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

Event:	Men's 200m Individual Medley
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	24 July 2003 (prelims; semis) 25 July 2003 (final)
Win Value:	1 minute 56.04 seconds
Gold:	Michael Phelps
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Ian Thorpe
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Massimiliano Rosolino
Bronzenoc:	ITA
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

The Men's 200 Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24–25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats swam July 24; the Final^[3] was July 25.

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

WR: 1:57.94 swum by Michael Phelps (USA) on June 29, 2003 in Santa Clara, USA
CR: 1:58.16 swum by Jani Sievinen (Finland) on September 11, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Rank	Heat/Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	1:57.52	q, WR
2	S2 L5	1:59.84	q
3	S1 L4	1:59.86	q
4	S2 L6	2:00.29	q
5	S2 L8	2:00.42	q
6	S1 L7	2:00.98	q
7	S1 L5	2:01.04	q
8	S1 L6	2:01.08	q

9	S1 L2	2:01.58	NR
10	S2 L2	2:01.64
11	S1 L3	2:01.67
12	S2 L3	2:01.76
13	S2 L1	2:01.89
14	S1 L8	2:02.09
15	S1 L1	2:02.38
16	S2 L7	2:02.81

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H11 L4	1:59.71	q
2	H08 L5	2:00.94	q
3	H11 L5	2:01.24	q
4	H09 L3	2:01.43	q
5	H11 L2	2:01.90	q
6	H09 L1	2:02.01	q
7	H11 L3	2:02.02	q
8	H10 L4	2:02.10	q
9	H10 L2	2:02.19	q
10	H11 L8	2:02.26	q
11	H09 L5	2:02.32	q
12	H09 L6	2:02.37	q
13	H10 L7	2:02.50	q
14	H09 L8	2:02.54	q
14	H10 L5	2:02.54	q
16	H10 L6	2:02.61	q

17	H09 L4	2:02.66
18	H08 L8	2:02.67
19	H11 L1	2:02.68
20	H08 L4	2:02.82
21	H10 L3	2:02.83
22	H11 L7	2:02.89
23	H08 L3	2:02.90
24	H10 L1	2:02.92
25	H09 L7	2:03.23
26	H07 L3	2:03.77
27	H07 L2	2:04.13
28	H06 L4	2:04.36
29	H08 L2	2:04.46
30	H11 L6	2:04.73
31	H06 L5	2:04.85
32	H06 L6	2:05.17
33	H07 L4	2:05.28
34	H07 L5	2:05.47
35	H07 L1	2:05.64
36	H08 L6	2:05.66
37	H08 L7	2:05.68
38	H06 L2	2:06.53
39	H06 L3	2:06.95
40	H07 L7	2:07.33
41	H06 L7	2:07.54
42	H05 L6	2:07.65
43	H06 L1	2:07.84
44	H07 L6	2:07.90
45	H05 L2	2:09.82
46	H05 L4	2:10.25
47	H05 L1	2:11.05
48	H06 L8	2:11.15
49	H05 L7	2:11.31
50	H05 L8	2:11.86
51	H05 L3	2:11.87
52	H05 L5	2:11.88
53	H04 L4	2:11.97
54	H04 L6	2:12.75
55	H10 L8	2:14.05
56	H04 L3	2:14.80
57	H03 L3	2:14.81
58	H04 L1	2:14.92
59	H02 L4	2:15.74
60	H03 L2	2:15.86
61	H03 L5	2:16.56
62	H03 L8	2:16.91
63	H04 L7	2:17.02
64	H02 L5	2:17.10
65	H04 L2	2:17.22
66	H03 L4	2:18.65
67	H02 L7	2:18.77
68	H03 L6	2:20.29
69	H03 L7	2:20.56
70	H02 L3	2:24.61
71	H02 L1	2:24.81
72	H03 L1	2:25.12
73	H01 L6	2:27.33
74	H04 L5	2:29.15
75	H01 L4	2:30.84
76	H01 L5	2:31.15
77	H01 L3	2:32.18
78	H02 L6	2:40.79
-	H08 L1	DQ
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS

Worlds 2003 results: Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley -- prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
Worlds 2003 results: Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley -- semis, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.
Worlds 2003 results: Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley -- final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24.