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

Women's 50m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	26 July (prelims, semifinals) 27 July (final)
Winning time	24.47 seconds
Medalists
Inge de Bruijn    Netherlands   Alice Mills    Australia   Libby Lenton    Australia
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The Women's 50m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 26–27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and semifinal^[2] heats swam on July 26, while the Final^[3] swam on July 27.

Prior to the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 24.13 swum by Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) on September 22, 2000 in Sydney, Australia
• CR: 24.45 swum by Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) on July 28, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Inge de Bruijn	Netherlands	24.47
2	Alice Mills	Australia	25.07
3	Libby Lenton	Australia	25.08
4	Jenny Thompson	USA	25.10
5	Sandra Völker	Germany	25.14
6	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	25.17
7	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	25.49
8	Sviatlana Khakhlova	Belarus	25.53

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Inge de Bruijn	Netherlands	24.75	q
2	S1 L7	Libby Lenton	Australia	25.08	q
3	S2 L5	Jenny Thompson	USA	25.09	q
4	S1 L5	Alice Mills	Australia	25.14	q
5	S2 L3	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	25.27	q
6	S1 L1	Sviatlana Khakhlova	Belarus	25.30	q
7	S2 L2	Sandra Völker	Germany	25.34	q
8	S2 L7	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	25.35	q
9	S2 L4	Alison Sheppard	Great Britain	25.36
10	S1 L3	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	25.39
11	S2 L6	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	25.46
12	S1 L8	Olga Mukomol	Ukraine	25.49
13	S1 L6	Haley Cope	USA	25.52
14	S2 L1	Anna-Karin Kammerling	Sweden	25.60
15	S2 L8	Ana Belén Palomo	Spain	25.67
16	S1 L2	Daniela Götz	Germany	25.78

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H12 L4	Alison Sheppard		25.16	q
2	H14 L4	Inge de Bruijn		25.26	q
3	H14 L5	Jenny Thompson		25.27	q
4	H13 L3	Alice Mills		25.32	q
5	H12 L3	Marleen Veldhuis		25.43	q
6	H12 L6	Hanna-Maria Seppälä		25.46	q
6	H13 L4	Therese Alshammar		25.46	q
8	H13 L6	Haley Cope		25.56	q
9	H14 L3	Sandra Völker		25.69	q
10	H14 L6	Daniela Götz		25.70	q
11	H12 L5	Martina Moravcová		25.72	q
12	H13 L5	Lisbeth Lenton		25.76	q
13	H14 L2	Anna-Karin Kammerling		25.79	q
13	H14 L1	Sviatlana Khakhlova		25.79	q
15	H12 L1	Ana Belén Palomo		25.84	q
16	H12 L2	Olga Mukomol		25.88	q
17	H13 L7	Judith Draxler		25.89
18	H14 L8	Flávia Delaroli		26.01
19	H11 L6			26.02
20	H13 L2	Cristina Chiuso		26.03
21	H01 L3	Ryu Yoon-Ji		26.06
21	H12 L7	Eileen Coparropa		26.06
23	H11 L3			26.10
24	H13 L8	Laura Nicholls		26.13
25	H02 L3	Triin Aljand		26.15
26	H14 L7	Sun So-Eun		26.20
27	H10 L1	Zhu Yingwen		26.32
28	H13 L1	Marina Chepurkova		26.33
29	H10 L5	Nery Mantey Niangkouara		26.44
29	H11 L8			26.44
31	H09 L4			26.48
32	H11 L4	Rosalind Brett		26.50
33	H11 L1	Alison Fitch		26.56
34	H11 L2			26.60
35	H11 L5	Paulina Barzycka		26.64
36	H10 L4	Jana Myskova		26.68
37	H09 L6	Jennifer Ng		26.69
37	H10 L3	Florencia Szigeti		26.69
39	H08 L8	Marianne Limpert		26.76
40	H12 L8	Jana Kolukanova		26.81
41	H08 L3	Eleni Kosti		26.87
42	H09 L1	Kolbrún Ýr Kristjánsdóttir		26.89
43	H10 L2	Rebeca Gusmão		26.94
44	H09 L3	Hannah McLean		26.95
45	H10 L6	Moe Thu Aung		27.07
46	H09 L7			27.09
47	H09 L8	Maryia Shcherba		27.14
47	H10 L8	Lara Heinz		27.14
49	H08 L5	Sharntelle McLean		27.16
50	H08 L2	Yelena Skalinskaya		27.19
51	H07 L5	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane		27.21
52	H08 L7			27.28
53	H09 L2	Yamilé Bahamonde		27.29
54	H08 L1	Shikha Tandon		27.34
55	H07 L6	Agnese Ozolina		27.45
56	H07 L4			27.51
57	H08 L4	Maria Tregubova		27.54
58	H08 L6			27.57
59	H07 L3			27.65
60	H07 L7			27.67
61	H06 L4	Kiera Aitken		27.97
62	H07 L2	Lizza Danila		28.29
63	H07 L8			28.41
64	H06 L2	Khadija Ciss		28.45
65	H06 L6	Geraldine Arce		28.56
66	H07 L1	Carolina Cerqueda		28.62
67	H06 L5	Roshendra Vrolijk		28.76
68	H02 L2	Nicole Hayes		29.05
69	H06 L7	Sade Daal		29.14
70	H06 L3	Menaka de Silva		29.28
71	H06 L8	Jakie Wellman		29.33
72	H05 L4	Shrone Austin		29.36
73	H06 L1			29.57
74	H05 L3	Eliane Droubry Dohi		29.59
75	H05 L5			29.78
76	H04 L4	Eva Donde		29.84
77	H04 L2	Binta Zahra Diop		30.33
77	H05 L6	Emerlinda Zefanias Zamba		30.33
79	H04 L6	Tracy-Ann Route		30.47
80	H04 L8	Clara Monika Bakale		30.56
81	H02 L8			30.60
82	H05 L7	Samar Nassar		30.65
83	H05 L1	Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana		30.83
84	H04 L7	Rovena Marku		30.85
85	H03 L3			31.00
86	H02 L7	Aminath Rouya Hussain		31.12
87	H05 L8	Rubab Raza		31.25
88	H04 L3			31.30
89	H03 L6	Sameera Bitar		31.37
90	H03 L5	Doli Akhter		31.42
90	H05 L2	Ghazal El Jobeili		31.42
92	H04 L1			31.95
93	H03 L4	Melissa Ashby		32.17
94	H02 L4			32.40
95	H01 L5	Evelyn Otto		33.30
96	H03 L8	Christal Clashing		34.36
97	H01 L6	Ket Sivan		34.68
98	H02 L5	Vilayphone Vongphachanh		35.55
99	H02 L6	Amira Edrahi		42.05
100	H03 L1			44.88
-	-	Joscelin Yeo		DNS
-	-	Marjorie Sagne		DNS
-	-	Dominique Diezi		DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-	Nayana Shakya		DNS
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-	-	Larissa Inangorore		DNS
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