Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 50m Backstroke
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates:	23 July (prelims + semis); 24 July (final)
Gold:	Nina Zhivanevskaya
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silver:	Ilona Hlavackova
Silvernoc:	CZE
Bronze:	Noriko Inada
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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

The Women's 50m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 23–24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 23, 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: 28.25 swum by Sandra Völker (Germany) on June 17, 2000 in Berlin, Germany.
CR: 28.48 swum by Natalie Coughlin (USA) on July 23, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Time	Notes
1	28.48	CR
2	28.50
3	28.62
4	28.65
5	28.69
6	28.93
7	28.98
8	28.99

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	28.52	q
2	S2 L4	28.62	q
3	S2 L3	28.79	q
4	S1 L6	28.80	q
4	S2 L7	28.80	q
6	S2 L5	28.82	q
7	S1 L3	28.86	q
8	S1 L5	28.91	q

9	S1 L8	28.94
10	S1 L2	28.96
11	S2 L6	29.03
12	S1 L7	29.05
13	S2 L2	29.20
14	S2 L8	29.25
15	S1 L1	29.36
16	S2 L1	29.64

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Time	Notes
1	H9 L5		28.67	q
2	H9 L4		28.85	q
3	H9 L3		28.88	q
4	H7 L5		29.00	q
5	H8 L5		29.02	q
6	H8 L3		29.05	q
7	H7 L4		29.11	q
8	H9 L1		29.17	q
9	H7 L2		29.18	q
10	H9 L6		29.25	q
11	H8 L4		29.26	q
12	H1 L5		29.41	q
13	H8 L8		29.43	q
14	H9 L7		29.45	q
15	H8 L2		29.46	q
15	H9 L8		29.46	q

17	H8 L1		29.47
18	H9 L2		29.49
19	H8 L7		29.54
20	H7 L1		29.60
21	H7 L7		29.61
22	H7 L3		29.66
23	H6 L6		29.73
24	H8 L6		29.85
25	H1 L4		29.97
26	H7 L6		30.06
27	H6 L4		30.10
28	H6 L2		30.18
29	H6 L7		30.19
30	H7 L8		30.20
31	H6 L5		30.54
32	H5 L3		30.61
33	H5 L4		30.80
34	H5 L8		30.89
35	H6 L8		30.90
36	H5 L6		31.11
37	H2 L2		31.23
38	H5 L5		31.29
39	H5 L1		31.41
40	H6 L1		31.42
41	H2 L6		31.52
42	H5 L2		31.61
43	H5 L7		31.68
44	H6 L3		31.92
45	H4 L5		32.33
46	H4 L4		32.48
47	H4 L6	Olga Gnedovskaya	33.82
47	H4 L7		33.82
49	H2 L7		34.37
50	H4 L3		34.62
51	H3 L3		35.09
52	H3 L8		35.31
53	H4 L1		35.75
54	H3 L6		36.14
55	H4 L2		36.15
56	H3 L5		36.32
57	H3 L2		36.36
58	H3 L1		37.75
59	H1 L3		37.84
60	H3 L4		37.87
61	H3 L7		38.09
62	H4 L8		38.55
63	H2 L5		40.02
64	H2 L3		41.82
-	-		DNS

References

Notes and References

2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2014-04-30.
2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2014-04-30.
2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Back - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2013-04-30.