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

The Women's 200m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 22–23 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary[1] and semifinal[2] heats swam on July 22, while the Final[3] swam on July 23.

Women's 200m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	22 July (prelims, semifinals) 23 July (final)
Winning time	1 minute 58.32 seconds
Medalists
Alena Popchanka    Belarus   Martina Moravcova    Slovakia   Yang Yu    China

Prior to the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 1:56.64 swum by Franziska van Almsick (Germany) on August 3, 2002 in Berlin, Germany
• CR: 1:56.78 swum by Franziska van Almsick (Germany) on September 6, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Alena Popchanka	Belarus	1:58.32
2	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	1:58.44
3	Yang Yu	China	1:58.54
4	Lindsay Benko	USA	1:58.84
5	Solenne Figuès	France	1:59.27
6	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	1:59.28
7	Elka Graham	Australia	1:59.46
8	Rhi Jeffrey	USA	1:59.81

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Lindsay Benko	USA	1:59.13	q
2	S1 L5	Elka Graham	Australia	1:59.37	q
3	S1 L3	Solenne Figuès	France	1:59.38	q
4	S2 L6	Alena Popchanka	Belarus	1:59.50	q
5	S1 L4	Yu Yang	China	1:59.51	q
6	S2 L5	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	1:59.62	q
7	S1 L2	Rhi Jeffrey	USA	1:59.76	q
8	S1 L6	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	1:59.79	q
9	S2 L1	Zoi Dimoschaki	Greece	1:59.93
10	S2 L7	Xu Yanwei	China	2:00.32
11	S1 L8	Karen Pickering	Great Britain	2:00.89
12	S2 L3	Melanie Marshall	Great Britain	2:01.05
13	S1 L1	Petra Dallmann	Germany	2:01.20
14	S2 L2	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	2:01.69
15	S1 L7	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	2:01.74
16	S2 L8	Kim Hyun-Joo	South Korea	2:01.88

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H7 L4	Lindsay Benko	United States	1:58.84	q
2	H9 L4	Yang Yu	China	2:00.32	q
3	H8 L6	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	2:00.33	q
4	H8 L5	Elka Graham	Australia	2:00.36	q
5	H7 L3	Melanie Marshall	Great Britain	2:00.41	q
6	H7 L5	Solenne Figuès	France	2:00.46	q
6	H8 L4	Alena Popchanka	Belarus	2:00.46	q
8	H9 L3	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	2:00.55	q
9	H7 L2	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	2:00.62	q
10	H9 L2	Rhi Jeffrey	United States	2:00.72	q
11	H9 L5	Xu Yanwei	China	2:00.82	q
12	H9 L8	Mariana Brochado	Brazil	2:01.17	q
13	H7 L6	Zoi Dimoschaki	Greece	2:01.28	q
13	H9 L6	Petra Dallmann	Germany	2:01.28	q
15	H7 L7	Kim Hyun-Joo	South Korea	2:01.50	q
16	H8 L3	Karen Pickering	Great Britain	2:01.57	q
17	H8 L2	Kirsten Thomson	Australia	2:01.78
18	H6 L6	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:02.21
19	H6 L5	Paulina Barzycka	Poland	2:02.25
20	H6 L1	Elina Partõka	Estonia	2:02.27
21	H8 L1	Monique Ferreira	Brazil	2:02.44
22	H9 L1	Alessa Ries	Germany	2:02.55
23	H8 L7	Julie Hjorth-Hansen	Denmark	2:02.56
24	H8 L8	Hanna Miluska	Switzerland	2:02.65
25	H6 L8	Petra Banović	Croatia	2:02.77
26	H6 L3	Ida Mattsson	Sweden	2:02.91
27	H6 L2	Polina Shornikova	Russia	2:02.92
28	H5 L2	Florencia Szigeti	Argentina	2:03.13
29	H9 L7	Alison Fitch	New Zealand	2:03.17
30	H7 L8	Daria Parshina	Russia	2:03.21
31	H5 L7	Nicole Zahnd	Switzerland	2:03.46
32	H6 L4	Nina Van Koeckhoven	Belgium	2:03.63
33	H5 L1	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	2:04.03
34	H5 L3	Vesna Stojanovska	Macedonia	2:04.09
35	H6 L7	Marianne Limpert	Canada	2:04.14
36	H5 L4	Melissa Corfe	South Africa	2:04.73
37	H5 L8	Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir	Iceland	2:04.90
38	H4 L3	Maria Albert	Estonia	2:05.40
39	H5 L6	Eleni Kosti	Greece	2:06.09
40	H4 L4	Agnese Ozoliņa	Latvia	2:07.13
41	H5 L5	Pilin Tachakittiranan	Thailand	2:07.18
42	H4 L5	Sze Hang Yu	Hong Kong	2:07.86
43	H3 L4	Lauren Roets	South Africa	2:08.99
44	H4 L1	Diana Lopez	Venezuela	2:09.68
45	H4 L2	Golda Marcus	El Salvador	2:10.39
46	H4 L7	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	2:10.66
47	H3 L7	Anna-Liza Mopio	Papua New Guinea	2:11.05
48	H3 L5	Yelena Skalinskaya	Kazakhstan	2:11.38
49	H4 L8	Johana Rodriguez	Costa Rica	2:11.61
50	H3 L3	Carolina Cerqueda	Andorra	2:11.97
51	H4 L6	Andrea de Leon	Uruguay	2:12.54
52	H2 L4	Ambica Iyengar	India	2:13.63
53	H3 L2	Magdalena Sutanto	Indonesia	2:14.35
54	H3 L6	Roberta Callus	Malta	2:14.72
55	H3 L8	Shrone Austin	Seychelles	2:15.47
56	H3 L1	Man Wai Fong	Macau	2:17.48
57	H2 L2	Jakie Wellman	Zambia	2:18.91
58	H2 L5	Roshendra Vrolijk	Aruba	2:20.42
59	H2 L6	Sade Daal	Suriname	2:22.26
60	H2 L7	Eva Donde	Kenya	2:26.69
61	H2 L3	Ghazal El Jobeili	Lebanon	2:31.83
62	H1 L5	Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana	Madagascar	2:36.40
63	H1 L3	N. Ravojanahary	Madagascar	2:40.12
-	-	Brittany Reimer	Canada	DNS
-	-	Genevieve Meledje Lasm Quissoh	Ivory Coast	DNS

References

1. Worlds 2003 results: Women's 200m Freestyle - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-07-11.
2. Worlds 2003 results: Women's 200m Freestyle - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-07-11.
3. Worlds 2003 results: Women's 200m Freestyle - finals. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-07-11.