The Men's 200 Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24–25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. PreliminaryWorlds 2003 results: Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley -- prelims , from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24. and SemifinalWorlds 2003 results: Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley -- semis, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24. heats swam July 24; the FinalWorlds 2003 results: Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley -- final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24. was July 25.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: WR: 1:57.94 swum by Michael Phelps (USA) on June 29, 2003 in Santa Clara, USA CR: 1:58.16 swum by Jani Sievinen (Finland) on September 11, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Michael Phelps 1:56.04 WR 2 Ian Thorpe 1:59.66 NR 3 Massimiliano Rosolino 1:59.71 4 Jani Sievinen 1:59.98 5 George Bovell 2:00.06 6 Takahiro Mori 2:01.29 7 Kevin Clements 2:01.51 8 Brian Johns 2:01.62

Semifinals Rank Heat/Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S2 L4 Michael Phelps 1:57.52 q, WR 2 S2 L5 Massimiliano Rosolino 1:59.84 q 3 S1 L4 George Bovell 1:59.86 q 4 S2 L6 Takahiro Mori 2:00.29 q 5 S2 L8 Ian Thorpe 2:00.42 q 6 S1 L7 Brian Johns 2:00.98 q 7 S1 L5 Kevin Clements 2:01.04 q 8 S1 L6 Jani Sievinen 2:01.08 q 9 S1 L2 Cezar Bădiță 2:01.58 NR 10 S2 L2 Oussama Mellouli 2:01.64 11 S1 L3 Vytautas Janušaitis 2:01.67 12 S2 L3 Christian Keller 2:01.76 13 S2 L1 Robin Francis 2:01.89 14 S1 L8 Justin Norris 2:02.09 15 S1 L1 Peng Wu 2:02.38 16 S2 L7 Tamás Kerékjártó 2:02.81

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H11 L4 Michael Phelps 1:59.71 q 2 H08 L5 George Bovell 2:00.94 q 3 H11 L5 Massimiliano Rosolino 2:01.24 q 4 H09 L3 Kevin Clements 2:01.43 q 5 H11 L2 Christian Keller 2:01.90 q 6 H09 L1 Vytautas Janušaitis 2:02.01 q 7 H11 L3 Takahiro Mori 2:02.02 q 8 H10 L4 Jani Sievinen 2:02.10 q 9 H10 L2 Oussama Mellouli 2:02.19 q 10 H11 L8 Cezar Bădiță 2:02.26 q 11 H09 L5 Tamás Kerékjártó 2:02.32 q 12 H09 L6 Brian Johns 2:02.37 q 13 H10 L7 Robin Francis 2:02.50 q 14 H09 L8 Peng Wu 2:02.54 q 14 H10 L5 Ian Thorpe 2:02.54 q 16 H10 L6 Justin Norris 2:02.61 q 17 H09 L4 Alessio Boggiatto 2:02.66 18 H08 L8 Thiago Pereira 2:02.67 19 H11 L1 Ioannis Kokkodis 2:02.68 20 H08 L4 Alexei Zatsepine 2:02.82 21 H10 L3 István Batházi 2:02.83 22 H11 L7 Jiro Miki 2:02.89 23 H08 L3 Igor Berezutskiy 2:02.90 24 H10 L1 Dean Kent 2:02.92 25 H09 L7 Tao Zhao 2:03.23 26 H07 L3 Guntars Deičmans 2:03.77 27 H07 L2 Sergiy Sergeyev 2:04.13 28 H06 L4 Mihail Alexandrov 2:04.36 29 H08 L2 Krešimir Čač 2:04.46 30 H11 L6 Jens Kruppa 2:04.73 31 H06 L5 Theo Verster 2:04.85 32 H06 L6 Marko Milenkovič 2:05.17 33 H07 L4 Jan Vitazka 2:05.28 34 H07 L5 Carlos Sayao 2:05.47 35 H07 L1 Yves Platel 2:05.64 36 H08 L6 Terence Parkin 2:05.66 37 H08 L7 Michael Halika 2:05.68 38 H06 L2 Miguel Molina 2:06.53 39 H06 L3 Paulius Andrijauskas 2:06.95 40 H07 L7 Aleksandar Miladinovski 2:07.33 41 H06 L7 Oleg Pukhnaty 2:07.54 42 H05 L6 Malick Fall 2:07.65 43 H06 L1 Orel Oral 2:07.84 44 H07 L6 Andrew Bree 2:07.90 45 H05 L2 Raouf Benabid 2:09.82 46 H05 L4 Francisco Picasso 2:10.25 47 H05 L1 Kunakorn Yimsomruay 2:11.05 48 H06 L8 Andrew Mackay 2:11.15 49 H05 L7 David Cartin 2:11.31 50 H05 L8 Marcos Burgos 2:11.86 51 H05 L3 George Demetriades 2:11.87 52 H05 L5 Yi-Khy Saw 2:11.88 53 H04 L4 Khaly Ciss 2:11.97 54 H04 L6 Rehan Poncha 2:12.75 55 H10 L8 Dmytro Nazarenko 2:14.05 56 H04 L3 Carlos Melendez 2:14.80 57 H03 L3 Youssef Hafdi 2:14.81 58 H04 L1 Jonathan Mauri 2:14.92 59 H02 L4 Kevin Hensley 2:15.74 60 H03 L2 Ranui Teriipaia 2:15.86 61 H03 L5 Dean Palacios 2:16.56 62 H03 L8 Roy Barahona 2:16.91 63 H04 L7 Obied Ahmed Al Jassimi 2:17.02 64 H02 L5 Kenny Roberts 2:17.10 65 H04 L2 James Walsh 2:17.22 66 H03 L4 Sergey Tsoy 2:18.65 67 H02 L7 Joao Matias 2:18.77 68 H03 L6 Marc Dansou 2:20.29 69 H03 L7 Seung Gin Lee 2:20.56 70 H02 L3 Fernando Medrano 2:24.61 71 H02 L1 Hei Meng Lao 2:24.81 72 H03 L1 Daniel Kang 2:25.12 73 H01 L6 Yann Lausan 2:27.33 74 H04 L5 Aung Kyaw Moe 2:29.15 75 H01 L4 Kin-Vincent Duenas 2:30.84 76 H01 L5 Chisela Kanchela 2:31.15 77 H01 L3 Muzeya Muzyamba 2:32.18 78 H02 L6 Ahmed Ouattara Zie 2:40.79 - H08 L1 Diogo Yabe DQ - - Peter Mankoč DNS - - Jean-Luc Razakarivony DNS - - Nuno Rola DNS

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