2002 Karachi bus bombing, Details
Al-Qaeda was blamed for the blast. On September 18, 2002, a man named Sharib Zubair, who was believed to have masterminded the attack, was arrested. In 2003, two men were sentenced to death for the bombing by a Karachi court. The suspected bombmaker, Mufti Mohammad Sabir, was arrested in Karachi on September 8, 2005. There were several convictions in the case, though Pakistani courts acquitted three defendants by 2009.


2002 Karachi bus bombing, Karachigate
Contrary to official announcements by the Pakistani and the French governments at the time, it is now thought to be unlikely that those responsible for the attack had links to al-Qaeda. In 2007, anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, assigned to lead the investigation into the bombing, was replaced by two investigating magistrates, Marc Trevidic and Renaud Van Ruymbeke. The former opened a new line in the investigation: that the attack was linked to the halting of kickback. The resulting scandal has been dubbed "Karachigate".


2002 Karachi bus bombing, Karachigate
An investigation is currently underway in France to establish the extent to which former French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy were implicated in the sale of kickbacks to Pakistani officials. Sarkozy was allegedly involved in accepting kickbacks from Pakistan to fund the presidential campaign of Balladur. When Jacques Chirac came to power, he cancelled the Pakistani officials' kickbacks, angering many people in Pakistan.


2002 Karl Schäfer Memorial
The 2002 Karl Schäfer Memorial (also known as the Vienna Cup) took place from October 15 through 19, 2002. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.


2002 Kawasaki Frontale season
The 2002 Kawasaki Frontale season. Kawasaki Frontale is a Japanese professional football club based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. This article summarizes the competition and results of the season.


2002 Kazakh Senate election
Senate elections were held in Kazakhstan on 8 October 2002. All the 16 represented seats in the Senate were elected by 3304 out of 3153 mäslihat members.


2002 Kazakh Senate election, Electoral system
The members of the Senate of Kazakhstan are nonpartisan and are indirectly elected by the local legislative bodies Maslihats every six years. Each region and cities of Almaty and Astana are represented by two senators while 7 senators are appointed by the President of Kazakhstan.


2002 Kazakhstan Premier League
The 2002 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 11th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan, and took place between 28 April and 24 October.


2002 Kazakhstan Premier League, Teams
No teams were promoted from the Kazakhstan First Division, and with Ekibastuzets-NK, Zhetysu, Taraz, Dostyk and Mangystau relegated the previous season the league was reduced to 12 teams. Before the start of the season Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet were renamed Shakhter Karagandy.


2002 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council election
The 2002 Kensington and Chelsea Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1998. The Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2002 Kent State Golden Flashes football team
The 2002 Kent State Golden Flashes football team represented the Kent State University during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. Kent State competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC), and played their home games at Dix Stadium. The Golden Flashes were led by fourth-year head coach Dean Pees.


2002 Kentucky Derby
The 2002 Kentucky Derby was the 128th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 4, 2002, and 145,033 people were in attendance. The race was won by War Emblem who led from start to finish.


2002 Kentucky Derby, Race description
The field was considered evenly matched, especially after the scratch of Buddha, who had won the Wood Memorial. The favorite was Harlan's Holiday, who had won both the Florida Derby and Blue Grass Stakes. He went off at odds of 6-1, then the longest starting price for a favorite in Derby history. Medaglia d'Oro and Saarland, who had finished second and fourth in the Wood Memorial respectively, went off at odds of 7-1.


2002 Kentucky Derby, Race description
War Emblem was a relative longshot at odds of 20-1, despite having won the Illinois Derby in frontrunning fashion on April 6. Shortly after that race, he was purchased by The Thoroughbred Corporation (owned by Saudi Prince Ahmed Salman) and was put into training with Bob Baffert. Baffert trained the colt aggressively to build up his stamina, and quipped, "If this horse wins the Derby, it will be the best and shortest training job ever."


2002 Kentucky Derby, Race description
As expected, War Emblem went to the early lead, running the first quarter-mile in 23.25 seconds and the half in :47.04. Jockey Victor Espinoza was then able to slow down the pace slightly as the colt maintained a lead of 1+1⁄2 lengths down the backstretch and around the final turn. In the final furlong, War Emblem opened up his lead to four lengths under a hand ride. Espinoza said that he knew no one could catch them as the colt had been moving so easily. He completed the 1+1⁄4 miles in 2:01.13, then the seventh fastest Derby in history. Another longshot, Proud Citizen, finished second, resulting in an exacta payout of $1,300.80 for a $2 bet.


2002 Kentucky Wildcats football team
The 2002 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Wildcats scored 385 points while allowing 301 points.


2002 Kentucky Wildcats football team
Though finishing with a 7–5 record, the Wildcats were not bowl eligible due to NCAA sanctions resulting from the tenure of former head coach Hal Mumme.


2002 Kentucky Wildcats football team, Season
Kentucky opened with a 22–17 win at #17 Louisville, a nationally broadcast upset at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium in which Kentucky reclaimed the Governor's Cup. A 77–17 win over UTEP followed (the second largest point total in school history at the time), and wins against Indiana and Middle Tennessee State put Kentucky at 4–0. A 41–34 loss at #7 Florida was followed by a 16–12 loss to South Carolina that came down to the final play. A 29–17 win at Arkansas followed. A 52–24 loss to #5 Georgia was followed by a 45–24 win at Mississippi State. A 33–30 loss to #16 LSU on the game's final play was followed by a 41–21 win against Vanderbilt and a 24–0 loss at Tennessee.


2002 Kenyan general election
General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2002. Voters elected the President, and members of the National Assembly. They coincided with the 2002 Kenyan local elections.


2002 Kenyan general election
Mwai Kibaki of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) was elected, defeating Uhuru Kenyatta of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and Simeon Nyachae of FORD–People.


2002 Kenyan general election
Incumbent president Daniel arap Moi was ineligible to pursue a third term due to the two-term limit in the Constitution of Kenya. This was the first truly free general election held in Kenya since independence in 1964; a number of by-elections were held in 1966 before the onset of de facto one-party rule in 1969. The general election saw the end of the long-standing dominance of the KANU, which had governed the country since independence in 1963, including 23 years as the only legal party. The National Rainbow Coalition won a majority in the National Assembly.


2002 Kenyan general election, Background
Incumbent president Moi was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 presidential elections. Some of his supporters floated the idea of amending the constitution to allow him to run for a third term, but Moi preferred to retire, choosing Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor. In protest of Moi's decision a group of disappointed KANU presidential aspirants quit KANU and formed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).


2002 Kenyan general election, Background
In preparation for the 2002 elections, Kibaki's Democratic Party affiliated with several other opposition parties, including the LDP and National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK) to form the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). On 14 October 2002, at a large opposition rally in Uhuru Park, Nairobi, Kibaki was nominated the NARC opposition alliance presidential candidate after Raila Odinga made the famous declaration, Kibaki Tosha!


2002 Kenyan general election, Results, National Assembly
Of the 12 appointed seats, seven were members of the National Rainbow Coalition, four were members of KANU and one was a member of FORD–People.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash
On 19 August 2002, a group of Chechen separatists armed with a man-portable air-defense system brought down a Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter in a minefield, which resulted in the death of 127 Russian soldiers in the greatest loss of life in the history of helicopter aviation. It was also the most deadly aviation disaster ever suffered by the Russian Armed Forces, as well as its worst loss of life in a single day since 1999.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Attack
On 19 August 2002, Chechen separatist fighters launched a Russian-made 9K38 Igla shoulder-fired, heat-seeking surface-to-air missile which hit an overloaded Mil Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter, causing it to crash-land and burn at Khankala military air base near Chechnya's capital city of Grozny. The helicopter was ferrying 142 soldiers and officers belonging to various units, from the Russian Air Force base at Mozdok, Republic of North Ossetia–Alania.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Attack
The missile hit one of the engines as the Mi-26 was approaching Khankala, and the helicopter crash-landed in a minefield that made up part of the federal military headquarters' perimeter defenses. Some of the survivors, attempting to abandon the wrecked Mi-26, are reported to have been killed by 'friendly' anti-personnel mine explosions.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Attack
The interior of the helicopter flooded with fuel and its jammed doors could not be opened. Only the crew of five and 29 passengers managed to escape through the small cockpit exit hatch. Fourteen of the survivors died over the next few days from severe burns.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Attack
Russian forces from Khankala launched a search for the attackers immediately after the crash, but only managed to recover the spent tube that had contained the Igla missile.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
On 21 August 2002, a national day of mourning was declared for the following day by the Russian President Vladimir Putin in connection with the catastrophe, which the media called "the second Kursk". The separatist news agency Kavkaz Center described the crash as the "greatest act of sabotage by Chechen fighters in two years". Some Russian media, including Izvestiya, voiced anger at an apparent cover-up attempt, accusing the military of "as usual" trying to conceal the casualties. The crash led to the suspension of the Russian Army's Aviation commander, Colonel-General Vitaly Pavlov, who later resigned from his post in September.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
On 24 September, footage of the helicopter downing was obtained by the Associated Press from a Turkish news agency along with a statement by separatist Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov announcing: "Here is a helicopter that is on fire and falling near Khankala. It was hit by our Igla anti-aircraft missile." It was also the first video that showed Maskhadov using Islamic insignia and flag, instead of Chechen ones, and referring to the fighters around him as "our mujahideen", in what was seen as his apparent and abrupt turn towards Islamism.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
In an undated tape, Maskhadov recalls the Russian investigators' early official version that the helicopter crashed because of technical difficulties before announcing that it was shot down; he then presents a handgun to the fighter said to have downed the helicopter. The tape was also aired on television in Chechnya when the separatists used the REN TV frequency to broadcast it locally during that same month.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
It was believed that the missile that destroyed the helicopter was launched from one of the many battle-damaged five-story apartment blocks on the outskirts of Grozny. The Russian military responded to the loss of the Mi-26 by demolishing several blocks in the already half-destroyed Khankala residential area adjoining the base in November, in spite of protests from the pro-Russian Chechen administration. It was initially flatly denied by Colonel Boris Podoprigora, but later admitted by the Russian military spokesman Major-General Ilya Shabalkin, who said that the action was carried out with the goal of preventing the fighters from using the area to lay ambushes close to the base.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
As a result, around 100 families were left homeless and NTV reported they were given barely any time to leave and could take only some personal belongings. Regarding this, General Shabalkin commented that the local residents "had been watching the bandits preparing terror attacks and failed to inform law enforcers of their plans" which "is considered to be abetting illegal armed formations, and complicity in a criminal plot".


