About the World YoYo Contest 2002
The 2002 World Yo-Yo Contest ran August 2-4, 2002 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, with Bob Rule as Grand Marshal. Divisions were Sport, A, AA, AP and X plus the World Top Contest and a Mod Contest. Yuuki Spencer won A over Hiroyuki Suzuki and Tomonari Ishiguro; Shinji Saito won AA over Yukihiro Suzuki and Koji Yokoyama, the first of his AA titles; Daisuke Shimada won X over Tsubasa Onishi; Takahiko Hasegawa won the new AP (Artistic Performance) division.