Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 100m Breastroke
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	20 July (prelims & semifinals) 21 July (final)
Win Value:	59.78 seconds
Gold:	Kosuke Kitajima
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Brendan Hansen
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	James Gibson
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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

The Men's 100 Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 20–21 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats swam on 20 July, with the Final^[3] on 21 July.

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

WR & CR: 59.94 swum by Roman Sloudnov (Russia) on 23 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Time	Notes
1	59.78	WR
2	1:00.21
3	1:00.37
4	1:00.87
5	1:01.07
6	1:01.23
7	1:01.36
8	1:01.48

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	59.98	q
2	S1 L4	1:00.47	q
3	S1 L6	1:00.77	q
4	S2 L6	1:00.83	q
5	S1 L5	1:00.98	q
6	S2 L5	1:01.05	q
7	S1 L8	1:01.46	q
8	S2 L1	1:01.60	q

9	S1 L3	1:01.65	q
10	S2 L3	1:01.77	q
11	S2 L2	1:01.93	q
12	S1 L7	1:01.94	q
13	S1 L1	1:02.06	q
13	S2 L8	1:02.06	q
15	S1 L2	1:02.18	q
16	S2 L7	1:02.44	q

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Time	Notes
1	H13 L4		1:00.20	q
2	H13 L5		1:00.74	q
3	H11 L5		1:01.19	q
4	H12 L3		1:01.35	q
5	H11 L1		1:01.37	q
6	H11 L4		1:01.40	q
7	H12 L5		1:01.47	q
8	H12 L4		1:01.51	q
9	H11 L2		1:01.78	q
10	H11 L3		1:01.79	q
11	H09 L1		1:01.86	q
12	H13 L7		1:01.90	q
13	H13 L3		1:01.96	q
14	H12 L1		1:02.00	q
15	H11 L8		1:02.14	q
16	H09 L4		1:02.28	q

17	H13 L6		1:02.35
18	H11 L6		1:02.37
19	H10 L5		1:02.50
20	H12 L7		1:02.54
21	H12 L6		1:02.57
22	H09 L8		1:02.78
23	H10 L4		1:02.80
24	H09 L7		1:02.82
25	H11 L7		1:02.84
26	H10 L1		1:02.86
27	H13 L2		1:02.95
28	H10 L8		1:02.97
29	H08 L5		1:03.01
30	H10 L2		1:03.09
31	H08 L4		1:03.11
32	H09 L5		1:03.12
33	H13 L1		1:03.19
34	H08 L3		1:03.29
35	H09 L6		1:03.36
36	H13 L8		1:03.45
37	H09 L2		1:03.59
38	H12 L8		1:03.60
39	H08 L6		1:03.65
40	H09 L3		1:03.66
41	H10 L6		1:03.73
42	H07 L2		1:03.83
43	H10 L3		1:04.14
44	H08 L7		1:04.22
45	H10 L7		1:04.23
46	H07 L3		1:04.79
47	H08 L2		1:05.23
48	H07 L7		1:05.35
49	H02 L8		1:05.42
50	H06 L4		1:05.58
51	H07 L4		1:05.71
52	H06 L7		1:05.88
53	H06 L3		1:05.91
54	H08 L1		1:06.03
55	H06 L5		1:06.08
56	H07 L5		1:06.38
57	H06 L6		1:07.05
58	H05 L4		1:07.06
59	H06 L1		1:07.25
59	H07 L1		1:07.25
61	H05 L5		1:07.89
62	H07 L6		1:08.14
63	H05 L8		1:08.60
64	H05 L2		1:08.73
65	H04 L5		1:08.83
66	H05 L3		1:08.88
67	H05 L7		1:09.15
68	H06 L8		1:09.45
69	H04 L6		1:09.66
70	H04 L1		1:09.72
71	H06 L2		1:09.74
72	H04 L7		1:10.28
73	H04 L2		1:10.51
74	H05 L6		1:10.83
75	H03 L4		1:11.14
76	H03 L5		1:11.31
77	H03 L6		1:12.64
78	H05 L1		1:12.80
79	H04 L4		1:13.73
80	H02 L4		1:15.01
81	H03 L2	Alice Shrestha	1:16.49
82	H03 L8	Guvanch Ataniyazov	1:16.99
83	H02 L3	Peter James Linch	1:18.24
84	H02 L5	Issam Halawani	1:18.39
85	H04 L8	Iyad Houseya	1:20.34
86	H01 L3	Ronald Ying	1:21.41
87	H04 L3	Ganzi Mugula	1:21.76
88	H02 L6	Stephenson Wallace	1:23.56
89	H02 L2	Donnie Defreitas	1:24.51
90	H02 L1	Lamine Alhousseini	1:26.21
91	H02 L7	Dawson Grace	1:27.16
92	H01 L4	Joshua Marfleet	1:31.59
–	H03 L1	Enkhmandakh Khurlee	DQ
–	H08 L8	Juan José Madrigal	DQ
–	H12 L2	Makoto Yamashita	DQ
–	–	Mihail Alexandrov	DNS
–	–	Ahmed Ouattara Zie	DNS
–	–	Ben Traore	DNS
–	–	A.A. Romain Belemtougri	DNS

References

Swimrankings.net

Notes and References

Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100 Breast -- Prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-20; retrieve 2013-06-11.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100 Breast -- Semifinals. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-20; retrieve 2013-06-11.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 100 Breast -- Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-20; retrieve 2013-06-11.