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
In response, the Russian State Duma deputy for Chechnya, Aslambek Aslakhanov, demanded an explanation from the top military command in Chechnya. The area had been also shelled in August following an unrelated crash of a Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying two high-ranking Russian military officials, killing everyone on board, which was allegedly caused by a missile launched from the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
The Mi-26 helicopter was designed to carry 80 troops, while the one that was destroyed was loaded with 142 passengers (according to Timur Aliyev, "an indication in itself that the Russian military is reluctant to travel by road, even in areas like northern Chechnya far from the rebel heartlands"). According to the BBC, citing Kommersant, "The Mi-26 often flies to Khankala with 100–110 people on board, plus a huge amount of cargo, including cheap Ossetian vodka."


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
Felgenhauer wrote: "I once had a ride on a Mi-26 from Mozdok to Grozny, together with some 50 service personnel and journalists on top of a stockpile of crates with tons of artillery shells and other munitions." In 2003, the Russian officer in charge of dispatching the helicopter, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Kudyakov, was charged and convicted of negligence and violating flight regulations. Pravda commented that he "had to become a scapegoat" and according to Kudyakov himself the judge told him that he should have refused to go to Chechnya in the first place.


2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash, Aftermath
A Chechen accused of transporting the missile, preparing it for launching, and filming the attack, 27-year-old Grozny resident Doku Dzhantemirov, was found guilty of planning and carrying out "an act of terror" in April 2004. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for "terrorism, premeditated murder with special cruelty, banditry, and attempted murder of servicemen", and was also ordered to pay 100,000 rubles ($3,500) to the relatives of each victim and 50,000 rubles ($1,720) to each of the survivors. At his trial, Dzhantemirov maintained that he was not a terrorist but a soldier of the State of Ichkeria. Four other Chechens accused of taking part in the attack were still being sought.


2002 Kids' Choice Awards
The 15th Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards was held on April 20, 2002,  at Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. It was aired on Nickelodeon and hosted by Rosie O'Donnell for the seventh consecutive year.


2002 Kids' Choice Awards
The pilot for The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius series premiered after the ceremony as a special preview.


2002 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 2002 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 108th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.


2002 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
On 27 October 2002, Young Irelands won the title after a 3–14 to 1–15 defeat of Dunnamaggin in the final at Nowlan Park. It was their second championship title overall and their first title in six championship seasons. It remains their last championship triumph.


2002 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
The 2002 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was a horse race held at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday 27 July 2002. It was the 52nd King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.


2002 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
The winner was Executors of The Late Lord Weinstock's Golan, a four-year-old bay colt trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by Michael Stoute and ridden by Kieren Fallon. Golan's victory was the first in the race for Fallon and the third for Stoute after Shergar (1981) and the second for the Aga Khan after Shergar (1981) and Opera House (1993). The Weinstock colours had previously been carried to victory in the race by Troy in 1979 and Ela-Mana-Mou in 1980.


2002 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The race
The race attracted a field of nine runners: seven from the United Kingdom, one from Germany and one from France. The Godolphin stable fielded two runners; Grandera the winner of the Singapore Airlines International Cup and Prince of Wales's Stakes and Narrative, the winner of the Dubai City of Gold. The other British trained runners included Nayef (Champion Stakes, Tattersalls Gold Cup) who was accompanied by his pacemaker, Sir Effendi, the 2000 Guineas winner Golan (unraced since finishing sixth in Japan Cup eight months previously), the Barry Hills-trained Storming Home, and the Hardwicke Stakes winner Zindabad.


2002 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The race
France was represented by the filly Aquarelliste, the winner of the Prix de Diane, Prix Vermeille and Prix Ganay. The other runner was Boreal, a German colt who had won the Deutsches Derby in 2001 and beaten Storming Home in the Coronation Cup. Grandera headed the betting at odds of 13/8 ahead of Golan (11/2), Zindabad (11/2) and Nayef (7/1).


2002 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, The race
Sir Effendi set a fast pace in the early stages from Narrative, with Zindabad, Aquarelliste and Nayef just behind the leaders and Golan held up in last place. Zindabad took the lead half a mile from the finish and led the field into the straight with Nayef in second ahead of Storming Home and Aquarelliste with Golan making progress along the rail. Nayef gained the advantage approaching the final furlong but was immediately challenged by Golan on the inside. The two colts drew away from their rivals, with Golan prevailing by a head at the line. There was a gap of three and a half lengths back to Zindabad in third. The next three places were filled by Aquarelliste, Grandera and Storming Home.


2002 King's Cup
The 33rd King's Cup finals was held from 10 to 16 February 2002 at the  Supachalasai Stadium  in Bangkok, Thailand. The King's Cup (คิงส์คัพ) is an annual football tournament; the first tournament was played in 1968.


2002 King's Cup, Venue
All matches held at the  Supachalasai Stadium  in Bangkok, Thailand


2002 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election
Elections to Kingston upon Thames Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes reducing the number of councillors by two since the last election in 1998. The Liberal Democrats took overall control of the council.


2002 Kiribati parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Kiribati on 29 November 2002, with a second round on 8 December. The result was a victory for the new Pillars of Truth party, which won 17 of the 40 seats in the House of Assembly. Fourteen MPs, including seven cabinet ministers lost their seats in the election.


2002 Kiribati parliamentary election, Campaign
A total of 176 candidates contested the election, with over half running under the banner of the ruling Protect the Maneaba party.


2002 Kiribati parliamentary election, Campaign
A bitter election campaign included opposition leader Harry Tong accusing the government of attempting to prevent him using the national coat of arms on his campaign material, which also claiming that Chinese government officials were attempting to bribe candidates. In response, the ruling party accused the opposition of siding with Taiwan.


2002 Kiribati parliamentary election, Aftermath
Following the election, three independents allied with the Pillars of Truth. The new MPs were sworn in on 9 January 2003.


2002 Klamath River fish kill
The 2002 Klamath River fish kill occurred on the Klamath River in California in September 2002. According to the official estimate of mortality, about 34,000 fish died. Though some counts may estimate over 70,000 adult chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) were killed when returning to the river to spawn, making it the largest salmon kill in the history of the Western United States. Besides the chinook salmon, other fish that perished include: steelhead (O. mykiss), coho salmon (O. kisutch), sculpins (Cottus spp. ), speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus), and Klamath smallscale sucker (Catostomus rimiculus).


2002 Klamath River fish kill
A report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that the kill resulted from water diversions to Klamath Basin by farmers and ranchers during a drought year. The report found that the atypical low flow in the river along with high fish return numbers and high water temperatures allowed for a gill rot disease to kill at least 33,000 salmon in September 2002, before they could reproduce. The die-off was downstream of the Trinity inflow, and the salmon of the Trinity were impacted to a greater degree than the Klamath as the Trinity run was at its peak.


2002 Klamath River fish kill
The report does mention that the official fish die-off estimate of 34,056 is probably quite low and could be only half of the actual loss. Klamath River flows as measured at the river gauge in Keno show a low flow of 800 cubic feet per second (22.7 m3/s) in September 1908 (before irrigation began). During the 2002 fish kill, flows of 475 cubic feet per second (13.5 m3/s) were recorded. During September of the 2001 irrigation shut-off, an average of 688 cubic feet per second (19.5 m3/s) was recorded. These lower water flows were decided on against the suggestions of higher water flows biologists had said would be needed to keep the fish safe from a die off.


2002 Klamath River fish kill
In response to a 2007 story in The Washington Post that was critical of United States Vice President Dick Cheney's role in diverting water to farmers and ranchers for political gain, the House Natural Resources Committee began an investigation into his role in instigating the fish kill.


2002 Klamath River fish kill
The fish kill played an important role in stirring an effort by local American Indian peoples, in concert with environmentalists and fishers, to remove dams on the Klamath River. The Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA) was carefully negotiated and signed by the tribes, the farmers, and PacifiCorp in 2010, but failed to pass through Congress.


2002 Klamath River fish kill
On April 6, 2016, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Yurok Tribal Chair Thomas P. O'Rourke Sr., Karuk Tribal Chair Russell "Buster" Attebery, Klamath Tribal Chair Don Gentry, the governors of Oregon and California, and dam owner PacificCorp signed the landmark agreements, which include a new piece of legislation: the Upper Klamath Basin Comprehensive Agreement. The Yurok tribe released a statement in September 2015 acknowledging their withdrawal of support from the landmark agreements due to its dilution of fishing and water rights that would have been acknowledged under KBRA.


