The 2002 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held October 16–20, 2002 at the Mandalay Bay Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The total prize money awarded was $381,000. A 2003 Cadillac Escalade was presented to the first-place winner by Mel Rich and Steve Stern of the Bodyonics Pinnacle company which donated the prize.[1] The Crowd was not happy when Gunter's position was announced at 5th.
| Place | Prize | Name | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $110,000 | Ronnie Coleman |  | 5 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 29[2] [3] | |
| 2 | $75,000 | Kevin Levrone | | 15 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 38 | |
| 3 | $50,000 | Chris Cormier | | 10 | 14 | 18 | 17 | 59 | |
| 4 | $40,000 | Dexter Jackson | | 22 | 20 | 25 | 26 | 93 | |
| 5 | $30,000 | Günter Schlierkamp |  | 51 | 28 | 17 | 17 | 113 | |
| 6 | $25,000 | Lee Priest |  | 42 | 29 | 28 | 28 | 127 | |
| 7 | $15,000 | Flex Wheeler | | 23 | 41 | 45 | 109 | ||
| 8 | $14,000 | Markus Rühl | | 43 | 37 | 36 | 116 | ||
| 9 | $12,000 | Orville Burke | | 37 | 37 | 55 | 129 | ||
| 10 | $10,000 | Dennis James | | 37 | 50 | 44 | 131 | ||
| 11 | Craig Titus | | 54 | 57 | 54 | 165 | |||
| 12 | Art Atwood | | 64 | 64 | 58 | 186 | |||
| 13 | Ahmad Haidar |  | 68 | 69 | 65 | 202 | |||
| 14 | Ernie Taylor |  | 75 | 63 | 69 | 207 | |||
| 15 | Nasser El Sonbaty | 71 | 78 | 73 | 222 | ||||
| 16 | Darrem Charles | 80 | 76 | 80 | 236 | ||||
| 17 | Shahriar Kamali | 69 | 91 | 80 | 240 | ||||
| 18 | Bob Cicherillo | | 94 | 86 | 80 | 260 | |||
| 19 | George Farah | | 97 | 98 | 80 | 275 | |||
| 20 | Francisco Bautista |  | 99 | 99 | 80 | 278 | |||
| 21 | Claude Groulx |  | 101 | 102 | 80 | 283 | |||
| 22 | Tommi Thorvildsen |  | 114 | 109 | 80 | 303 | |||
| 23 | Jaroslav Horvath |  | 113 | 116 | 80 | 309 | |||
| 24 | Gustavo Badell | 116 | 117 | 80 | 313 | ||||
| 25 | Don Youngblood | | 122 | 124 | 80 | 326 |