Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	23 July (prelims, semifinals) 24 July (final)
Competitors	167
Winning time	48.42 seconds
Medalists
Alexander Popov    Russia   Pieter v.d. Hoogenband    Netherlands   Ian Thorpe    Australia
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The Men's 100 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 23–24 July 2003^[1] in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[2] and Semifinal^[3] heats swam on July 23; while the Final^[4] swam on July 24.

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

• WR: 47.84 by Pieter van den Hoogenband (Netherlands) swum on 19 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia
• CR: 48.33 by Anthony Ervin (USA) swum on 27 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Alexander Popov	Russia	48.42
2	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	48.68
3	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.77
4	Jason Lezak	USA	48.94
5	Andrei Kapralov	Russia	48.95
6	Frédérick Bousquet	France	49.30
7	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	49.51
8	Milorad Čavić	Yugoslavia	49.65

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	48.39	q
2	S2 L5	Alexander Popov	Russia	48.51	q
3	S1 L5	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.71	q
4	S1 L4	Jason Lezak	USA	48.78	q
5	S2 L3	Andrei Kapralov	Russia	48.98	q
6	S1 L2	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	49.29	q
7	S2 L7	Frédérick Bousquet	France	49.44	q
8	S1 L7	Milorad Čavić	Yugoslavia	49.54	q
9	S2 L6	Torsten Spanneberg	Germany	49.55
10	S1 L1	Ashley Callus	Australia	49.56
11	S1 L3	Brent Hayden	Canada	49.60
12	S1 L6	Scott Tucker	USA	49.70
13	S2 L8	Lorenzo Vismara	Italy	49.72
14	S2 L1	Karel Novy	Switzerland	49.77
15	S2 L2	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	49.88
16	S1 L8	Stefan Herbst	Germany	50.12

