Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the 2003 FINA World Championships
Venue Palau Sant Jordi
Dates 25 July 2003 (heats, semifinals)
26 July 2003 (final)
Competitors 172 from 121 nations
Winning time 21.92 seconds
Medalists
  Alexander Popov   Russia
  Mark Foster   Great Britain
  Pieter v.d. Hoogenband   Netherlands
«2001 2005»
2003 FINA
World Championships
Barcelona, Spain
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
Open water swimming
5 km men women
10 km men women
25 km men women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Synchronised swimming
Solo women
Duet women
Team women
Combination women
Water polo
Team men women
Main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships was held on 25 (heats and semifinals) and 26 July 2003 at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

Contents

Records

Prior to the championships, the following world and World Championship records were listed by FINA.

World record
21.64  Alexander Popov (RUS) Moscow, Russia 16 June 2000
Championship record
22.05  Anthony Ervin (USA) Fukuoka, Japan 22 July 2001

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time WR CR
25 July Heat 22 Alexander Popov  Russia 21.98 CR
26 July Final Alexander Popov  Russia 21.92 CR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 22 4 Alexander Popov  Russia 21.98 CR
2 22 5 Jason Lezak  United States 22.29
3 21 4 Johan Kenkhuis  Netherlands 22.32
4 20 1 Julien Sicot  France 22.36
5 22 2 Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands 22.51
6 18 5 Peter Mankoč  Slovenia 22.54
6 21 3 Brett Hawke  Australia 22.54
8 20 2 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 22.56
9 20 3 Oleksandr Volynets  Ukraine 22.57
10 21 2 Mark Foster  Great Britain 22.59
11 20 7 Eduard Lorente  Spain 22.60
12 18 4 Karel Novy  Switzerland 22.63
12 20 8 Michele Scarica  Italy 22.63
12 22 6 Vyacheslav Shyrshov  Ukraine 22.63
15 22 8 Frédérick Bousquet  France 22.64
16 17 5 Denis Pimankov  Russia 22.69
17 20 6 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 22.74
17 21 6 Salim Iles  Algeria 22.74
17 22 3 Anthony Ervin  United States 22.74
20 20 4 Bartosz Kizierowski  Poland 22.75
20 20 5 Lorenzo Vismara  Italy 22.75
20 22 7 Stefan Nystrand  Sweden 22.75
23 21 7 Fernando Scherer  Brazil 22.80
24 21 1 Ricardo Bousquet  Puerto Rico 22.83
25 19 8 Pedro Silva  Portugal 22.86
26 19 7 Torsten Spanneberg  Germany 22.93
26 21 5 Ashley Callus  Australia 22.93
28 19 3 Milorad Čavić  Yugoslavia 22.95
29 16 8 Matti Rajakylä  Finland 23.02
29 18 6 Rolandas Gimbutis  Lithuania 23.02
31 19 5 Jader Souza  Brazil 23.04
32 21 8 Julio Santos  Ecuador 23.10
33 19 6 Jere Hård  Finland 23.11
34 22 1 Kim Min Suk  South Korea 23.13
35 17 7 Brent Hayden  Canada 23.14
35 19 4 Renaat Dreesen  Belgium 23.14
37 18 8 Camilo Jose Becerra Velasco  Colombia 23.17
38 17 4 Danil Haustov  Estonia 23.19
39 18 3 Attila Zubor  Hungary 23.20
40 17 6 Eric La Fleur  Sweden 23.23
41 18 2 Ales Volcansek  Croatia 23.25
42 16 1 Paulius Viktoravicius  Lithuania 23.34
42 18 1 Chen Zuo  China 23.34
44 16 4 Christoph Bühler  Switzerland 23.36
45 19 2 Yannick Lupien  Canada 23.37
46 19 1 Apostolos Tsagkarakis  Greece 23.42
47 15 3 Lee Chung Hee  South Korea 23.49
48 17 3 Rastislav Kanuk  Slovakia 23.56
49 14 7 Octavio Alesi  Venezuela 23.64
50 17 1 Duje Draganja  Croatia 23.65
51 14 2 Romans Miloslavskis  Latvia 23.67
51 15 2 Mihály Flaskay  Hungary 23.67
53 16 6 Raymond Rosal  Venezuela 23.68
54 15 4 Carl Probert  Fiji 23.70
55 13 4 Ryan Pini  Papua New Guinea 23.74
56 10 3 Matjaž Markič  Slovenia 23.83
57 16 7 Francisco Picasso  Uruguay 23.85
57 18 7 Arwut Chinnapasaen  Thailand 23.85
59 16 3 Stavros Michaelides  Cyprus 23.89
60 14 3 Liu Yu  China 23.92
61 16 2 Ong Hou Meng Allen  Malaysia 23.96
62 12 2 Heidar Ingi Marinosson  Iceland 24.02
63 17 2 Octavian Guţu  Moldova 24.04
64 12 1 Zeljko Panic  Bosnia and Herzegovina 24.05
65 13 3 Paul Kutcher  Uruguay 24.08
66 15 8 Fu Wing  Hong Kong 24.10
67 12 6 Terrence Haynes  Barbados 24.15
67 17 8 Chrysanthos Papachrysanthou  Cyprus 24.15
69 11 5 Wickus Nienaber  Swaziland 24.18
69 13 7 Martyn Forde  Barbados 24.18
71 15 1 Howard Hinds  Netherlands Antilles 24.33
72 13 5 Ismael Ortiz  Panama 24.34
