Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

Main article: 2003 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming competition of the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships consisted of 40 long course (50m) events, swum July 20–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. 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.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m free	Alexander Popov   Russia	21.92 CR	Mark Foster   Great Britain	22.20	Pieter van den Hoogenband   Netherlands	22.29
100m free	Alexander Popov   Russia	48.42	Pieter van den Hoogenband   Netherlands	48.68	Ian Thorpe   Australia	48.77
200m free	Ian Thorpe   Australia	1:45.14	Pieter van den Hoogenband   Netherlands	1:46.43	Grant Hackett   Australia	1:46.85
400m free	Ian Thorpe   Australia	3:42.58	Grant Hackett   Australia	3:45.17	Dragoş Coman   Romania	3:46.87 NR
800m free	Grant Hackett   Australia	7:43.82	Larsen Jensen   USA	7:48.09 AM	Igor Chervynskyi   Ukraine	7:53.15 NR
1500m free	Grant Hackett   Australia	14:43.14	Igor Chervynskyi   Ukraine	15:01.04 NR	Erik Vendt   USA	15:01.28
50m back	Thomas Rupprath   Germany	24.80 WR	Matt Welsh   Australia	25.01	Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa	25.07
100m back	Aaron Peirsol   USA	53.61 CR	Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia Matt Welsh   Australia	53.92	not awarded
200m back	Aaron Peirsol   USA	1:55.92	Gordan Kožulj   Croatia	1:57.47 NR	Simon Dufour   France	1:57.90
50m breast	James Gibson   Great Britain	27.56	Oleg Lisogor   Ukraine	27.74	Mihály Flaskay   Hungary	27.79
100m breast	Kosuke Kitajima   Japan	59.78 WR	Brendan Hansen   USA	1:00.21	James Gibson   Great Britain	1:00.37
200m breast	Kosuke Kitajima   Japan	2:09.42 WR	Ian Edmond   Great Britain	2:10.92	Brendan Hansen   USA	2:11.11
50m fly	Matt Welsh   Australia	23.43 WR	Ian Crocker   USA	23.62	Yevgeny Korotyshkin   Russia	23.73
100m fly	Ian Crocker   USA	50.98 WR	Michael Phelps   USA	51.10	Andrei Serdinov   Ukraine	51.59 ER
200m fly	Michael Phelps   USA	1:54.35	Takashi Yamamoto   Japan	1:55.52	Tom Malchow   USA	1:55.66
200m IM	Michael Phelps   USA	1:56.04 WR	Ian Thorpe   Australia	1:59.66 OC	Massimiliano Rosolino   Italy	1:59.71
400m 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
50m free	Inge de Bruijn   Netherlands	24.47	Alice Mills   Australia	25.07	Libby Lenton   Australia	25.08
100m free	Hanna-Maria Seppälä   Finland	54.37	Jodie Henry   Australia	54.58	Jenny Thompson   USA	54.65
200m free	Alena Popchanka   Belarus	1:58.32	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	1:58.44	Yang Yu   China	1:58.54
400m free	Hannah Stockbauer   Germany	4:06.75	Éva Risztov   Hungary	4:07.24	Diana Munz   USA	4:07.67
800m free	Hannah Stockbauer   Germany	8:23.66 CR	Diana Munz   USA	8:24.19	Rebecca Cooke   Great Britain	8:28.45
1500m free	Hannah Stockbauer   Germany	16:00.18 CR, NR	Hayley Peirsol   USA	16:09.64	Jana Henke   Germany	16:10.13
50m back	Nina Zhivanevskaya   Spain	28.48 CR	Ilona Hlaváčková   Czech Republic	28.50	Noriko Inada   Japan	28.62
100m back	Antje Buschschulte   Germany	1:00.50	Louise Ørnstedt   Denmark Katy Sexton   Great Britain	1:00.86	not awarded
200m back	Katy Sexton   Great Britain	2:08.74	Margaret Hoelzer   USA	2:09.24	Stanislava Komarova   Russia	2:10.17
50m breast	Luo Xuejuan   China	30.67	Brooke Hanson   Australia	31.13	Zoë Baker   Great Britain	31.37
100m breast	Luo Xuejuan   China	1:06.80	Amanda Beard   USA	1:07.42	Leisel Jones   Australia	1:07.47
200m breast	Amanda Beard   USA	2:22.99 =WR	Leisel Jones   Australia	2:24.33 OC	Qi Hui   China	2:25.78
50m fly	Inge de Bruijn   Netherlands	25.84 CR	Jenny Thompson   USA	26.00	Anna-Karin Kammerling   Sweden	26.06
100m fly	Jenny Thompson   USA	57.96 CR	Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland	58.22	Martina Moravcová   Slovakia	58.24
200m fly	Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland	2:07.56	Éva Risztov   Hungary	2:07.68	Yuko Nakanishi   Japan	2:08.08
200m IM	Yana Klochkova   Ukraine	2:10.75	Alice Mills   Australia	2:12.75 OC	Zhou Yafei   China	2:12.92
400m 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