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
 Aaron Peirsol   United States
 Gordan Kožulj   Croatia
 Simon Dufour   France
2003 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
Synchronised
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
Open water swimming
5 kmmenwomen
10 kmmenwomen
25 kmmenwomen
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
Synchronised swimming
Solo
Freewomen
Duet
Freewomen
Team
Freewomen
Combinationwomen
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen
Main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

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

Results

Final
PlaceSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1Aaron Peirsol USA1:55.92
2Gordan Kožulj Croatia1:57.47
3Simon Dufour France1:57.90
4Bryce Hunt USA1:57.92
5Matt Welsh Australia1:57.94
6Arkady Vyatchanin Russia1:58.07
7Răzvan Florea Romania1:58.66
8Blaž Medvešek Slovenia1:58.96

Semifinals
RankHeat + LaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1S2 L4Aaron Peirsol USA1:55.82q, CR
2S2 L5Arkady Vyatchanin Russia1:57.88q
3S1 L5Gordan Kožulj Croatia1:57.94q
4S1 L6Bryce Hunt USA1:58.04q
5S1 L4Matt Welsh Australia1:58.34q
6S1 L2Răzvan Florea Romania1:58.52q
7S2 L6Simon Dufour France1:58.81q
8S1 L3Gregor Tait Great Britain1:59.02swim off
8S1 L7Blaž Medvešek Slovenia1:59.02swim off, q
10S2 L2Yoav Gath Israel1:59.22
11S2 L7Markus Rogan Austria1:59.29
12S2 L1Steffen Driesen Germany1:59.40
13S2 L3László Cseh Hungary1:59.45
14S2 L8Keith Beavers Canada1:59.86
15S1 L1Jorge Sánchez Spain2:00.19
16S1 L8Helge Meeuw Germany2:00.21

Swim-off for 8th

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

Preliminaries
RankHeat+LaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1H8 L4Aaron Peirsol  United States1:57.28q
2H6 L5Matt Welsh  Australia1:58.26q
3H8 L1Arkady Vyatchanin  Russia1:59.18q
4H7 L4Gordan Kožulj  Croatia1:59.20q
5H8 L6László Cseh  Hungary1:59.49q
6H8 L2Gregor Tait  Great Britain1:59.62q
7H8 L3Simon Dufour  France1:59.68q
8H7 L2Bryce Hunt  United States1:59.71q
9H7 L8Yoav Gath  Israel1:59.82q
10H8 L5Răzvan Florea  Romania1:59.96q
11H7 L5Markus Rogan  Austria2:00.04q
12H6 L7Blaž Medvešek  Slovenia2:00.06q
12H8 L7Steffen Driesen  Germany2:00.06q
14H7 L6Jorge Sánchez  Spain2:00.27q
15H7 L3Keith Beavers  Canada2:00.56q
16H6 L8Helge Meeuw  Germany2:00.73q
17H5 L1Anton Bugayov  Ukraine2:00.76
18H6 L2Ray Hass  Australia2:00.77
19H4 L3Tomomi Morita  Japan2:01.10
20H5 L2Volodymyr Nikolaychuk  Ukraine2:01.35
21H6 L6Evgueni Alechine  Russia2:01.42
22H5 L7Alex Lim  Malaysia2:01.43
23H6 L3Ouyang Kunpeng  China2:01.44
24H7 L1Klaas Erik Zwering  Netherlands2:01.56
25H6 L4James Goddard  Great Britain2:01.91
26H5 L4Rogério Romero  Brazil2:02.06
27H6 L1Cameron Gibson  New Zealand2:02.36
28H5 L5Ahmed Hussein  Egypt2:02.45
29H4 L4Pavel Suškov  Lithuania2:02.65
30H8 L8Rui Yu  China2:02.80
31H7 L7Viktor Bodrogi  Hungary2:03.22
32H5 L6Min Sung  South Korea2:04.10
33H5 L8Paulo Machado  Brazil2:04.21
34H3 L6Květoslav Svoboda  Czech Republic2:04.96
35H5 L3Sander Ganzevles  Netherlands2:05.05
36H4 L2Martin Viilep  Estonia2:05.82
37H4 L5Andrei Mihailov  Moldova2:08.30
38H3 L2Jared Heine  Marshall Islands2:08.88
39H3 L4Juan Carlo Antonio Piccio  Philippines2:10.18
40H4 L8Ashby Brendan  Zimbabwe2:10.40
41H3 L3Yau Sun Fai  Hong Kong2:10.55
42H2 L5Kunakorn Yimsomruay  Thailand2:11.18
43H3 L1Long Do Huy  Vietnam2:13.43
44H4 L6Yury Zaharov  Kyrgyzstan2:13.81
45H4 L1Guillermo Andres Ramirez Lemis  Colombia2:14.18
46H4 L7Mauricio Prudencio  Bolivia2:14.30
47H3 L5Mikhail Alekseyev  Uzbekistan2:14.55
48H2 L4Oleg Deikrishvili  Georgia2:16.10
49H2 L6Mohammad Nazeri  Iran2:18.09
50H3 L8Rony Bakale  Republic of the Congo2:19.03
51H2 L8Seung Gin Lee  Northern Mariana Islands2:19.89
52H2 L3Omar Abu Faris  Jordan2:20.02
53H2 L1Chi Lon Lei  Macau2:21.29
54H1 L4Ammar Musaed Al Tamimi  United Arab Emirates2:22.56
55H2 L2Nuno Rola  Angola2:25.33
56H1 L5Kabir Walia  Kenya2:25.49
57H1 L6Patrick Boustany  Lebanon2:27.31
58H1 L3Clark Randrianandraina  Madagascar2:33.65
59H1 L2Muzeya Muzyamba  Zambia2:34.69
--Ryan Pini  Papua New GuineaDNS

References
  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.
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