The Women's 50m Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 26–27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Breaststroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2014-05-09. heats swam during the morning session on July 26, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Breaststroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-26; retrieved 2014-05-09. that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Breaststroke - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-27; retrieved 2013-05-09.

At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: WR: 30.57 swum by Zoë Baker (Great Britain) on July 30, 2002 in Manchester, UK. CR: 30.84 swum by Xuejuan Luo (China) on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Xuejuan Luo 30.67 2 Brooke Hanson 31.13 3 Zoë Baker 31.37 4 Leisel Jones 31.50 5 Tara Kirk 31.87 6 Kristy Kowal 31.96 7 Sarah Poewe 32.03 8 Elena Bogomazova 32.27

Seminfinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S2 L5 Xuejuan Luo 30.64 q, CR 2 S1 L4 Brooke Hanson 31.11 q 3 S2 L7 Leisel Jones 31.23 q 4 S2 L4 Zoë Baker 31.29 q 5 S2 L3 Tara Kirk 31.40 q 6 S1 L5 Kristy Kowal 31.79 q 7 S1 L3 Sarah Poewe 31.94 q 8 S1 L6 Elena Bogomazova 31.99 q 9 S1 L2 Emma Igelström 32.02 10 S2 L2 Masami Tanaka 32.07 11 S2 L8 Madelon Baans 32.14 12 S1 L1 Roberta Crescentini 32.21 13 S2 L1 Vipa Bernhardt 32.42 14 S2 L6 Rhiannon Leier 32.44 15 S1 L7 Mirna Jukić 32.46 16 S1 L8 Yuliya Pidslina 32.57

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H7 L4 Zoë Baker 31.10 q 2 H8 L5 Brooke Hanson 31.24 q 3 H6 L5 Xuejuan Luo 31.49 q 4 H7 L7 Kristy Kowal 31.80 q 5 H7 L6 Tara Kirk 31.81 q 6 H6 L6 Sarah Poewe 31.96 q 6 H7 L5 Rhiannon Leier 31.96 q 8 H8 L3 Elena Bogomazova 31.99 q 9 H7 L2 Masami Tanaka 32.04 q 10 H8 L4 Emma Igelström 32.11 q 11 H6 L4 Leisel Jones 32.18 q 12 H6 L1 Mirna Jukić 32.21 q 13 H6 L2 Vipa Bernhardt 32.30 q 14 H8 L6 Roberta Crescentini 32.39 q 15 H6 L7 Madelon Baans 32.46 q 16 H6 L3 Yuliya Pidslina 32.54 q 17 H7 L1 Maria Östling 32.55 18 H7 L3 Svitlana Bondarenko 32.56 19 H8 L7 Majken Thorup 32.68 20 H8 L8 Ágnes Kovács 32.73 21 H8 L2 Emma Robinson 32.93 22 H7 L8 Natalia Hissamutdinova 32.94 23 H5 L7 Carmela Schlegel 33.00 24 H4 L5 Ingrid Haiden 33.36 25 H5 L5 Tamara Sambrailo 33.37 25 H5 L6 Lauren Van Oosten 33.37 27 H5 L4 Ziada Jardine 33.39 28 H5 L8 Nan Luo 33.40 29 H4 L3 Javiera Salcedo 33.89 30 H5 L3 Maj Hillesund 33.90 31 H5 L1 İlkay Dikmen 33.98 31 H8 L1 Salma Zeinhom 33.98 33 H4 L7 Ka Lei Liu 34.00 34 H4 L8 Íris Edda Heimisdóttir 34.01 35 H4 L4 Aikaterini Sarakatsani 34.02 36 H4 L1 Valeria Silva 34.08 37 H4 L2 Ka Yi Suen 34.19 38 H4 L6 Patricia Comini-Ribeiro 34.73 39 H3 L4 Varduhi Avetisyan 35.59 40 H3 L3 Katerine Moreno 35.60 41 H3 L6 Sin Ian Lei 36.45 42 H1 L1 Natalya Filina 36.58 43 H2 L6 Roshendra Vrolijk 37.18 44 H3 L2 Éliane Droubry 37.20 45 H3 L7 Samar Nassar 37.46 46 H3 L5 Alessandra Cenni 37.96 47 H3 L8 Melissa Ashby 38.14 48 H2 L4 Sade Daal 38.37 48 H3 L1 N. Ravojanahary 38.37 50 H2 L7 Doli Akhter 38.41 51 H2 L3 Rovena Marku 39.74 52 H1 L2 Asanti Mickle 40.03 53 H2 L2 Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana 40.13 54 H2 L8 Jakie Wellman 42.63 55 H1 L5 Mariyam Nafha Ali 43.53 56 H1 L7 Evelyn Otto 44.92 57 H1 L4 Vilayphone Vongphachanh 44.50 58 H2 L5 Ginette Botende 54.51 - H6 L8 Smiljana Marinović DQ - - Ramona Pedretti DNS - - Nayana Shakya DNS - - Amudam Ngyeh Cantile DNS - - Shuri Solange Cho DNS

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