73 13 8 Nicholas Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 24.40
73 14 4 Roberto Sanso  Costa Rica 24.40
75 15 6 Alexander Agafonov  Uzbekistan 24.41
76 12 3 Gregory Arkhurst  Côte d'Ivoire 24.46
77 12 8 Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin  Nigeria 24.47
78 13 6 Vyacheslav Titarenko  Kazakhstan 24.51
79 15 5 Ashby Brendan  Zimbabwe 24.54
80 11 4 Carles Ridaura  Andorra 24.60
81 15 7 Sven Schneider  Estonia 24.61
82 11 8 Adil Bellaz  Morocco 24.67
83 5 6 Carlos Mauricio Prudencio Oliva  Bolivia 24.70
84 11 1 Gentle Offoin  Nigeria 24.74
85 12 5 Maximiliano Schnettler  Chile 24.76
86 14 6 Aloïs Dansou  Benin 24.81
87 13 1 Lim Yu Lung Lubrey  Malaysia 24.83
88 8 6 Onan Thom  Guyana 24.84
88 10 8 Kenny Roberts  Seychelles 24.84
90 8 4 Lao Kuan Fong  Macau 24.86
91 11 2 Doo Kin Lun  Hong Kong 24.90
92 11 6 Zaid Almarafi  Jordan 24.92
93 12 7 Fadi Jalabi  Syria 24.93
94 11 7 Gustavo Adolfo Martinez  Honduras 24.96
95 11 3 Levan Berdize  Georgia 24.98
96 13 2 Cem Pasaoglu  Turkey 24.99
97 10 2 V. Arun Vellore  India 25.00
98 14 1 Ayoub Salem Almas  United Arab Emirates 25.05
99 14 5 Maran Cruz  Puerto Rico 25.07
100 9 3 Davy Bisslik  Aruba 25.10
100 10 6 Joao Aguiar  Angola 25.10
102 8 7 Carlos Castro  Chile 25.11
103 10 4 Le Ba Lam  Vietnam 25.14
104 9 2 Rama Vyombo  Kenya 25.25
105 9 8 Wong Wing Cheung Victor  Macau 25.28
106 9 4 Abed Rahman Kaaki  Lebanon 25.31
106 10 5 Jamie Paterkin  Saint Lucia 25.31
108 7 5 Hesham Al Shehabi  Brunei 25.35
109 8 1 Ranui Teriipaia  Tahiti 25.53
109 9 1 Babak Farhoudi  Iran 25.53
111 9 5 Timur Irgashev  Uzbekistan 25.55
112 6 5 Miguel Angel Navarro  Bolivia 25.60
113 6 1 Othmane Elghnimi  Morocco 25.78
114 6 2 Aung Yan Lin  Myanmar 25.82
114 6 8 Bradford Worrell  Saint Lucia 25.82
116 7 3 Yann Lausan  Tahiti 25.83
117 7 4 Jewel Md.Jewel Ahmed  Bangladesh 25.85
118 6 4 Loren Lindborg  Marshall Islands 25.87
119 5 7 Shade Sule Cole  Cameroon 25.96
120 8 5 Abdoulaye Mbow  Senegal 25.98
120 8 3 Gordon Tuow Ngie Tjouw  Suriname 25.98
122 9 6 Jean−Luc Razakarivony  Madagascar 26.11
123 9 7 Tamir Andrei  Mongolia 26.19
123 10 7 Urnultsaikhan Ganbold  Mongolia 26.19
125 7 2 Connor H Keith  Guam 26.21
126 7 6 Moe Aung Kyaw  Myanmar 26.24
126 8 8 Benjamin Wells  Papua New Guinea 26.24
128 7 1 Ronald Ying  Guyana 26.35
129 5 2 Jean Laurent Ravera  Monaco 26.37
130 4 1 Peter James Linch  Zambia 26.44
131 7 8 Amar Shah  Kenya 26.46
132 4 3 Rony Bakale  Republic of the Congo 26.47
133 5 5 Patrick Boustant  Lebanon 26.51
134 5 1 Anderson Bonabart  Federated States of Micronesia 26.55
135 7 7 Ibrahim Maliki-Amadou  Niger 26.58
136 5 3 Kin−Vincent Duenas  Guam 26.61
137 5 4 Kreshnik Gjata  Albania 26.64
138 6 3 Mohammed S. Abbas  Iraq 26.75
139 10 1 Nuno Rola  Angola 26.83
140 6 6 Orkhan Samadov  Azerbaijan 26.84
141 4 4 Fernando Medrano  Nicaragua 26.87
142 5 8 Clark Randrianandraina  Madagascar 26.89
143 4 7 Welbert Samuel  Federated States of Micronesia 26.93
144 4 6 Stephenson Wallace  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27.01
145 4 8 Issam Halawani  Palestinian territories 27.14
146 3 4 Chisela Kanchela  Zambia 27.33
147 4 5 Fidel Davis  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27.40
148 1 3 Hassan Mubah  Maldives 27.51
149 6 7 Aldi Gugushka  Albania 27.52
150 1 5 Hem Kiri  Cambodia 27.56
151 2 8 Joshua Marfleet  Samoa 27.68
152 3 6 Sikhounxay Ounkhampanyavong  Laos 27.71
153 3 5 Edgar Luberenga  Uganda 27.81
154 2 4 Carlos Notarianni  Marshall Islands 28.48
155 3 7 Bounthanom Vongphachanh  Laos 28.68
156 3 2 Hadjamamed Hadjamamedov  Turkmenistan 29.07
157 3 3 Gilbert Kaburu  Uganda 29.09
158 1 7 Momadon Ouedrago  Burkina Faso 29.19
159 3 1 Mohammed Sultan Judat  Yemen 29.82
160 2 6 Leonce Sekama  Rwanda 30.57
161 2 7 Blaise Pascal Gasabira  Rwanda 31.22
162 2 2 Malique Williams  Netherlands Antilles 34.04
163 2 1 Glyn Tonge  Netherlands Antilles 35.15
– 1 4 A.a.romain Belemtougri  Burkina Faso DSQ
– 2 3 Ali Maiga Akibou  Niger DSQ
– 16 5 Nuno Laurentino  Portugal DNS
– 14 8 Ayoub Salem Mallalah  United Arab Emirates DNS
– 8 2 Ahmed Ouattata Zie  Côte d'Ivoire DNS
– 4 2 Alain Ives Mewoutou  Cameroon DNS
– 3 8 Aiah Emerson Mansa Musai  Sierra Leone DNS
– 2 5 Abubakarr Ialloh  Sierra Leone DNS
– 1 6 Herve Nkurunziza  Burundi DNS

