Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200m Backstroke at the 2003 FINA World Championships
Dates	24 July (prelims, semifinals) 25 July (final)
Winning time	1 minute 55.92 seconds
Medalists
Aaron Peirsol   United States   Gordan Kožulj   Croatia   Simon Dufour   France

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

The Men's 200 Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Championships swam July 24+25, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats were on 24 July with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The Final^[3] swam on 25 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 1:55.15 swum by Aaron Peirsol (USA) on March 22, 2002 in Minneapolis, USA
• CR: 1:57.13 swum by Aaron Peirsol (USA) on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aaron Peirsol	USA	1:55.92
2	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	1:57.47
3	Simon Dufour	France	1:57.90
4	Bryce Hunt	USA	1:57.92
5	Matt Welsh	Australia	1:57.94
6	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	1:58.07
7	Răzvan Florea	Romania	1:58.66
8	Blaž Medvešek	Slovenia	1:58.96

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Aaron Peirsol	USA	1:55.82	q, CR
2	S2 L5	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	1:57.88	q
3	S1 L5	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	1:57.94	q
4	S1 L6	Bryce Hunt	USA	1:58.04	q
5	S1 L4	Matt Welsh	Australia	1:58.34	q
6	S1 L2	Răzvan Florea	Romania	1:58.52	q
7	S2 L6	Simon Dufour	France	1:58.81	q
8	S1 L3	Gregor Tait	Great Britain	1:59.02	swim off
8	S1 L7	Blaž Medvešek	Slovenia	1:59.02	swim off, q
10	S2 L2	Yoav Gath	Israel	1:59.22
11	S2 L7	Markus Rogan	Austria	1:59.29
12	S2 L1	Steffen Driesen	Germany	1:59.40
13	S2 L3	László Cseh	Hungary	1:59.45
14	S2 L8	Keith Beavers	Canada	1:59.86
15	S1 L1	Jorge Sánchez	Spain	2:00.19
16	S1 L8	Helge Meeuw	Germany	2:00.21

Swim-off for 8th

1. Blaz Medvesk (Slovenia) -- 1:58.61—q
2. Gregor Tait (Great Britain) -- 1:58.80

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:57.28	q
2	H6 L5	Matt Welsh	Australia	1:58.26	q
3	H8 L1	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	1:59.18	q
4	H7 L4	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	1:59.20	q
5	H8 L6	László Cseh	Hungary	1:59.49	q
6	H8 L2	Gregor Tait	Great Britain	1:59.62	q
7	H8 L3	Simon Dufour	France	1:59.68	q
8	H7 L2	Bryce Hunt	United States	1:59.71	q
9	H7 L8	Yoav Gath	Israel	1:59.82	q
10	H8 L5	Răzvan Florea	Romania	1:59.96	q
11	H7 L5	Markus Rogan	Austria	2:00.04	q
12	H6 L7	Blaž Medvešek	Slovenia	2:00.06	q
12	H8 L7	Steffen Driesen	Germany	2:00.06	q
14	H7 L6	Jorge Sánchez	Spain	2:00.27	q
15	H7 L3	Keith Beavers	Canada	2:00.56	q
16	H6 L8	Helge Meeuw	Germany	2:00.73	q
17	H5 L1	Anton Bugayov	Ukraine	2:00.76
18	H6 L2	Ray Hass	Australia	2:00.77
19	H4 L3	Tomomi Morita	Japan	2:01.10
20	H5 L2	Volodymyr Nikolaychuk	Ukraine	2:01.35
21	H6 L6	Evgueni Alechine	Russia	2:01.42
22	H5 L7	Alex Lim	Malaysia	2:01.43
23	H6 L3	Kunpeng Ouyang	China	2:01.44
24	H7 L1	Klaas Erik Zwering	Netherlands	2:01.56
25	H6 L4	James Goddard	Great Britain	2:01.91
26	H5 L4	Rogério Romero	Brazil	2:02.06
27	H6 L1	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	2:02.36
28	H5 L5	Ahmed Moustafa	Egypt	2:02.45
29	H4 L4	Pavel Suškov	Lithuania	2:02.65
30	H8 L8	Rui Yu	China	2:02.80
31	H7 L7	Viktor Bodrogi	Hungary	2:03.22
32	H5 L6	Min Sung	South Korea	2:04.10
33	H5 L8	Paulo Machado	Brazil	2:04.21
34	H3 L6	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	2:04.96
35	H5 L3	Sander Ganzevles	Netherlands	2:05.05
36	H4 L2	Martin Viilep	Estonia	2:05.82
37	H4 L5	Andrei Mihailov	Moldova	2:08.30
38	H3 L2	Jared Heine	Marshall Islands	2:08.88
39	H3 L4	Juan Carlo Antonio Piccio	Philippines	2:10.18
40	H4 L8	Ashby Brendan	Zimbabwe	2:10.40
41	H3 L3	Yau Sun Fai	Hong Kong	2:10.55
42	H2 L5	Kunakorn Yimsomruay	Thailand	2:11.18
43	H3 L1	Long Do Huy	Vietnam	2:13.43
44	H4 L6	Yury Zaharov	Kyrgyzstan	2:13.81
45	H4 L1	Guillermo Andres Ramirez Lemis	Colombia	2:14.18
46	H4 L7	Mauricio Prudencio	Bolivia	2:14.30
47	H3 L5	Mikhail Alekseyev	Uzbekistan	2:14.55
48	H2 L4	Oleg Deikrishvili	Georgia	2:16.10
49	H2 L6	Mohammad Nazeri	Iran	2:18.09
50	H3 L8	Rony Bakale	Congo	2:19.03
51	H2 L8	Seung Gin Lee	Northern Mariana Islands	2:19.89
52	H2 L3	Omar Abu Faris	Jordan	2:20.02
53	H2 L1	Chi Lon Lei	Macau	2:21.29
54	H1 L4	Ammar Musaed Al Tamimi	United Arab Emirates	2:22.56
55	H2 L2	Nuno Rola	Angola	2:25.33
56	H1 L5	Kabir Walia	Kenya	2:25.49
57	H1 L6	Patrick Boustany	Lebanon	2:27.31
58	H1 L3	Clark Randrianandraina	Madagascar	2:33.65
59	H1 L2	Muzeya Muzyamba	Zambia	2:34.69
-	-	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	DNS

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