Each played just one match against each of the other teams (five for men's and four for women's). A team gained two points for a win, one point for a draw and no points for a loss. The team that gained the most points was awarded the gold medal.

Japan easily won the men's event by defeating all of the other teams and gaining ten points. Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

 easily won all its games until they lost the final game to Japan, garnering a total of eight points. China took third position after beating South Korea. Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 got fifth place and Mongolia

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

 got sixth place after losing all its games.

In women's ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

, Kazakhstan won all its games and the gold medal, in a league system with five teams playing. Japan won the silver medal, and China the bronze. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea took fourth place and the Republic of Korea was in fifth place.

Medal table

1		1	1	0	2
		1	1	0	2
3		0	0	2	2

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	2	2	0	0	54	0	+54	4
	2	1	0	1	24	17	+7	2
	2	0	0	2	2	63	−61	0

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	2	2	0	0	36	2	+34	4
	2	1	0	1	24	12	+12	2
	2	0	0	2	2	48	−46	0

Final round

5th place

Final standing

Rank	Nation
4
5
6

Women

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	4	3	1	0	26	4	+22	7
	4	3	0	1	33	8	+25	6
	4	2	1	1	43	4	+39	5
	4	1	0	3	14	17	-3	2
	4	0	0	4	1	80	−79	0

Final standing

Rank	Nation
4
5

External links

• The 5th Winter Asian Games AOMORI 2003