Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100m Backstroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	21 July (prelims + semis); 22 July (final)
Medalists
Antje Buschschulte    Germany   Louise Ørnstedt    Denmark   Katy Sexton    Great Britain

2003 FINA World Championships Barcelona, Spain
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Synchronised swimming
Solo		women
Duet		women
Team		women
Combination		women
Water polo
men (rosters) women (rosters)

The Women's 100m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 21, 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: 59.58 swum by Natalie Coughlin (USA) on August 13, 2002 in Fort Lauderdale, USA.
• CR: 1:00.16 swum by Cihong He (China) on September 10, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:00.50
2	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	1:00.86
2	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	1:00.86
4	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	1:01.18
5	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	1:01.36
6	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	1:01.43
7	Mai Nakamura	Japan	1:01.51
8	Sarah Price	Great Britain	1:01.63

Seminfinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:00.61	q
2	S2 L5	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	1:00.74	q
3	S1 L3	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	1:01.32	q
4	S2 L6	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	1:01.39	q
5	S1 L5	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	1:01.42	q
6	S1 L4	Mai Nakamura	Japan	1:01.47	q
7	S1 L2	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	1:01.59	q
8	S2 L2	Sarah Price	Great Britain	1:01.61	q
9	S2 L3	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	1:01.64
10	S2 L1	Shu Zhan	China	1:01.78
11	S1 L7	Laure Manaudou	France	1:02.42
12	S1 L8	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	1:02.47
12	S1 L6	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	1:02.47
14	S2 L7	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	1:02.80
15	S2 L8	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	1:03.08
16	S1 L1	Xiujun Chen	China	1:03.19

Prelims

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H6 L5	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:01.16	q
2	H7 L3	Mai Nakamura	Japan	1:01.18	q
2	H8 L5	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	1:01.18	q
4	H6 L3	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	1:01.44	q
5	H6 L6	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	1:01.57	q
6	H7 L4	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	1:01.78	q
7	H6 L1	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	1:01.90	q
8	H6 L7	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	1:02.15	q
9	H6 L4	Sarah Price	Great Britain	1:02.21	q
10	H7 L5	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	1:02.23	q
11	H7 L8	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	1:02.43	q
12	H7 L6	Laure Manaudou	France	1:02.61	q
12	H8 L6	Shu Zhan	China	1:02.61	q
14	H6 L2	Xiujun Chen	China	1:02.69	q
15	H7 L1	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	1:02.71	q
16	H8 L7	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	1:02.72	q
17	H1 L2	Min Ji Shim	South Korea	1:02.87
18	H7 L2	Erin Gammel	Canada	1:02.93
19	H8 L2	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	1:03.09
20	H8 L1	Alessandra Cappa	Italy	1:03.13
21	H5 L6	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	1:03.16
22	H8 L4	Natalie Coughlin	United States	1:03.18
23	H7 L7	Giaan Rooney	Australia	1:03.30
24	H6 L8	Hinkelien Schreuder	Netherlands	1:03.40
25	H8 L3	Haley Cope	United States	1:03.45
26	H8 L8	Melissa Morgan	Australia	1:03.52
27	H5 L5	Sherry Tsai	Hong Kong	1:03.93
28	H5 L3	Eirini Karastergiou	Greece	1:04.14
29	H5 L4	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	1:04.94
30	H5 L7	Dominique Diezi	Switzerland	1:05.30
31	H5 L2	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong	Thailand	1:05.34
32	H5 L1	Derya Erke	Turkey	1:05.36
33	H4 L3	Serrana Fernández	Uruguay	1:05.51
34	H3 L6	Anja Rikey Jakobsdóttir	Iceland	1:05.80
35	H4 L1	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	1:06.07
36	H5 L8	Susannah Moonan	Sweden	1:06.27
37	H4 L4	Talita Ribeiro	Brazil	1:06.28
38	H4 L5	Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila	Philippines	1:06.83
39	H1 L3	Berit Aljand	Estonia	1:06.86
39	H4 L6	Edith Van der Schilden	Luxembourg	1:06.86
41	H3 L5	Shikha Tandon	India	1:07.82
42	H4 L2	Danijela Djikanovic	Yugoslavia	1:07.96
43	H3 L4	Agnese Ozolina	Latvia	1:07.97
44	H4 L7	Saida Iskandarova	Uzbekistan	1:08.50
45	H3 L7	Ayeisha Collymore	Trinidad and Tobago	1:08.79
46	H4 L8	Marianella Marin	Costa Rica	1:09.32
47	H3 L2	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	1:09.64
48	H3 L3	Valeria Silva	Peru	1:09.83
49	H3 L1	Susan Anchia	Costa Rica	1:11.84
50	H2 L4	Olga Gnedovskaya	Uzbekistan	1:13.49
51	H2 L3	Krystle Babao	Papua New Guinea	1:13.73
52	H2 L5	Ana Galindo	Honduras	1:15.97
53	H2 L6	Kiran Khan	Pakistan	1:16.04
54	H2 L2	Jakie Wellman	Zambia	1:17.85
55	H2 L7	Binta Zahra Diop	Senegal	1:19.39
56	H3 L8	Helena Rojkova	Turkmenistan	1:20.16
57	H2 L1	Monika Bakale	Congo	1:20.50
58	H1 L5	Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana	Madagascar	1:23.66
59	H1 L4	N. Ravojanahary	Madagascar	1:26.61
60	H1 L6	Aminath Rouya Hussain	Maldives	1:31.91
-	-	Sivranjani Vaidyanathan	India	DNS

References

1. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 50m Backstroke - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2014-05-02.
2. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 100m Backstroke - semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2014-05-02.
3. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 100m Back - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-05-02.