Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The Men's 100 Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 21 – 22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary[1] and Semifinal[2] heats swam on July 21; the Final[3] was held on July 22.

Men's 100m Backstroke
at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates21 July (prelims, semifinals)
22 July (final)
Winning time53.61 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    United States
silver medal    Russia
silver medal    Australia
← 2001
2005 →

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

Results

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Final

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Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 Aaron Peirsol   USA 53.61 CR
2 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 53.92
2 Matt Welsh   Australia 53.92
4 Steffen Driesen   Germany 54.17
5 Markus Rogan   Austria 54.53
6 Tomomi Morita   Japan 54.86
7 László Cseh   Hungary 54.95
8 Alex Lim   Malaysia 55.18

Semifinals

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Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 S2 L5 Aaron Peirsol   USA 54.28 q, CR
2 S1 L4 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 54.49 q
3 S1 L1 Steffen Driesen   Germany 54.60 q
4 S2 L4 Matt Welsh   Australia 54.77 q
4 S2 L8 Alex Lim   Malaysia 54.77 q
6 S2 L2 Markus Rogan   Austria 55.11 q
7 S2 L3 László Cseh   Hungary 55.12 q
8 S1 L5 Tomomi Morita   Japan 55.17 q
9 S2 L6 Ouyang Kunpeng   China 55.21
10 S1 L3 Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia 55.30
11 S1 L7 Simon Dufour   France 55.31
12 S1 L8 Atsushi Nishikori   Japan 55.36
13 S2 L1 Răzvan Florea   Romania 55.42
14 S1 L2 Örn Arnarson   Iceland 55.67
15 S1 L6 Yoav Gath   Israel 55.71
16 S2 L7 Péter Horváth   Hungary 55.83

