Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 200m Butterfly
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	23 July 2003 (prelims, semifinals) 24 July 2003 (final)
Gold:	Otylia Jędrzejczak
Goldnoc:	POL
Silver:	Eva Risztov
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Yuko Nakanishi
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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The Women's 200m Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 23–24 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: 2:05.78 swum by Otylia Jędrzejczak (Poland) on August 4, 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
CR: 2:06.73 swum by Petria Thomas (Australia) on July 23, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			2:07.56
2			2:07.68
3			2:08.08
4			2:08.38
5			2:09.49
6			2:09.61
7			2:10.58
8			2:12.89

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L5	2:08.42	q
2	S2 L4	2:08.71	q
3	S1 L4	2:08.88	q
4	S2 L3	2:09.41	q
5	S1 L6	2:10.72	q
6	S1 L3	2:10.98	q
7	S1 L4	2:10.99	q
8	S2 L6	2:11.42	q

9	S2 L8	2:12.02
10	S1 L7	2:12.28
11	S2 L7	2:12.49
12	S2 L2	2:12.56
13	S2 L1	2:12.74
14	S1 L2	2:12.76
14	S1 L1	2:12.76
16	S1 L8	2:13.96

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H4 L5	2:09.08	q
2	H5 L4	2:09.32	q
3	H6 L4	2:10.30	q
4	H6 L7	2:10.52	q, scratched semis
5	H6 L6	2:10.65	q
6	H4 L4	2:10.68	q
7	H5 L2	2:10.73	q
8	H6 L5	2:10.85	q
9	H6 L3	2:11.02	q
10	H5 L7	2:12.10	q
11	H5 L3	2:12.33	q
12	H4 L3	2:12.35	q
13	H5 L6	2:12.36	q
14	H5 L5	2:12.46	q, scratched semis
15	H4 L7	2:12.70	q
16	H4 L6	2:12.77	q

17	H5 L8	2:12.81
18	H3 L3	2:12.84
19	H4 L2	2:13.64
20	H4 L1	2:13.74
21	H6 L2	2:13.86
22	H5 L1	2:14.11
23	H6 L8	2:16.53
24	H2 L4	2:16.54
25	H6 L1	2:16.81
26	H3 L1	2:17.66
27	H3 L5	2:18.06
28	H1 L3	2:18.40
29	H2 L2	2:19.06
30	H3 L2	2:19.12
31	H2 L5	2:19.33
32	H4 L8	2:19.48
33	H3 L4	2:19.53
34	H2 L6	2:19.58
35	H3 L8	2:20.11
36	H2 L3	2:22.57
37	H3 L6	2:25.24
38	H3 L7	2:26.39
39	H1 L4	2:39.77
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS

Notes and References

Worlds 2003 results: Women's 200 Fly -- prelims. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2014-06-06.
Worlds 2003 results: Women's 200 Fly -- semis. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2014-06-06.
Worlds 2003 results: Women's 200 Fly -- final. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2014-06-06.