Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100m Breaststroke at the 2003 FINA World Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	21 July (prelims + semis); 22 July (final)
Medalists
Xuejuan Luo   China   Amanda Beard   United States   Leisel Jones   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

The Women's 100m Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Championships swam on 21+22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 21, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals^[2] that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.^[3]

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

• WR: 1:06.52 swum by Penny Heyns (South Africa) on August 23, 1999 in Sydney, Australia.
• CR: 1:07.18 swum by Xuejuan Luo (China) on July 22, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Xuejuan Luo	China	1:06.80
2	Amanda Beard	USA	1:07.42
3	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:07.47
4	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:08.06
5	Tara Kirk	USA	1:08.30
6	Brooke Hanson	Australia	1:08.55
7	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:08.76
8	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	1:09.39

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:06.37	q, WR
2	S1 L4	Amanda Beard	USA	1:07.57	q
3	S2 L3	Xuejuan Luo	China	1:07.76	q
4	S1 L5	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.88	q
5	S2 L7	Tara Kirk	USA	1:08.24	q
6	S2 L5	Brooke Hanson	Australia	1:08.25	q
7	S2 L2	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:08.86	q
8	S2 L6	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	1:09.25	q
9	S1 L3	Vipa Bernhardt	Germany	1:09.50
10	S1 L2	Madelon Baans	Netherlands	1:09.69
11	S1 L6	Masami Tanaka	Japan	1:09.77
12	S1 L1	Emma Igelström	Sweden	1:10.07
13	S1 L8	Lauren Van Oosten	Canada	1:10.15
14	S2 L8	Maria Östling	Sweden	1:10.24
15	S1 L7	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	1:10.37
16	S2 L1	Majken Thorup	Denmark	1:10.51

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:07.75	q
2	H8 L5	Amanda Beard	United States	1:08.15	q
3	H7 L5	Brooke Hanson	Australia	1:08.48	q
4	H9 L6	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:08.72	q
5	H9 L4	Xuejuan Luo	China	1:08.88	q
6	H8 L7	Vipa Bernhardt	Germany	1:09.00	q
7	H9 L7	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	1:09.37	q
8	H8 L6	Masami Tanaka	Japan	1:09.42	q
9	H9 L3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:09.43	q
10	H7 L7	Madelon Baans	Netherlands	1:09.81	q
11	H9 L5	Tara Kirk	United States	1:09.83	q
12	H8 L2	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	1:10.05	q
13	H9 L8	Majken Thorup	Denmark	1:10.25	q
14	H7 L4	Emma Igelström	Sweden	1:10.40	q
15	H7 L1	Maria Östling	Sweden	1:10.47	q
16	H7 L3	Lauren Van Oosten	Canada	1:10.53	q
17	H6 L6	Ingrid Haiden	South Africa	1:10.76
18	H9 L2	Svitlana Bondarenko	Ukraine	1:10.79
19	H7 L6	Nan Luo	China	1:10.99
19	H7 L2	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	1:10.99
21	H9 L1	Yuliya Pidslina	Ukraine	1:11.07
22	H8 L3	Jaime King	Great Britain	1:11.24
23	H8 L8	Diana Remenyi	Hungary	1:11.35
24	H8 L1	Sara Farina	Italy	1:11.43
25	H7 L8	Tamara Sambrailo	Slovenia	1:11.94
26	H5 L5	İlkay Dikmen	Turkey	1:12.06
27	H6 L2	Smiljana Marinović	Croatia	1:12.38
28	H6 L7	Natalia Hissamutdinova	Estonia	1:12.41
29	H5 L3	Ramona Pedretti	Switzerland	1:12.67
30	H6 L1	Roberta Crescentini	Italy	1:12.80
31	H5 L2	Carmela Schlegel	Switzerland	1:12.84
32	H6 L3	Salma Zeinhom	Egypt	1:13.14
33	H6 L8	Agustina De Giovanni	Argentina	1:13.20
34	H4 L4	Íris Edda Heimisdóttir	Iceland	1:13.28
35	H5 L4	Ziada Jardine	South Africa	1:13.47
35	H6 L4	Aikaterini Sarakatsani	Greece	1:13.47
37	H6 L5	Emma Robinson	Ireland	1:13.55
38	H5 L6	Javiera Salcedo	Argentina	1:13.66
39	H4 L5	Barbara Ferreira	Portugal	1:14.79
40	H5 L1	Ka Lei Liu	Hong Kong	1:15.19
41	H4 L3	Valeria Silva	Peru	1:15.44
42	H5 L8	Patricia Comini-Ribeiro	Brazil	1:16.04
43	H4 L2	Ka Yi Suen	Hong Kong	1:16.43
44	H5 L7	Yi Ting Siow	Malaysia	1:17.21
45	H4 L7	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	1:17.61
46	H4 L1	Varduhi Avetisyan	Armenia	1:17.67
47	H4 L6	Natalya Filina	Azerbaijan	1:19.49
48	H4 L8	Sin Ian Lei	Macau	1:19.53
49	H3 L6	Jamie Shufflebarger	Virgin Islands	1:19.80
50	H3 L4	Magdalena Sutanto	Indonesia	1:20.22
51	H3 L5	Alessandra Cenni	San Marino	1:20.84
52	H3 L3	Sivranjani Vaidyanathan	India	1:22.41
53	H2 L6	Roshendra Vrolijk	Aruba	1:22.97
54	H3 L1	Samar Nassar	Jordan	1:23.18
55	H3 L2	Melissa Ashby	Grenada	1:23.94
56	H2 L3	Sade Daal	Suriname	1:24.61
57	H3 L7	Liana Ramerison Rabenja	Madagascar	1:25.48
58	H2 L4	N. Ravojanahary	Madagascar	1:26.08
59	H2 L5	Ana Galindo	Honduras	1:26.50
60	H2 L7	Doli Akhter	Bangladesh	1:27.53
61	H1 L3	Asanti Mickle	Guyana	1:30.94
62	H2 L1	Nayana Shakya	Nepal	1:34.99
63	H1 L5	Mariyam Nafha Ali	Maldives	1:39.28
64	H1 L4	Pamela Girimbabazi	Rwanda	1:48.12
-	H2 L2	Rovena Marku	Albania	DQ
-	-	Éliane Droubry	Ivory Coast	DNS

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