Preliminaries

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Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H12 L4 Matt Welsh   Australia 54.79 q
2 H10 L2 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 54.81 q
3 H11 L4 Aaron Peirsol   United States 54.99 q
4 H12 L6 Tomoni Morita   Japan 55.06 q
5 H11 L7 László Cseh   Hungary 55.11 q
6 H10 L8 Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia 55.28 q
7 H11 L1 Ouyang Kunpeng   China 55.29 q
8 H08 L4 Yoav Gath   Israel 55.41 q
9 H11 L5 Markus Rogan   Austria 55.42 q
10 H09 L8 Örn Arnarson   Iceland 55.47 q
10 H10 L3 Péter Horváth   Hungary 55.47 q
12 H11 L2 Simon Dufour   France 55.49 q
13 H09 L1 Răzvan Florea   Romania 55.56 q
13 H10 L5 Steffen Driesen   Germany 55.56 q
15 H11 L6 Alex Lim   Malaysia 55.62 q
16 H12 L5 Atsushi Nishikori   Japan 55.67 q
17 H10 L7 Riley Janes   Canada 55.76
18 H12 L8 Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa 55.80
19 H12 L3 Josh Watson   Australia 55.81
20 H09 L5 Karel Novy   Switzerland 55.82
21 H12 L1 David Ortega   Spain 55.85
22 H12 L7 Toni Helbig   Germany 55.90
23 H10 L6 Gordan Kožulj   Croatia 55.94
24 H09 L4 Ahmed Hussein   Egypt 55.95
25 H08 L2 Darius Grigalionis   Lithuania 56.00
26 H08 L7 Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea 56.06
27 H10 L1 Volodymyr Nikolaychuk   Ukraine 56.14
28 H09 L7 Cameron Gibson   New Zealand 56.22
29 H12 L2 Evgueni Alechine   Russia 56.31
30 H11 L3 Pierre Roger   France 56.34
31 H11 L8 Min Sung   South Korea 56.38
32 H07 L6 Pavel Suškov   Lithuania 56.42
33 H09 L2 Jorge Sánchez   Spain 56.44
34 H08 L6 Klaas Erik Zwering   Netherlands 56.58
35 H07 L4 Pavlo Illichov   Ukraine 56.60
36 H09 L3 Rui Yu   China 56.77
37 H09 L6 Paulo Machado   Brazil 57.01
38 H08 L3 Nuno Laurentino   Portugal 57.10
39 H08 L1 Flori Lang   Switzerland 57.12
40 H07 L7 Jens Petersson   Sweden 57.36
41 H07 L5 Keith Beavers   Canada 57.54
42 H07 L1 Martin Viilep   Estonia 57.69
42 H08 L5 Sander Ganzevles   Netherlands 57.69
44 H01 L6 Mattias Ohlin   Sweden 57.75
45 H08 L8 Gabriel Mangabeira   Brazil 58.08
46 H07 L3 Alexandr Ivlev   Moldova 58.53
47 H07 L2 Andrei Mihailov   Moldova 58.67
48 H07 L8 Nicholas Bovell   Trinidad and Tobago 59.42
49 H06 L4 Mauricio Prudencio   Bolivia 59.62
50 H06 L8 Jared Heine   Marshall Islands 1:00.13
51 H06 L3 Ashby Brendan   Zimbabwe 1:00.21
52 H06 L7 Yau Sun Fai   Hong Kong 1:00.87
53 H06 L2 Guillermo Andres Ramirez Lemis   Colombia 1:01.38
54 H06 L1 Gustavo Vera   Paraguay 1:01.44
55 H05 L4 Long Do Huy   Vietnam 1:02.06
56 H06 L5 Mikhail Alekseyev   Uzbekistan 1:02.38
57 H05 L1 Roberto Sanso   Costa Rica 1:02.40
58 H04 L3 Khaly Ciss   Senegal 1:02.49
59 H05 L5 Danil Bugakov   Uzbekistan 1:02.67
60 H05 L7 Mohammad Nazeri   Iran 1:02.75
61 H06 L6 Yury Zaharov   Kyrgyzstan 1:02.91
62 H04 L4 James Walsh   Philippines 1:03.72
63 H05 L3 Abed Rahman Kaaki   Lebanon 1:03.77
64 H05 L6 Oleg Deikrishvili   Georgia 1:03.84
65 H04 L5 Chi Lon Lei   Macau 1:03.86
66 H03 L5 Onan Thom   Guyana 1:03.91
67 H04 L6 Ammar Musaed Al Tamimi   United Arab Emirates 1:04.31
68 H04 L2 Omar Abu Faris   Jordan 1:04.45
69 H03 L6 Seung Gin Lee   Northern Mariana Islands 1:04.80
70 H05 L2 Olufolahan Oluwole   Nigeria 1:05.35
71 H04 L8 Kabir Walia   Kenya 1:05.50
72 H04 L1 Rubel Mohammad Rubel Rana   Bangladesh 1:05.62
73 H05 L8 Rony Bakale   Republic of the Congo 1:05.82
74 H03 L2 Nuno Rola   Angola 1:06.49
75 H02 L5 Patrick Boustany   Lebanon 1:07.14
76 H03 L3 Daniel Kang   Guam 1:07.92
77 H03 L4 Urnultsaikhan Ganbold   Mongolia 1:08.19
78 H03 L7 Sean Chow   Fiji 1:09.18
79 H02 L1 Muzeya Muzyamba   Zambia 1:10.71
80 H02 L6 Kin-Vincent Duenas   Guam 1:11.15
81 H01 L4 Peter James Linch   Zambia 1:12.30
82 H02 L2 Leonel Matonse   Mozambique 1:13.11
83 H02 L8 Mohammed S. Abbas   Iraq 1:13.75
84 H03 L8 Hadjamamed Hadjamamedov   Turkmenistan 1:14.23
- - Randall Bal   United States DQ
- - Landry H. Degnifo Enokorin   Ivory Coast DNS
- - Gibrilla Kanu   Sierra Leone DNS
- - Awsan Mohammede Saleh Qardaa   Yemen DNS
- - Hem Lumphar   Cambodia DNS

References

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  1. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100m Backstroke Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
  2. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100m Backstroke Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
  3. ^ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100m Backstroke Final Archived 2009-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.