Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4x200m Free Relay at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	24 July 2003 (prelims & finals)
Medalists
USA    Australia    China
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The Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam in the morning session, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final^[2] that evening.

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

• WR: 7:55.47 swum by East Germany on August 18, 1987 in Strasbourg, France.
• CR: 7:57.96 swum by China on September 5, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results[]

Final[]

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	USA	Lindsay Benko, Rachel Komisarz, Rhi Jeffrey, Diana Munz	7:55.70	CR
2	Australia	Elka Graham, Linda Mackenzie, Kirsten Thomson, Alice Mills	7:58.42
3	China	Zhou Yafei, Xu Yanwei, Pang Jiaying, Yang Yu	7:58.53
4	Great Britain	Karen Legg, Melanie Marshall, Janine Belton, Karen Pickering	8:00.01
5	Spain	Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero, Laura Roca, Erika Villaécija	8:03.84
6	Sweden	Johanna Sjöberg, Josefin Lillhage, Ida Mattsson, Malin Svahnström	8:05.05
7	Netherlands	Marleen Veldhuis, Manon van Rooijen, Haike van Stralen, Celina Lemmen	8:05.82
8	Canada	Brittany Reimer, Marianne Limpert, Jennifer Fratesi, Laura Nicholls	8:08.42

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat/Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	H3 L4		Rhi Jeffrey, Rachel Komisarz Gabrielle Rose, Margaret Hoelzer	8:02.64	q
2	H2 L4		Yafei Zhou, Jiaying Pang Xu Yanwei, Yu Yang	8:04.97	q
3	H3 L3		Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero Laura Roca, Erika Villaécija	8:05.52	q
4	H3 L5		Janine Belton, Georgina Lee , Karen Legg	8:05.65	q
5	H2 L3		Ida Mattsson, Josefin Lillhage Johanna Sjöberg, Lotta Wänberg	8:06.87	q
6	H3 L6		Manon van Rooijen, Marleen Veldhuis Celina Lemmen, Haike van Stralen	8:07.30	q
7	H2 L5		Giaan Rooney, Linda Mackenzie,	8:07.97	q
8	H1 L5		Brittany Reimer, Jen Button Marianne Limpert, Laura Nicholls	8:08.85	q
9	H1 L4		Alessa Ries, Daniela Götz, Nicole Hetzer	8:09.05
10	H1 L6		, Daria Parshina ,	8:09.98
11	H1 L3		Hanna Miluska, Nicole Zahnd Sandrine Paquier, Chantal Strasser	8:11.91
12	H3 L2		Monique Ferreira, Mariana Brochado Ana Muniz, Paula Ribeiro	8:13.13
13	H1 L2		Sara Parise, Cecilia Vianini Luisa Striani,	8:13.18
14	H2 L2		Zoi Dimoschaki, Marianna Lymperta Eleni Kosti, Zampia Melachroinou	8:15.26
15	H1 L7		Sanja Jovanović, Petra Banović Smiljana Marinović, Anita Galić	8:20.72
16	H3 L7		Hang Yu Sze, Flora Kong Jennifer Ng, Sherry Tsai	8:33.86
17	H2 L7		Shikha Tandon, ,	9:02.37
-	H2 L6		Alison Fitch, Helen Norfolk Hannah McLean, Elizabeth Van Welie	DQ

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