Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley
Rank Heat/Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 S2 L4 Michael Phelps USA 1:57.52 q , WR
2 S2 L5 Massimiliano Rosolino Italy 1:59.84 q
3 S1 L4 George Bovell Trinidad and Tobago 1:59.86 q
4 S2 L6 Takahiro Mori Japan 2:00.29 q
5 S2 L8 Ian Thorpe Australia 2:00.42 q
6 S1 L7 Brian Johns Canada 2:00.98 q
7 S1 L5 Kevin Clements USA 2:01.04 q
8 S1 L6 Jani Sievinen Finland 2:01.08 q
9 S1 L2 Cezar Bădiță Romania 2:01.58 NR
10 S2 L2 Oussama Mellouli Tunisia 2:01.64
11 S1 L3 Vytautas Janušaitis Lithuania 2:01.67
12 S2 L3 Christian Keller Germany 2:01.76
13 S2 L1 Robin Francis Great Britain 2:01.89
14 S1 L8 Justin Norris Australia 2:02.09
15 S1 L1 Peng Wu China 2:02.38
16 S2 L7 Tamás Kerékjártó Hungary 2:02.81
Results -- Semifinals
The Men's 200 Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24-25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam July 24; the Final was July 25. At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: