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

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The Women's 200 Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 – 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and semifinal^[2] heats swam on July 24, with the Final^[3] swum on July 25.

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

• WR: 2:22.99 swum by Hui Qi (China) on 13 April 2001 in Hangzhou, China.
• CR: 2:24.90 swum by Ágnes Kovács (Hungary) on 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			2:22.99	=WR
2			2:24.33	OC
3			2:25.78
4			2:26.35
5			2:26.38
6			2:26.72
7			2:28.55
8			2:29.20

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4			2:25.54	q
2	S2 L3			2:26.30	q
3	S2 L4			2:26.46	q
4	S2 L5			2:26.53	q
5	S1 L3			2:26.59	q
6	S1 L5			2:27.62	q
7	S2 L6			2:27.65	q
8	S1 L2			2:28.12	q
9	S2 L2			2:28.18
10	S2 L7			2:28.78
11	S1 L8			2:28.79
11	S1 L6			2:28.79
13	S1 L7			2:29.19
14	S2 L8			2:30.21
15	S1 L1			2:31.57
16	S2 L1			2:31.63

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H5 L4			2:27.91	q
2	H4 L4			2:27.95	q
3	H4 L3			2:28.34	q
4	H4 L5			2:28.58	q
5	H6 L4			2:28.74	q
6	H6 L5			2:28.79	q
7	H6 L6			2:28.90	q
8	H6 L2			2:28.97	q
9	H4 L6			2:29.74	q
10	H5 L6			2:29.79	q
11	H4 L7			2:29.84	q
12	H5 L5			2:30.41	q
13	H4 L1			2:30.71	q
14	H3 L4			2:31.37	q
15	H6 L1			2:31.41	q
16	H6 L3			2:31.42	q
17	H5 L2			2:31.89
18	H6 L7			2:32.44
19	H5 L7			2:32.82
20	H5 L8			2:33.31
21	H2 L5			2:34.14
22	H5 L3			2:35.03
23	H3 L3			2:35.42
24	H3 L2			2:35.94
25	H3 L1			2:36.48
26	H3 L7			2:36.69
27	H3 L5			2:36.77
28	H2 L3			2:36.96
29	H3 L6			2:37.59
30	H3 L8			2:38.04
31	H6 L8			2:38.81
32	H2 L4			2:42.05
33	H5 L1			2:43.72
34	H1 L5			2:44.99
35	H2 L6			2:46.00
36	H2 L8			2:47.50
37	H2 L7			2:51.79
38	H1 L3			2:52.72
39	H1 L4			2:56.42
40	H1 L6			2:57.51
41	H2 L2			2:58.67
42	H1 L2			3:02.93
43	H1 L7			3:07.03
-	H2 L1			DQ
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS

Notes and References

1. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Breast -- prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-22.
2. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Breast -- semis, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-22.
3. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Breast -- finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-22.