Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The Men's 200 Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 24–25, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary[1] and Semifinal[2] heats were on 24 July with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The Final[3] swam on 25 July.

Men's 200m Backstroke
at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates24 July (prelims, semifinals)
25 July (final)
Winning time1 minute 55.92 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    United States
silver medal    Croatia
bronze medal    France
← 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 1:55.92
2 Gordan Kožulj   Croatia 1:57.47
3 Simon Dufour   France 1:57.90
4 Bryce Hunt   USA 1:57.92
5 Matt Welsh   Australia 1:57.94
6 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 1:58.07
7 Răzvan Florea   Romania 1:58.66
8 Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia 1:58.96

Semifinals

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Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 S2 L4 Aaron Peirsol   USA 1:55.82 q, CR
2 S2 L5 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 1:57.88 q
3 S1 L5 Gordan Kožulj   Croatia 1:57.94 q
4 S1 L6 Bryce Hunt   USA 1:58.04 q
5 S1 L4 Matt Welsh   Australia 1:58.34 q
6 S1 L2 Răzvan Florea   Romania 1:58.52 q
7 S2 L6 Simon Dufour   France 1:58.81 q
8 S1 L3 Gregor Tait   Great Britain 1:59.02 swim off
8 S1 L7 Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia 1:59.02 swim off, q
10 S2 L2 Yoav Gath   Israel 1:59.22
11 S2 L7 Markus Rogan   Austria 1:59.29
12 S2 L1 Steffen Driesen   Germany 1:59.40
13 S2 L3 László Cseh   Hungary 1:59.45
14 S2 L8 Keith Beavers   Canada 1:59.86
15 S1 L1 Jorge Sánchez   Spain 2:00.19
16 S1 L8 Helge Meeuw   Germany 2:00.21

Swim-off for 8th

  1. Blaz Medvesk (Slovenia) -- 1:58.61—q
  2. Gregor Tait (Great Britain) -- 1:58.80

Preliminaries

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Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H8 L4 Aaron Peirsol   United States 1:57.28 q
2 H6 L5 Matt Welsh   Australia 1:58.26 q
3 H8 L1 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 1:59.18 q
4 H7 L4 Gordan Kožulj   Croatia 1:59.20 q
5 H8 L6 László Cseh   Hungary 1:59.49 q
6 H8 L2 Gregor Tait   Great Britain 1:59.62 q
7 H8 L3 Simon Dufour   France 1:59.68 q
8 H7 L2 Bryce Hunt   United States 1:59.71 q
9 H7 L8 Yoav Gath   Israel 1:59.82 q
10 H8 L5 Răzvan Florea   Romania 1:59.96 q
11 H7 L5 Markus Rogan   Austria 2:00.04 q
12 H6 L7 Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia 2:00.06 q
12 H8 L7 Steffen Driesen   Germany 2:00.06 q
14 H7 L6 Jorge Sánchez   Spain 2:00.27 q
15 H7 L3 Keith Beavers   Canada 2:00.56 q
16 H6 L8 Helge Meeuw   Germany 2:00.73 q
17 H5 L1 Anton Bugayov   Ukraine 2:00.76
18 H6 L2 Ray Hass   Australia 2:00.77
19 H4 L3 Tomomi Morita   Japan 2:01.10
20 H5 L2 Volodymyr Nikolaychuk   Ukraine 2:01.35
21 H6 L6 Evgueni Alechine   Russia 2:01.42
22 H5 L7 Alex Lim   Malaysia 2:01.43
23 H6 L3 Ouyang Kunpeng   China 2:01.44
24 H7 L1 Klaas Erik Zwering   Netherlands 2:01.56
25 H6 L4 James Goddard   Great Britain 2:01.91
26 H5 L4 Rogério Romero   Brazil 2:02.06
27 H6 L1 Cameron Gibson   New Zealand 2:02.36
28 H5 L5 Ahmed Hussein   Egypt 2:02.45
29 H4 L4 Pavel Suškov   Lithuania 2:02.65
30 H8 L8 Rui Yu   China 2:02.80
31 H7 L7 Viktor Bodrogi   Hungary 2:03.22
32 H5 L6 Min Sung   South Korea 2:04.10
33 H5 L8 Paulo Machado   Brazil 2:04.21
34 H3 L6 Květoslav Svoboda   Czech Republic 2:04.96
35 H5 L3 Sander Ganzevles   Netherlands 2:05.05
36 H4 L2 Martin Viilep   Estonia 2:05.82
37 H4 L5 Andrei Mihailov   Moldova 2:08.30
38 H3 L2 Jared Heine   Marshall Islands 2:08.88
39 H3 L4 Juan Carlo Antonio Piccio   Philippines 2:10.18
40 H4 L8 Ashby Brendan   Zimbabwe 2:10.40
41 H3 L3 Yau Sun Fai   Hong Kong 2:10.55
42 H2 L5 Kunakorn Yimsomruay   Thailand 2:11.18
43 H3 L1 Long Do Huy   Vietnam 2:13.43
44 H4 L6 Yury Zaharov   Kyrgyzstan 2:13.81
45 H4 L1 Guillermo Andres Ramirez Lemis   Colombia 2:14.18
46 H4 L7 Mauricio Prudencio   Bolivia 2:14.30
47 H3 L5 Mikhail Alekseyev   Uzbekistan 2:14.55
48 H2 L4 Oleg Deikrishvili   Georgia 2:16.10
49 H2 L6 Mohammad Nazeri   Iran 2:18.09
50 H3 L8 Rony Bakale   Republic of the Congo 2:19.03
51 H2 L8 Seung Gin Lee   Northern Mariana Islands 2:19.89
52 H2 L3 Omar Abu Faris   Jordan 2:20.02
53 H2 L1 Chi Lon Lei   Macau 2:21.29
54 H1 L4 Ammar Musaed Al Tamimi   United Arab Emirates 2:22.56
55 H2 L2 Nuno Rola   Angola 2:25.33
56 H1 L5 Kabir Walia   Kenya 2:25.49
57 H1 L6 Patrick Boustany   Lebanon 2:27.31
58 H1 L3 Clark Randrianandraina   Madagascar 2:33.65
59 H1 L2 Muzeya Muzyamba   Zambia 2:34.69
- - Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea DNS

References

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  1. ^ 2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Preliminaries, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
  2. ^ 2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
  3. ^ 2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Finals Archived 2009-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.