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

Event:	Men's 200m Freestyle
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	21 July (prelims, semifinals) 22 July (final)
Win Value:	1 minute 45.14 seconds
Gold:	Ian Thorpe
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Pieter v. d. Hoogenband
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Grant Hackett
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

The Men's 200 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats were on 21 July, while the Final^[3] swam on 22 July.

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

WR and CR: 1:44.06 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	1:46.32	q
2	S1 L4	1:47.20	q
3	S2 L6	1:47.72	q
4	S2 L3	1:48.66	q
5	S2 L8	1:48.84	q
6	S1 L8	1:48.92	q
7	S2 L5	1:49.23	q
8	S1 L7	1:49.23	q

9	S1 L6	1:49.52
10	S1 L3	1:49.64
11	S1 L5	1:49.76
12	S2 L7	1:49.85
13	S1 L1	1:49.98
14	S2 L1	1:50.59
15	S1 L2	1:50.66
16	S2 L2	1:51.69

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H12 L4	1:47.21	q
2	H13 L4	1:47.99	q
3	H12 L3	1:49.30	q
4	H12 L6	1:49.47	q
5	H12 L5	1:49.49	q
6	H08 L4	1:49.51	q
7	H11 L4	1:49.66	q
8	H13 L3	1:49.75	q
9	H11 L5	1:49.77	q
10	H10 L5	1:50.05	q
11	H13 L2	1:50.06	q
12	H11 L3	1:50.19	q
13	H10 L8	1:50.29	q
14	H12 L7	1:50.48	q
15	H11 L7	1:50.53	q
15	H11 L8	1:50.53	q

17	H12 L8	1:50.54
18	H10 L4	1:50.61
18	H11 L1	1:50.61
20	H11 L2	1:50.62
21	H12 L2	1:50.74
22	H13 L6	1:50.77
23	H13 L8	1:50.90
24	H09 L3	1:51.00
25	H13 L7	1:51.02
26	H09 L6	1:51.12
27	H10 L1	1:51.36
28	H09 L5	1:51.44
29	H12 L1	1:51.52
30	H11 L6	1:51.55
31	H13 L1	1:51.63
32	H09 L4	1:52.37
33	H10 L7	1:52.93
34	H09 L8	1:53.26
35	H09 L1	1:53.76
36	H08 L5	1:53.78
37	H08 L6	1:54.09
38	H10 L3	1:54.28
39	H07 L1	1:54.61
40	H10 L6	1:54.70
41	H07 L6	1:54.75
42	H07 L7	1:54.88
43	H08 L2	1:54.94
44	H05 L1	1:55.06
45	H07 L5	1:55.07
46	H06 L6	1:55.34
46	H08 L1	1:55.34
48	H08 L8	1:55.51
49	H06 L3	1:55.56
50	H06 L4	1:55.57
51	H09 L7	1:55.61
52	H06 L1	1:55.66
53	H05 L4	1:56.10
54	H05 L7	1:56.37
55	H06 L5	1:56.97
56	H07 L2	1:57.42
57	H08 L7	1:57.53
58	H07 L3	1:57.73
59	H05 L2	1:57.78
60	H06 L8	1:57.87
61	H05 L3	1:58.05
62	H07 L4	1:58.17
63	H07 L8	1:58.21
64	H05 L8	1:58.38
65	H05 L5	1:58.58
66	H05 L6	1:58.68
67	H04 L1	1:58.94
68	H06 L7	1:59.18
69	H04 L3	1:59.25
70	H06 L2	2:00.64
71	H03 L5	2:01.25
72	H02 L5	2:02.07
73	H03 L3	2:02.23
74	H04 L2	2:02.70
75	H04 L4	2:03.15
76	H04 L8	2:03.23
77	H03 L8	2:03.55
78	H03 L6	2:03.84
79	H03 L2	2:04.92
80	H03 L7	2:05.04
81	H04 L5	2:05.73
82	H03 L1	2:06.01
83	H03 L4	2:06.42
84	H04 L7	2:06.47
85	H04 L6	2:06.82
86	H09 L2	2:07.61
87	H02 L4	2:07.68
88	H02 L3	2:08.23
89	H02 L1	2:10.62
90	H02 L7	2:10.92
91	H02 L2	2:12.14
92	H01 L5	2:14.84
93	H01 L3	2:16.43
94	H01 L4	2:16.76
-	-	DQ
-	-	DQ
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS

Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-11.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-11.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-11.