Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle
Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 S2 L4 Lindsay Benko USA 1:59.13 q
2 S1 L5 Elka Graham Australia 1:59.37 q
3 S1 L3 Solenne Figuès France 1:59.38 q
4 S2 L6 Alena Popchanka Belarus 1:59.50 q
5 S1 L4 Yu Yang China 1:59.51 q
6 S2 L5 Josefin Lillhage Sweden 1:59.62 q
7 S1 L2 Rhi Jeffrey USA 1:59.76 q
8 S1 L6 Martina Moravcová Slovakia 1:59.79 q
9 S2 L1 Zoi Dimoschaki Greece 1:59.93
10 S2 L7 Xu Yanwei China 2:00.32
11 S1 L8 Karen Pickering Great Britain 2:00.89
12 S2 L3 Melanie Marshall Great Britain 2:01.05
13 S1 L1 Petra Dallmann Germany 2:01.20
14 S2 L2 Tomoko Nagai Japan 2:01.69
15 S1 L7 Mariana Brochado Brazil 2:01.74
16 S2 L8 Kim Hyun-Joo South Korea 2:01.88
Results -- Semifinals
The Women's 200m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 22-23 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and semifinal heats swam on July 22, while the Final swam on July 23. Prior to the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: