Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke
Introduction The '''Men's 200 Backstroke''' event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 24–25, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were on 24 July with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The Final swam on 25 July.At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:*'''WR''': 1:55.15 swum by Aaron Peirsol (USA) on March 22, 2002 in Minneapolis, USA*'''CR''': 1:57.13 swum by Aaron Peirsol (USA) on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan
Results ===Final=== Place  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Aaron Peirsol    1:55.92  2  Gordan Kožulj    1:57.47  3 Simon Dufour    1:57.90  4  Bryce Hunt    1:57.92  5  Matt Welsh    1:57.94  6  Arkady Vyatchanin    1:58.07  7  Răzvan Florea    1:58.66  8  Blaž Medvešek    1:58.96 ===Semifinals=== Rank  Heat + Lane  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  S2 L4  Aaron Peirsol    1:55.82  q, CR 2  S2 L5  Arkady Vyatchanin    1:57.88  q 3  S1 L5  Gordan Kožulj    1:57.94  q 4  S1 L6  Bryce Hunt    1:58.04  q 5  S1 L4  Matt Welsh    1:58.34  q 6  S1 L2  Răzvan Florea    1:58.52  q 7  S2 L6  Simon Dufour    1:58.81  q 8  S1 L3  Gregor Tait    1:59.02  ''swim off'' 8  S1 L7  Blaž Medvešek    1:59.02  ''swim off'', q 10  S2 L2  Yoav Gath    1:59.22   11  S2 L7  Markus Rogan    1:59.29   12  S2 L1  Steffen Driesen    1:59.40   13  S2 L3  László Cseh    1:59.45   14  S2 L8  Keith Beavers    1:59.86   15  S1 L1  Jorge Sánchez    2:00.19   16  S1 L8  Helge Meeuw    2:00.21  '''Swim-off for 8th'''# Blaz Medvesk (Slovenia) -- 1:58.61—q# Gregor Tait (Great Britain) -- 1:58.80===Preliminaries=== Rank  Heat+Lane  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  H8 L4  Aaron Peirsol    1:57.28  q 2  H6 L5  Matt Welsh    1:58.26  q 3  H8 L1  Arkady Vyatchanin    1:59.18  q 4  H7 L4  Gordan Kožulj    1:59.20  q 5  H8 L6  László Cseh    1:59.49  q 6  H8 L2  Gregor Tait    1:59.62  q 7  H8 L3  Simon Dufour    1:59.68  q 8  H7 L2  Bryce Hunt    1:59.71  q 9  H7 L8  Yoav Gath    1:59.82  q 10  H8 L5  Răzvan Florea    1:59.96  q 11  H7 L5  Markus Rogan    2:00.04  q 12  H6 L7  Blaž Medvešek    2:00.06  q 12  H8 L7  Steffen Driesen    2:00.06  q 14  H7 L6  Jorge Sánchez    2:00.27  q 15  H7 L3  Keith Beavers    2:00.56  q 16  H6 L8  Helge Meeuw    2:00.73  q 17  H5 L1  Anton Bugayov    2:00.76   18  H6 L2  Ray Hass    2:00.77   19  H4 L3  Tomomi Morita    2:01.10   20  H5 L2  Volodymyr Nikolaychuk    2:01.35   21  H6 L6  Evgueni Alechine    2:01.42   22  H5 L7  Alex Lim    2:01.43   23  H6 L3  Ouyang Kunpeng    2:01.44   24  H7 L1  Klaas Erik Zwering    2:01.56   25  H6 L4  James Goddard    2:01.91   26  H5 L4  Rogério Romero    2:02.06   27  H6 L1  Cameron Gibson    2:02.36   28  H5 L5  Ahmed Hussein    2:02.45   29  H4 L4  Pavel Suškov    2:02.65   30  H8 L8  Rui Yu    2:02.80   31  H7 L7  Viktor Bodrogi    2:03.22   32  H5 L6  Min Sung    2:04.10   33  H5 L8  Paulo Machado    2:04.21   34  H3 L6  Květoslav Svoboda    2:04.96   35  H5 L3  Sander Ganzevles    2:05.05   36  H4 L2  Martin Viilep    2:05.82   37  H4 L5  Andrei Mihailov    2:08.30   38  H3 L2  Jared Heine    2:08.88   39  H3 L4  Juan Carlo Antonio Piccio    2:10.18   40  H4 L8  Ashby Brendan    2:10.40   41  H3 L3  Yau Sun Fai    2:10.55   42  H2 L5  Kunakorn Yimsomruay    2:11.18   43  H3 L1  Long Do Huy    2:13.43   44  H4 L6  Yury Zaharov    2:13.81   45  H4 L1  Guillermo Andres Ramirez Lemis    2:14.18   46  H4 L7  Mauricio Prudencio    2:14.30   47  H3 L5  Mikhail Alekseyev    2:14.55   48  H2 L4  Oleg Deikrishvili    2:16.10   49  H2 L6  Mohammad Nazeri    2:18.09   50  H3 L8  Rony Bakale    2:19.03   51  H2 L8  Seung Gin Lee    2:19.89   52  H2 L3  Omar Abu Faris    2:20.02   53  H2 L1  Chi Lon Lei    2:21.29   54  H1 L4  Ammar Musaed Al Tamimi    2:22.56   55  H2 L2  Nuno Rola    2:25.33   56  H1 L5  Kabir Walia    2:25.49   57  H1 L6  Patrick Boustany    2:27.31   58  H1 L3  Clark Randrianandraina    2:33.65   59  H1 L2  Muzeya Muzyamba    2:34.69   -  -  Ryan Pini    DNS
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