The Women's 800m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 25–26 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. PreliminaryFINA Worlds 2003 results: Women's 800m Free - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-25; retrieved 2013-07-19. heats swam during the morning session on July 25, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim the race again in the FinalFINA Worlds 2003 results: Women's 800m Free - final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2013-07-19. during the evening session on July 26.

Prior to the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: WR: 8:16.22 swum by Janet Evans (USA) on August 20, 1989 in Tokyo, Japan CR: 8:24.05 swum by Janet Evans (USA) on January 12, 1991 in Perth, Australia

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Hannah Stockbauer 8:23.66 CR 2 Diana Munz 8:24.19 3 Rebecca Cooke 8:28.45 4 Brittany Reimer 8:28.73 5 Jana Henke 8:30.12 6 Éva Risztov 8:35.70 7 Regina Sytch 8:39.96 8 Chen Hua 8:46.78

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H4 L5 Diana Munz 8:32.44 q 2 H4 L4 Chen Hua 8:32.72 q 3 H4 L2 Regina Sytch 8:32.86 q 4 H4 L6 Rebecca Cooke 8:32.95 q 5 H3 L4 Hannah Stockbauer 8:32.98 q 6 H5 L5 Éva Risztov 8:35.40 q 7 H3 L6 Brittany Reimer 8:35.76 q 8 H5 L4 Jana Henke 8:36.07 q 9 H5 L2 Simona Păduraru 8:36.29 10 H3 L2 Erika Villaécija 8:36.99 11 H5 L3 Hayley Peirsol 8:38.78 12 H3 L5 Sashiko Yamada 8:40.16 13 H4 L1 Ai Shibata 8:40.70 14 H5 L6 Olga Beresneva 8:41.23 15 H3 L3 Amanda Pascoe 8:42.27 16 H5 L1 Linda Mackenzie 8:43.08 17 H3 L7 Melissa Caballero 8:43.16 18 H2 L5 Taryn Lencoe 8:44.20 19 H4 L3 Laure Manaudou 8:44.75 20 H4 L8 Réka Nagy 8:45.13 21 H3 L1 Anja Čarman 8:45.23 22 H3 L8 Chantal Strasser 8:45.74 23 H5 L8 Jana Pechanová 8:46.76 24 H2 L3 Maria Bulakhova 8:50.99 25 H2 L7 Kristel Köbrich 8:52.02 26 H2 L4 Nayara Ribeiro 8:52.22 27 H5 L7 Marianna Lymperta 8:54.35 28 H2 L6 Hanna Miluska 8:57.20 29 H4 L7 Zhang Yan 8:58.11 30 H2 L2 Marta Ferreira 8:58.41 31 H2 L1 Golda Marcus 9:15.28 32 H1 L3 Shrone Austin 9:27.06 33 H2 L8 Magdalena Sutanto 9:32.41 34 H1 L5 Johana Rodriguez 9:35.12 35 H1 L4 Roberta Callus 9:49.65 - - Liana Ramerison Rabenja DNS - - Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana DNS - - Corise Nyenimigabo DNS

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