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

Event:	Women's 100m Freestyle
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates:	24 July (prelims, semifinals) 25 July (final)
Win Value:	54.37 seconds
Gold:	Hanna-Maria Seppälä
Goldnoc:	FIN
Silver:	Jodie Henry
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Jenny Thompson
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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The Women's 100m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 24–25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and semifinal^[2] heats were swum on July 24; the Final^[3] swam in the evening session on July 25.

Prior to the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

WR: 53.77 swum by Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) on September 20, 2000, in Sydney, Australia
CR: 54.01 swum by Jingyi Le (China) on September 5, 1994, in Rome, Italy

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			54.37
2			54.58
3			54.65
4			54.79
5			54.82
6			54.86
7			54.91
8			55.17

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	54.48	q
2	S2 L3	54.78	q
3	S1 L4	54.81	q
4	S1 L3	54.92	q
5	S1 L5	55.00	q
6	S2 L5	55.04	q
7	S1 L6	55.13	q
8	S1 L2	55.20	q

9	S2 L6	55.23
10	S1 L7	55.63
11	S2 L2	55.80
12	S2 L7	56.04
13	S2 L1	56.10
14	S2 L8	56.17
15	S1 L1	56.48
16	S1 L8	56.50

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H11 L4	54.82	q
2	H12 L3	54.83	q
3	H11 L2	55.15	q
4	H11 L3	55.19	q
5	H10 L4	55.37	q
6	H10 L5	55.44	q
7	H11 L6	55.72	q, scratched
8	H10 L7	55.78	q
9	H12 L5	55.82	q
10	H11 L5	55.86	q
11	H12 L6	55.95	q
12	H10 L3	55.98	q, scratched
13	H12 L1	56.02	q
14	H09 L4	56.16	q
15	H10 L6	56.17	q, scratched
16	H12 L7	56.20	q

17	H10 L8	56.39
18	H08 L4	56.43
19	H09 L3	56.46
20	H09 L8	56.50
20	H10 L2	56.50
22	H10 L1	56.53
23	H09 L7	56.57
24	H09 L5	56.61
25	H09 L2	56.63
25	H11 L7	56.63
27	H09 L1	56.68
27	H12 L2	56.68
29	H08 L1	56.79
30	H12 L8	56.94
31	H12 L4	56.98
32	H08 L8	57.08
33	H01 L1	57.25
34	H08 L2	57.30
35	H08 L5	57.45
36	H09 L6	57.67
37	H08 L3	57.88
38	H07 L2	57.94
39	H07 L3	58.12
40	H07 L6	58.17
41	H07 L4	58.23
42	H07 L5	58.53
43	H07 L1	58.57
44	H06 L5	58.71
45	H07 L7	58.82
46	H06 L6	58.99
47	H05 L7	59.07
48	H05 L5	59.16
49	H05 L3	59.28
50	H06 L2	59.64
51	H06 L1	59.69
51	H06 L8	59.69
53	H05 L4	59.96
54	H04 L3	1:00.16
55	H06 L7	1:00.45
56	H06 L3	1:00.67
57	H04 L4	1:00.82
58	H05 L2	1:00.96
59	H05 L6	1:01.07
60	H06 L4	1:01.23
61	H05 L1	1:01.55
62	H04 L2	1:02.29
63	H04 L7	1:02.32
64	H01 L3	1:02.38
65	H03 L2	1:02.67
66	H04 L5	1:03.07
67	H04 L6	1:03.28
68	H04 L1	1:03.30
69	H03 L5	1:03.47
69	H03 L3	1:03.47
71	H04 L8	1:04.11
72	H03 L4	1:04.70
73	H03 L7	1:05.65
74	H02 L5	1:06.75
75	H02 L4	1:07.37
76	H02 L6	1:08.25
77	H03 L6	1:08.30
78	H01 L7	1:08.61
79	H01 L4	1:08.75
80	H02 L8	1:08.98
81	H03 L1	1:09.86
82	H02 L2	1:10.08
83	H02 L7	1:11.18
84	H01 L6	1:11.58
85	H02 L3	1:12.16
86	H01 L5	1:15.76
-	H03 L8	DQ
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS

Notes and References

Worlds 2003 results: Women's 100m Free - prelims. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2013-07-01.
Worlds 2003 results: Women's 100m Free - semis. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2013-07-01.
Worlds 2003 results: Women's 100m Free - final. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2013-07-01.