Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships
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The Swimming competition of the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships consisted of 40 long course (50 m) events, swum July 20–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.[1][2] Swimming's 40 events were split evenly between males and females (20 each) and were:
- freestyle (free): 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500;
- backstroke (back): 50, 100 and 200;
- breaststroke (breast): 50, 100 and 200;
- butterfly (fly): 50, 100 and 200;
- Individual Medley (IM): 200 and 400; and
- relay: 4 × 100 and 4 × 200 freestyle, and 4 × 100 medley.
Participating nations
Event schedule
Results
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m free |
Alexander Popov  Russia | 21.92 CR |
Mark Foster  Great Britain | 22.20 | Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands | 22.29 |
| 100 m free |
Alexander Popov Russia | 48.42 | Pieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands | 48.68 | Ian Thorpe  Australia | 48.77 |
| 200 m free |
Ian Thorpe Australia | 1:45.14 | Pieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands | 1:46.43 | Grant Hackett Australia | 1:46.85 |
| 400 m free |
Ian Thorpe Australia | 3:42.58 | Grant Hackett Australia | 3:45.17 | Dragoş Coman  Romania | 3:46.87 NR |
| 800 m free |
Grant Hackett Australia | 7:43.82 | Larsen Jensen  USA | 7:48.09 AM |
Igor Chervynskyi  Ukraine | 7:53.15 NR |
| 1500 m free |
Grant Hackett Australia | 14:43.14 | Igor Chervynskyi Ukraine | 15:01.04 NR |
Erik Vendt USA | 15:01.28 |
| 50 m back |
Thomas Rupprath  Germany | 24.80 WR |
Matt Welsh Australia | 25.01 | Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa | 25.07 |
| 100 m back |
Aaron Peirsol USA | 53.61 CR |
Arkady Vyatchanin Russia Matt Welsh Australia | 53.92 | not awarded | |
| 200 m back |
Aaron Peirsol USA | 1:55.92 | Gordan Kožulj  Croatia | 1:57.47 NR |
Simon Dufour  France | 1:57.90 |
| 50 m breast |
James Gibson Great Britain | 27.56 | Oleg Lisogor Ukraine | 27.74 | Mihály Flaskay  Hungary | 27.79 |
| 100 m breast |
Kosuke Kitajima  Japan | 59.78 WR |
Brendan Hansen USA | 1:00.21 | James Gibson Great Britain | 1:00.37 |
| 200 m breast |
Kosuke Kitajima Japan | 2:09.42 WR |
Ian Edmond Great Britain | 2:10.92 | Brendan Hansen USA | 2:11.11 |
| 50 m fly |
Matt Welsh Australia | 23.43 WR |
Ian Crocker USA | 23.62 | Yevgeny Korotyshkin Russia | 23.73 |
| 100 m fly |
Ian Crocker USA | 50.98 WR |
Michael Phelps USA | 51.10 | Andrei Serdinov Ukraine | 51.59 ER |
| 200 m fly |
Michael Phelps USA | 1:54.35 | Takashi Yamamoto Japan | 1:55.52 | Tom Malchow USA | 1:55.66 |
| 200 m IM |
Michael Phelps USA | 1:56.04 WR |
Ian Thorpe Australia | 1:59.66 OC |
Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy | 1:59.71 |
| 400 m IM |
Michael Phelps USA | 4:09.09 WR |
László Cseh Hungary | 4:10.79 ER |
Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia | 4:15.36 AF |
| 4 × 100 m free relay |
Russia Andrei Kapralov Ivan Usov Denis Pimankov Alexander Popov | 3:14.06 CR, ER |
USA Scott Tucker Neil Walker Ryan Wochomurka Jason Lezak | 3:14.80 | France Romain Barnier Julien Sicot Fabien Gilot Frédérick Bousquet | 3:15.66 NR |
| 4 × 200 m free relay |
Australia Grant Hackett Craig Stevens Nicholas Sprenger Ian Thorpe | 7:08.58 | USA Michael Phelps Nate Dusing Aaron Peirsol Klete Keller | 7:10.26 AM |
Germany Johannes Oesterling Lars Conrad Stefan Herbst Christian Keller | 7:14.02 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay |
USA Aaron Peirsol Brendan Hansen Ian Crocker Jason Lezak | 3:31.54 WR |
Russia Arkady Vyatchanin Roman Ivanovski Igor Marchenko Alexander Popov | 3:34.72 ER |
Japan Tomomi Morita Kosuke Kitajima Takashi Yamamoto Daisuke Hosokawa | 3:36.12 AS |
