 yards and a TD in the first quarter, but Kansas State grabbed control and cruised to the 50-point win.


2002 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team, Team players in the NFL
No Eastern Illinois players were selected in the 2003 NFL Draft.


2002 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 2002, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


2002 Eastern League season
The 2002 Eastern League season began on approximately April 1 and the regular season ended on approximately September 1.


2002 Eastern League season
The Norwich Navigators defeated the Harrisburg Senators 3 games to 2 to win the Eastern League Championship Series.


2002 Eastern League season, Playoffs, Divisional Series, Northern Division
The Norwich Navigators defeated the New Haven Ravens in the Northern Division playoffs 3 games to 0.


2002 Eastern League season, Playoffs, Divisional Series, Southern Division
The Harrisburg Senators defeated the Akron Aeros in the Southern Division playoffs 3 games to 2.


2002 Eastern League season, Playoffs, Championship Series
The Norwich Navigators defeated the Harrisburg Senators in the ELCS 3 games to 2.


2002 Eastern Mediterranean event
The 2002 Eastern Mediterranean Event was a high-energy upper atmosphere explosion over the Mediterranean Sea, around 34°N 21°E (between Libya and Crete) on June 6, 2002. This explosion, similar in power to a small atomic bomb, has been related to a small asteroid undetected while approaching Earth. The object disintegrated as a meteor air burst over the sea, and no meteorite fragments were recovered.


2002 Eastern Mediterranean event
The event occurred during the 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff, and there were concerns by General Simon Worden of the U.S. Air Force that if the upper atmosphere explosion had occurred closer to Pakistan or India, it could have sparked a nuclear war between the two countries.


2002 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team
The 2002 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team represented Eastern Michigan University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third season under head coach Jeff Woodruff, the Eagles compiled a 3–9 record (1–7 against conference opponents), finished in last place in the West Division of the Mid-American Conference, and were outscored by their opponents 566 to 286. The team's statistical leaders included Troy Edwards with 2,762 passing yards, Ime Akpan with 1,221 rushing yards, and Kevin Walter with 1,368 receiving yards.


2002 Eastleigh Borough Council election
Elections to Eastleigh Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000. The Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council.


2002 Ecuadorian general election
General elections were held in Ecuador on 20 October 2002, with a second round of the presidential elections on 24 November. The result was a victory for Lucio Gutiérrez of the PSP–MUPP–NP alliance, who won the run-off with 54.8% of the vote. The Social Christian Party emerged as the largest party in the National Congress, winning 24 of the 100 seats.


2002 Edmonton Eskimos season
The 2002 Edmonton Eskimos finished 1st in the West Division with a 13–5 record, but lost the Grey Cup at Commonwealth Stadium to the Montreal Alouettes.


2002 Egypt Cup Final
2002 Egypt Cup Final, was the final match of 2001–02 Egypt Cup, when Zamalek played Baladeyet El-Mahalla at Cairo Stadium in Cairo.


2002 Egypt Cup Final
Zamalek won the game 1–0, claiming the cup for the 18th time.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy
The 2002 Eisenhower Trophy took place 24–27 October on the Palm and Bunga Raya courses at Saujana Golf and Country Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was the 23rd World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 63 three-man teams. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total. Each team was due to play two rounds on the two courses. The leading teams played on the Bunga Raya course on the third day and were due to play on the Palm course on the final day.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy
After heavy rain and lightning on the final morning, a cut was introduced and only the leading 20 teams played the final round. Positions 21 to 63 were determined by scores after three rounds. The leading 33 teams had played their third round on the Bunga Raya course while the others played on the Palm course.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy
The United States won their 12th Eisenhower Trophy, three strokes ahead of France, who took the silver medal. Australia and the Philippines tied for third place and took the bronze medals. Marcus Fraser had the best 72-hole aggregate of 281, 7 under par.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy
This was the first World Amateur Team Championship with teams of three; previous championships had teams of four with the best three scores for each round counting. England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (a combined Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland team) competed as separate teams for the first time, whereas in previous championships a combined Great Britain and Ireland team had competed.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy
The 2004 Espirito Santo Trophy was played on the same courses one week prior.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy, Teams
63 teams contested the event. Each team had three players with exception of Russia who only had two.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy, Teams
The following table lists the players on the leading teams.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy, Results
Because of bad weather there was a cut and only the leading 20 teams played the final round.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy, Results
The leading 33 teams played their third round on the Bunga Raya course with the remaining teams playing on the Palm course.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy, Individual leaders
There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.


