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

Event:	Men's 200m Breaststroke
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	23 July (prelims & semifinals) 24 July (final)
Win Value:	2 minutes 9.42 seconds
Gold:	Kosuke Kitajima
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Ian Edmond
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Brendan Hansen
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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

The Men's 200 Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 23–24, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats swam on 23 July, while the Final^[3] swam on 24 July.

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

• WR: 2:09.52 swum by Dmitri Komornikov (Russia) on June 14, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain
• CR: 2:10.69 swum by Brendan Hansen (USA) on July 26, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			2:09.42	WR
2			2:10.92
3			2:11.11
4			2:11.55
5			2:12.30
6			2:13.20
7			2:13.30
8			2:13.33

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4			2:09.73	q, CR
2	S1 L4			2:10.69	q
3	S1 L6			2:11.33	q
4	S2 L6			2:11.88	q
5	S2 L5			2:12.74	q
6	S2 L3			2:12.86	q
7	S1 L1			2:13.17	q
8	S1 L5			2:13.19	q
9	S2 L7			2:13.23
10	S2 L8			2:13.88
11	S1 L2			2:14.23
12	S2 L1			2:14.36
13	S1 L7			2:14.60
14	S1 L3			2:14.84
15	S2 L2			2:14.96
16	S1 L8			2:15.27

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4			2:10.66	q, CR
2	H9 L5			2:12.07	q
3	H9 L4			2:13.35	q
4	H9 L6			2:13.38	q
5	H7 L2			2:13.45	q
6	H8 L1			2:13.63	q
7	H9 L3			2:13.65	q
8	H7 L5			2:13.92	q
9	H9 L2			2:14.14	q
10	H8 L5			2:14.53	q
11	H7 L3			2:14.72	q
12	H8 L8			2:14.78	q
13	H7 L4			2:14.79	q
13	H8 L6			2:14.79	q
15	H9 L8			2:14.96	q
16	H6 L4			2:15.20	q
17	H9 L1			2:15.23
18	H8 L7			2:15.24
19	H7 L1			2:15.74
20	H8 L3			2:15.77
21	H7 L7			2:15.89
22	H6 L5			2:16.01
23	H9 L7			2:16.05
24	H7 L8			2:16.43
25	H6 L1			2:16.44
26	H6 L2			2:16.86
27	H6 L6			2:16.88
28	H6 L3			2:17.18
29	H5 L4			2:17.84
30	H4 L4			2:18.42
31	H4 L5			2:19.29
32	H5 L2			2:21.49
33	H3 L5			2:21.75
34	H5 L6			2:22.26
35	H4 L3			2:22.40
36	H4 L2	Hocine Haciane		2:22.51
37	H4 L1	Chi Kin Tam		2:22.94
38	H3 L4	Raphael Matthew Chua		2:24.25
39	H5 L8	Francisco Suriano		2:24.51
40	H5 L7	Maksim Shilov		2:24.67
41	H4 L8	Sergey Voytsekhovich		2:25.15
42	H4 L7	Álvaro Fortuny		2:26.14
43	H3 L3	Kevin Hensley		2:30.93
44	H2 L2	Youssef Hafdi		2:31.44
44	H3 L6	Marcos Burgos		2:31.44
46	H2 L6	Hei Meng Lao		2:31.90
47	H3 L7	Santiago Cavanagh		2:32.56
48	H2 L4	Grant Galant		2:34.05
49	H2 L5	Nam Nguyen Thanh		2:34.10
50	H3 L8	Baktash Gheidi		2:38.07
51	H2 L8	Chisela Kanchela		2:38.38
52	H2 L1	Joao Matias		2:39.21
53	H3 L1	Daniel Kang		2:41.51
54	H1 L5	Amar Shah		2:41.97
55	H2 L3	Chan Wai Ma		2:43.35
56	H2 L7	Iyad Houseya		2:55.75
-	H1 L3	Omar Jasim		DQ
-	H4 L6	Miguel Molina		DQ
-	H5 L5	Malick Fall		DQ
-	H5 L3	Haibo Wang		DQ
-	H5 L1	Vladimir Labzin		DQ
-	H6 L7	Sofiane Daid		DQ
-	H6 L8	Valeriy Dymo		DQ
-	H7 L6	Dave Denniston		DQ
-	H8 L2	Thijs van Valkengoed		DQ
-	-	Jean-Luc Razakarivony		DNS
-	-	Ahmed Ouattara Zie		DNS

Notes and References

1. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200 Breast -- prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2013-06-12.
2. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200 Breast -- semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2013-06-12.
3. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200 Breast -- final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2013-06-12.