2002 Klamath River fish kill, Community responses
A play called Salmon is Everything was a collaboration between tribal members and Humboldt State University Theatre professor Theresa May to communicate the impact of the fish kill, featuring a cast which included people from the Hupa, Karuk, and Yurok communities. The play presents the experience of the members of the Yurok, Hoopa Valley, and Karuk tribes, as well as farmers, ranchers, and others invested in the Klamath watershed. Karuk woman, Kathleen McCovey, provided the play with a spiritual perspective through an elder character, Rose. Rose's character demonstrates to the audience the intrinsic role salmon plays in Karuk and Yurok culture:


2002 Klamath River fish kill, Community responses
"Rose: ...You see, to the Karuk people everything and everyone has a purpose. The spirit people taught the Karuk how to live on the land, what to do, what to eat, how to behave, and how and when to conduct ceremonies. Then when the Karuk people knew what to do the spirit people went into the sky, the earth, the trees, the animals the rocks, and into the plants. You see, when I am in the forest, I am never alone, I am surrounded by spirit people."


2002 Klamath River fish kill, Community responses
The play was first performed at Humboldt State University, and later at the University of Oregon. The book was the Book of the Year for Humboldt State University for 2015-2016.


2002 Klamath River fish kill, Community responses
Many documentaries have arisen from the event as well due to the heavy public response to the issue and the agreements that were settled in the aftermath. A River Between Us directed by Gregori J. Martin explains the various sides of the argument and shows how one native tribe went to a potato festival held by the people on the opposite side of the argument to help understand each other better and gain common ground. From the documentary it is clear many people gained common grounds with each other over time in the aftermath of the event.


2002 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party kept overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 23.7%.


2002 Kolmonen – Finnish League Division 3
League tables for teams participating in Kolmonen, the fourth tier of the Finnish soccer league system, in 2002.


2002 Konica V8 Supercar Series
The 2002 Konica V8 Supercar Series was an Australian touring car series held for V8 Supercars. It was the third series held for second tier V8 Supercar teams. The series began on 31 March 2002 at Wakefield Park and finished on 4 August at Mallala Motor Sport Park having been contested over five rounds held across three different states.


2002 Konica V8 Supercar Series
The series was dominated by Paul Dumbrell who won twelve races during the course of the 15 race series. Dumbrell finished 484 points clear of the only other driver to win more than one race, Dale Brede.


2002 Konica V8 Supercar Series, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2002 Konica V8 Supercar Series.


2002 Konica V8 Supercar Series, Points system
The season consisted of five rounds across three different states. Each round consisted of three races. Points were awarded for the first 32 positions at each racebut at no race during the series did more than 22 cars finish. The third race of a race weekend carried approximately 50% more points than each of the first two races.


2002 Korean FA Cup
2002 Korean FA Cup, known as the Hana-Seoul Bank FA Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 7th edition of the Korean FA Cup.


2002 Korean League Cup
Korean League Cup 2002, known as Adidas Cup 2002 due to the competition's sponsorship.


2002 Korean League Cup
Tournament played before the regular K-League season, March to May. In 2002, due to FIFA World Cup preparations, some teams such as Ulsan, Daejeon, Suwon and Jeonbuk cannot use World Cup stadiums.


2002 Kraft Nabisco Championship
The 2002 Kraft Nabisco Championship was a women's professional golf tournament, held March 28–31 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This was the 31st edition of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and the twentieth as a major championship.


2002 Kraft Nabisco Championship
Defending champion Annika Sörenstam shot a final round 68 to win the second of her three titles at this event, one stroke ahead of runner-up and compatriot Liselotte Neumann; it was the fourth of Sörenstam's ten major titles. The co-leaders after 54 holes were Sörenstam, Neumann, and Karrie Webb, the 2000 champion.


2002 Kraft Nabisco Championship
Through 2017, this is the sole successful title defense at this major championship. Before it became a major in 1983, Sandra Post won consecutively in 1978 and 1979.


2002 Kraft Nabisco Championship, Final leaderboard
Amateurs: Lorena Ochoa (–3), Aree Song (+11), Naree Song (+11), Meredith Duncan (+19).


2002 Kremlin Cup
The 2002 Kremlin Cup was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow in Russia that was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier I of the 2002 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from 30 September through 6 October 2002.


2002 Kremlin Cup, Finals, Men's Doubles
Roger Federer /  Max Mirnyi defeated  Joshua Eagle /  Sandon Stolle 6–4, 7–6(7–0)


2002 Kremlin Cup, Finals, Women's Doubles
Elena Dementieva /  Janette Husárová defeated  Jelena Dokić /  Nadia Petrova 2–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–0)


2002 Kremlin Cup – Men's Doubles
Max Mirnyi and Sandon Stolle were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Mirnyi with Roger Federer and Stolle with Joshua Eagle.


2002 Kremlin Cup – Men's Doubles
Eagle and Stolle lost in the final 6–4, 7–6(7–0) against Federer and Mirnyi.


2002 Kremlin Cup – Men's Singles
Yevgeny Kafelnikov was the five time defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Sjeng Schalken.


2002 Kremlin Cup – Men's Singles
Paul-Henri Mathieu won in the final 4–6, 6–2, 6–0 against Schalken.


2002 Kremlin Cup – Women's Singles
Jelena Dokić was the defending champion, but lost to  Amanda Coetzer in the second round.


2002 Kremlin Cup – Women's Singles
Magdalena Maleeva won the title, defeating Lindsay Davenport in the final 5–7, 6–3, 7–6(7–4).


2002 Kremlin Cup – Women's Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.


2002 Kroger St. Jude International
The 2002 Kroger St. Jude International was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Racquet Club of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States that was part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier III of the 2002 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from February 17 through February 24, 2002.


2002 Kroger St. Jude International, Finals, Men's Doubles
Brian MacPhie /  Nenad Zimonjić defeated  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan 6–3, 3–6, [10–4]


2002 Kroger St. Jude International, Finals, Women's Doubles
Ai Sugiyama /  Elena Tatarkova defeated  Melissa Middleton /  Brie Rippner 6–4, 2–6, 6–0


2002 Kroger St. Jude International – Men's Doubles
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions but lost in the final 6–3, 3–6, [10–4] against Brian MacPhie and Nenad Zimonjić.


2002 Kroger St. Jude International – Men's Singles
Mark Philippoussis was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Jonas Björkman.


2002 Kroger St. Jude International – Men's Singles
Andy Roddick won in the final 6–4, 3–6, 7–5 against James Blake.


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


2002 Kroger St. Jude International – Women's Doubles
Amanda Coetzer and Lori McNeil were the defending champions, but McNeil did not compete this year. Coetzer teamed up with Jessica Steck and lost in first round to sisters Adriana Serra Zanetti and Antonella Serra Zanetti.


2002 Kroger St. Jude International – Women's Doubles
Ai Sugiyama and Elena Tatarkova won the title by defeating Melissa Middleton and Brie Rippner 6–4, 2–6, 6–0 in the final.


2002 Kroger St. Jude International – Women's Singles
Monica Seles was the reigning champion but did not compete this year, as she decided to play in Dubai in the same week.


2002 Kroger St. Jude International – Women's Singles
Lisa Raymond won the title by defeating Alexandra Stevenson 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(11–9) in the final.


2002 Kroger St. Jude International – Women's Singles, Seeds
The first two seeds received a bye into the second round.


2002 Kuala Lumpur FA season
Kuala Lumpur competed in the Premier 1 and FA Cup in season 2002. They finished 13th in the league and were relegated for the first time in their history and failed to qualify for the Malaysia Cup for the first time since 1996. Iraqi Wathiq Naji Jassim was removed as coach after the first match of the season and was replaced by Lim Kim Lian. Nigerian striker Onyema Ikechukwu played only two matches before having his contract terminated after failing to recover from a hamstring injury.


2002 Kvalserien
The 2002 Kvalserien was the 28th edition of the Kvalserien. It determined two teams of the participating ones would play in the 2002–03 Elitserien season and which four teams would play in the 2002–03 Allsvenskan season.


2002 Kyrgyzstan League
The 2002 Kyrgyzstan League was contested by 10 teams with SKA PVO Bishkek winning the championship.


2002 L.League
Statistics of L. League in the 2002 season. Nippon TV Beleza won the championship.


2002 LFF Lyga
Final tables of the Lithuanian Championship in 2002 are presented below. The Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) organized three football leagues: A Lyga (the highest), 1 Lyga (second-tier), and 2 Lyga (third-tier), which comprised four regional zones, with a new North zone being added for this season.


2002 LG Cup (Iran)
The LG Cup Four Nations is an exhibition association football tournament that took place in Iran.


2002 LG Cup (Morocco)
The LG Cup is an exhibition association football tournament that took place in Morocco.


2002 LG Cup (Russia)
The second LG Cup is an exhibition association football tournament that took place in  Russia.


2002 LG Cup (snooker)
The 2002 LG Cup was a professional snooker tournament held from 5 to 13 October 2002, at the Guild Hall, in Preston, Lancashire, England. It was the second year the event was known as the LG Cup and the 21st overall staging of the competition. Sponsored by the  Korean multinational conglomerate LG, the tournament was the first of eight World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) ranking events in the 2002–03 snooker season and was televised in the United Kingdom on the BBC.


