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

Women's 100m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	24 July (prelims, semifinals) 25 July (final)
Winning time	54.37 seconds
Medalists
Hanna-Maria Seppälä    Finland   Jodie Henry    Australia   Jenny Thompson    United States
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The Women's 100m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 24–25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and semifinal^[2] heats were swum on July 24; the Final^[3] swam in the evening session on July 25.

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

• WR: 53.77 swum by Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) on September 20, 2000, in Sydney, Australia
• CR: 54.01 swum by Jingyi Le (China) on September 5, 1994, in Rome, Italy

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	54.37
2	Jodie Henry	Australia	54.58
3	Jenny Thompson	USA	54.65
4	Alena Popchanka	Belarus	54.79
5	Libby Lenton	Australia	54.82
6	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	54.86
7	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	54.91
8	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	55.17

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	54.48	q
2	S2 L3	Jodie Henry	Australia	54.78	q
3	S1 L4	Jenny Thompson	USA	54.81	q
4	S1 L3	Libby Lenton	Australia	54.92	q
5	S1 L5	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	55.00	q
6	S2 L5	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	55.04	q
7	S1 L6	Alena Popchanka	Belarus	55.13	q
8	S1 L2	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	55.20	q
9	S2 L6	Chantal Groot	Netherlands	55.23
10	S1 L7	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	55.63
11	S2 L2	Petra Dallmann	Germany	55.80
12	S2 L7	Solenne Figuès	France	56.04
13	S2 L1	Nery-Mantey Niangkouara	Greece	56.10
14	S2 L8	Paulina Barzycka	Poland	56.17
15	S1 L1	Johanna Sjöberg	Sweden	56.48
16	S1 L8	Elina Partõka	Estonia	56.50

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H11 L4	Hanna-Maria Seppälä		54.82	q
2	H12 L3	Jenny Thompson		54.83	q
3	H11 L2	Marleen Veldhuis		55.15	q
4	H11 L3	Martina Moravcová		55.19	q
5	H10 L4	Jodie Henry		55.37	q
6	H10 L5	Libby Lenton		55.44	q
7	H11 L6	Yu Yang		55.72	q, scratched
8	H10 L7	Chantal Groot		55.78	q
9	H12 L5	Alena Popchanka		55.82	q
10	H11 L5	Petra Dallmann		55.86	q
11	H12 L6	Antje Buschschulte		55.95	q
12	H10 L3	Xu Yanwei		55.98	q, scratched
13	H12 L1	Solenne Figuès		56.02	q
14	H09 L4	Tomoko Nagai		56.16	q
15	H10 L6	Alison Sheppard		56.17	q, scratched
16	H12 L7	Johanna Sjöberg		56.20	q
17	H10 L8	Paulina Barzycka		56.39
18	H08 L4	Elina Partõka		56.43
19	H09 L3	Yoon Ji Ryu		56.46
20	H09 L8	Nery-Mantey Niangkouara		56.50
20	H10 L2	Hanna Scherba		56.50
22	H10 L1	Kathryn Evans		56.53
23	H09 L7	Laura Nicholls		56.57
24	H09 L5	Flávia Delaroli		56.61
25	H09 L2	Jana Myskova		56.63
25	H11 L7	Olga Mukomol		56.63
27	H09 L1	Eleni Kosti		56.68
27	H12 L2	Therese Alshammar		56.68
29	H08 L1	Florencia Szigeti		56.79
30	H12 L8			56.94
31	H12 L4	Natalie Coughlin		56.98
32	H08 L8	Nataliya Khudyakova		57.08
33	H01 L1	So Eun Sun		57.25
34	H08 L2	Dominique Diezi		57.30
35	H08 L5	Jana Kolukanova		57.45
36	H09 L6	Marina Tchepourkova		57.67
37	H08 L3	Rebeca Gusmão		57.88
38	H07 L2	Kolbrún Ýr Kristjánsdóttir		57.94
39	H07 L3	Julie Hjorth-Hansen		58.12
40	H07 L6	Marjorie Sagne		58.17
41	H07 L4	Lara Heinz		58.23
42	H07 L5			58.53
43	H07 L1	Agnese Ozoliņa		58.57
44	H06 L5	Jennifer Ng		58.71
45	H07 L7	Shikha Tandon		58.82
46	H06 L6			58.99
47	H05 L7	Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir		59.07
48	H05 L5	Anna-Liza Mopio		59.16
49	H05 L3	Sharntelle McLean		59.28
50	H06 L2			59.64
51	H06 L1	Yamilé Bahamonde		59.69
51	H06 L8	Yelena Skalinskaya		59.69
53	H05 L4	Maria Tregubova		59.96
54	H04 L3	Kiera Aitken		1:00.16
55	H06 L7			1:00.45
56	H06 L3	Irina Shlemova		1:00.67
57	H04 L4	Khadija Ciss		1:00.82
58	H05 L2			1:00.96
59	H05 L6	Lizza Danila		1:01.07
60	H06 L4			1:01.23
61	H05 L1	Carolina Cerqueda		1:01.55
62	H04 L2	Geraldine Arce		1:02.29
63	H04 L7			1:02.32
64	H01 L3	Nicole Hayes		1:02.38
65	H03 L2	Shrone Austin		1:02.67
66	H04 L5			1:03.07
67	H04 L6	Roshendra Vrolijk		1:03.28
68	H04 L1			1:03.30
69	H03 L5	Jakie Wellman		1:03.47
69	H03 L3			1:03.47
71	H04 L8	Simona Muccioli		1:04.11
72	H03 L4	Sade Daal		1:04.70
73	H03 L7	Eva Donde		1:05.65
74	H02 L5	Binta Zahra Diop		1:06.75
75	H02 L4			1:07.37
76	H02 L6	Emerlinda Zefanias Zamba		1:08.25
77	H03 L6	Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana		1:08.30
78	H01 L7			1:08.61
79	H01 L4	Samera Bitar		1:08.75
80	H02 L8	Monika Bakale		1:08.98
81	H03 L1	Ghazal El Jobeili		1:09.86
82	H02 L2	Rovena Marku		1:10.08
83	H02 L7			1:11.18
84	H01 L6	Aminath Rouya Hussain		1:11.58
85	H02 L3	Rubab Raza		1:12.16
86	H01 L5			1:15.76
-	H03 L8	Éliane Droubry		DQ
-	-	Federica Pellegrini		DNS
-	-	Alison Fitch		DNS
-	-	Marianne Limpert		DNS
-	-	Joscelin Yeo		DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-	Larissa Inangorore		DNS

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