2002 Eisenhower Trophy, Individual leaders
Only players in the leading 20 teams completed four rounds. Of the players from  the remaining teams, who only completed three rounds, Benjamín Alvarado from Chile had the best score of 217, 1-over-par.


2002 El Ayyat railway accident
The El Ayyat train disaster happened at 02:00 on the morning of 20 February 2002 in an eleven-carriage passenger train travelling from Cairo to Luxor. A cooking gas cylinder exploded in the fifth carriage, creating a fire which engulfed seven third-class carriages, reducing them almost to cinders. The initial number of dead given by officials at the time was 383, all Egyptians. However, considering that seven carriages were burnt to the ground, and each carriage was packed with at least double the maximum carrying capacity of 150, this number may be greatly underestimated.


2002 El Ayyat railway accident
The dubious nature of the given death toll lies with the absence of a full passenger list; accounting for those missing was almost impossible at the time. In addition, the fire was so intense and the carriages so badly burned that many corpses had been reduced to ash. As there was no means of communication between the driver and the rear carriages, the driver did not immediately know of the fire, resulting in many people attempting to flee from the overcrowded carriages, jumping to their death. Some important Egyptians have commented that the official number of 383 dead is grossly inaccurate and was an attempt to lessen the damage done to the reputation of the government.


2002 Elite League speedway season
The 2002 Elite League speedway season was the 68th season of the top division of speedway in the United Kingdom and in 2002 was governed by the Speedway Control Board (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). It was the first time that play offs were introdued to determine the champions.


2002 Elite League speedway season, Season summary
In 2002, the league consisted of nine teams. The title was decided by a play-off between the top five teams. The team that finished top of the table were seeded directly to the final. The next four met in quarter and semi final rounds. The winner of these rounds qualified for the final.


2002 Elite League speedway season, Season summary
Eastbourne Eagles topped the regular season table but were defeated by Wolverhampton Wolves for the league title when losing the play off final. It was Wolves third title success in 11 years and the Swedish Karlsson brothers, Peter Karlsson and Mikael Karlsson were once again integral to the Wolves team throughout the season. Eastbourne's season was not a total loss because they beat Peterborough in the final of the Knockout Cup thanks to efforts from their English rider contingent of Mark Loram, Joe Screen and Dean Barker.


2002 Elite League speedway season, Season summary
Tony Rickardsson became World Champion for the fifth time during the season, topped the league averages, won the Elite League Riders' Championship and helped his club Poole win the Craven Shield.


2002 Elite League speedway season, Play-offs
Quarter-Final and Semi-Final decided over one leg. Grand Final decided by aggregate scores over two legs.


2002 Elite League speedway season, Play-offs, Final, Second leg
The Wolverhampton Wolves were declared League Champions, winning on aggregate 93-87.


2002 Elite League speedway season, Elite League Knockout Cup
The 2002 Elite League Knockout Cup was the 64th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams. Eastbourne Eagles were the winners of the competition.


2002 Elite League speedway season, Elite League Knockout Cup, Final, Second leg
The Eastbourne Eagles were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 94-86.


2002 Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council election
Elections to Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


2002 Emperor's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 80 teams, and Kyoto Purple Sanga won the championship.


2002 Emperor's Cup, Results, Final
Kyoto Purple Sanga won the championship and guaranteed a place in the 2004 AFC Champions League But Sanga was relegated to the Division 2 in 2003 so this spot was going to Yokohama F. Marinos the 2002 J.League Division 1 runner-up.


2002 Emperor's Cup Final
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2002 Emperor's Cup Final
2002 Emperor's Cup Final was the 82nd final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 2003. Kyoto Purple Sanga won the championship.


2002 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview
Kyoto Purple Sanga won their 1st title, by defeating Kashima Antlers 2–1 with Park Ji-sung and Teruaki Kurobe goal.


2002 Empress's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 21 teams, and Tasaki Perule FC won the championship.


2002 Empress's Cup Final
2002 Empress's Cup Final was the 24th final of the Empress's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 26, 2003. Tasaki Perule FC won the championship.


2002 Empress's Cup Final, Overview
Tasaki Perule FC won their 2nd title, by defeating Nippon TV Beleza 1–0 with Mio Otani goal.


2002 Energis Open
The 2002 Energis Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Amersfoort, the Netherlands and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. It was the 43rd edition of the tournament and ran from 15 July until 21 July 2002. Second-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela won the singles title.