2002 LG Cup (snooker)
Chris Small, who has the spinal condition ankylosing spondylitis, was a 150/1 outsider when he won the tournament by defeating fellow Scot Alan McManus nine frames to five (9–5) in the final. It was Small's only major ranking tournament title of his career as he retired from his disease three years later. In the semi-finals Small beat Jimmy Michie 6–2 and McManus defeated Steve Davis 6–2. Stephen Lee compiled the tournament's highest break of a 141 total clearance in his second round match against Ryan Day. The tournament preceded the second ranking event of the season, the British Open.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Background
The tournament was created as the Professional Players Tournament in 1982 by the snooker governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), to provide another ranking event. It was renamed the Grand Prix for the 1984 event until 2001, when it was called the LG Cup, before  reverting to the Grand Prix in 2004.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Background
The 2002 tournament was held at the Guild Hall in Preston, Lancashire between 5 and 13 October. It was the first of eight WPBSA ranking events in the 2002–2003 season and the next event following last season's World Championship, which was won by Peter Ebdon. Stephen Lee won the 2001 LG Cup in a nine frames to four victory (9–4) over Ebdon. The event preceded the second ranking tournament of the season, the British Open.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Background
Sponsored by the Korean multinational conglomerate LG for the second year in a row, it had a prize fund of £597,200, and was broadcast on the BBC. The maximum number of frames contested in a match increased from nine in the first round to the quarter-finals to eleven in the semi-finals, leading up to the final, which was played as best-of-seventeen frames.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Background, Prize money
The breakdown of prize money for the 2002 tournament is shown below:


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Qualifying
Qualifying for the event took place over four rounds which were played between 2 to 16 September 2007 at the Meadowside Centre, Burton upon Trent, for players on the main tour ranked 33 and lower for one of 32 places in the final stage. The successful qualifiers included the likes of Ryan Day, Shokat Ali, Ian McCulloch, Jimmy Michie, Robin Hull, Patrick Wallace and Jamie Burnett.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 48
The last 48 round occurred between 5 and 7 October, with the 16 qualifiers facing members of the top 32, but not including the top 16 seeds. Day, both the Snooker Writers Association and the World Snooker Newcomer of the Year, defeated Ali Carter 5–3. Day led 3–0 but Carter got the score back to 3–2 with breaks of 53 and 65 before Day won the match with a 83 break in frame six and a clearance in the eighth.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 48
Anthony Davies made breaks of 84, 85 and 72 in his 5–0 whitewash of Marcus Campbell and would play world number 4 John Higgins in the next round. Ali, Pakistan's number one ranked player, compiled breaks of 64, 51, 95 and 98 in a 5–1 victory over John Parrott, the 1991 world champion. Fergal O'Brien edged out Nick Dyson 5–3, while Tony Drago and Gerard Greene defeated Gary Wilkinson and Dominic Dale respectively by the same scoreline. Drew Henry was also beaten by exactly the same scoreline by Michael Holt, and Anthony Hamilton overcame Ian McCulloch to win 5–4 in a game that concluded past midnight on 5 October after a final frame safety exchange on the pink ball.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 48
Former World Matchplay champion James Wattana defeated Hull 5–4, coming from 4–0 behind to win four consecutive frames from breaks of 56, 51 and 43 to force a final frame decider. Wattana won it after Hull left a red ball in the jaws of a corner pocket. Michael Judge whitewashed David Finbow 5–0, a match in which Judge's highest break was 48 and Finbow conceded the fifth frame despite being 49 points behind with 59 remaining on the table.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 48
Six-time world champion Steve Davis achieved the competition's third whitewash with a 5–0 victory over the world number 46 Jamie Burnett to set up a match with fellow Londoner Jimmy White for the first time in a ranking tournament since the semi-finals of the 1995 International Open. World number 29 Chris Small, who suffers from the spinal condition ankylosing spondylitis, beat Mark Davis 5–2. Small led Mark Davis 4–0 until the latter took two frames in succession. Small claimed frame seven to win the match.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 48
Scottish Open runner-up David Gray won 5–1 against Atthasit Mahitthi, while Patrick Wallace came from 2–0 and 4–3 behind to beat Dave Harold 5–4 in a 4 hour, 34 minute game. That delayed Nigel Bond's match with Brian Morgan by two hours, which Bond won 5–1. In the last game of round one, Michie beat Marco Fu 5–1.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 32
The winners of the last 48 round qualified to face members of the top 16, which took place from 7 to 9 October. Day was defeated 5–4 by Lee, who achieved a 141 total clearance (the tournament's highest break) and Day compiled a 57 break to force a final frame decider. A break of 52 that commenced with a fluked red ball won Lee the match. Higgins whitewashed Davies 5–0 during which he missed an opportunity to achieve a maximum break in frame five, as he outscored Davies 361–75.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 32
Greene produced breaks of 61 and 78 in his 5–1 victory over world number 12 Graeme Dott. Ronnie O'Sullivan's breaks of 85, 56, 52 and 43 enabled him to beat Hamilton 5–2 in 85 minutes but expressed his displeasure at not achieving a sixth maximum break due to a lack of concentration. Ali missed a straightforward red ball while on 47 points in the opening frame of his 5–0 whitewash to McManus. Stephen Hendry, a seven-time world champion, opened his match with Drago by winning the first two frames. Drago made breaks of 32 and 36 to win frame three but Hendry won the next three with breaks of 52, 56 and 65 to win.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 32
O'Brien led 2–0 with a break of 128 and his opponent Ebdon responded with a 101 break. Breaks of 103, 45 and 53 put Ebdon into the lead but O'Brien won the game 5–4 with victories in frame eight and the 41-minute ninth. In the match between Paul Hunter and Wattana, Hunter led 4–0 before Wattana won three successive frames. Hunter won frame eight and the match with a score of 91–8. Mark Williams led Judge 2–0 before Judge took three frames in a row to go 3–2 in front. Williams made a match-high break of 60 to win 5–3.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 32
Holt overcame Quinten Hann 5–4 in a ¼ hour battle on the final pink and black balls in the deciding frame of their match. White came from 3–1 behind to tie Davis at 3–3 with a break of 72. Both players shared the next two frames to force a final frame decider. Leading 49–16 with five un-potted red balls on the table, Davis fluked one of them and went on to produce a break of 21 to win the match that ran past midnight due to other fixtures running longer than expected.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 32
On the second table, world number 16 Joe Perry lost 2–5 to Small despite the latter's heavy back strain. 1997 world champion and world number 5 Ken Doherty was the highest ranked player to lose in the round when Wallace beat him 5–3. Wallace dedicated the victory to his practice partner and former Northern Ireland Amateur Championship runner-up Barry McNamee who died when a car struck him that year. Joe Swail was another top 16 seed to be eliminated in round two when he lost 5–3 to Bond despite leading 3–1 midway through. Of the other two second round matches, Matthew Stevens lost 1–5 to Gray and Michie won 5–2 against the world number 11 Mark King.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 16
The last 16 round was played from 9 to 10 October. Lee led McManus 3–1 but the latter took four straight frames with a break of 105 to force a final frame decider. Lee missed the final yellow ball shot and he potted the cue ball to give McManus the penalty points he required to return to contention and the latter made a 51 clearance to win 5–4. Greene took his fifth victory of the season when he beat O'Brien by the same scoreline.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 16
Small produced breaks of 58, 71 and 100 as he compiled 300 unanswered points against Higgins who won frame five to prevent a whitewash but Small took the sixth to claim a 5–1 victory. Holt took a 3–0 lead over O'Sullivan who responded to claim five consecutive frames for a 5–3 victory to avoid elimination.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Last 16
Hunter led Hendry 3–1 with breaks of 112 and 66 and to 4–2 when Hendry achieved a 67 break in frame six before Hunter clinched the game 5–3 in a disjointed eighth frame. Michie edged out Wallace 5–4 to enter his first ranking professional tournament quarter-final since 1999. Similarly, Davis took the opening three frames of a match against Williams while the latter claimed frame four. Davis produced a run of 69 in frame five and he then compiled a match-winning 48 in the sixth frame for a final score of 5–1 in his favour. Davis remarked of his performance after the match, "It's the best I've played for years." In the final third round match Gray came from 4–2 behind to beat Bond 5–3.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
The four quarter-finals were contested on 11 October. Small defeated O'Sullivan 5–1 to reach his first semi-final since the 1998 tournament. Small produced breaks of 81, 44, 71 and 137, which gave him a 4–0 lead at the mid-session interval. O'Sullivan prevented the first whitewash of his career since the 1997 China International with victory in a disjointed frame five but Small won the match with a 78 clearance in the sixth. Greene compiled breaks of 66 and 77 to lead Michie 2–0. After Michie won frame three, Greene took the following two to hold a 4–1 advantage. Michie responded with breaks of 66 and 98 to force a final frame decider, which he won on a long-range pink ball shot for a 5–4 scoreline.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Davis overcame Hunter 5–4 in a tightly contested match lasting 3 hours, 32 minutes. Coming from 3–0 and 4–2 behind, Davis made breaks of 47, 105 and 52 to bring the game to a final frame decider. With one red ball left on the table in frame nine, Hunter missed it five times from a snookered position and Davis accrued 21 points in fouls from Hunter. Davis won the 47-minute frame and the match with a score of 85–40. McManus defeated Gray 5–3 in a match which Gray's highest break was 98. McManus came from 3–1 down to produce breaks of 76, 94 and 46 and won the eighth frame to progress into his 35th career semi-final.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Semi-finals
The semi-finals on 12 October were best-of-11 frames. Small reached the first major ranking final of his career when he defeated Michie 6–2. Small won the first four frames, which included a 41-minute frame two that Michie lost because of a tight battle on the pink ball. Small produced a break of 77 in the third.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Semi-finals
After the mid-session interval, Michie won frames five and six but breaks of 36, 37, 43 and 39 won the match for Small, who commented on his delight to reach the final, "When I was a youngster I watched the snooker on television and thought how great it must be to play in a major final. Now I've done it at last and I'm determined to enjoy it. It's a dream come true and I can't wait."


