Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre breaststroke
Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H7 L4 Zoë Baker Great Britain 31.10 q
2 H8 L5 Brooke Hanson Australia 31.24 q
3 H6 L5 Xuejuan Luo China 31.49 q
4 H7 L7 Kristy Kowal United States 31.80 q
5 H7 L6 Tara Kirk United States 31.81 q
6 H6 L6 Sarah Poewe Germany 31.96 q
6 H7 L5 Rhiannon Leier Canada 31.96 q
8 H8 L3 Elena Bogomazova Russia 31.99 q
9 H7 L2 Masami Tanaka Japan 32.04 q
10 H8 L4 Emma Igelström Sweden 32.11 q
11 H6 L4 Leisel Jones Australia 32.18 q
12 H6 L1 Mirna Jukić Austria 32.21 q
13 H6 L2 Vipa Bernhardt Germany 32.30 q
14 H8 L6 Roberta Crescentini Italy 32.39 q
15 H6 L7 Madelon Baans Netherlands 32.46 q
16 H6 L3 Yuliya Pidslina Ukraine 32.54 q
17 H7 L1 Maria Östling Sweden 32.55
18 H7 L3 Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine 32.56
19 H8 L7 Majken Thorup Denmark 32.68
20 H8 L8 Ágnes Kovács Hungary 32.73
Results -- Preliminaries
The Women's 50m Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 26-27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam during the morning session on July 26, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening. At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: