Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke

Women's 50m Backstroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	23 July (prelims + semis); 24 July (final)
Medalists
Nina Zhivanevskaya    Spain   Ilona Hlavackova    Czech Republic   Noriko Inada    Japan
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The Women's 50m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 23–24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 23, 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: 28.25 swum by Sandra Völker (Germany) on June 17, 2000 in Berlin, Germany.
• CR: 28.48 swum by Natalie Coughlin (USA) on July 23, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	28.48	CR
2	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	28.50
3	Noriko Inada	Japan	28.62
4	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	28.65
5	Sandra Völker	Germany	28.69
6	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	28.93
7	Laure Manaudou	France	28.98
8	Haley Cope	USA	28.99

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	28.52	q
2	S2 L4	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	28.62	q
3	S2 L3	Sandra Völker	Germany	28.79	q
4	S1 L6	Haley Cope	USA	28.80	q
4	S2 L7	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	28.80	q
6	S2 L5	Noriko Inada	Japan	28.82	q
7	S1 L3	Laure Manaudou	France	28.86	q
8	S1 L5	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	28.91	q
9	S1 L8	Jiaru Cheng	China	28.94
10	S1 L2	Giaan Rooney	Australia	28.96
11	S2 L6	Mai Nakamura	Japan	29.03
12	S1 L7	Min Ji Shim	South Korea	29.05
13	S2 L2	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	29.20
14	S2 L8	Erin Gammel	Canada	29.25
15	S1 L1	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	29.36
16	S2 L1	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	29.64

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H9 L5	Ilona Hlaváčková		28.67	q
2	H9 L4	Nina Zhivanevskaya		28.85	q
3	H9 L3	Noriko Inada		28.88	q
4	H7 L5	Jennifer Carroll		29.00	q
5	H8 L5	Sandra Völker		29.02	q
6	H8 L3	Laure Manaudou		29.05	q
7	H7 L4	Mai Nakamura		29.11	q
8	H9 L1	Haley Cope		29.17	q
9	H7 L2	Sanja Jovanović		29.18	q
10	H9 L6	Giaan Rooney		29.25	q
11	H8 L4	Louise Ørnstedt		29.26	q
12	H1 L5	Min Ji Shim		29.41	q
13	H8 L8	Hanna-Maria Seppälä		29.43	q
14	H9 L7	Hannah McLean		29.45	q
15	H8 L2	Erin Gammel		29.46	q
15	H9 L8	Jiaru Cheng		29.46	q
17	H8 L1	Shu Zhan		29.47
18	H9 L2	Sophie Edington		29.49
19	H8 L7	Alessandra Cappa		29.54
20	H7 L1	Iryna Amshennikova		29.60
21	H7 L7	Hinkelien Schreuder		29.61
22	H7 L3	Sarah Price		29.66
23	H6 L6	Margaret Hoelzer		29.73
24	H8 L6	Katy Sexton		29.85
25	H1 L4	Sviatlana Khakhlova		29.97
26	H7 L6	Tine Bossuyt		30.06
27	H6 L4	Dominique Diezi		30.10
28	H6 L2			30.18
29	H6 L7	Sherry Tsai		30.19
30	H7 L8	Serrana Fernández		30.20
31	H6 L5	Anna Gostomelsky		30.54
32	H5 L3	Eirini Karastergiou		30.61
33	H5 L4	Kiera Aitken		30.80
34	H5 L8			30.89
35	H6 L8			30.90
36	H5 L6			31.11
37	H2 L2	Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila		31.23
38	H5 L5			31.29
39	H5 L1			31.41
40	H6 L1	Derya Erke		31.42
41	H2 L6			31.52
42	H5 L2	Saida Iskandarova		31.61
43	H5 L7			31.68
44	H6 L3			31.92
45	H4 L5	Valeria Silva		32.33
46	H4 L4	Khadija Ciss		32.48
47	H4 L6	Olga Gnedovskaya		33.82
47	H4 L7			33.82
49	H2 L7	Nicole Hayes		34.37
50	H4 L3			34.62
51	H3 L3	Monika Bakale		35.09
52	H3 L8	Samera Bitar		35.31
53	H4 L1	Rubab Raza		35.75
54	H3 L6	Jakie Wellman		36.14
55	H4 L2	Menaka de Silva		36.15
56	H3 L5	Helena Rojkova		36.32
57	H3 L2	Binta Zahra Diop		36.36
58	H3 L1			37.75
59	H1 L3	Amber Yobech		37.84
60	H3 L4	Ghazal El Jobeili		37.87
61	H3 L7			38.09
62	H4 L8			38.55
63	H2 L5			40.02
64	H2 L3			41.82
-	-			DNS

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