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

Women's 100m Breaststroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	21 July (prelims + semis); 22 July (final)
Medalists
Luo Xuejuan    China   Amanda Beard    United States   Leisel Jones    Australia
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The Women's 100m Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics 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 Luo Xuejuan (China) on July 22, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Luo Xuejuan	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	Luo Xuejuan	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		1:07.75	q
2	H8 L5	Amanda Beard		1:08.15	q
3	H7 L5	Brooke Hanson		1:08.48	q
4	H9 L6	Sarah Poewe		1:08.72	q
5	H9 L4	Luo Xuejuan		1:08.88	q
6	H8 L7	Vipa Bernhardt		1:09.00	q
7	H9 L7	Rhiannon Leier		1:09.37	q
8	H8 L6	Masami Tanaka		1:09.42	q
9	H9 L3	Mirna Jukić		1:09.43	q
10	H7 L7	Madelon Baans		1:09.81	q
11	H9 L5	Tara Kirk		1:09.83	q
12	H8 L2	Ágnes Kovács		1:10.05	q
13	H9 L8	Majken Thorup		1:10.25	q
14	H7 L4	Emma Igelström		1:10.40	q
15	H7 L1	Maria Östling		1:10.47	q
16	H7 L3	Lauren Van Oosten		1:10.53	q
17	H6 L6			1:10.76
18	H9 L2	Svitlana Bondarenko		1:10.79
19	H7 L6	Luo Nan		1:10.99
19	H7 L2	Elena Bogomazova		1:10.99
21	H9 L1	Yuliya Pidslina		1:11.07
22	H8 L3	Jaime King		1:11.24
23	H8 L8	Diana Remenyi		1:11.35
24	H8 L1			1:11.43
25	H7 L8			1:11.94
26	H5 L5	İlkay Dikmen		1:12.06
27	H6 L2	Smiljana Marinović		1:12.38
28	H6 L7	Natalia Hissamutdinova		1:12.41
29	H5 L3			1:12.67
30	H6 L1			1:12.80
31	H5 L2	Carmela Schlegel		1:12.84
32	H6 L3			1:13.14
33	H6 L8	Agustina De Giovanni		1:13.20
34	H4 L4	Íris Edda Heimisdóttir		1:13.28
35	H5 L4			1:13.47
35	H6 L4	Aikaterini Sarakatsani		1:13.47
37	H6 L5	Emma Robinson		1:13.55
38	H5 L6	Javiera Salcedo		1:13.66
39	H4 L5			1:14.79
40	H5 L1			1:15.19
41	H4 L3	Valeria Silva		1:15.44
42	H5 L8	Patricia Comini-Ribeiro		1:16.04
43	H4 L2			1:16.43
44	H5 L7	Yi Ting Siow		1:17.21
45	H4 L7	Katerine Moreno		1:17.61
46	H4 L1	Varduhi Avetisyan		1:17.67
47	H4 L6	Natalya Filina		1:19.49
48	H4 L8			1:19.53
49	H3 L6			1:19.80
50	H3 L4			1:20.22
51	H3 L5			1:20.84
52	H3 L3			1:22.41
53	H2 L6	Roshendra Vrolijk		1:22.97
54	H3 L1	Samar Nassar		1:23.18
55	H3 L2	Melissa Ashby		1:23.94
56	H2 L3	Sade Daal		1:24.61
57	H3 L7			1:25.48
58	H2 L4			1:26.08
59	H2 L5	Ana Galindo		1:26.50
60	H2 L7	Doli Akhter		1:27.53
61	H1 L3			1:30.94
62	H2 L1	Nayana Shakya		1:34.99
63	H1 L5			1:39.28
64	H1 L4	Pamela Girimbabazi		1:48.12
-	H2 L2	Rovena Marku		DQ
-	-	Éliane Droubry		DNS

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