Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 1500 metre freestyle

Women's 1500m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	21 July (prelims); 22 July (final)
Winning time	16 minutes 0.18 seconds
Medalists
Hannah Stockbauer    Germany   Hayley Peirsol    United States   Jana Henke    Germany

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 1500m Freestyle 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-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the event's Final^[2] during the evening session on July 22.

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

• WR: 15:52.10 swum by Janet Evans (USA) on March 26, 1988 in Orlando, USA.
• CR: 16:01.02 swum by Hannah Stockbauer (Germany) on July 28, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	16:00.18	CR
2	Hayley Peirsol	USA	16:09.64
3	Jana Henke	Germany	16:10.13
4	Regina Sytch	Russia	16:13.13
5	Diana Munz	USA	16:14.28
6	Brittany Reimer	Canada	16:15.98
7	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	16:20.41
8	Hua Chen	China	16:29.06

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H2 L5	Hua Chen	China	16:15.55	q
2	H1 L4	Jana Henke	Germany	16:15.93	q
3	H3 L4	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	16:15.95	q
4	H3 L3	Brittany Reimer	Canada	16:16.21	q
5	H2 L4	Diana Munz	United States	16:16.78	q
6	H1 L5	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	16:17.95	q
7	H2 L8	Hayley Peirsol	United States	16:20.34	q
8	H1 L2	Regina Sytch	Russia	16:23.33	q
9	H3 L6	Simona Păduraru	Romania	16:25.50
10	H1 L1	Olga Beresneva	Ukraine	16:27.76	NR
11	H2 L7	Erika Villaécija	Spain	16:32.17
12	H2 L2	Ai Shibata	Japan	16:32.19
13	H2 L3	Taryn Lencoe	Canada	16:35.83
14	H1 L6	Amanda Pascoe	Australia	16:38.70
15	H3 L1	Jana Pechanová	Czech Republic	16:39.75
16	H2 L6	Réka Nagy	Hungary	16:41.81
17	H3 L2	Nayara Ribeiro	Brazil	16:43.97
18	H3 L5	Sashiko Yamada	Japan	16:45.48
19	H3 L7	Sarah Paton	Australia	16:57.10
20	H2 L1	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	16:58.64
21	H1 L7	Maria Bulakhova	Russia	17:00.55
22	H1 L3	Yan Zhang	China	17:14.85
23	H3 L8	Andrea De León	Uruguay	18:05.05

References

1. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 1500m Freestyle - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2013-07-20.
2. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 1500m Freestyle - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2013-07-20.