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

Women's 200m Breaststroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	24 July (prelims, semifinals) 25 July (final)
Winning time	2 minute 22.99 seconds
Medalists
Amanda Beard    United States   Leisel Jones    Australia   Hui Qi    China
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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	Amanda Beard	USA	2:22.99	=WR
2	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:24.33
3	Hui Qi	China	2:25.78
4	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:26.35
5	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:26.38
6	Sarah Poewe	Germany	2:26.72
7	Masami Tanaka	Japan	2:28.55
8	Diana Remenyi	Hungary	2:29.20

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Amanda Beard	USA	2:25.54	q
2	S2 L3	Hui Qi	China	2:26.30	q
3	S2 L4	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:26.46	q
4	S2 L5	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:26.53	q
5	S1 L3	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:26.59	q
6	S1 L5	Masami Tanaka	Japan	2:27.62	q
7	S2 L6	Sarah Poewe	Germany	2:27.65	q
8	S1 L2	Diana Remenyi	Hungary	2:28.12	q
9	S2 L2	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	2:28.18
10	S2 L7	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	2:28.78
11	S1 L8	Nan Luo	China	2:28.79
11	S1 L6	Yuliya Pidslina	Ukraine	2:28.79
13	S1 L7	Kristy Kowal	USA	2:29.19
14	S2 L8	Lauren van Oosten	Canada	2:30.21
15	S1 L1	Ingrid Haiden	South Africa	2:31.57
16	S2 L1	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	2:31.63

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H5 L4	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:27.91	q
2	H4 L4	Amanda Beard	United States	2:27.95	q
3	H4 L3	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:28.34	q
4	H4 L5	Masami Tanaka	Japan	2:28.58	q
5	H6 L4	Hui Qi	China	2:28.74	q
6	H6 L5	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:28.79	q
7	H6 L6	Sarah Poewe	Germany	2:28.90	q
8	H6 L2	Yuliya Pidslina	Ukraine	2:28.97	q
9	H4 L6	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	2:29.74	q
10	H5 L6	Diana Remenyi	Hungary	2:29.79	q
11	H4 L7	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	2:29.84	q
12	H5 L5	Kristy Kowal	United States	2:30.41	q
13	H4 L1	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	2:30.71	q
14	H3 L4	Ingrid Haiden	South Africa	2:31.37	q
15	H6 L1	Lauren Van Oosten	Canada	2:31.41	q
16	H6 L3	Nan Luo	China	2:31.42	q
17	H5 L2	Sarah Katsoulis	Australia	2:31.89
18	H6 L7	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	2:32.44
19	H5 L7	Sara Farina	Italy	2:32.82
20	H5 L8	İlkay Dikmen	Turkey	2:33.31
21	H2 L5	Tamara Sambrailo	Slovenia	2:34.14
22	H5 L3	Emma Igelström	Sweden	2:35.03
23	H3 L3	Natalia Hissamutdinova	Estonia	2:35.42
24	H3 L2	Ramona Pedretti	Switzerland	2:35.94
25	H3 L1	Oleksandra Bogata	Ukraine	2:36.48
26	H3 L7	Barbara Ferreira	Portugal	2:36.69
27	H3 L5	Yi Ting Siow	Malaysia	2:36.77
28	H2 L3	Elisabeth Jarland	Norway	2:36.96
29	H3 L6	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	2:37.59
30	H3 L8	Íris Edda Heimisdóttir	Iceland	2:38.04
31	H6 L8	Agustina De Giovanni	Argentina	2:38.81
32	H2 L4	Carmela Schlegel	Switzerland	2:42.05
33	H5 L1	Salma Zeinhom	Egypt	2:43.72
34	H1 L5	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	2:44.99
35	H2 L6	Ka Lei Liu	Hong Kong	2:46.00
36	H2 L8	Sin Ian Lei	Macau	2:47.50
37	H2 L7	Magdalena Sutanto	Indonesia	2:51.79
38	H1 L3	Jamie Shufflebarger	Virgin Islands	2:52.72
39	H1 L4	Alessandra Cenni	San Marino	2:56.42
40	H1 L6	Éliane Droubry	Ivory Coast	2:57.51
41	H2 L2	Natalya Filina	Azerbaijan	2:58.67
42	H1 L2	Roshendra Vrolijk	Aruba	3:02.93
43	H1 L7	N. Ravojanahary	Madagascar	3:07.03
-	H2 L1	Valeria Silva	Peru	DQ
-	-	Jaime King	Great Britain	DNS
-	-	Smiljana Marinović	Croatia	DNS

References

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