2002 Energis Open, Finals, Doubles
Jeff Coetzee /  Chris Haggard defeated  André Sá /  Alexandre Simoni 7–6(7–1), 6–3


2002 Energis Open – Doubles
Paul Haarhuis and Sjeng Schalken were the defending champions but only Haarhuis competed that year with John van Lottum.


2002 Energis Open – Doubles
Haarhuis and van Lottum lost in the first round to Raemon Sluiter and Martin Verkerk.


2002 Energis Open – Doubles
Jeff Coetzee and Chris Haggard won in the final 7–6(7–1), 6–3 against André Sá and Alexandre Simoni.


2002 Energis Open – Singles
Àlex Corretja was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Christophe Rochus.


2002 Energis Open – Singles
Juan Ignacio Chela won in the final 6–1, 7–6(7–4) against Albert Costa.


2002 Energis Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2002 Enfield London Borough Council election
The 2002 Enfield Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Enfield London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1998 reducing the number of seats by 3. The Conservative party gained overall control of the council from the Labour party.


2002 England rugby union tour of Argentina
The 2002 England rugby union tour of Argentina was a series of matches played in June 2002 in Argentina by the England national rugby union team.


2002 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
Argentina A: 15. Bernardo Stortonoi, 14. Hernán Senillosa, 13. Diego Giannantonio, 12. Eduardo Simone, 11. Facundo Soler, 10. Gonzalo Quesada, 9. Nicolás Fernández Miranda (capt. ), 8. Pablo Bouza, 7. Lucas Ostiglia, 6. Martín Durand, 5. Mariano Sambucetti, 4. Pedro Sporleder, 3. Julio García, 2. Mario Ledesma, 1. Roberto Grau,  – replacements: Juan José Villar, Martín Scelzo, Miguel Ruiz, Alfonso Amuchastegui, Juan Fernández Miranda, José Núñez Piossek., 22. Diego Giannantonio England XV: 15. Tom Beim, 14. David Rees, 13. Tom May, 12. Kevin Sorrell, 11. Mark Cueto, 10. Dave Walder, 9. Nick Walshe, 8. Declan Danaher, 7. Pete Anglesea, 6. Adam Balding, 5. Hugh Vyvyan (capt. ), 4. Rob Fidler, 3. Robbie Morris, 2. Mark Regan, 1. Trevor Woodman,  – replacements:, 22. Kevin Sorrell


2002 England rugby union tour of Argentina, Matches
Argentina: 15. Ignacio Corleto, 14. Gonzalo Camardon, 13. Jose Orengo, 12. Felipe Contepomi, 11. Diego Albanese, 10. Gonzalo Quesada, 9. Agustin Pichot (capt. ), 8. Gonzalo Longo, 7. Rolando Martin, 6. Santiago Phelan, 5. Ignacio Fernadez Lobbe, 4. Rimas Alvarez Kairelis, 3. Omar Hasan Jalil, 2. Federico Mendez Azpillaga, 1. Mauricio Reggiardo,  – replacements: 16. Mario Ledesma, 17. Lucas Ostiglia, 18. Jose Nunez Piossek, 19. Martin Durand, 20. Nicolas Fernandez Miranda, 21. Roberto Grau, 22. Diego Giannantonio England: 15. Michael Horak, 14. Tim Stimpson, 13. Geoff Appleford, 12. Ben Johnston, 11. Phil Christophers, 10. Charlie Hodgson, 9. Andy Gomarsall, 8. Joe Worsley, 7. Lewis Moody, 6. Alex Sanderson, 5. Ben Kay, 4. Alex Codling, 3. Phil Vickery (capt. ), 2. Steve Thompson, 1. David Flatman,  – replacements: 16. Mark Regan, 17. Trevor Woodman, 18. Hugh Vyvyan, 19. Adam Balding, 20. Nick Walshe, 21. Dave Walder, 22. Kevin Sorrell


2002 English Greyhound Derby
The 2002 William Hill Greyhound Derby took place during May and June with the final being held on 1 June 2002 at Wimbledon Stadium. The winner received £75,000.


2002 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances
¾ , 1, ¾, 2, ¾ (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.


2002 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
There were 173 entries for the 2002 Derby but one of the Britain's leading greyhounds Top Savings was lame and would miss the event, he had been quoted as a short 4-1 ante post favourite. Despite the loss of Top Savings trainer Charlie Lister and owner Ray White had brought Rapid Ranger out of retirement for an unprecedented third title attempt. The ante-post favourite was El Ronan at 12-1 followed by the Scottish Greyhound Derby first and second, Priceless Rebel and Santovita. In addition to Priceless Rebel trainer Paul Hennessy also sent over Irish Puppy Derby champion Rutland Budgie.


