Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke

The Women's 50m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 23–24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 23, 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 50m Backstroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	23 July (prelims + semis); 24 July (final)
Medalists
Nina Zhivanevskaya    Spain   Ilona Hlavackova    Czech Republic   Noriko Inada    Japan

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

• WR: 28.25 swum by Sandra Völker (Germany) on June 17, 2000 in Berlin, Germany.
• CR: 28.48 swum by Natalie Coughlin (USA) on July 23, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	28.48	CR
2	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	28.50
3	Noriko Inada	Japan	28.62
4	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	28.65
5	Sandra Völker	Germany	28.69
6	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	28.93
7	Laure Manaudou	France	28.98
8	Haley Cope	USA	28.99

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	28.52	q
2	S2 L4	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	28.62	q
3	S2 L3	Sandra Völker	Germany	28.79	q
4	S1 L6	Haley Cope	USA	28.80	q
4	S2 L7	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	28.80	q
6	S2 L5	Noriko Inada	Japan	28.82	q
7	S1 L3	Laure Manaudou	France	28.86	q
8	S1 L5	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	28.91	q
9	S1 L8	Jiaru Cheng	China	28.94
10	S1 L2	Giaan Rooney	Australia	28.96
11	S2 L6	Mai Nakamura	Japan	29.03
12	S1 L7	Min Ji Shim	South Korea	29.05
13	S2 L2	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	29.20
14	S2 L8	Erin Gammel	Canada	29.25
15	S1 L1	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	29.36
16	S2 L1	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	29.64

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H9 L5	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	28.67	q
2	H9 L4	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	28.85	q
3	H9 L3	Noriko Inada	Japan	28.88	q
4	H7 L5	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	29.00	q
5	H8 L5	Sandra Völker	Germany	29.02	q
6	H8 L3	Laure Manaudou	France	29.05	q
7	H7 L4	Mai Nakamura	Japan	29.11	q
8	H9 L1	Haley Cope	United States	29.17	q
9	H7 L2	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	29.18	q
10	H9 L6	Giaan Rooney	Australia	29.25	q
11	H8 L4	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	29.26	q
12	H1 L5	Min Ji Shim	South Korea	29.41	q
13	H8 L8	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	29.43	q
14	H9 L7	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	29.45	q
15	H8 L2	Erin Gammel	Canada	29.46	q
15	H9 L8	Jiaru Cheng	China	29.46	q
17	H8 L1	Shu Zhan	China	29.47
18	H9 L2	Sophie Edington	Australia	29.49
19	H8 L7	Alessandra Cappa	Italy	29.54
20	H7 L1	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	29.60
21	H7 L7	Hinkelien Schreuder	Netherlands	29.61
22	H7 L3	Sarah Price	Great Britain	29.66
23	H6 L6	Margaret Hoelzer	United States	29.73
24	H8 L6	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	29.85
25	H1 L4	Sviatlana Khakhlova	Belarus	29.97
26	H7 L6	Tine Bossuyt	Belgium	30.06
27	H6 L4	Dominique Diezi	Switzerland	30.10
28	H6 L2	Susannah Moonan	Sweden	30.18
29	H6 L7	Sherry Tsai	Hong Kong	30.19
30	H7 L8	Serrana Fernández	Uruguay	30.20
31	H6 L5	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	30.54
32	H5 L3	Eirini Karastergiou	Greece	30.61
33	H5 L4	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	30.80
34	H5 L8	Anja Rikey Jakobsdóttir	Iceland	30.89
35	H6 L8	Talita Ribeiro	Brazil	30.90
36	H5 L6	Edith Van der Schilden	Luxembourg	31.11
37	H2 L2	Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila	Philippines	31.23
38	H5 L5	Danijela Djikanovic	Yugoslavia	31.29
39	H5 L1	Larissa Komt	Peru	31.41
40	H6 L1	Derya Erke	Turkey	31.42
41	H2 L6	Berit Aljand	Estonia	31.52
42	H5 L2	Saida Iskandarova	Uzbekistan	31.61
43	H5 L7	Ayeisha Collymore	Trinidad and Tobago	31.68
44	H6 L3	Marianella Marin	Costa Rica	31.92
45	H4 L5	Valeria Silva	Peru	32.33
46	H4 L4	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	32.48
47	H4 L6	Olga Gnedovskaya	Uzbekistan	33.82
47	H4 L7	Krystle Babao	Papua New Guinea	33.82
49	H2 L7	Nicole Hayes	Palau	34.37
50	H4 L3	Susan Anchia	Costa Rica	34.62
51	H3 L3	Monika Bakale	Republic of the Congo	35.09
52	H3 L8	Samera Bitar	Bahrain	35.31
53	H4 L1	Rubab Raza	Pakistan	35.75
54	H3 L6	Jakie Wellman	Zambia	36.14
55	H4 L2	Menaka de Silva	Sri Lanka	36.15
56	H3 L5	Helena Rojkova	Turkmenistan	36.32
57	H3 L2	Binta Zahra Diop	Senegal	36.36
58	H3 L1	N. Ravojanahary	Madagascar	37.75
59	H1 L3	Amber Yobech	Palau	37.84
60	H3 L4	Ghazal El Jobeili	Lebanon	37.87
61	H3 L7	Liana Ramerison Rabenja	Madagascar	38.09
62	H4 L8	Joana Gjini	Albania	38.55
63	H2 L5	Jumana Taraif	Bahrain	40.02
64	H2 L3	Mariyam Nafha Ali	Maldives	41.82
-	-	Elize Taua	Samoa	DNS

References

1. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2014-04-30.
2. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2014-04-30.
3. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Back - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2013-04-30.