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Semi-finals
The other semi-final saw McManus reach his 15th career final with a 6–4 victory over Davis in a match that lasted almost five hours. McManus won three frames on the pink ball and made breaks of 78, 50 and 76 to win the match. A male spectator was ejected from the Preston Guild Hall during frame eight for audible snoring and it was twice restarted because of separate safety shot stalemates.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Semi-finals
After the game, McManus called it "one of the hardest matches of my life" after he did not pot a single ball because of extended table play from Davis, "Halfway through I felt like a couldn't pot a ball so I'm pleased to have got through. I think it will be a different game in the final because Chris goes for his shots. It's a big match for both of us."


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Final
The all-Scottish best-of-17 final happened on 13 October. McManus led 3–1 with successive breaks of 62 and 73. Small reduced McManus' lead by one frame with a half century break before McManus produced a 62 run to lead 4–2. Small produced a 69 break in frame seven and won the eighth to end the first session level at 4–4. When play resumed in the second session, a break of 62 from Small after McManus missed a mid-range red ball to a top corner pocket for the lead.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Final
More safety errors from McManus gave Small a chance to produce breaks of 47 and 27 in frame ten as the former did not record a single point in this period. McManus took the 11th frame after Small failed to pot the last red ball along the top cushion. Small took the next three frames to win the match 9–5. The match lasted 6 hours and 13 minutes. Aged 29 and a 150/1 outsider, he became the first non-top 16 ranked player to win a ranking tournament since O'Brien at the 1999 British Open.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Final
It transpired to be the only ranking event victory of Small's career having retired from professional snooker three years later as a result of his affliction. Small earned £82,500 for the win. Post-match, Small dedicated his victory to his grandmother who died three years prior, "I held her hand in hospital the day before she died and when she asked me to win a tournament for her one day, I promised her I would. Now I've done it, so I just hope she was up there looking down and watching my victory."


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Final
He also said it felt "like a dream", and would use the winnings to pay the mortgage on his house. McManus said he was pleased for Small and did not believe his game with Davis wore him out despite appearing visibly tired, "But from my point of view it was an anti-climax. It was not a great match but Chris was solid and if I left anything sticking out he knocked it in. But I'm delighted for him, he's a lovely lad and he deserves this victory after all he's been through."


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Tournament summary, Final
The victory, according to Phil Yates of The Times, made Small possibly, "one of the most unlikely winners of a leading competition for years" because of his reputation of being a journeyman and him requiring monthly injections to reduce the effect of his spinal condition.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Main draw
The numbers in the box to the left of the player is their seeding. Players listed in bold denote a match winner. The draw for the main competition is shown below.


2002 LG Cup (snooker), Main draw, Final
Scores in bold denote all winning frame scores and the winning finalist. Breaks over 50 are shown in brackets.


2002 LNBP season
The 2002 LNBP was the 3rd season of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, one of the professional basketball leagues of Mexico. It started on July 30, 2002 and ended on December 7, 2002. The league title was won by Correcaminos UAT Victoria, which defeated Correcaminos UAT Matamoros in the championship series, 4–3. Gallos de Pelea de Ciudad Juárez then defeated Correcaminos UAT Victoria in the Campeón de Campeones series, 4–0.


2002 LNBP season, Format
12 teams participate. The first 8 teams in the regular season standings qualify for the playoffs. The playoffs have quarterfinals (best-of-5), semifinals (best-of-7) and finals (best-of-7).


2002 LNBP season, Format
Since Gallos de Pelea de Ciudad Juárez had been absent from the playoffs due to scheduling conflicts, for this season a special additional playoff series named Campeón de Campeones (Champion of Champions) was played. After Correcaminos UAT Victoria had won the playoff final series against Correcaminos UAT Matamoros, 4–3, an additional series was played between Correcaminos UAT Victoria and Gallos de Pelea de Ciudad Juárez to name the league champion.


2002 LNBP season, Playoffs
The playoffs were played between November 5 and December 1, 2002. After the championship finals, an additional series named Campeón de Campeones was played, ending on December 7 with the Gallos de Pelea de Ciudad Juárez defeating Correcaminos UAT Victoria, 4–0.


2002 LNBP season, All-Star Game
In 2002, two All-Star Games were played. The first game was played in Monterrey on September 15 and was won by the Mexican team, 123–98. The second game was played on October 12, 2002 at the Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera in Mexico City, and saw the Mexican win, 102–88.


2002 LPGA Championship
The 2002 LPGA Championship was the 48th LPGA Championship, played June 6–9 at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware.


2002 LPGA Championship
Se Ri Pak, age 24, won the second of her three LPGA Championships, three strokes ahead of runner-up Beth Daniel, the 54-hole leader and champion in 1990. It was the fourth of Pak's five major titles; at the time, she was the youngest woman to win four major titles. Daniel, age 45, was attempting to become the oldest winner of a major in LPGA history, but carded a final round 77.


2002 LPGA Championship
Annika Sörenstam shot 65 to climb up the leaderboard into third; she won the next three editions of this championship.


2002 LPGA Championship
The DuPont Country Club hosted the LPGA Championship for eleven consecutive seasons, from 1994 through 2004.


2002 LPGA Tour
The 2002 LPGA Tour was the 53rd season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from February 28 to November 24. The season consisted of 32 official money events. Annika Sörenstam won the most tournaments, 11. She also led the money list with earnings of $2,863,904.


2002 LPGA Tour
The season saw the first tournament with a $3,000,000 purse, the U.S. Women's Open. There were three first-time winners in 2002: Laura Diaz, Cristie Kerr, and Patricia Meunier-Lebouc.


2002 LPGA Tour
The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.


2002 LPGA Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 2002 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.


2002 LSU Tigers football team
The 2002 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. Coached by Nick Saban, the Tigers played their home games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The defending SEC champion Tigers started out strong, but an injury to starting quarterback Matt Mauck hurt the team and they lost four of their final six games. The season is memorable because of the famous Bluegrass Miracle against the Kentucky Wildcats.


2002 La Flèche Wallonne
The 2002 La Flèche Wallonne was the 66th edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 17 April 2002. The race started in Charleroi and finished in Huy. The race was won by Mario Aerts of the Lotto team.


2002 La Paz floods
The Bolivian flood of 2002 was a disastrous flood in La Paz city that affected many places on February 19, 2002. Buildings collapsed and torrents of water raged through the streets destroying road surfaces and brick walls. The flash flooding caused at least 69 deaths and 150 people received treatment in city hospitals. It was one of the most of the decade terrible flood that affected La Paz city and the government financed the economic and natural losses.


2002 La Paz floods, Causes
The city of La Paz presents a very complex topography. One of the factors that caused the floods was the collapse of the Choqueyapu River, since due to its poor structure in one of its points, and because it is a channel through which wastewater passes, it collapsed during heavy rains. The structure that the city has is characterized by steep slopes and a geological substrate that alternates permeable and impermeable layers, favored the amplification of the accident. Another factor that could cause this insident was the high vulnerability of the city, with intense occupation of risk areas and that it has buildings and infrastructure poorly prepared to face situations like this. As a result of these events, residents have been under constant psychological pressure since the emergency.


2002 La Paz floods, Short term impact
The city of La Paz presents a very complex topography. One of the factors that caused the floods was the collapse of the Choqueyapu River, since due to its poor structure in one of its points, and because it is a channel through which wastewater passes, it collapsed during heavy rains.


2002 La Paz floods, Short term impact
The structure that the city has is characterized by steep slopes and a geological substrate that alternates permeable and impermeable layers, favored the amplification of the accident.


2002 La Paz floods, Short term impact
Another factor that could cause this insident was the high vulnerability of the city, with intense occupation of risk areas and that it has buildings and infrastructure poorly prepared to face situations like this. As a result of these events, residents have been under constant psychological pressure since the emergency.


2002 La Paz floods, Consequences
Lots of volunteers started joining the firefighters and the police efforts to relieve the extreme hail the city has received. Honda St. was considerably affected because the sewer system at that time couldn't withstand the 40cm of hail. As a result, the whole street and the neighboring buildings had to be reconstructed and a new sewer system was installed. Also, the street was leveled to prevent the effects of a future flood. [ 1]


2002 La Paz floods, Consequences
Lots of shops and street vendors lost their products. Official estimates point out that nearly 60 millions dollars were lost that day. Juan del Granado, mayor of La Paz, stated that relief efforts would go on for 10 days at least with 2000 workers deployed to help the many areas that were affected by the flood. [ 1]


2002 La Paz floods, Consequences
As a result of the flood, 200 families had to abandon their houses. However harsh, the flood didn't affect the whole city. Downtown and the south side of the city were the most affected, along with some north eastern areas of the city. [ 5]


2002 La Paz floods, Consequences
Street markets, such as Uyustus, and Max Paredes were severly affected by the flood.


2002 Labour Party (Netherlands) leadership election
The 2002 Labour Party leadership election was called to elect the new Leader of the Labour Party after incumbent Ad Melkert announced his retirement from national politics. Wouter Bos the former Undersecretary for Finance beat the former Speaker of the House of Representatives Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven, former Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Klaas de Vries and public administration professor Jouke de Vries.


2002 Labour Party (Netherlands) leadership election
Between 6 and 12 November 2002 the 60,000 members of the Dutch social-democratic Labour Party (PvdA) could vote for their preferred candidate for top candidate for the 2003 general election.


2002 Labour Party (Netherlands) leadership election
These elections were part of the reforms implemented by party chairperson Ruud Koole, after the 2002 elections. In addition to the top candidate for the elections to the House of Representatives, the top candidate for the Senate and leaders of the provincial councils were elected. All PvdA members could vote by mail or telephone.


2002 Labour Party (Netherlands) leadership election
The candidates for the election were Wouter Bos, former State Secretary for finance, the former President of the House of Representatives, Jeltsje van Nieuwenhoven, the former Minister of Home Affairs, Klaas de Vries and the Professor of public administration Jouke de Vries. The first three were member of the House of Representatives, while Jouke de Vries was an outsider candidate.