Legend: WR – World Record; CR – Championship Record
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m free |
Inge de Bruijn Netherlands | 24.47 | Alice Mills Australia | 25.07 | Libby Lenton Australia | 25.08 |
| 100 m free |
Hanna-Maria Seppälä  Finland | 54.37 | Jodie Henry Australia | 54.58 | Jenny Thompson USA | 54.65 |
| 200 m free |
Alena Popchanka  Belarus | 1:58.32 | Martina Moravcová  Slovakia | 1:58.44 | Yang Yu  China | 1:58.54 |
| 400 m free |
Hannah Stockbauer Germany | 4:06.75 | Éva Risztov Hungary | 4:07.24 | Diana Munz USA | 4:07.67 |
| 800 m free |
Hannah Stockbauer Germany | 8:23.66 CR |
Diana Munz USA | 8:24.19 | Rebecca Cooke Great Britain | 8:28.45 |
| 1500 m free |
Hannah Stockbauer Germany | 16:00.18 CR, NR |
Hayley Peirsol USA | 16:09.64 | Jana Henke Germany | 16:10.13 |
| 50 m back |
Nina Zhivanevskaya  Spain | 28.48 CR |
Ilona Hlaváčková  Czech Republic | 28.50 | Noriko Inada Japan | 28.62 |
| 100 m back |
Antje Buschschulte Germany | 1:00.50 | Louise Ørnstedt  Denmark Katy Sexton Great Britain | 1:00.86 | not awarded | |
| 200 m back |
Katy Sexton Great Britain | 2:08.74 | Margaret Hoelzer USA | 2:09.24 | Stanislava Komarova Russia | 2:10.17 |
| 50 m breast |
Luo Xuejuan China | 30.67 | Brooke Hanson Australia | 31.13 | Zoë Baker Great Britain | 31.37 |
| 100 m breast |
Luo Xuejuan China | 1:06.80 | Amanda Beard USA | 1:07.42 | Leisel Jones Australia | 1:07.47 |
| 200 m breast |
Amanda Beard USA | 2:22.99 =WR |
Leisel Jones Australia | 2:24.33 OC |
Qi Hui China | 2:25.78 |
| 50 m fly |
Inge de Bruijn Netherlands | 25.84 CR |
Jenny Thompson USA | 26.00 | Anna-Karin Kammerling  Sweden | 26.06 |
| 100 m fly |
Jenny Thompson USA | 57.96 CR |
Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland | 58.22 | Martina Moravcová Slovakia | 58.24 |
| 200 m fly |
Otylia Jędrzejczak Poland | 2:07.56 | Éva Risztov Hungary | 2:07.68 | Yuko Nakanishi Japan | 2:08.08 |
| 200 m IM |
Yana Klochkova Ukraine | 2:10.75 | Alice Mills Australia | 2:12.75 OC |
Zhou Yafei China | 2:12.92 |
| 400 m IM |
Yana Klochkova Ukraine | 4:36.74 | Éva Risztov Hungary | 4:37.39 | Beatrice Câșlaru Romania | 4:41.86 |
| 4 × 100 m free relay |
USA Natalie Coughlin Lindsay Benko Rhi Jeffrey Jenny Thompson | 3:38.09 | Germany Petra Dallmann Katrin Meissner Antje Buschschulte Sandra Völker | 3:38.73 | Australia Libby Lenton Elka Graham Jodie Henry Alice Mills | 3:38.83 OC |
| 4 × 200 m free relay |
USA Lindsay Benko Rachel Komisarz Rhi Jeffrey Diana Munz | 7:55.70 CR, AM |
Australia Elka Graham Linda Mackenzie Kirsten Thomson Alice Mills | 7:58.42 OC |
China Zhou Yafei Xu Yanwei Pang Jiaying Yang Yu | 7:58.53 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay |
China Zhan Shu Luo Xuejuan Zhou Yafei Yang Yu | 3:59.89 CR, AS |
USA Natalie Coughlin Amanda Beard Jenny Thompson Lindsay Benko | 4:00.83 | Australia Giaan Rooney Leisel Jones Jessicah Schipper Jodie Henry | 4:01.37 |
Legend: WR – World Record; CR – Championship Record
Medal standings
* Host nation (Spain)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States (USA) | 11 | 12 | 5 | 28 |
| 2 | Australia (AUS) | 6 | 10 | 6 | 22 |
| 3 | Germany (GER) | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | China (CHN) | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Netherlands (NED) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 9 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Spain (ESP)* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 15 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 19 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 21 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tunisia (TUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (24 entries) | 40 | 42 | 38 | 120 | |