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

Women's 50m Breaststroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	26 July (prelims + semis); 27 July (final)
Medalists
Xuejuan Luo    China   Brooke Hanson    Australia   Zoë Baker    Great Britain
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The Women's 50m Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 26–27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 26, 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: 30.57 swum by Zoë Baker (Great Britain) on July 30, 2002 in Manchester, UK.
• CR: 30.84 swum by Xuejuan Luo (China) on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Xuejuan Luo	China	30.67
2	Brooke Hanson	Australia	31.13
3	Zoë Baker	Great Britain	31.37
4	Leisel Jones	Australia	31.50
5	Tara Kirk	USA	31.87
6	Kristy Kowal	USA	31.96
7	Sarah Poewe	Germany	32.03
8	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	32.27

Seminfinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L5	Xuejuan Luo	China	30.64	q, CR
2	S1 L4	Brooke Hanson	Australia	31.11	q
3	S2 L7	Leisel Jones	Australia	31.23	q
4	S2 L4	Zoë Baker	Great Britain	31.29	q
5	S2 L3	Tara Kirk	USA	31.40	q
6	S1 L5	Kristy Kowal	USA	31.79	q
7	S1 L3	Sarah Poewe	Germany	31.94	q
8	S1 L6	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	31.99	q
9	S1 L2	Emma Igelström	Sweden	32.02
10	S2 L2	Masami Tanaka	Japan	32.07
11	S2 L8	Madelon Baans	Netherlands	32.14
12	S1 L1		Italy	32.21
13	S2 L1	Vipa Bernhardt	Germany	32.42
14	S2 L6	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	32.44
15	S1 L7	Mirna Jukić	Austria	32.46
16	S1 L8	Yuliya Pidslina	Ukraine	32.57

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H7 L4	Zoë Baker		31.10	q
2	H8 L5	Brooke Hanson		31.24	q
3	H6 L5	Xuejuan Luo		31.49	q
4	H7 L7	Kristy Kowal		31.80	q
5	H7 L6	Tara Kirk		31.81	q
6	H6 L6	Sarah Poewe		31.96	q
6	H7 L5	Rhiannon Leier		31.96	q
8	H8 L3	Elena Bogomazova		31.99	q
9	H7 L2	Masami Tanaka		32.04	q
10	H8 L4	Emma Igelström		32.11	q
11	H6 L4	Leisel Jones		32.18	q
12	H6 L1	Mirna Jukić		32.21	q
13	H6 L2	Vipa Bernhardt		32.30	q
14	H8 L6			32.39	q
15	H6 L7	Madelon Baans		32.46	q
16	H6 L3	Yuliya Pidslina		32.54	q
17	H7 L1	Maria Östling		32.55
18	H7 L3	Svitlana Bondarenko		32.56
19	H8 L7	Majken Thorup		32.68
20	H8 L8	Ágnes Kovács		32.73
21	H8 L2	Emma Robinson		32.93
22	H7 L8	Natalia Hissamutdinova		32.94
23	H5 L7	Carmela Schlegel		33.00
24	H4 L5			33.36
25	H5 L5			33.37
25	H5 L6	Lauren Van Oosten		33.37
27	H5 L4			33.39
28	H5 L8	Nan Luo		33.40
29	H4 L3	Javiera Salcedo		33.89
30	H5 L3			33.90
31	H5 L1	İlkay Dikmen		33.98
31	H8 L1			33.98
33	H4 L7			34.00
34	H4 L8	Íris Edda Heimisdóttir		34.01
35	H4 L4	Aikaterini Sarakatsani		34.02
36	H4 L1	Valeria Silva		34.08
37	H4 L2			34.19
38	H4 L6	Patricia Comini-Ribeiro		34.73
39	H3 L4	Varduhi Avetisyan		35.59
40	H3 L3	Katerine Moreno		35.60
41	H3 L6			36.45
42	H1 L1	Natalya Filina		36.58
43	H2 L6	Roshendra Vrolijk		37.18
44	H3 L2	Éliane Droubry		37.20
45	H3 L7	Samar Nassar		37.46
46	H3 L5			37.96
47	H3 L8	Melissa Ashby		38.14
48	H2 L4	Sade Daal		38.37
48	H3 L1			38.37
50	H2 L7	Doli Akhter		38.41
51	H2 L3	Rovena Marku		39.74
52	H1 L2			40.03
53	H2 L2	Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana		40.13
54	H2 L8	Jakie Wellman		42.63
55	H1 L5			43.53
56	H1 L7	Evelyn Otto		44.92
57	H1 L4	Vilayphone Vongphachanh		44.50
58	H2 L5			54.51
-	H6 L8	Smiljana Marinović		DQ
-	-			DNS
-	-	Nayana Shakya		DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS

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