2002 Labour Party (Netherlands) leadership election
Wouter Bos was the first to announce his candidacy, just after the fall of the Second Balkenende cabinet. On 29 September 2002 Klaas de Vries announced his candidacy, claiming that the elections would be a sham if only Wouter Bos was a serious candidate. On 22 October, interim party-leader Jeltsje van Nieuwenhoven finally announced her candidacy.


2002 Labour Party (Netherlands) leadership election
The elections were won by a landslide by Wouter Bos. He won with 60% of the votes and a margin of 30%. 54% of the PvdA members voted.


2002 Labour Party (Netherlands) leadership election
Following the elections the PvdA made miraculous resurgence in the 2003 general elections, nearly doubling its seats and votes, this is partially credited to the charisma of Wouter Bos and the reform of the party under Ruud Koole


2002 Ladies European Tour
The 2002 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from January through December 2002. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).


2002 Ladies European Tour, Tournaments
The table below shows the 2002 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour.


2002 Lafayette Leopards football team
The 2002 Lafayette Leopards football team represented Lafayette College in the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The team was led by Frank Tavani, in his third season as head coach.


2002 Lafayette Leopards football team
The Leopards played their home games at Fisher Field in Easton, Pennsylvania. Most games were broadcast on the Lafayette Sports Network, or LSN.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion
The Lagos armoury explosion was the accidental detonation of a large stock of high explosives at a military storage facility in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, on 27 January 2002. The fires created by the debris from this explosion burnt down a large section of Northern Lagos, and created a panic that spread to other areas. As people fled the flames, many stumbled into a concealed canal and drowned. The explosion and its aftermath are believed to have killed at least 1,100 people and displaced over 20,000, with many thousands injured or homeless. The government of Nigeria launched an enquiry, which blamed the Nigerian Army for failing to properly maintain the base, or to decommission it when instructed to do so in 2001.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Explosion
Ikeja Cantonment was a large Nigerian Army living and storage area in the city of Lagos, situated north of the city centre near the districts of Isolo and Onigbongo. In January 2002, the base was being used to store a large quantity of "high calibre bombs", as well as other sundry explosives. On the afternoon of 27 January, a fire broke out in a street market being held next to the base, which was also home to the families of soldiers. At around 18:00 the fire apparently spread to the base's main munitions store, causing an enormous explosion.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Explosion
This blast killed many of the base staff and their families and immediately destroyed several nearby streets, flying debris starting numerous fires further afield. Tremors from the explosion also collapsed many buildings in the area, trapping people in the ruins and starting new fires from damaged cooking appliances. These tremors were so powerful that windows shattered 15 km away and the blast could be felt more than 50 km inland.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Explosion
Also thrown up by the blast were thousands of as yet unexploded military munitions, which fell in a rain of exploding shells, grenades and bullets casting further destruction across most of the northern section of the city. Thousands of people from Ikeja and neighbouring districts, seeing explosions and fires breaking out, fled their houses in an attempt to leave the affected areas. As the streets became more and more crowded, explosions amid the fleeing crowds from shells falling from the initial explosion created panic. A stampede developed as panicking people fled in all directions, trampling those who fell underfoot. Reports also describe people jumping from burning high-rise buildings and being killed in desperate attempts to cross the busy Ikeja dual carriageway.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Effect
In central Lagos there is a large canal, which runs from north to south parallel to the Isolo-Oshodi expressway through the centre of the city. It borders a banana plantation, which many refugees thought might be safe from the falling shells and spreading fires. However, the canal separated the plantation from the city and was covered by water hyacinth and thus invisible in the darkness. As the crowd surged towards the plantation, hundreds of panicking people fell into the water. Those on the bottom were crushed by yet more people falling into the waterway, and in the struggling confusion, at least 600 people were killed, many of them children. Many of these bodies drifted down the canal, some being found as far as ten kilometers from the explosion.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Effect
The affected areas of the city burned through most of the night, with explosions continuing to boil out of the wrecked armoury until the afternoon of 28 January. The emergency services were woefully inadequate to deal with the devastation, as there were not enough fire crews or water points available to cope with the fire, which consequently consumed large parts of the city's northern suburbs. City hospitals were also utterly overwhelmed, many injured going for hours without any medical attention even if they did manage to reach an undamaged medical facility. The military, too, having suffered the loss of many of its Lagos-based personnel in the initial explosion, was not in a position to assume control of the city and did not appear in large numbers until late on 28 January.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Effect
By the evening of 28 January, most of the fires were under control and people began returning to the city and attempting to find loved ones lost in the stampede. Many of the dead were children, separated from their families in the confusion and subsequently crushed in the crowds that filled the streets and canal. On top of the dead from the canal, several hundred people had died in the city itself: killed by falling munitions, trampled by the crowds, or trapped in the fires.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Aftermath
The final death toll is hard to compute, although the Red Cross claims that at least 1,000 bodies were recovered and a number of people were reported missing and never found. In addition to the dead, at least 5,000 people were injured in the disaster and over 12,000 left homeless, with entire districts of the city gutted. About 20,000 people had fled the city on the night of the explosion, and the survivors gradually returned over the course of the next week.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Aftermath
The Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in Ikeja on 28 January along with most senior city and national politicians, and he publicly demanded answers from the military as to why such a huge ammunition dump was kept in such a poorly maintained and public location. It later emerged that a small explosion had occurred at the base the previous year, following which the army was advised by city officials to remove or modernise the armoury, but took no action. On the evening of 28 January, George Emdin, the commander of the Ikeja base who had not been present during the explosion, issued a statement:


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Aftermath
"On behalf of the military, we are sorry, this is an old ammunition depot with high-calibre bombs ... some efforts were being made in the recent past to try to improve the storage facility, but this accident happened before the high authorities could do what was needed"


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Aftermath
This statement provoked fury from the people of Lagos, who claimed that the military was making excuses for their mistakes and that nothing would be done to improve safety at other neglected ammunition dumps, many of which have not been properly maintained since Nigeria gained democracy in 1999 following twenty years of military rule. There were widespread fears in the immediate aftermath of the explosion that it signified the beginning of a military coup, although the government later released a statement ruling out this possibility.


2002 Lagos armoury explosion, Aftermath
Numerous relief agencies, including the Red Cross and Red Crescent, provided aid to the thousands of homeless and lost people in the weeks following the disaster, attempting to reunite at least 2,000 separated or displaced families. People whose homes had survived were evacuated from Ikeja in order that military explosives experts could remove large quantities of unexploded munitions from the area. The evacuees and refugees were housed in temporary accommodation at the Ikeja Police College and the Abalti Barracks Yaba. The recovery process in Ikeja took some years as the rebuilding program was both lengthy and expensive, with many people suffering homelessness and poverty in this period due to the loss of their houses and livelihoods in the fire.


2002 Lambeth London Borough Council election
Elections to Lambeth London Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes reducing the number of councillors by one since the last election in 1998. The Labour party lost overall control of the council.


2002 Lambeth London Borough Council election
Following the election, the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives formed a coalition to run the council with Cllr Peter Truesdale, Liberal Democrat, as Leader and Cllr John Whelan, Conservative, as Deputy Leader.


2002 Lao League
In the 2002 Lao League, MCTPC FC (Ministry of Communication, Transportation, Post and Construction) won the championship, with Vientiane Municipality runners up.


2002 Laotian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Laos on 24 February 2002. The ruling Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) won all 109 seats in the National Assembly.


2002 Laotian parliamentary election, Campaign
A total of 166 candidates contested the 109 seats, of which 165 were members of the LPRP.


2002 Las Vegas Bowl
The 2002 SEGA Sports Las Vegas Bowl was the 11th edition of the annual college football bowl game. It featured the UCLA Bruins and the New Mexico Lobos. The Bruins defeated the Lobos, 27–13. Notably the game was the first Division I-A college football game to have a female player on the field, Katie Hnida. Also, UCLA coach Ed Kezirian was victorious in his one and only appearance as a head coach. This was the second year in a row for the Las Vegas Bowl to be held on Christmas day.


2002 Las Vegas Bowl, Game summary
UCLA scored first on a 49-yard field goal by Nate Fikse to take an early 3–0 lead. New Mexico's Desmar Black intercepted a UCLA pass, and returned it 55 yards for a touchdown. The extra point try was blocked, giving New Mexico a 6–3 lead. An interesting note from that game was that when New Mexico sent Katie Hnida out to kick the extra point, Katie became the first woman to play in a Division I-A college football game. Since the kick was blocked, UCLA was not the first team to be scored upon by a woman in a Division I-A game. Katie would later kick two extra points against Texas State University in the fourth quarter of a 72–8 New Mexico win on August 30, 2003.


2002 Las Vegas Bowl, Game summary
Nate Fikse's 39 yard field goal for the Bruins tied it in the second quarter, and the score remained 6–6 at halftime.


2002 Las Vegas Bowl, Game summary
2 minutes into the third quarter, UCLA's Craig Bragg scored on a 74-yard punt return giving UCLA a 13–6 lead. In the fourth quarter, UCLA's Jarrad Page intercepted a New Mexico pass, and returned it 29 yards for a touchdown, putting UCLA up 20–6. A 1-yard Tyler Ebell scored from 1 yard out, increasing the Bruins' lead to 27–6. New Mexico scored once more on an 11-yard touchdown pass from Casey Kelly to Joe Manning. Kenny Byrd kicked the extra point, making the final score 27–13.