Legend: CR: Championship record; DSQ: Disqualified; DNS: Did Not Start

Semifinals

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 4 Alexander Popov  Russia 21.99
2 1 4 Jason Lezak  United States 22.14
3 2 5 Johan Kenkhuis  Netherlands 22.31
4 1 5 Julien Sicot  France 22.32
5 2 2 Oleksandr Volynets  Ukraine 22.34
6 2 3 Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands 22.36
7 1 2 Mark Foster  Great Britain 22.43
8 2 6 Brett Hawke  Australia 22.45
9 1 6 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 22.46
10 2 8 Frédérick Bousquet  France 22.47
11 1 1 Vyacheslav Shyrshov  Ukraine 22.57
12 2 7 Eduard Lorente  Spain 22.60
13 1 3 Peter Mankoč  Slovenia 22.61
14 2 1 Michele Scarica  Italy 22.64
14 1 8 Denis Pimankov  Russia 22.64
16 1 7 Karel Novy  Switzerland 22.66

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
4 Alexander Popov  Russia 21.92 CR
1 Mark Foster  Great Britain 22.20
7 Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands 22.29
4 3 Johan Kenkhuis  Netherlands 22.30
5 6 Julien Sicot  France 22.38
6 2 Oleksandr Volynets  Ukraine 22.40
7 8 Brett Hawke  Australia 22.41
8 5 Jason Lezak  United States 22.44

Legend: CR: Championship record

References