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

The Women's 200m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 25–26 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 25, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals[2] that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.[3]

Women's 200m Backstroke
at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
VenuePalau Sant Jordi
Dates25 July (prelims + semis);
26 July (final)
Medalists
gold medal    Great Britain
silver medal    United States
bronze medal    Russia
← 2001
2005 →

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

Results

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Final

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Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 Katy Sexton   Great Britain 2:08.74
2 Margaret Hoelzer   USA 2:09.24
3 Stanislava Komarova   Russia 2:10.17
4 Iryna Amshennikova   Ukraine 2:10.82
5 Hanae Ito   Japan 2:10.95
6 Jennifer Fratesi   Canada 2:12.53
7 Nicole Hetzer   Germany 2:12.82
8 Sarah Price   Great Britain 2:13.78

Semifinals

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Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 S2 L4 Stanislava Komarova   Russia 2:09.39 q
2 S2 L2 Katy Sexton   Great Britain 2:10.47 q
3 S1 L4 Iryna Amshennikova   Ukraine 2:11.08 q
4 S2 L6 Hanae Ito   Japan 2:11.13 q
5 S2 L5 Margaret Hoelzer   USA 2:11.38 q
6 S1 L3 Sarah Price   Great Britain 2:11.69 q
7 S1 L1 Nicole Hetzer   Germany 2:12.15 q
8 S1 L5 Jennifer Fratesi   Canada 2:12.36 q
9 S2 L3 Aya Terakawa   Japan 2:13.09
10 S1 L7 Hannah McLean   New Zealand 2:13.39
11 S1 L6 Alenka Kejžar   Slovenia 2:13.50
12 S2 L8 Anja Čarman   Slovenia 2:14.58
13 S2 L7 Louise Ørnstedt   Denmark 2:14.61
14 S1 L8 Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe 2:15.20
15 S2 L1 Sanja Jovanović   Croatia 2:15.43
16 S1 L2 Frances Adcock   Australia 2:15.49

Preliminaries

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Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H3 L4 Stanislava Komarova   Russia 2:10.98 q
2 H3 L3 Iryna Amshennikova   Ukraine 2:11.93 q
3 H4 L5 Margaret Hoelzer   United States 2:12.35 q
4 H5 L6 Jennifer Fratesi   Canada 2:12.72 q
5 H5 L3 Aya Terakawa   Japan 2:12.79 q
6 H5 L5 Sarah Price   Great Britain 2:12.82 q
7 H3 L5 Hanae Ito   Japan 2:13.01 q
8 H3 L6 Alenka Kejžar   Slovenia 2:13.32 q
9 H4 L4 Katy Sexton   Great Britain 2:13.57 q
10 H5 L1 Frances Adcock   Australia 2:13.78 q
11 H4 L3 Louise Ørnstedt   Denmark 2:14.37 q
12 H3 L7 Hannah McLean   New Zealand 2:14.38 q
13 H5 L7 Sanja Jovanović   Croatia 2:14.75 q
14 H4 L1 Nicole Hetzer   Germany 2:14.90 q
15 H4 L8 Anja Čarman   Slovenia 2:14.91 q
16 H4 L6 Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe 2:14.92 q
17 H3 L1 Melissa Corfe   South Africa 2:15.25
18 H4 L2 Elizabeth Warden   Canada 2:15.64
19 H5 L2 Shu Zhan   China 2:16.43
20 H4 L7 Zoe Tonks   Australia 2:16.53
21 H5 L8 Anna Gostomelsky   Israel 2:17.60
22 H3 L2 Xiujun Chen   China 2:18.06
23 H2 L4 Helen Norfolk   New Zealand 2:18.88
24 H2 L5 Sherry Tsai   Hong Kong 2:19.27
25 H3 L8 Derya Erke   Turkey 2:19.39
26 H2 L3 Inbal Levavi   Israel 2:19.47
27 H2 L6 Chonlathorn Vorathamrong   Thailand 2:20.33
28 H1 L1 Berit Aljand   Estonia 2:22.58
29 H2 L8 Valeria Silva   Peru 2:22.91
30 H2 L7 Edith Van der Schilden   Luxembourg 2:23.94
31 H2 L2 Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila   Philippines 2:24.72
32 H2 L1 Saida Iskandarova   Uzbekistan 2:25.52
33 H1 L3 Susan Anchia   Costa Rica 2:28.49
34 H1 L5 Khadija Ciss   Senegal 2:29.60
35 H1 L2 Ana Galindo   Honduras 2:35.71
36 H1 L6 Olga Gnedovskaya   Uzbekistan 2:39.72
37 H1 L7 Krystle Babao   Papua New Guinea 2:44.93
- - Natalie Coughlin   United States DNS
- - Talita Ribeiro   Brazil DNS

References

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  1. ^ 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Backstroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-25; retrieved 2014-05-07.
  2. ^ 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Backstroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-25; retrieved 2014-05-07.
  3. ^ 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Back - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2013-05-07.