2002 Las Vegas Bowl, UCLA head coach Ed Kezirian
Ed Kezirian was an offensive line coach under Terry Donahue and Bob Toledo. When Toledo was fired on December 10, 2002, Kezirian became the interim head coach for the game against the New Mexico Lobos in the Las Vegas Bowl on December 25, 2002. He was victorious in his only game as Bruin head coach; UCLA won 27–13.


2002 Las Vegas Bowl, Aftermath
After the game, Kezirian retired from coaching undefeated and was replaced by Karl Dorrell as the UCLA Bruins head coach. He remained on the staff to continue overseeing academics for the Bruins football team. When Karl Dorrell was fired in 2007, defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker took the interim coaching duty for the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl. The Bruins lost that game.


2002 Las Vegas Desert Classic
The 2002 Las Vegas Desert Classic was the inaugural staging of a darts tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. It featured the top players from the PDC along with an opportunity for players from North America to qualify. Over 200 players entered the event, but the last 16 featured mostly British-based players – the only exceptions being Roland Scholten and former World Champion John Part who participate regularly in UK tournaments.


2002 Las Vegas Desert Classic
The total prize fund was US$58,000 and Phil Taylor won the title beating Ronnie Baxter in the final.


2002 Latin Billboard Music Awards
The 9th annual Billboard Latin Music Awards, which honor the most popular albums, songs, and performers in Latin music, took place May 9 in Miami. Winners are determined by the actual sales and radio airplay data that informs Billboard's weekly charts, including Top Latin Albums, and radio charts, including Hot Latin Tracks, during a one-year period from the issue dated Feb. 17, 2001 through the Feb. 9, 2002, issue.


2002 Latvian Higher League
The 2002 season in the Latvian Higher League, named Virslīga, was the twelfth domestic competition since the Baltic nation gained independence from the Soviet Union on 6 September 1991. Eight teams competed in this edition, with Skonto FC claiming the title.


2002 Latvian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 5 October 2002. The New Era Party emerged as the largest party in the Saeima, winning 26 of the 100 seats.


2002 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath
Voters severely punished the previous governing parties, with the People's Party and For Fatherland and Freedom both losing seats, while Latvian Way lost all its MPs.


2002 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath
A new coalition government was formed by the New Era Party, Latvia's First Party, For Fatherland and Freedom and the Union of Greens and Farmers. This enjoyed a parliamentary majority of 55 of the 100 MPs. However, after two years For Fatherland and Freedom left the coalition and was replaced by the People's Party, who returned to government after a two-year absence.


2002 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 2002 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre.


2002 Laurence Olivier Awards, Productions with multiple nominations and awards
The following 23 productions, including three ballets and two operas, received multiple nominations:


2002 Leeds City Council election
The Leeds City Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough Council in West Yorkshire, England. Prior to the election, there had been several by-elections held with no change to the council composition. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


2002 Leeds City Council election, Campaign
33 seats were contested in the election with Labour defending 23 seats, the Conservatives 5, Liberal Democrats 4 and 1 independent. Among the candidates who stood in the election was, Mark Collett, the leader of the youth wing of the British National Party, who stood in Harehills ward.


2002 Leeds City Council election, Campaign
Among the issued raised in the election were disaffection with the national Labour government, a recent reversed decision by the council to close day car centres for the elderly, privatisation of services, investment levels in schools and council tax levels. Labour defended their record in control of the council, which they had run for the previous 22 years, in what was expected to be a hard-fought contest.


2002 Leeds City Council election, Election result
The results saw Labour maintain a majority on the council despite losing some seats to other parties. They lost 2 seats to the Conservatives in Aireborough and Otley and Wharfedale, 2 to the Liberal Democrats in Headingley and Rothwell, and one each to an Independent in Morley North and the Greens in Wortley. However Labour did gain one seat from the Liberal Democrats in Harehills and one in Hunslet from an Independent Socialist. As a result, they won 19 of the 33 seats contested meaning they had 57 of the 99 councillors on Leeds council. Overall turnout in the election was 30.64%.


2002 Leeds City Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:


2002 Leeward Islands Junior Championships in Athletics
The 2002 Leeward Islands Junior Championships in Athletics took place on June 1–2, 2002. The event was held at the A. O. Shirley Recreation Ground in Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. A detailed report was published.


2002 Leeward Islands Junior Championships in Athletics
A total of 42 events were contested, 22 by boys and 20 by girls.


2002 Leeward Islands Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners were published. Complete results can be found on the Nevis Amateur Athletic Association webpage.


2002 Leeward Islands Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 135 athletes from 6 countries participated.


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic
The 2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington, D.C. in the United States and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from August 12 through August 18, 2002.


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles
Wayne Black /  Kevin Ullyett defeated  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan 3–6, 6–3, 7–5


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Doubles
Martin Damm and David Prinosil were the defending champions but only Damm competed that year with Cyril Suk.


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Doubles
Damm and Suk lost in the semifinals to Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett.


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Doubles
Black and Ullyett won in the final 3–6, 6–3, 7–5 against Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Singles
Andy Roddick was the defending champion but lost in the third round to Fernando Meligeni.


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Singles
James Blake won in the final 1–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–4 against Paradorn Srichaphan.


2002 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


2002 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
The 2002 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Lehigh finished fourth in the Patriot League.


2002 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
In their second year under head coach Pete Lembo, the Mountain Hawks compiled an 8–4 record. Matt Salvaterra and Jeff Santacroce were the team captains.


2002 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
The Mountain Hawks outscored opponents 319 to 216. Their 4–3 conference record placed fourth out of eight in the Patriot League standings. The fourth-place finish broke a four-year streak of conference championships for Lehigh.


2002 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
Lehigh was ranked No. 6 in the preseason national Division I-AA poll, and remained ranked until the final game of the season. The Mountain Hawks' ranking peaked at No. 2 in the poll released September 10 (a bye week for Lehigh), but scattered losses throughout the year saw the team drop steadily. Following their rivalry loss to Lafayette, the Mountain Hawks were unranked in the season-ending poll, and did not participate in the national playoffs for the first time since 1997.


2002 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
Lehigh played its home games at Goodman Stadium on the university's Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


2002 Lesotho general election
General elections were held in Lesotho on 25 May 2002. The result was a victory for the Lesotho Congress for Democracy, which took over 50% of the vote and 77 of the 120 seats in the National Assembly. It was the first election held in Lesotho under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system, with 80 seats elected in first-past-the-post constituencies, and 40 using a proportional representation-based compensatory system. 554,386 of the 831,515 registered voters cast valid votes.


2002 Letran Knights men's basketball team
The 2002 Letran Knights men's basketball team represented Colegio de San Juan de Letran in the 78th season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the Philippines. The men's basketball tournament for the school year 2002-03 began on June 29, 2002, and the host school for the season was San Beda College.


2002 Letran Knights men's basketball team
This season marked the return of Louie Alas as head coach of the Knights after his stints in Manila Metrostars of the Metropolitan Basketball Association and the Mobiline Phone Pals of the Philippine Basketball Association. Louie Alas debuted with the Knights and won his first NCAA championship, giving Letran its 13th NCAA men's basketball title, back in 1998 before he went in the MBA.


2002 Letran Knights men's basketball team
The Knights finished the season at sixth place with 7 wins against 7 losses, missing the Final Four for three consecutive years since winning back-to-back titles in 1998 and 1999.


2002 Letran Knights men's basketball team, NCAA Season 78 games results
Elimination games were played in a double round-robin format. All games were aired on Studio 23.


2002 Lewisham London Borough Council election
Elections to Lewisham London Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 1998 election.


2002 Lewisham London Borough Council election
Lewisham local elections are held every four years, with the next due in 2006.


2002 Liberian Premier League, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Liberia Petroleum Refining Company Oilers won the championship.


2002 Liberty Bowl
The 2002 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played on December 31, 2002, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The 44th edition of the Liberty Bowl matched the TCU Horned Frogs and the Colorado State Rams. The game was sponsored by the Axa Equitable Life Insurance Company and was branded as the AXA Liberty Bowl. TCU won, 17–3; the game was TCU's 500th victory in program history.


2002 Liechtenstein referendums
Three referendums were held in Liechtenstein during 2002. The first two were held on 10 March on amending the constitution on sustainable transport and raising money for the "Little Big One" musical festival, both of which were rejected by voters. The third was held on 29 September on the law on land-use planning and was rejected by 74.3% of voters.


2002 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 2002 season was the club's 72nd year of existence, the 49th year in professional football, and the 41st in the top level of professional football in Ecuador.


2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division
The 2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division (also known as the Liga Bank Mandiri for sponsorship reasons) was the eighth season of the Liga Indonesia Premier Division, the top Indonesian professional league for association football clubs, since its formation in 1994. It began on 13 January and ended on 7 July. Petrokimia Putra won the title after beating Persita 3–2 in the final.


2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division, Top Goalscorer and Best Player
Ilham Jaya Kesuma (Persita Tangerang) - 26 goals, also the best player.


2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division Final
The 2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division Final was a football match that was played on 7 July 2002 at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta. It was contested by Persita Tangerang and Petrokimia Putra to determine the winner of the 2002 Liga Indonesia Premier Division. Petrokimia Putra won the match 2–1 thanks to a golden goal from Yao Eloii. With the result, Petrokimia Putra claim their first-ever professional title.


2002 Liga Perdana 1
The 2002 Liga Perdana 1 season is the fifth season of Liga Perdana 1. A total of 14 teams participated in the season.


2002 Liga Perdana 1
The season kicked off on January 19, 2002. Perak dominated the season and ended up winning the title. Perak's Muhamad Khalid Jamlus was the season's top goalscorer with 17 goals.


