Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 200m Backstroke
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	24 July (prelims, semifinals) 25 July (final)
Win Value:	1 minute 55.92 seconds
Gold:	Aaron Peirsol
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Gordan Kožulj
Silvernoc:	CRO
Bronze:	Simon Dufour
Bronzenoc:	FRA
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

See main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships.

The Men's 200 Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 24–25, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats were on 24 July with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The Final^[3] swam on 25 July.

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

WR: 1:55.15 swum by Aaron Peirsol (USA) on March 22, 2002 in Minneapolis, USA
CR: 1:57.13 swum by Aaron Peirsol (USA) on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			1:55.92
2			1:57.47
3			1:57.90
4			1:57.92
5			1:57.94
6			1:58.07
7			1:58.66
8			1:58.96

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	1:55.82	q, CR
2	S2 L5	1:57.88	q
3	S1 L5	1:57.94	q
4	S1 L6	1:58.04	q
5	S1 L4	1:58.34	q
6	S1 L2	1:58.52	q
7	S2 L6	1:58.81	q
8	S1 L3	1:59.02	swim off
8	S1 L7	1:59.02	swim off, q
10	S2 L2	1:59.22
11	S2 L7	1:59.29
12	S2 L1	1:59.40
13	S2 L3	1:59.45
14	S2 L8	1:59.86
15	S1 L1	2:00.19
16	S1 L8	2:00.21

Swim-off for 8th

Blaz Medvesk (Slovenia) -- 1:58.61—q
Gregor Tait (Great Britain) -- 1:58.80

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	1:57.28	q
2	H6 L5	1:58.26	q
3	H8 L1	1:59.18	q
4	H7 L4	1:59.20	q
5	H8 L6	1:59.49	q
6	H8 L2	1:59.62	q
7	H8 L3	1:59.68	q
8	H7 L2	1:59.71	q
9	H7 L8	1:59.82	q
10	H8 L5	1:59.96	q
11	H7 L5	2:00.04	q
12	H6 L7	2:00.06	q
12	H8 L7	2:00.06	q
14	H7 L6	2:00.27	q
15	H7 L3	2:00.56	q
16	H6 L8	2:00.73	q

17	H5 L1	2:00.76
18	H6 L2	2:00.77
19	H4 L3	2:01.10
20	H5 L2	2:01.35
21	H6 L6	2:01.42
22	H5 L7	2:01.43
23	H6 L3	2:01.44
24	H7 L1	2:01.56
25	H6 L4	2:01.91
26	H5 L4	2:02.06
27	H6 L1	2:02.36
28	H5 L5	2:02.45
29	H4 L4	2:02.65
30	H8 L8	2:02.80
31	H7 L7	2:03.22
32	H5 L6	2:04.10
33	H5 L8	2:04.21
34	H3 L6	2:04.96
35	H5 L3	2:05.05
36	H4 L2	2:05.82
37	H4 L5	2:08.30
38	H3 L2	2:08.88
39	H3 L4	2:10.18
40	H4 L8	2:10.40
41	H3 L3	2:10.55
42	H2 L5	2:11.18
43	H3 L1	2:13.43
44	H4 L6	2:13.81
45	H4 L1	2:14.18
46	H4 L7	2:14.30
47	H3 L5	2:14.55
48	H2 L4	2:16.10
49	H2 L6	2:18.09
50	H3 L8	2:19.03
51	H2 L8	2:19.89
52	H2 L3	2:20.02
53	H2 L1	2:21.29
54	H1 L4	2:22.56
55	H2 L2	2:25.33
56	H1 L5	2:25.49
57	H1 L6	2:27.31
58	H1 L3	2:33.65
59	H1 L2	2:34.69
-	-	DNS

Notes and References

2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Preliminaries, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.