Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Introduction The '''Women's 200 Breaststroke''' event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 – 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and semifinal heats swam on July 24, with the Final swum on July 25.At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:*'''WR''': 2:22.99 swum by Hui Qi (China) on 13 April 2001 in Hangzhou, China. *'''CR''': 2:24.90 swum by Ágnes Kovács (Hungary) on 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan
Results ===Final=== Place  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Amanda Beard    2:22.99   =WR 2  Leisel Jones    2:24.33   3  Hui Qi    2:25.78  4  Anne Poleska     2:26.35 5  Mirna Jukić    2:26.38  6  Sarah Poewe    2:26.72  7  Masami Tanaka    2:28.55  8  Diana Remenyi   2:29.20  ===Semifinals=== Rank  Heat + Lane  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  S1 L4  Amanda Beard    2:25.54  q 2  S2 L3  Hui Qi    2:26.30  q 3  S2 L4  Mirna Jukić    2:26.46  q 4  S2 L5  Anne Poleska    2:26.53  q 5  S1 L3  Leisel Jones    2:26.59  q 6  S1 L5  Masami Tanaka    2:27.62  q 7  S2 L6  Sarah Poewe    2:27.65  q 8  S1 L2  Diana Remenyi    2:28.12  q 9  S2 L2  Ágnes Kovács    2:28.18   10  S2 L7  Beatrice Câșlaru    2:28.78   11  S1 L8  Nan Luo    2:28.79   11  S1 L6  Yuliya Pidslina    2:28.79   13  S1 L7  Kristy Kowal    2:29.19   14  S2 L8  Lauren van Oosten    2:30.21   15  S1 L1  Ingrid Haiden    2:31.57   16  S2 L1  Rhiannon Leier    2:31.63  ===Preliminaries=== Rank  Heat+Lane  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  H5 L4  Mirna Jukić    2:27.91  q 2  H4 L4  Amanda Beard    2:27.95  q 3  H4 L3  Anne Poleska    2:28.34  q 4  H4 L5  Masami Tanaka    2:28.58  q 5  H6 L4  Hui Qi    2:28.74  q 6  H6 L5  Leisel Jones    2:28.79  q 7  H6 L6  Sarah Poewe    2:28.90  q 8  H6 L2  Yuliya Pidslina    2:28.97  q 9  H4 L6  Ágnes Kovács    2:29.74  q 10  H5 L6  Diana Remenyi    2:29.79  q 11  H4 L7  Beatrice Câșlaru    2:29.84  q 12  H5 L5  Kristy Kowal    2:30.41  q 13  H4 L1  Rhiannon Leier    2:30.71  q 14  H3 L4  Ingrid Haiden    2:31.37  q 15  H6 L1  Lauren Van Oosten    2:31.41  q 16  H6 L3  Nan Luo    2:31.42  q 17  H5 L2  Sarah Katsoulis    2:31.89   18  H6 L7  Elena Bogomazova    2:32.44   19  H5 L7  Sara Farina    2:32.82   20  H5 L8  İlkay Dikmen    2:33.31   21  H2 L5  Tamara Sambrailo    2:34.14   22  H5 L3  Emma Igelström    2:35.03   23  H3 L3  Natalia Hissamutdinova    2:35.42   24  H3 L2  Ramona Pedretti    2:35.94   25  H3 L1  Oleksandra Bogata    2:36.48   26  H3 L7  Barbara Ferreira    2:36.69   27  H3 L5  Yi Ting Siow    2:36.77   28  H2 L3  Elisabeth Jarland    2:36.96   29  H3 L6  Joanna Maranhão    2:37.59   30  H3 L8  Íris Edda Heimisdóttir    2:38.04   31  H6 L8  Agustina De Giovanni    2:38.81   32  H2 L4  Carmela Schlegel    2:42.05   33  H5 L1  Salma Zeinhom    2:43.72   34  H1 L5  Katerine Moreno    2:44.99   35  H2 L6  Ka Lei Liu    2:46.00   36  H2 L8  Sin Ian Lei    2:47.50   37  H2 L7  Magdalena Sutanto    2:51.79   38  H1 L3  Jamie Shufflebarger    2:52.72   39  H1 L4  Alessandra Cenni    2:56.42   40  H1 L6  Éliane Droubry    2:57.51   41  H2 L2  Natalya Filina    2:58.67   42  H1 L2  Roshendra Vrolijk    3:02.93   43  H1 L7  N. Ravojanahary    3:07.03   -  H2 L1  Valeria Silva    DQ   -  -  Jaime King    DNS   -  -  Smiljana Marinović    DNS
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