Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

Women's 200m I.M. at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	20 July 2003 (prelims, semifinals) 21 July 2003 (final)
Medalists
Yana Klochkova    Ukraine   Alice Mills    Australia   Yafei Zhou    China
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The Women's 200m Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 20–21 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam in the morning session of 20 July, with the top-16 finishers advancing to semifinal^[2] heats that evening. The top-8 finishers from the Semifinals then advanced to swim again in the Final^[3] the next evening.

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

• WR: 2:09.72 swum by Yanyan Wu (China) on October 17, 1997 in Shanghai, China.
• CR: 2:10.86 swum by Yanyan Wu (China) on January 16, 1998 in Perth, Australia

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine	2:10.75	CR
2	Alice Mills	Australia	2:12.75
3	Yafei Zhou	China	2:12.92
4	Hui Qi	China	2:14.51
5	Maggie Bowen	USA	2:14.60
6	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	2:14.63
7	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	2:14.65
8	Hanna Scherba	Belarus	2:16.70

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine	2:13.63	q
2	S2 L3	Alice Mills	Australia	2:13.69	q
3	S1 L4	Yafei Zhou	China	2:13.79	q
4	S1 L6	Hanna Scherba	Belarus	2:14.17	q
5	S2 L2	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	2:14.32	q
6	S2 L6	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	2:14.71	q
7	S1 L7	Hui Qi	China	2:14.74	q
8	S2 L5	Maggie Bowen	USA	2:14.79	q
9	S2 L7	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:14.88
10	S2 L1	Gabrielle Rose	USA	2:15.02
11	S1 L3	Marianne Limpert	Canada	2:15.14
12	S1 L5	Alenka Kejžar	Slovenia	2:15.15
13	S1 L2	Elizabeth Warden	Canada	2:15.43
14	S1 L8	Maiko Fujino	Japan	2:16.58
15	S1 L1	Tatiana Rouba	Spain	2:16.73
16	S2 L8	Sara Parise	Italy	2:16.75

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	Yana Klochkova		2:13.74	q
2	H8 L6	Yafei Zhou		2:13.91	q
3	H6 L5	Maggie Bowen		2:14.88	q
4	H7 L3	Alenka Kejžar		2:15.08	q
5	H7 L6	Alice Mills		2:15.37	q
6	H6 L6	Marianne Limpert		2:15.50	q
7	H8 L1	Beatrice Câșlaru		2:15.56	q
8	H7 L4	Hanna Scherba		2:15.78	q
9	H6 L7	Ágnes Kovács		2:16.31	q
10	H6 L4	Elizabeth Warden		2:16.35	q
11	H6 L3	Kirsty Coventry		2:16.52	q
12	H7 L5	Hui Qi		2:16.76	q
13	H8 L5	Gabrielle Rose		2:16.83	q
14	H7 L7	Tatiana Rouba		2:16.85	q
15	H7 L8	Sara Parise		2:17.00	q
16	H8 L7	Maiko Fujino		2:17.03	q
17	H6 L2	Diana Remenyi		2:17.20
18	H5 L4	Aleksandra Urbanczyk		2:17.28
19	H7 L2	Nicole Hetzer		2:17.30
20	H8 L2	Julie Hjorth-Hansen		2:17.34
21	H8 L8	Paula Carballido		2:17.50
22	H5 L7	Helen Norfolk		2:17.79
23	H8 L3	Leisel Jones		2:17.95
24	H4 L4	Joanna Maranhão		2:18.56
25	H5 L5			2:18.74
26	H5 L6	Georgina Bardach		2:18.76
27	H6 L8			2:19.04
28	H5 L8	Aikaterini Sarakatsani		2:19.84
29	H4 L6	Petra Banović		2:20.08
30	H7 L1	Elizabeth Van Welie		2:20.13
31	H4 L2	Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir		2:20.35
32	H5 L3	Mirna Jukić		2:20.36
33	H1 L3	Malin Svahnström		2:20.57
34	H4 L5			2:20.83
35	H4 L3	Yana Martynova		2:22.48
36	H5 L2	Yi Ting Siow		2:25.82
37	H4 L8	Valeria Silva		2:26.61
38	H4 L1	Sabria Dahane		2:27.27
39	H3 L1	Katerine Moreno		2:29.85
40	H3 L3	Khadija Ciss		2:30.28
41	H3 L5			2:30.99
42	H3 L2			2:31.14
43	H3 L6			2:31.92
44	H4 L7	Shrone Austin		2:32.42
45	H3 L7			2:32.61
46	H3 L8	Angela Galea		2:33.32
47	H3 L4			2:33.61
48	H2 L4			2:35.03
49	H2 L5	Ana Galindo		2:39.70
50	H2 L3	Roshendra Vrolijk		2:40.46
51	H2 L7			2:44.29
52	H1 L4	Kiran Khan		2:44.47
53	H1 L5	Jakie Wellman		2:44.99
-	H2 L2	Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana		DQ
-	H5 L1			DQ
-	-	Joscelin Yeo		DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-	Éliane Droubry		DNS

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