The Women's 50m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 23–24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2014-04-30. heats swam during the morning session on July 23, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2014-04-30. that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Back - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2013-04-30.

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 Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Nina Zhivanevskaya 28.48 CR 2 Ilona Hlaváčková 28.50 3 Noriko Inada 28.62 4 Jennifer Carroll 28.65 5 Sandra Völker 28.69 6 Louise Ørnstedt 28.93 7 Laure Manaudou 28.98 8 Haley Cope 28.99

Semifinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S1 L4 Nina Zhivanevskaya 28.52 q 2 S2 L4 Ilona Hlaváčková 28.62 q 3 S2 L3 Sandra Völker 28.79 q 4 S1 L6 Haley Cope 28.80 q 4 S2 L7 Louise Ørnstedt 28.80 q 6 S2 L5 Noriko Inada 28.82 q 7 S1 L3 Laure Manaudou 28.86 q 8 S1 L5 Jennifer Carroll 28.91 q 9 S1 L8 Jiaru Cheng 28.94 10 S1 L2 Giaan Rooney 28.96 11 S2 L6 Mai Nakamura 29.03 12 S1 L7 Min Ji Shim 29.05 13 S2 L2 Sanja Jovanović 29.20 14 S2 L8 Erin Gammel 29.25 15 S1 L1 Hannah McLean 29.36 16 S2 L1 Hanna-Maria Seppälä 29.64

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H9 L5 Ilona Hlaváčková 28.67 q 2 H9 L4 Nina Zhivanevskaya 28.85 q 3 H9 L3 Noriko Inada 28.88 q 4 H7 L5 Jennifer Carroll 29.00 q 5 H8 L5 Sandra Völker 29.02 q 6 H8 L3 Laure Manaudou 29.05 q 7 H7 L4 Mai Nakamura 29.11 q 8 H9 L1 Haley Cope 29.17 q 9 H7 L2 Sanja Jovanović 29.18 q 10 H9 L6 Giaan Rooney 29.25 q 11 H8 L4 Louise Ørnstedt 29.26 q 12 H1 L5 Min Ji Shim 29.41 q 13 H8 L8 Hanna-Maria Seppälä 29.43 q 14 H9 L7 Hannah McLean 29.45 q 15 H8 L2 Erin Gammel 29.46 q 15 H9 L8 Jiaru Cheng 29.46 q 17 H8 L1 Shu Zhan 29.47 18 H9 L2 Sophie Edington 29.49 19 H8 L7 Alessandra Cappa 29.54 20 H7 L1 Iryna Amshennikova 29.60 21 H7 L7 Hinkelien Schreuder 29.61 22 H7 L3 Sarah Price 29.66 23 H6 L6 Margaret Hoelzer 29.73 24 H8 L6 Katy Sexton 29.85 25 H1 L4 Sviatlana Khakhlova 29.97 26 H7 L6 Tine Bossuyt 30.06 27 H6 L4 Dominique Diezi 30.10 28 H6 L2 Susannah Moonan 30.18 29 H6 L7 Sherry Tsai 30.19 30 H7 L8 Serrana Fernández 30.20 31 H6 L5 Anna Gostomelsky 30.54 32 H5 L3 Eirini Karastergiou 30.61 33 H5 L4 Kiera Aitken 30.80 34 H5 L8 Anja Rikey Jakobsdóttir 30.89 35 H6 L8 Talita Ribeiro 30.90 36 H5 L6 Edith Van der Schilden 31.11 37 H2 L2 Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila 31.23 38 H5 L5 Danijela Djikanovic 31.29 39 H5 L1 Larissa Komt 31.41 40 H6 L1 Derya Erke 31.42 41 H2 L6 Berit Aljand 31.52 42 H5 L2 Saida Iskandarova 31.61 43 H5 L7 Ayeisha Collymore 31.68 44 H6 L3 Marianella Marin 31.92 45 H4 L5 Valeria Silva 32.33 46 H4 L4 Khadija Ciss 32.48 47 H4 L6 Olga Gnedovskaya 33.82 47 H4 L7 Krystle Babao 33.82 49 H2 L7 Nicole Hayes 34.37 50 H4 L3 Susan Anchia 34.62 51 H3 L3 Monika Bakale 35.09 52 H3 L8 Samera Bitar 35.31 53 H4 L1 Rubab Raza 35.75 54 H3 L6 Jakie Wellman 36.14 55 H4 L2 Menaka de Silva 36.15 56 H3 L5 Helena Rojkova 36.32 57 H3 L2 Binta Zahra Diop 36.36 58 H3 L1 N. Ravojanahary 37.75 59 H1 L3 Amber Yobech 37.84 60 H3 L4 Ghazal El Jobeili 37.87 61 H3 L7 Liana Ramerison Rabenja 38.09 62 H4 L8 Joana Gjini 38.55 63 H2 L5 Jumana Taraif 40.02 64 H2 L3 Mariyam Nafha Ali 41.82 - - Elize Taua DNS

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