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H21 L4	Pieter van den Hoogenband		48.86	q
2	H19 L3	Jason Lezak		48.93	q
3	H20 L4	Alexander Popov		48.94	q
4	H19 L4	Ian Thorpe		49.17	q
5	H20 L3	Andrei Kapralov		49.21	q
6	H19 L2	Brent Hayden		49.54	q
7	H19 L1	Torsten Spanneberg		49.58	q
8	H20 L5	Scott Tucker		49.59	q
9	H18 L6	Peter Mankoč		49.63	q
9	H19 L5	Ryk Neethling		49.63	q
11	H21 L6	Frédérick Bousquet		49.67	q
12	H17 L3	Milorad Čavić		49.68	q
13	H20 L8	Karel Novy		49.73	q
14	H21 L5	Ashley Callus		49.74	q
15	H20 L2	Lorenzo Vismara		49.78	q
16	H20 L7	Stefan Herbst		49.87	q
17	H21 L1	Christian Galenda		49.90
18	H20 L1	Johan Kenkhuis		50.07
19	H18 L5	Rolandas Gimbutis		50.12
20	H21 L2	Lars Frölander		50.14
21	H19 L6	Romain Barnier		50.16
22	H21 L3	Salim Iles		50.20
23	H17 L4	Zuo Chen		50.23
24	H18 L8	Vyacheslav Shyrshov		50.24
25	H21 L7	Attila Zubor		50.28
26	H18 L4	Eduard Lorente		50.33
27	H16 L3	Danil Haustov		50.42
28	H19 L7	Roland Schoeman		50.43
29	H18 L2			50.52
30	H18 L3	Jader Souza		50.57
31	H21 L8	Yannick Lupien		50.58
32	H15 L2	Örn Arnarson		50.59
33	H18 L1	Ricardo Bousquet		50.73
34	H20 L6	Duje Draganja		50.76
35	H11 L8	Andrii Serdinov		50.77
36	H16 L7	Matti Rajakylä		50.83
37	H17 L1	Daisuke Hosokawa		50.86
38	H17 L8	Rodrigo Castro		50.89
39	H18 L7	Stefan Nystrand		50.91
40	H17 L2	Pavel Lagoun		50.99
41	H19 L8	Jere Hård		51.01
42	H16 L4	Paulius Viktoravičius		51.08
43	H16 L6	Igor Čerenšek		51.20
44	H16 L5	Bartosz Kizierowski		51.21
45	H16 L2	Ravil Nachaev		51.23
46	H15 L1	Romāns Miloslavskis		51.37
47	H16 L8			51.57
48	H13 L4	Camilo Becerra		51.68
49	H14 L7	Apostolos Tsagkarakis		51.73
50	H17 L5	Nuno Laurentino		51.83
51	H14 L1	Paul Kutscher		51.88
52	H14 L5	Octavian Guţu		52.06
52	H14 L6	Shai Livnat		52.06
54	H14 L8	Carl Probert		52.10
54	H15 L5	Cameron Gibson		52.10
56	H15 L6	Ryan Pini		52.12
57	H15 L8	Alexandros Aresti		52.17
58	H14 L2	Željko Panić		52.18
59	H17 L6	Min Suk Kim		52.25
60	H12 L4	Ismael Ortiz		52.45
61	H15 L4			52.46
62	H15 L3	Francisco Picasso		52.55
63	H14 L4	Alexander Agafonov		52.59
64	H12 L7			52.60
64	H14 L3	Albert Subirats		52.60
66	H15 L7	Allen Ong		52.66
67	H13 L3	Vyacheslav Titarenko		52.83
68	H12 L2	Adil Bellaz		52.84
69	H13 L2	Ronald Cowen		52.99
70	H13 L1	Maximiliano Schnettler		53.07
71	H12 L3	Alexandr Ivlev		53.11
72	H16 L1	Aytekin Mindan		53.13
73	H11 L6			53.15
74	H12 L5	Howard Hinds		53.19
75	H11 L5			53.25
76	H11 L2	Nicholas Bovell		53.29
77	H07 L1	Kenny Roberts		53.33
78	H11 L7			53.35
79	H10 L3			53.51
80	H13 L7			53.52
81	H12 L6	Ashby Brendan		53.55
82	H10 L2			53.62
83	H06 L7	Gentle Offoin		53.70
84	H08 L4	Babak Farhoudi		83.76
85	H12 L8	Diego Mularoni		53.88
86	H11 L4	Wing Fu		53.90
87	H10 L4	Gregory Arkhurst		54.01
88	H10 L5	Martyn Forde		54.07
89	H13 L8	Anovar Bennaceur		54.25
90	H12 L1			54.32
91	H09 L6			54.34
92	H09 L4			54.49
93	H10 L7	Zurab Khomasuridze		54.52
94	H09 L5			54.58
95	H09 L8	Obied Ahmed Al Jassimi		54.67
96	H06 L6			54.88
96	H13 L6			54.88
98	H10 L6	Alois Dansou		54.89
99	H08 L6			54.90
100	H17 L7	Shaohua Huang		54.98
101	H09 L1			55.07
102	H09 L7			55.16
103	H08 L7			55.17
104	H10 L8			55.23
105	H11 L1	Mikayel Koloyan		55.34
106	H07 L8	Abed Rahman Kaaki		55.41
107	H06 L4	Onan Thom		55.44
107	H08 L5	Jamie Peterkin		55.44
109	H08 L3	Joao Aguiar		55.48
110	H08 L2	Davy Bisslik		55.52
111	H07 L4	Miguel Navarro		55.61
112	H10 L1	Mauricio Prudencio		55.70
113	H07 L7			55.86
114	H08 L8			56.05
115	H04 L5	Rony Bakale		56.15
115	H05 L3			56.15
117	H06 L8			56.18
118	H08 L1			56.20
119	H09 L3			56.25
120	H06 L5	Bradford Worrell		56.27
121	H09 L2			56.36
122	H06 L2	Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw		56.49
122	H07 L5			56.49
124	H06 L3			56.65
125	H07 L3			56.75
126	H04 L4			57.07
127	H05 L4			57.15
128	H04 L3			57.20
129	H06 L1	Omar Núñez		57.27
130	H05 L1			57.30
131	H02 L2			57.44
132	H05 L2	Jean Laurent Ravera		57.49
133	H04 L1			57.66
133	H05 L7			57.66
135	H07 L6	Sergey Dyachkov		57.73
136	H01 L5	Yan Lin Aung		57.79
137	H05 L8			57.93
138	H05 L6			58.04
139	H03 L3			58.21
140	H03 L5			58.35
141	H04 L2			58.42
142	H07 L2			58.48
143	H03 L8			58.60
144	H04 L6			58.62
145	H04 L8			58.80
146	H03 L4			59.44
147	H03 L2	Neil Agius		59.81
148	H03 L7	Leonel Matonse		59.87
149	H03 L1			59.96
150	H04 L7	Kreshnik Gjata		1:00.13
151	H02 L6	Chisela Kanchela		1:01.51
152	H02 L4	Edgar Luberenga		1:01.61
153	H03 L6			1:01.78
154	H02 L8			1:02.97
155	H02 L1			1:03.88
156	H01 L2	Hassan Mubah		1:04.28
157	H01 L1			1:07.09
158	H01 L3			1:19.42
-	H01 L4			DQ
-	H01 L6			DQ
-	H05 L5			DQ
-	-	Christoph Bühler		DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS

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