# Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam in the morning session, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final that evening.
At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:
* WR: 7:55.47 swum by East Germany on August 18, 1987 in Strasbourg, France.
* CR: 7:57.96 swum by China on September 5, 1994 in Rome, Italy

## Results
### Final

| Rank | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | USA | Lindsay Benko, Rachel Komisarz, Rhi Jeffrey, Diana Munz | 7:55.70 | CR |
| 2 | Australia | Elka Graham, Linda Mackenzie, Kirsten Thomson, Alice Mills | 7:58.42 | |
| 3 | China | Zhou Yafei, Xu Yanwei, Pang Jiaying, Yang Yu | 7:58.53 | |
| 4 | Great Britain | Karen Legg, Melanie Marshall, Janine Belton, Karen Pickering | 8:00.01 | |
| 5 | Spain | Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero, Laura Roca, Erika Villaécija | 8:03.84 | |
| 6 | Sweden | Johanna Sjöberg, Josefin Lillhage, Ida Mattsson, Malin Svahnström | 8:05.05 | |
| 7 | Netherlands | Marleen Veldhuis, Manon van Rooijen, Haike van Stralen, Celina Lemmen | 8:05.82 | |
| 8 | Canada | Brittany Reimer, Marianne Limpert, Jennifer Fratesi, Laura Nicholls | 8:08.42 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat/Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H3 L4 | United States | Rhi Jeffrey, Rachel Komisarz Gabrielle Rose, Margaret Hoelzer | 8:02.64 | q |
| 2 | H2 L4 | China | Yafei Zhou, Jiaying Pang Xu Yanwei, Yu Yang | 8:04.97 | q |
| 3 | H3 L3 | Spain | Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero Laura Roca, Erika Villaécija | 8:05.52 | q |
| 4 | H3 L5 | Great Britain | Janine Belton, Georgina Lee Karen Nisbet, Karen Legg | 8:05.65 | q |
| 5 | H2 L3 | Sweden | Ida Mattsson, Josefin Lillhage Johanna Sjöberg, Lotta Wänberg | 8:06.87 | q |
| 6 | H3 L6 | Netherlands | Manon van Rooijen, Marleen Veldhuis Celina Lemmen, Haike van Stralen | 8:07.30 | q |
| 7 | H2 L5 | Australia | Giaan Rooney, Heidi Crawford Linda Mackenzie, Melanie Houghton | 8:07.97 | q |
| 8 | H1 L5 | Canada | Brittany Reimer, Jen Button Marianne Limpert, Laura Nicholls | 8:08.85 | q |
| 9 | H1 L4 | Germany | Alessa Ries, Silke Nowotzin Daniela Götz, Nicole Hetzer | 8:09.05 | |
| 10 | H1 L6 | Russia | Polina Shornikova, Daria Parshina Yana Tolkatcheva, Regina Sytch | 8:09.98 | |
| 11 | H1 L3 | Switzerland | Hanna Miluska, Nicole Zahnd Sandrine Paquier, Chantal Strasser | 8:11.91 | |
| 12 | H3 L2 | Brazil | Monique Ferreira, Mariana Brochado Ana Muniz, Paula Ribeiro | 8:13.13 | |
| 13 | H1 L2 | Italy | Sara Parise, Cecilia Vianini Luisa Striani, Veronica Massari | 8:13.18 | |
| 14 | H2 L2 | Greece | Zoi Dimoschaki, Marianna Lymperta Eleni Kosti, Zampia Melachroinou | 8:15.26 | |
| 15 | H1 L7 | Croatia | Sanja Jovanović, Petra Banović Smiljana Marinović, Anita Galić | 8:20.72 | |
| 16 | H3 L7 | Hong Kong | Hang Yu Sze, Flora Kong Jennifer Ng, Sherry Tsai | 8:33.86 | |
| 17 | H2 L7 | India | Shikha Tandon, Ambica Iyengar Sivranjani Vaidyanathan, Richa Mishra | 9:02.37 | |
| - | H2 L6 | New Zealand | Alison Fitch, Helen Norfolk Hannah McLean, Elizabeth Van Welie | DQ | |