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

Men's 200m Freestyle
at the 2003 FINA World Championships

Dates

21 July (prelims, semifinals)
22 July (final)

Winning time

1 minute 45.14 seconds

Medalists

	Ian Thorpe	Australia
	Pieter v. d. Hoogenband	Netherlands
	Grant Hackett	Australia

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 200 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Championships swam on 21+22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats were on 21 July, while the Final^[3] swam on 22 July.

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

WR and CR: 1:44.06 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time
1	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:45.14
2	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:46.43
3	Grant Hackett	Australia	1:46.85
4	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	1:48.73
5	Andrei Kapralov	Russia	1:48.76
6	Federico Cappellazzo	Italy	1:48.79
7	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	1:48.96
8	Nate Dusing	USA	1:49.35

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:46.32	q
2	S1 L4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:47.20	q
3	S2 L6	Grant Hackett	Australia	1:47.72	q
4	S2 L3	Nate Dusing	USA	1:48.66	q
5	S2 L8	Andrei Kapralov	Russia	1:48.84	q
6	S1 L8	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	1:48.92	q
7	S2 L5	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	1:49.23	q
8	S1 L7	Federico Cappellazzo	Italy	1:49.23	q

9	S1 L6	Rick Say	Canada	1:49.52
10	S1 L3	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	1:49.64
11	S1 L5	Stefan Herbst	Germany	1:49.76
12	S2 L7	Olaf Wildeboer	Spain	1:49.85
13	S1 L1	Maxim Kuznetsov	Russia	1:49.98
14	S2 L1	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	1:50.59
15	S1 L2	Romāns Miloslavskis	Latvia	1:50.66
16	S2 L2	Klete Keller	USA	1:51.69

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H12 L4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:47.21	q
2	H13 L4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:47.99	q
3	H12 L3	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	1:49.30	q
4	H12 L6	Stefan Herbst	Germany	1:49.47	q
5	H12 L5	Nate Dusing	United States	1:49.49	q
6	H08 L4	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	1:49.51	q
7	H11 L4	Grant Hackett	Australia	1:49.66	q
8	H13 L3	Rick Say	Canada	1:49.75	q
9	H11 L5	Klete Keller	United States	1:49.77	q
10	H10 L5	Romāns Miloslavskis	Latvia	1:50.05	q
11	H13 L2	Olaf Wildeboer	Spain	1:50.06	q
12	H11 L3	Federico Cappellazzo	Italy	1:50.19	q
13	H10 L8	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	1:50.29	q
14	H12 L7	Maxim Kuznetsov	Russia	1:50.48	q
15	H11 L7	Andrei Kapralov	Russia	1:50.53	q
15	H11 L8	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	1:50.53	q

