Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle

Women's 1500m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	21 July (prelims); 22 July (final)
Winning time	16 minutes 0.18 seconds
Medalists
Hannah Stockbauer    Germany   Hayley Peirsol    United States   Jana Henke    Germany
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The Women's 1500m Freestyle 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-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the event's Final^[2] during the evening session on July 22.

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

• WR: 15:52.10 swum by Janet Evans (USA) on March 26, 1988 in Orlando, USA.
• CR: 16:01.02 swum by Hannah Stockbauer (Germany) on July 28, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	16:00.18	CR
2	Hayley Peirsol	USA	16:09.64
3	Jana Henke	Germany	16:10.13
4	Regina Sych	Russia	16:13.13
5	Diana Munz	USA	16:14.28
6	Brittany Reimer	Canada	16:15.98
7	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	16:20.41
8	Chen Hua	China	16:29.06

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H2 L5	Chen Hua		16:15.55	q
2	H1 L4	Jana Henke		16:15.93	q
3	H3 L4	Hannah Stockbauer		16:15.95	q
4	H3 L3	Brittany Reimer		16:16.21	q
5	H2 L4	Diana Munz		16:16.78	q
6	H1 L5	Rebecca Cooke		16:17.95	q
7	H2 L8	Hayley Peirsol		16:20.34	q
8	H1 L2	Regina Sych		16:23.33	q
9	H3 L6	Simona Păduraru		16:25.50
10	H1 L1	Olga Beresneva		16:27.76	NR
11	H2 L7	Erika Villaécija		16:32.17
12	H2 L2	Ai Shibata		16:32.19
13	H2 L3			16:35.83
14	H1 L6	Amanda Pascoe		16:38.70
15	H3 L1	Jana Pechanová		16:39.75
16	H2 L6	Réka Nagy		16:41.81
17	H3 L2	Nayara Ribeiro		16:43.97
18	H3 L5	Sashiko Yamada		16:45.48
19	H3 L7	Sarah Paton		16:57.10
20	H2 L1	Anja Čarman		16:58.64
21	H1 L7	Maria Bulakhova		17:00.55
22	H1 L3			17:14.85
23	H3 L8			18:05.05

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