Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400m I.M.
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	27 July 2003 (prelims & finals)
Gold:	Yana Klochkova
Goldnoc:	UKR
Silver:	Éva Risztov
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Beatrice Câșlaru
Bronzenoc:	ROM
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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The Women's 400m Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam in the morning session, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final^[2] that evening.

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

WR: 4:33.59 swum by Yana Klochkova (Ukraine) on September 16, 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
CR: 4:36.10 swum by Petra Schneider (East Germany) on August 1, 1982 in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			4:36.74
2			4:37.39
3			4:41.86
4			4:43.21
5			4:43.32
6			4:45.67
7			4:46.06
8			4:48.11

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H4 L4	4:42.89	q
2	H4 L5	4:43.48	q
3	H5 L4	4:44.14	q
4	H3 L3	4:44.26	q
5	H4 L3	4:44.77	q
6	H4 L2	4:45.16	q
7	H5 L5	4:45.57	q
8	H3 L5	4:47.08	q

9	H3 L6	4:47.17
10	H3 L4	4:47.20
11	H5 L2	4:47.72
12	H4 L6	4:47.84
13	H2 L6	4:48.59
14	H2 L4	4:48.75
15	H3 L1	4:49.04
16	H3 L2	4:49.28
17	H5 L3	4:50.28
18	H5 L1	4:50.44
19	H5 L6	4:51.42
20	H4 L1	4:51.54
21	H4 L7	4:52.72
22	H5 L7	4:53.77
23	H4 L8	4:54.30
24	H3 L8	4:54.31
25	H3 L7	4:55.12
26	H2 L5	5:01.20
27	H5 L8	5:01.50
28	H2 L3	5:02.54
29	H2 L7	5:07.33
30	H2 L8	5:11.67
31	H2 L2	5:11.69
32	H2 L1	5:15.88
33	H1 L4	5:17.39
34	H1 L5	5:24.89
35	H1 L3	5:28.37
36	H1 L6	5:37.85
-	-	DNS

Notes and References

Worlds 2003 results: Women's 400 IM -- prelims. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-27; retrieved 2014-06-12.
Worlds 2003 results: Women's 400 IM -- final. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-27; retrieved 2014-06-12.