Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 100m Backstroke
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates:	21 July (prelims + semis); 22 July (final)
Gold:	Antje Buschschulte
Goldnoc:	GER
Silver:	Louise Ørnstedt
Silvernoc:	DEN
Silver2:	Katy Sexton
Silvernoc2:	GBR
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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

The Women's 100m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 21, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals^[2] that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.^[3]

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

WR: 59.58 swum by Natalie Coughlin (USA) on August 13, 2002 in Fort Lauderdale, USA.
CR: 1:00.16 swum by Cihong He (China) on September 10, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			1:00.50
2			1:00.86
2			1:00.86
4			1:01.18
5			1:01.36
6			1:01.43
7			1:01.51
8			1:01.63

Seminfinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	1:00.61	q
2	S2 L5	1:00.74	q
3	S1 L3	1:01.32	q
4	S2 L6	1:01.39	q
5	S1 L5	1:01.42	q
6	S1 L4	1:01.47	q
7	S1 L2	1:01.59	q
8	S2 L2	1:01.61	q

9	S2 L3	1:01.64
10	S2 L1	1:01.78
11	S1 L7	1:02.42
12	S1 L8	1:02.47
12	S1 L6	1:02.47
14	S2 L7	1:02.80
15	S2 L8	1:03.08
16	S1 L1	1:03.19

Prelims

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Time	Notes
1	H6 L5		1:01.16	q
2	H7 L3		1:01.18	q
2	H8 L5		1:01.18	q
4	H6 L3		1:01.44	q
5	H6 L6		1:01.57	q
6	H7 L4		1:01.78	q
7	H6 L1		1:01.90	q
8	H6 L7		1:02.15	q
9	H6 L4		1:02.21	q
10	H7 L5		1:02.23	q
11	H7 L8		1:02.43	q
12	H7 L6		1:02.61	q
12	H8 L6		1:02.61	q
14	H6 L2		1:02.69	q
15	H7 L1		1:02.71	q
16	H8 L7		1:02.72	q

17	H1 L2		1:02.87
18	H7 L2		1:02.93
19	H8 L2		1:03.09
20	H8 L1		1:03.13
21	H5 L6		1:03.16
22	H8 L4		1:03.18
23	H7 L7		1:03.30
24	H6 L8		1:03.40
25	H8 L3		1:03.45
26	H8 L8		1:03.52
27	H5 L5		1:03.93
28	H5 L3		1:04.14
29	H5 L4		1:04.94
30	H5 L7		1:05.30
31	H5 L2		1:05.34
32	H5 L1		1:05.36
33	H4 L3		1:05.51
34	H3 L6		1:05.80
35	H4 L1		1:06.07
36	H5 L8		1:06.27
37	H4 L4		1:06.28
38	H4 L5		1:06.83
39	H1 L3		1:06.86
39	H4 L6		1:06.86
41	H3 L5		1:07.82
42	H4 L2		1:07.96
43	H3 L4		1:07.97
44	H4 L7		1:08.50
45	H3 L7		1:08.79
46	H4 L8		1:09.32
47	H3 L2		1:09.64
48	H3 L3		1:09.83
49	H3 L1		1:11.84
50	H2 L4	Olga Gnedovskaya	1:13.49
51	H2 L3		1:13.73
52	H2 L5		1:15.97
53	H2 L6		1:16.04
54	H2 L2		1:17.85
55	H2 L7		1:19.39
56	H3 L8		1:20.16
57	H2 L1		1:20.50
58	H1 L5		1:23.66
59	H1 L4		1:26.61
60	H1 L6		1:31.91
-	-		DNS

References

Notes and References

2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2014-05-02.
2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 100m Backstroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2014-05-02.
2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 100m Back - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-05-02.