17	H12 L8	Kyu Chul Han	South Korea	1:50.54
18	H10 L4	Nikolaos Xylouris	Greece	1:50.61
18	H11 L1	Rodrigo Castro	Brazil	1:50.61
20	H11 L2	Zuo Chen	China	1:50.62
21	H12 L2	Yu Liu	China	1:50.74
22	H13 L6	Mark Johnston	Canada	1:50.77
23	H13 L8	Dragoș Coman	Romania	1:50.90
24	H09 L3	Sergiy Fesenko	Ukraine	1:51.00
25	H13 L7	Lars Conrad	Germany	1:51.02
26	H09 L6	Saulius Binevičius	Lithuania	1:51.12
27	H10 L1	Shunichi Fujita	Japan	1:51.36
28	H09 L5	Shai Livnat	Israel	1:51.44
29	H12 L1	Daisuke Hosokawa	Japan	1:51.52
30	H11 L6	Athanasios Oikonomou	Greece	1:51.55
31	H13 L1	Tamás Kerékjártó	Hungary	1:51.63
32	H09 L4	Cezar Bădiță	Romania	1:52.37
33	H10 L7	Rafael Mósca	Brazil	1:52.93
34	H09 L8	Gian Carlo Zolezzi	Chile	1:53.26
35	H09 L1	Miguel Molina	Philippines	1:53.76
36	H08 L5	Victor Rogut	Moldova	1:53.78
37	H08 L6	Alexandros Aresti	Cyprus	1:54.09
38	H10 L3	Aytekin Mindan	Turkey	1:54.28
39	H07 L1	Danil Haustov	Estonia	1:54.61
40	H10 L6	Luis Monteiro	Portugal	1:54.70
41	H07 L6	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	1:54.75
42	H07 L7	Adil Bellaz	Morocco	1:54.88
43	H08 L2	Petr Vasilev	Uzbekistan	1:54.94
44	H05 L1	Ken Tomson	Estonia	1:55.06
45	H07 L5	Igor Erhartic	Yugoslavia	1:55.07
46	H06 L6	Vyacheslav Titarenko	Kazakhstan	1:55.34
46	H08 L1	Erwin Maldonado	Venezuela	1:55.34
48	H08 L8	Max Schnettler	Chile	1:55.51
49	H06 L3	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	1:55.56
50	H06 L4	Ronald Cowen	Bermuda	1:55.57
51	H09 L7	Shilo Ayalon	Israel	1:55.61
52	H06 L1	Igor Čerenšek	Croatia	1:55.66
53	H05 L4	Tuck Kar Wong	Malaysia	1:56.10
54	H05 L7	Carl Probert	Fiji	1:56.37
55	H06 L5	Jonas Tilly	Sweden	1:56.97
56	H07 L2	Ivan Grougnet	Andorra	1:57.42
57	H08 L7	Anovar Bennaceur	Tunisia	1:57.53
58	H07 L3	Andrei Zaharov	Moldova	1:57.73
59	H05 L2	Zurab Khomasuridze	Georgia	1:57.78
60	H06 L8	Emanuele Nicolini	San Marino	1:57.87
61	H05 L3	Sergey Tsoy	Uzbekistan	1:58.05
62	H07 L4	Cem Pasaoglu	Turkey	1:58.17
63	H07 L8	William Muriel	Ecuador	1:58.21
64	H05 L8	David Cartin	Costa Rica	1:58.38
65	H05 L5	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	1:58.58
66	H05 L6	Carlos Melendez	El Salvador	1:58.68
67	H04 L1	Youssef Hafdi	Morocco	1:58.94
68	H06 L7	Mohammad Naeem Masri	Syria	1:59.18
69	H04 L3	Kunakorn Yimsomruay	Thailand	1:59.25
70	H06 L2	Mikayel Koloyan	Armenia	2:00.64
71	H03 L5	Babak Farhoudi	Iran	2:01.25
72	H02 L5	Sean Dehere	Barbados	2:02.07
73	H03 L3	Davy Bisslik	Aruba	2:02.23
74	H04 L2	Kenny Roberts	Seychelles	2:02.70
75	H04 L4	Obied Ahmed Al Jassimi	United Arab Emirates	2:03.15
76	H04 L8	Benjamin Wells	Papua New Guinea	2:03.23
77	H03 L8	Bradford Worrell	Saint Lucia	2:03.55
78	H03 L6	Fernando Medrano	Nicaragua	2:03.84
79	H03 L2	Yann Lausan	Tahiti	2:04.92
80	H03 L7	Dean Palacios	Northern Mariana Islands	2:05.04
81	H04 L5	Maher Al-Moatar	Saudi Arabia	2:05.73
82	H03 L1	Mumtaz Ahmed	Pakistan	2:06.01
83	H03 L4	Sergey Dyachkov	Azerbaijan	2:06.42
84	H04 L7	Vasilii Danilov	Kyrgyzstan	2:06.47
85	H04 L6	Barnsley Albert	Seychelles	2:06.82
86	H09 L2	Serhiy Advena	Ukraine	2:07.61
87	H02 L4	Neil Agius	Malta	2:07.68
88	H02 L3	Patrick Boustany	Lebanon	2:08.23
89	H02 L1	Connor Keith	Guam	2:10.62
90	H02 L7	Kin-Vincent Duenas	Guam	2:10.92
91	H02 L2	Clark Randrianandraina	Madagascar	2:12.14
92	H01 L5	Peter James Linch	Zambia	2:14.84
93	H01 L3	Chisela Kanchela	Zambia	2:16.43
94	H01 L4	Kreshnik Gjata	Albania	2:16.76
-	-	Loren Lindborg	Marshall Islands	DQ
-	-	Aldi Gugushka	Albania	DQ
-	-	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	DNS
-	-	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	DNS

References

↑ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-11.
↑ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-11.
↑ Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-02-11.