The Women's 100m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2014-05-02. heats swam during the morning session on July 21, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 100m Backstroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2014-05-02. that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 100m Back - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-05-02.

At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: WR: 59.58 swum by Natalie Coughlin (USA) on August 13, 2002 in Fort Lauderdale, USA. CR: 1:00.16 swum by Cihong He (China) on September 10, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Antje Buschschulte 1:00.50 2 Louise Ørnstedt 1:00.86 2 Katy Sexton 1:00.86 4 Nina Zhivanevskaya 1:01.18 5 Stanislava Komarova 1:01.36 6 Iryna Amshennikova 1:01.43 7 Mai Nakamura 1:01.51 8 Sarah Price 1:01.63

Seminfinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S2 L4 Antje Buschschulte 1:00.61 q 2 S2 L5 Nina Zhivanevskaya 1:00.74 q 3 S1 L3 Katy Sexton 1:01.32 q 4 S2 L6 Iryna Amshennikova 1:01.39 q 5 S1 L5 Stanislava Komarova 1:01.42 q 6 S1 L4 Mai Nakamura 1:01.47 q 7 S1 L2 Louise Ørnstedt 1:01.59 q 8 S2 L2 Sarah Price 1:01.61 q 9 S2 L3 Reiko Nakamura 1:01.64 10 S2 L1 Shu Zhan 1:01.78 11 S1 L7 Laure Manaudou 1:02.42 12 S1 L8 Sanja Jovanović 1:02.47 12 S1 L6 Hannah McLean 1:02.47 14 S2 L7 Ilona Hlaváčková 1:02.80 15 S2 L8 Jennifer Carroll 1:03.08 16 S1 L1 Xiujun Chen 1:03.19

Prelims Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H6 L5 Antje Buschschulte 1:01.16 q 2 H7 L3 Mai Nakamura 1:01.18 q 2 H8 L5 Nina Zhivanevskaya 1:01.18 q 4 H6 L3 Stanislava Komarova 1:01.44 q 5 H6 L6 Reiko Nakamura 1:01.57 q 6 H7 L4 Katy Sexton 1:01.78 q 7 H6 L1 Iryna Amshennikova 1:01.90 q 8 H6 L7 Hannah McLean 1:02.15 q 9 H6 L4 Sarah Price 1:02.21 q 10 H7 L5 Louise Ørnstedt 1:02.23 q 11 H7 L8 Ilona Hlaváčková 1:02.43 q 12 H7 L6 Laure Manaudou 1:02.61 q 12 H8 L6 Shu Zhan 1:02.61 q 14 H6 L2 Xiujun Chen 1:02.69 q 15 H7 L1 Jennifer Carroll 1:02.71 q 16 H8 L7 Sanja Jovanović 1:02.72 q 17 H1 L2 Min Ji Shim 1:02.87 18 H7 L2 Erin Gammel 1:02.93 19 H8 L2 Kirsty Coventry 1:03.09 20 H8 L1 Alessandra Cappa 1:03.13 21 H5 L6 Hanna-Maria Seppälä 1:03.16 22 H8 L4 Natalie Coughlin 1:03.18 23 H7 L7 Giaan Rooney 1:03.30 24 H6 L8 Hinkelien Schreuder 1:03.40 25 H8 L3 Haley Cope 1:03.45 26 H8 L8 Melissa Morgan 1:03.52 27 H5 L5 Sherry Tsai 1:03.93 28 H5 L3 Eirini Karastergiou 1:04.14 29 H5 L4 Anna Gostomelsky 1:04.94 30 H5 L7 Dominique Diezi 1:05.30 31 H5 L2 Chonlathorn Vorathamrong 1:05.34 32 H5 L1 Derya Erke 1:05.36 33 H4 L3 Serrana Fernández 1:05.51 34 H3 L6 Anja Rikey Jakobsdóttir 1:05.80 35 H4 L1 Kiera Aitken 1:06.07 36 H5 L8 Susannah Moonan 1:06.27 37 H4 L4 Talita Ribeiro 1:06.28 38 H4 L5 Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila 1:06.83 39 H1 L3 Berit Aljand 1:06.86 39 H4 L6 Edith Van der Schilden 1:06.86 41 H3 L5 Shikha Tandon 1:07.82 42 H4 L2 Danijela Djikanovic 1:07.96 43 H3 L4 Agnese Ozolina 1:07.97 44 H4 L7 Saida Iskandarova 1:08.50 45 H3 L7 Ayeisha Collymore 1:08.79 46 H4 L8 Marianella Marin 1:09.32 47 H3 L2 Khadija Ciss 1:09.64 48 H3 L3 Valeria Silva 1:09.83 49 H3 L1 Susan Anchia 1:11.84 50 H2 L4 Olga Gnedovskaya 1:13.49 51 H2 L3 Krystle Babao 1:13.73 52 H2 L5 Ana Galindo 1:15.97 53 H2 L6 Kiran Khan 1:16.04 54 H2 L2 Jakie Wellman 1:17.85 55 H2 L7 Binta Zahra Diop 1:19.39 56 H3 L8 Helena Rojkova 1:20.16 57 H2 L1 Monika Bakale 1:20.50 58 H1 L5 Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana 1:23.66 59 H1 L4 N. Ravojanahary 1:26.61 60 H1 L6 Aminath Rouya Hussain 1:31.91 - - Sivranjani Vaidyanathan DNS

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