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

Event:	Women's 50m Breaststroke
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates:	26 July (prelims + semis); 27 July (final)
Gold:	Xuejuan Luo
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Brooke Hanson
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Zoë Baker
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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The Women's 50m Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 26–27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 26, 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: 30.57 swum by Zoë Baker (Great Britain) on July 30, 2002 in Manchester, UK.
CR: 30.84 swum by Xuejuan Luo (China) on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			30.67
2			31.13
3			31.37
4			31.50
5			31.87
6			31.96
7			32.03
8			32.27

Seminfinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L5	30.64	q, CR
2	S1 L4	31.11	q
3	S2 L7	31.23	q
4	S2 L4	31.29	q
5	S2 L3	31.40	q
6	S1 L5	31.79	q
7	S1 L3	31.94	q
8	S1 L6	31.99	q

9	S1 L2	32.02
10	S2 L2	32.07
11	S2 L8	32.14
12	S1 L1	32.21
13	S2 L1	32.42
14	S2 L6	32.44
15	S1 L7	32.46
16	S1 L8	32.57

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H7 L4	31.10	q
2	H8 L5	31.24	q
3	H6 L5	31.49	q
4	H7 L7	31.80	q
5	H7 L6	31.81	q
6	H6 L6	31.96	q
6	H7 L5	31.96	q
8	H8 L3	31.99	q
9	H7 L2	32.04	q
10	H8 L4	32.11	q
11	H6 L4	32.18	q
12	H6 L1	32.21	q
13	H6 L2	32.30	q
14	H8 L6	32.39	q
15	H6 L7	32.46	q
16	H6 L3	32.54	q

17	H7 L1	32.55
18	H7 L3	32.56
19	H8 L7	32.68
20	H8 L8	32.73
21	H8 L2	32.93
22	H7 L8	32.94
23	H5 L7	33.00
24	H4 L5	33.36
25	H5 L5	33.37
25	H5 L6	33.37
27	H5 L4	33.39
28	H5 L8	33.40
29	H4 L3	33.89
30	H5 L3	33.90
31	H5 L1	33.98
31	H8 L1	33.98
33	H4 L7	34.00
34	H4 L8	34.01
35	H4 L4	34.02
36	H4 L1	34.08
37	H4 L2	34.19
38	H4 L6	34.73
39	H3 L4	35.59
40	H3 L3	35.60
41	H3 L6	36.45
42	H1 L1	36.58
43	H2 L6	37.18
44	H3 L2	37.20
45	H3 L7	37.46
46	H3 L5	37.96
47	H3 L8	38.14
48	H2 L4	38.37
48	H3 L1	38.37
50	H2 L7	38.41
51	H2 L3	39.74
52	H1 L2	40.03
53	H2 L2	40.13
54	H2 L8	42.63
55	H1 L5	43.53
56	H1 L7	44.92
57	H1 L4	44.50
58	H2 L5	54.51
-	H6 L8	DQ
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS

References

Notes and References

2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Breaststroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2014-05-09.
2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Breaststroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2014-05-09.
2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Breaststroke - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-27; retrieved 2013-05-09.