2002 Liga Perdana 1
A plus point was the surprisingly strong finish of club side Johor FC. At this time, the Football Association of Malaysia were trying to promote clubs as the future of Malaysian football.


2002 Liga Perdana 1, Teams
A total of 14 teams will participate in the 2002 Liga Perdana 1 season.


2002 Liga Perdana 2
The 2002 Liga Perdana 2 season is the fifth season of Liga Perdana 2. A total of 12 teams participated in the season.


2002 Liga Perdana 2
Johor was relegated from Liga Perdana 1 to join the Liga Perdana 2.


2002 Liga Perdana 2
The season kicked off on 27 January 2002. Kedah won the title and was promoted to Liga Perdana 1 alongside TM.


2002 Liga Perdana 2, Teams
12 teams competing in the fifth season of Liga Perdana 2.


2002 Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol
The 2002 Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol, or 2002 FIBA South American League, was the seventh edition of the top-tier tournament for basketball teams from South America. The tournament began on 20 February 2001 and finished on 1 May 2002. Argentine team Libertad won their first title, defeating Vasco da Gama in the Grand Finals.


2002 Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol, Format
Teams were split into four groups of four teams each, and played each other in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each group advanced to the final stage, a best-of-three direct playoff elimination in the quarterfinals and the semifinals, and a best-of-five elimination series in the Grand Finals, where the champion was decided.


2002 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano
The 2002 season of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano was the 45th season of top-tier football in Bolivia.


2002 Lima bombing
The 2002 Lima bombing was a car bomb attack in Lima, Peru that occurred just outside the embassy of the United States, killing nine people and injuring thirty-two. The blast came just three days prior to a visit to Peru from the United States President George W. Bush. No Americans were caught in the explosion. An estimated 30 kilograms (66 lb) of explosives was used in the attack.


2002 Lima bombing, Attack
The bomb was planted at a mall four blocks from the American embassy. A seven-floor hotel and a branch of the Banco de Crédito del Perú bank were damaged, but the embassy compound itself, sitting behind a 20 ft high wall and distant from the street, received no apparent damage. Two embassy security guards and one police officer were among the dead.


2002 Lima bombing, Attack
Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo said he will "not permit democracy to be undermined by terrorist attacks." The interior minister claimed that the attack will not stop Bush's scheduled visit to Lima to meet with Toledo and the leaders of Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador. A statement from the U.S. embassy said "We condemn the barbaric terrorist bombing this evening in the vicinity of our embassy in Lima." Minutes before leaving for Peru, Bush apparently said "You bet I'm going."


2002 Lima bombing, Responsibility
The United States suspected that guerillas from the left-wing Shining Path terror group perpetrated the attack. International terrorists groups including Al-Qaeda and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were also suspected. However the main suspicion lay on Shining Path. The group however never claimed responsibility, nor did the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), another terrorist group in the terrorist war that happened in Peru. An analyst claimed the attack may have been motivated against Bush's War on Terror.


2002 Lima bombing, Responsibility
The MRTA previously bombed the United States embassy in Lima on January 15, 1990. It was bombed again on July 27, 1993, this time by Shining Path. Four people were wounded in this attack.


2002 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 2002 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 108th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board.


2002 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
On 13 October 2002, Adare won the championship after a 0-14 to 0-12 defeat of Ahane in the final. It was their second championship title overall and their second title in succession.


2002 Lithuanian Athletics Championships
The 2002 Lithuanian Athletics Championships were held at the S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium in Kaunas on August 13 and August 14, 2002.


2002 Little League World Series
The 2002 Little League World Series took place between August 16 and August 25 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Valley Sports American Little League of Pleasure Ridge Park, a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, defeated Sendai Higashi Little League of Sendai, Japan, in the championship game of the 56th Little League World Series.


2002 Little League World Series
Notable players included 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Austin Dillon, a member of the Clemmons, North Carolina, Little League representing the Southeast region.


2002 Little League World Series, Qualification
Between five and twelve teams take part in 16 regional qualification tournaments, which vary in format depending on region. In the United States, the qualification tournaments are in the same format as the Little League World Series itself: a round-robin tournament followed by an elimination round to determine the regional champion.


2002 Little League World Series, Pool play
The top two teams in each pool move on to their respective semifinals. The winners of each met on August 25 to play for the Little League world championship.


2002 Little League World Series, Champions path
The Louisville Valley Sports American LL went undefeated on their road to the LLWS, winning all eleven of their matches. In total record was 17-0.


2002 Little League World Series qualification
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2002 Little League World Series qualification
Qualification for the 2002 Little League World Series took place in sixteen different parts of the world during July and August 2002, with formats and number of teams varying by region.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Asia
The tournament took place in Manila, Philippines from July 28–August 4.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Canada
The tournament was held in Lethbridge, Alberta from August 2–11.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Caribbean
The tournament took place in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands from July 26–August 4.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Europe, Middle East and Africa
The tournament took place in Kutno, Poland from July 4–14.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Great Lakes
The tournament took place in Indianapolis, Indiana from August 1–10.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Latin America
The tournament took place in Managua, Nicaragua from July 27–August 4.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Mexico
The tournament took place in Monterrey, Nuevo León from July 19–29.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Mid-Atlantic Region
The tournament took place in Bristol, Connecticut from August 3–13.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Midwest
The tournament took place in Indianapolis, Indiana from August 2–11.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, New England
The tournament was held in Bristol, Connecticut from August 3–12.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Northwest
The tournament was held in San Bernardino, California from August 2–12.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Pacific
The tournament took place in Manila, Philippines from July 28–August 4.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Southeast
The tournament took place in St. Petersburg, Florida from August 3–10.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Southwest
The tournament took place in Waco, Texas from August 5–11.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, Transatlantic
The tournament was held in Kutno, Poland from August 3–10.


2002 Little League World Series qualification, West
The tournament took place in San Bernardino, California from August 2–13.


2002 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council.


2002 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 2002 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 88th edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 21 April 2002. The race started in Liège and finished in Ans. The race was won by Paolo Bettini of the Mapei team.


2002 London Broncos season
The 2002 London Broncos season was the twenty-third in the club's history and their seventh season in the Super League. The club was coached by Tony Rea, competing in Super League VII and finishing in 8th place. The club also got to the fifth round of the Challenge Cup.


2002 London Broncos season, Super League VII table
Sources: Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


2002 London Broncos season, 2002 Challenge Cup
For the third consecutive year, the Broncos were knocked out of the cup at the fifth round stage.


2002 London Labour Party mayoral selection
The London Labour Party mayoral selection of 2002 was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of London, to stand in the 2004 mayoral election. Nicky Gavron, Deputy Mayor of London and London Assembly member for Enfield and Haringey, was selected to stand.


2002 London Labour Party mayoral selection
In the event, Gavron did not contest the Mayoral election - in 2004 she stood aside as the Labour candidate and incumbent Mayor Ken Livingstone was nominated as the new candidate following his readmission to the Labour Party. Livingstone went on to win re-election, appointing Gavron his Deputy.


2002 London Labour Party mayoral selection, Selection process
The Labour Party candidate for Mayor was elected by an electoral college composed half-and-half of the votes of Labour members in London and the votes of affiliated organisations.


2002 London Marathon
The 2002 London Marathon was the 22nd running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 14 April. The elite men's race was won by Khalid Khannouchi of the United States in a time of 2:05:38 hours and the women's race was won by home athlete Paula Radcliffe in 2:18:56. Khannouchi's time was a marathon world record, improving on his own record by four seconds. Radcliffe was also close to a world record, just nine seconds off the time set by Catherine Ndereba the previous year.


2002 London Marathon
In the wheelchair races, Britain's David Weir (1:39:44) and Britain's Tanni Grey-Thompson (2:22:51) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively.


2002 London Marathon
Around 99,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 46,083 had their applications accepted and 33,297 started the race. A total of 32,536 runners finished the race, comprising 24,768 men and 7768 women.


2002 London local elections
Local government elections took place in London, and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 2 May 2002. Ward changes took place in every borough, following a series of reviews and 32 statutory instruments which reduced the total number of councillors by 56 from 1,917 to 1,861.


2002 London local elections
All London borough council seats were up for election. The London Conservatives narrowly won the popular vote across the city by a margin of 871 votes, increased their number of councillors by 115 and won control of 4 more councils. However, London Labour won a plurality of council seats (866) and councils (15), though this was a decline from the 1,050 councillors and 18 councils they had won in 1998. It was the first time ever that a political party had won the most seats and councils in a London borough election whilst losing the London-wide popular vote.


2002 Long Beach, California mayoral election
The 2002 Long Beach, California mayoral election was held on April 9, 2002 and June 4, 2002 to elect the mayor of Long Beach, California. It saw the reelection of Beverly O'Neill to an unprecedented third term. O'Neill had to run as a write-in, as she was otherwise term limited. In the runoff she faced city councilman Dan Baker and write-in Norm Ryan.


2002 Los Angeles Dodgers season
The 2002 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 113rd for the franchise in Major League Baseball, and their 45th season in Los Angeles, California. The season saw Dan Evans take over as General Manager and in his first season the team won 92 games and was not eliminated from post season contention until the next-to-last day of the season, finishing third overall in the West Division of the National League. Shawn Green hit 42 home runs to become the first Dodger to have back-to-back 40 or more homer seasons.


2002 Los Angeles Dodgers season
He had four homers in one game on May 23 against the Milwaukee Brewers. He went 6-for-6 in that game and set a Major League mark for total bases with 19. The number broke the previous record of 18 total bases set by Joe Adcock. Éric Gagné, a former starter, was turned into the closer and proceeded to set a club record for saves with 52. This is also their first season to be broadcast on KCOP (13).