2002 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
First round eliminations included Eclipse champion Bold Mossy and Rutland Budgie but Rapid Ranger won 22 and Santovita went fastest winning in 28.77 and entering the second round as the new favourite. The second round saw Rapid Ranger edge through after finishing third in his heat. Surprise eliminations included Santovita at odds of 1-4f, Vancouver Jet, Willie Go Fa, Occhi Gialli and Knockeevan King.


2002 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
A third round heat contained Rapid Ranger, Priceless Rebel and Droopys Corleone and as the field rounded the second bend Priceless Rebel clipped the heels of the leader Rapid Ranger and fell impeding Rapid Ranger at the same time. Both were unfortunately knocked out and Rapid Ranger was retired to stud for a second time. In the quarter finals Droopys Corleone was victorious in 28.84 with Star Ambition, Blue Gooner and Pilot Alert taking the other three heats. Seskin Robert found trouble and went out.


2002 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
The first semi-final resulted in Crack Him Out beating Pilot Alert and Call Me Baby and in the second Pall Mall Stakes champion Windgap Java defeated Allen Gift and Blue Gooner. Droopys Corleone failed to make the final after finishing fourth.


2002 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
Rank outsider Allen Gift led all the way in the final challenged by call Me Baby from the third bend. Blue Gooner showed early pace and Crack Him Out moved wide at the first bend ending the chances of Pilot Alert and Windgap Java.


2002 English National Badminton Championships
The 2002 English National Badminton Championships were held in Burgess Hill, Sussex, from 1–3 February 2002.


2002 English National Badminton Championships
Julia Mann won her seventh singles title putting her just one behind Gillian Gilks on the all-time list. Mark Constable was handed the men's singles title after Colin Haughton was forced to withdraw with severe back spasms.


2002 English cricket season
The 2002 English cricket season was the 103rd in which the County Championship had been an official competition. Surrey were crowned champions but 2001 county champions Yorkshire were relegated. Yorkshire did, however, win the C&G Trophy. India and Sri Lanka toured England to compete in a Test series with England. England drew with India 1-1 and beat Sri Lanka 2-0.


2002 English cricket season, Events
Playing against West Indies A at the County Ground, Taunton, Somerset set a record for the highest fourth-innings total to tie a first-class match, by scoring 453.


2002 Epping Forest District Council election
Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 1. The council stayed under no overall control.


2002 Epping Forest District Council election
Abolished wards include Broadway, Debden Green, Greensted and Marden Ash, High Ongar, Roothing Country, and High Beech.


2002 Epsom Derby
The 2002 Epsom Derby was a horse race which took place at Epsom Downs on Saturday 8 June 2002. It was the 223rd running of the Derby, and it was won by High Chaparral. The winner was ridden by Johnny Murtagh and trained by Aidan O'Brien. The pre-race favourite Hawk Wing finished second.


2002 Epsom Derby, Full result
* The distances between the horses are shown in lengths.† Trainers are based in Great Britain unless indicated.


2002 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, Two-year-old races
Notable runs by the future Derby participants as two-year-olds in 2001.


2002 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, The road to Epsom
Early-season appearances in 2002 and trial races prior to running in the Derby.


2002 Epsom Derby, Form analysis, Subsequent Group 1 wins
Group 1 / Grade I victories after running in the Derby.


2002 Epsom Derby, Subsequent breeding careers, Sires of Group/Grade One winners
Hawk Wing (2nd) - Exported to South Korea in 2009


2002 Epsom Derby, Subsequent breeding careers, Other Stallions
Bandari (8th) - Sired several jumps winners in sole cropJelani (4th) - Minor flat and jumps winnersMoon Ballad (3rd) - Exported to Japan - Relocated to IrelandFrankies Dream (11th) - Exported to Saudi Arabia


2002 Equatorial Guinean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Equatorial Guinea on 15 December 2002. Incumbent President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo easily won another term amidst an opposition boycott.


2002 Equatorial Guinean presidential election, Boycotts
The four opposition candidates withdrew their candidacy on election day. The first opposition candidate to withdraw was Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS) candidate Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé. He denounced the election, saying that "voting is totally fraudulent at every level. In 90% of the polling stations, the vote is being carried out in public, and people are being obliged to take only one voting slip, the one for Obiang".