The Women's 200m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 25–26 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Backstroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-25; retrieved 2014-05-07. heats swam during the morning session on July 25, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Backstroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-25; retrieved 2014-05-07. that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 200m Back - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2013-05-07.

At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: WR: 2:06.62 swum by Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary) on August 25, 1991 in Athens, Greece. CR: 2:07.40 swum by Cihong He (China) on September 11, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Katy Sexton 2:08.74 2 Margaret Hoelzer 2:09.24 3 Stanislava Komarova 2:10.17 4 Iryna Amshennikova 2:10.82 5 Hanae Ito 2:10.95 6 Jennifer Fratesi 2:12.53 7 Nicole Hetzer 2:12.82 8 Sarah Price 2:13.78

Semifinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S2 L4 Stanislava Komarova 2:09.39 q 2 S2 L2 Katy Sexton 2:10.47 q 3 S1 L4 Iryna Amshennikova 2:11.08 q 4 S2 L6 Hanae Ito 2:11.13 q 5 S2 L5 Margaret Hoelzer 2:11.38 q 6 S1 L3 Sarah Price 2:11.69 q 7 S1 L1 Nicole Hetzer 2:12.15 q 8 S1 L5 Jennifer Fratesi 2:12.36 q 9 S2 L3 Aya Terakawa 2:13.09 10 S1 L7 Hannah McLean 2:13.39 11 S1 L6 Alenka Kejžar 2:13.50 12 S2 L8 Anja Čarman 2:14.58 13 S2 L7 Louise Ørnstedt 2:14.61 14 S1 L8 Kirsty Coventry 2:15.20 15 S2 L1 Sanja Jovanović 2:15.43 16 S1 L2 Frances Adcock 2:15.49

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H3 L4 Stanislava Komarova 2:10.98 q 2 H3 L3 Iryna Amshennikova 2:11.93 q 3 H4 L5 Margaret Hoelzer 2:12.35 q 4 H5 L6 Jennifer Fratesi 2:12.72 q 5 H5 L3 Aya Terakawa 2:12.79 q 6 H5 L5 Sarah Price 2:12.82 q 7 H3 L5 Hanae Ito 2:13.01 q 8 H3 L6 Alenka Kejžar 2:13.32 q 9 H4 L4 Katy Sexton 2:13.57 q 10 H5 L1 Frances Adcock 2:13.78 q 11 H4 L3 Louise Ørnstedt 2:14.37 q 12 H3 L7 Hannah McLean 2:14.38 q 13 H5 L7 Sanja Jovanović 2:14.75 q 14 H4 L1 Nicole Hetzer 2:14.90 q 15 H4 L8 Anja Čarman 2:14.91 q 16 H4 L6 Kirsty Coventry 2:14.92 q 17 H3 L1 Melissa Corfe 2:15.25 18 H4 L2 Elizabeth Warden 2:15.64 19 H5 L2 Shu Zhan 2:16.43 20 H4 L7 Zoe Tonks 2:16.53 21 H5 L8 Anna Gostomelsky 2:17.60 22 H3 L2 Xiujun Chen 2:18.06 23 H2 L4 Helen Norfolk 2:18.88 24 H2 L5 Sherry Tsai 2:19.27 25 H3 L8 Derya Erke 2:19.39 26 H2 L3 Inbal Levavi 2:19.47 27 H2 L6 Chonlathorn Vorathamrong 2:20.33 28 H1 L1 Berit Aljand 2:22.58 29 H2 L8 Valeria Silva 2:22.91 30 H2 L7 Edith Van der Schilden 2:23.94 31 H2 L2 Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila 2:24.72 32 H2 L1 Saida Iskandarova 2:25.52 33 H1 L3 Susan Anchia 2:28.49 34 H1 L5 Khadija Ciss 2:29.60 35 H1 L2 Ana Galindo 2:35.71 36 H1 L6 Olga Gnedovskaya 2:39.72 37 H1 L7 Krystle Babao 2:44.93 - - Natalie Coughlin DNS - - Talita Ribeiro DNS

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