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

Event:	Women's 100m Butterfly
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	20 July 2003 (prelims, semifinals) 21 July 2003 (final)
Gold:	Jenny Thompson
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Otylia Jędrzejczak
Silvernoc:	POL
Bronze:	Martina Moravcová
Bronzenoc:	SVK
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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The Women's 100m Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 20–21 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam in the morning session of 20 July, with the top-16 finishers advancing to semifinal^[2] heats that evening. The top-8 finishers from the Semifinals then advanced to swim again in the Final^[3] the next evening.

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

WR: 56.61 swum by Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) on September 17, 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
CR: 58.27 swum by Petria Thomas (Australia) on July 28, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Time	Notes
1	57.96	CR
2	58.22
3	58.24
4	58.90
5	59.08
6	59.14
7	59.32
8	59.63

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	57.99	q, CR
2	S1 L4	58.05	q
3	S2 L5	58.44	q
4	S1 L3	58.61	q
5	S1 L5	58.71	q
6	S2 L3	58.97	q
7	S2 L2	59.10	q
8	S2 L1	59.28	q

9	S1 L6	59.41
10	S2 L7	59.48
11	S1 L8	59.58
12	S2 L8	59.72
13	S1 L2	59.74
14	S1 L1	59.76
15	S1 L7	59.93
16	S2 L6	59.97

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H8 L5	58.14	q, CR
2	H6 L4	58.64	q
3	H7 L4	58.89	q
4	H7 L5	59.05	q
4	H8 L4	59.05	q
6	H6 L5	59.33	q
7	H6 L3	59.60	q
8	H7 L6	59.66	q
9	H8 L3	59.69	q
10	H8 L1	59.72	q
11	H6 L2	59.90	q
12	H6 L6	1:00.01	q
13	H7 L1	1:00.02	q
14	H7 L2	1:00.08	q
15	H7 L3	1:00.09	q
16	H7 L7	1:00.13	q

17	H6 L1	1:00.80
18	H6 L7	1:00.82
19	H8 L7	1:00.88
20	H8 L2	1:01.04
21	H8 L6	1:01.34
22	H8 L8	1:01.52
23	H5 L4	1:01.65
24	H5 L6	1:01.69
25	H5 L7	1:02.32
26	H6 L8	1:02.85
27	H1 L3	1:02.91
28	H4 L4	1:03.38
29	H5 L3	1:03.47
30	H3 L4	1:03.49
31	H5 L1	1:03.61
32	H4 L5	1:03.62
33	H5 L2	1:03.69
34	H4 L1	1:04.13
35	H5 L5	1:04.44
36	H5 L8	1:04.73
37	H4 L2	1:04.88
38	H3 L5	1:05.36
39	H4 L6	1:05.98
40	H3 L3	1:06.08
41	H3 L6	1:06.29
42	H4 L8	1:06.70
43	H3 L7	1:07.04
44	H2 L4	1:08.92
45	H3 L1	1:09.23
46	H2 L5	1:09.52
47	H3 L8	1:09.63
48	H3 L2	1:10.06
49	H2 L7	1:13.29
50	H2 L6	1:13.88
51	H1 L4	1:15.53
52	H2 L2	1:17.20
53	H1 L5	1:33.43
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS

Notes and References

Worlds 2003 results: Women's 100 Fly -- prelims. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-20; retrieved 2014-06-05.
Worlds 2003 results: Women's 100 Fly -- semis. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-20; retrieved 2014-06-05.
Worlds 2003 results: Women's 100 Fly -- final. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2014-06-05.