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

Event:	Women's 50 Fly
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 25 (prelims, semifinals) July 26 (final)
Gold:	Inge de Bruijn
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Jenny Thompson
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Anna-Karin Kammerling
Bronzenoc:	SWE
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

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The Women's 50m Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on July 25 – 26, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats swam on July 25, with the Final^[3] swum on July 26.

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

• WR: 25.57 swum by Anna-Karin Kammerling (Sweden) on July 30, 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
• CR: 25.90 swum by Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) on July 26, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			25.84	CR
2			26.00	NR
3			26.06
4			26.85
5			26.92
6			26.98
7			27.10
8			27.24

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4			25.94	q
2	S1 L5			26.73	q
2	S2 L5			26.73	q
4	S1 L3			26.82	q
5	S2 L3			26.97	q
6	S1 L2			27.10	q
7	S1 L4			27.16	q
8	S1 L7			27.23	q
9	S2 L6			27.25
10	S1 L8			27.38
10	S2 L2			27.38
12	S2 L1			27.43
13	S1 L6			27.46
14	S1 L1			27.48
15	S2 L8			27.66
16	S2 L7			27.67

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H7 L4			26.33	q
2	H8 L5			27.01	q
3	H8 L4			27.16	q
4	H8 L6			27.33	q
5	H6 L3			27.37	q
6	H6 L4			27.40	q
6	H7 L8			27.40	q
8	H7 L6			27.46	q
9	H6 L6			27.53	q
9	H7 L1			27.53	q
11	H1 L4			27.54	q
12	H7 L5			27.56	q
13	H6 L5			27.64	q
14	H8 L3			27.65	q
15	H8 L7			27.67	q
16	H7 L2			27.73	q
17	H7 L3			27.81
18	H7 L7			27.96
19	H8 L2			28.00
20	H6 L7			28.02
21	H6 L2			28.08
22	H8 L8			28.25
23	H8 L1			28.27
24	H5 L4			28.44
25	H5 L6			28.61
26	H5 L3			28.69
27	H5 L7			28.73
28	H4 L3			28.81
29	H5 L8			29.05
30	H5 L5			29.20
31	H5 L1			29.30
32	H6 L8			29.34
33	H4 L2			29.35
34	H4 L5			29.36
35	H4 L7			29.82
36	H4 L8			29.99
37	H4 L4			30.12
38	H4 L6			30.20
39	H4 L1			30.25
40	H3 L6			30.63
41	H3 L4			31.11
42	H3 L5			31.27
43	H1 L5			31.36
44	H3 L7			31.57
45	H3 L1			31.60
46	H3 L2			31.72
47	H3 L8			31.99
48	H2 L3			32.06
49	H2 L6			32.40
50	H1 L3			32.44
51	H2 L5			32.61
52	H2 L4			33.68
53	H2 L1			34.74
54	H2 L7			34.83
55	H2 L2			36.70
56	H1 L6			38.27
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS

Notes and References

1. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Fly -- prelims, from Omega Timing (official timer of the 2003 Worlds). Published 2003-07-25; retrieved 2014-05-15.
2. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Fly -- semis, from Omega Timing (official timer of the 2003 Worlds). Published on 2003-07-25; retrieved 2014-05-15.
3. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Fly -- finals, from Omega Timing (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); published on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2014-05-15.