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
 Katy Sexton   Great Britain
 Margaret Hoelzer   United States
 Stanislava Komarova   Russia
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 World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

  • WR: 2:06.62 swum by Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary) on August 25, 1991 in Athens, Greece.
  • CR: 2:07.40 swum by Cihong He (China) on September 11, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Final
PlaceSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1Katy Sexton Great Britain2:08.74
2Margaret Hoelzer USA2:09.24
2Stanislava Komarova Russia2:10.17
4Iryna Amshennikova Ukraine2:10.82
5Hanae Ito Japan2:10.95
6Jennifer Fratesi Canada2:12.53
7Nicole Hetzer Germany2:12.82
8Sarah Price Great Britain2:13.78

Semifinals
RankHeat + LaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1S2 L4Stanislava Komarova Russia2:09.39q
2S2 L2Katy Sexton Great Britain2:10.47q
3S1 L4Iryna Amshennikova Ukraine2:11.08q
4S2 L6Hanae Ito Japan2:11.13q
5S2 L5Margaret Hoelzer USA2:11.38q
6S1 L3Sarah Price Great Britain2:11.69q
7S1 L1Nicole Hetzer Germany2:12.15q
8S1 L5Jennifer Fratesi Canada2:12.36q
9S2 L3Aya Terakawa Japan2:13.09
10S1 L7Hannah McLean New Zealand2:13.39
11S1 L6Alenka Kejžar Slovakia2:13.50
12S2 L8Anja Čarman Slovakia2:14.58
12S2 L7Louise Ørnstedt Denmark2:14.61
14S1 L8Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe2:15.20
15S2 L1Sanja Jovanović Croatia2:15.43
16S1 L2Frances Adcock Australia2:15.49

Preliminaries
RankHeat+LaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
1H3 L4Stanislava Komarova  Russia2:10.98q
2H3 L3Iryna Amshennikova  Ukraine2:11.93q
3H4 L5Margaret Hoelzer  United States2:12.35q
4H5 L6Jennifer Fratesi  Canada2:12.72q
5H5 L3Aya Terakawa  Japan2:12.79q
6H5 L5Sarah Price  Great Britain2:12.82q
7H3 L5Hanae Ito  Japan2:13.01q
8H3 L6Alenka Kejžar  Slovenia2:13.32q
9H4 L4Katy Sexton  Great Britain2:13.57q
10H5 L1Frances Adcock  Australia2:13.78q
11H4 L3Louise Ørnstedt  Denmark2:14.37q
12H3 L7Hannah McLean  New Zealand2:14.38q
13H5 L7Sanja Jovanović  Croatia2:14.75q
14H4 L1Nicole Hetzer  Germany2:14.90q
15H4 L8Anja Čarman  Slovenia2:14.91q
16H4 L6Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe2:14.92q
17H3 L1Melissa Corfe  South Africa2:15.25
18H4 L2Elizabeth Warden  Canada2:15.64
19H5 L2Shu Zhan  China2:16.43
20H4 L7Zoe Tonks  Australia2:16.53
21H5 L8Anna Gostomelsky  Israel2:17.60
22H3 L2Xiujun Chen  China2:18.06
23H2 L4Helen Norfolk  New Zealand2:18.88
24H2 L5Sherry Tsai  Hong Kong2:19.27
25H3 L8Derya Erke  Turkey2:19.39
26H2 L3Inbal Levavi  Israel2:19.47
27H2 L6Chonlathorn Vorathamrong  Thailand2:20.33
28H1 L1Berit Aljand  Estonia2:22.58
29H2 L8Valeria Silva  Peru2:22.91
30H2 L7Edith Van der Schilden  Luxembourg2:23.94
31H2 L2Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila  Philippines2:24.72
32H2 L1Saida Iskandarova  Uzbekistan2:25.52
33H1 L3Susan Anchia  Costa Rica2:28.49
34H1 L5Khadija Ciss  Senegal2:29.60
35H1 L2Ana Galindo  Honduras2:35.71
36H1 L6Olga Gnedovskaya  Uzbekistan2:39.72
37H1 L7Krystle Babao  Papua New Guinea2:44.93
--Natalie Coughlin  United StatesDNS
--Talita Ribeiro  BrazilDNS

References
  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.


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