# Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 26–27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and semifinal heats swam on July 26, while the Final swam on July 27.
Prior to the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:
* WR: 24.13 swum by Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) on September 22, 2000 in Sydney, Australia
* CR: 24.45 swum by Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) on July 28, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Inge de Bruijn | Netherlands | 24.47 |
| 2 | Alice Mills | Australia | 25.07 |
| 3 | Libby Lenton | Australia | 25.08 |
| 4 | Jenny Thompson | USA | 25.10 |
| 5 | Sandra Völker | Germany | 25.14 |
| 6 | Martina Moravcová | Slovakia | 25.17 |
| 7 | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 25.49 |
| 8 | Sviatlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 25.53 |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S1 L4 | Inge de Bruijn | Netherlands | 24.75 | q |
| 2 | S1 L7 | Libby Lenton | Australia | 25.08 | q |
| 3 | S2 L5 | Jenny Thompson | USA | 25.09 | q |
| 4 | S1 L5 | Alice Mills | Australia | 25.14 | q |
| 5 | S2 L3 | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 25.27 | q |
| 6 | S1 L1 | Sviatlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 25.30 | q |
| 7 | S2 L2 | Sandra Völker | Germany | 25.34 | q |
| 8 | S2 L7 | Martina Moravcová | Slovakia | 25.35 | q |
| 9 | S2 L4 | Alison Sheppard | Great Britain | 25.36 | |
| 10 | S1 L3 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 25.39 | |
| 11 | S2 L6 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 25.46 | |
| 12 | S1 L8 | Olga Mukomol | Ukraine | 25.49 | |
| 13 | S1 L6 | Haley Cope | USA | 25.52 | |
| 14 | S2 L1 | Anna-Karin Kammerling | Sweden | 25.60 | |
| 15 | S2 L8 | Ana Belén Palomo | Spain | 25.67 | |
| 16 | S1 L2 | Daniela Götz | Germany | 25.78 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H12 L4 | Alison Sheppard | Great Britain | 25.16 | q |
| 2 | H14 L4 | Inge de Bruijn | Netherlands | 25.26 | q |
| 3 | H14 L5 | Jenny Thompson | United States | 25.27 | q |
| 4 | H13 L3 | Alice Mills | Australia | 25.32 | q |
| 5 | H12 L3 | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 25.43 | q |
| 6 | H12 L6 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 25.46 | q |
| 6 | H13 L4 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 25.46 | q |
| 8 | H13 L6 | Haley Cope | United States | 25.56 | q |
| 9 | H14 L3 | Sandra Völker | Germany | 25.69 | q |
| 10 | H14 L6 | Daniela Götz | Germany | 25.70 | q |
| 11 | H12 L5 | Martina Moravcová | Slovakia | 25.72 | q |
| 12 | H13 L5 | Lisbeth Lenton | Australia | 25.76 | q |
| 13 | H14 L2 | Anna-Karin Kammerling | Sweden | 25.79 | q |
| 13 | H14 L1 | Sviatlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 25.79 | q |
| 15 | H12 L1 | Ana Belén Palomo | Spain | 25.84 | q |
| 16 | H12 L2 | Olga Mukomol | Ukraine | 25.88 | q |
| 17 | H13 L7 | Judith Draxler | Austria | 25.89 | |
| 18 | H14 L8 | Flávia Delaroli | Brazil | 26.01 | |
| 19 | H11 L6 | Wu Binan | China | 26.02 | |
| 20 | H13 L2 | Cristina Chiuso | Italy | 26.03 | |
| 21 | H01 L3 | Ryu Yoon-Ji | South Korea | 26.06 | |
| 21 | H12 L7 | Eileen Coparropa | Panama | 26.06 | |
| 23 | H11 L3 | Ivana Lange | Slovakia | 26.10 | |
| 24 | H13 L8 | Laura Nicholls | Canada | 26.13 | |
| 25 | H02 L3 | Triin Aljand | Estonia | 26.15 | |
| 26 | H14 L7 | Sun So-Eun | South Korea | 26.20 | |
| 27 | H10 L1 | Zhu Yingwen | China | 26.32 | |
| 28 | H13 L1 | Marina Chepurkova | Russia | 26.33 | |
| 29 | H10 L5 | Nery Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 26.44 | |
| 29 | H11 L8 | Fabienne Nadarajah | Austria | 26.44 | |
| 31 | H09 L4 | Julie Douglas | Ireland | 26.48 | |
| 32 | H11 L4 | Rosalind Brett | Great Britain | 26.50 | |
| 33 | H11 L1 | Alison Fitch | New Zealand | 26.56 | |
| 34 | H11 L2 | Lauren Roets | South Africa | 26.60 | |
| 35 | H11 L5 | Paulina Barzycka | Poland | 26.64 | |
| 36 | H10 L4 | Jana Myskova | Czech Republic | 26.68 | |
| 37 | H09 L6 | Jennifer Ng | Hong Kong | 26.69 | |
| 37 | H10 L3 | Florencia Szigeti | Argentina | 26.69 | |
| 39 | H08 L8 | Marianne Limpert | Canada | 26.76 | |
| 40 | H12 L8 | Jana Kolukanova | Estonia | 26.81 | |
| 41 | H08 L3 | Eleni Kosti | Greece | 26.87 | |
| 42 | H09 L1 | Kolbrún Ýr Kristjánsdóttir | Iceland | 26.89 | |
| 43 | H10 L2 | Rebeca Gusmão | Brazil | 26.94 | |
| 44 | H09 L3 | Hannah McLean | New Zealand | 26.95 | |
| 45 | H10 L6 | Moe Thu Aung | Myanmar | 27.07 | |
| 46 | H09 L7 | Maj Hillesund | Norway | 27.09 | |
| 47 | H09 L8 | Maryia Shcherba | Belarus | 27.14 | |
| 47 | H10 L8 | Lara Heinz | Luxembourg | 27.14 | |
| 49 | H08 L5 | Sharntelle McLean | Trinidad and Tobago | 27.16 | |
| 50 | H08 L2 | Yelena Skalinskaya | Kazakhstan | 27.19 | |
| 51 | H07 L5 | Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane | Papua New Guinea | 27.21 | |
| 52 | H08 L7 | Ximena Vilar | Venezuela | 27.28 | |
| 53 | H09 L2 | Yamilé Bahamonde | Ecuador | 27.29 | |
| 54 | H08 L1 | Shikha Tandon | India | 27.34 | |
| 55 | H07 L6 | Agnese Ozolina | Latvia | 27.45 | |
| 56 | H07 L4 | Larissa Komt | Peru | 27.51 | |
| 57 | H08 L4 | Maria Tregubova | Moldova | 27.54 | |
| 58 | H08 L6 | Marianella Marin | Costa Rica | 27.57 | |
| 59 | H07 L3 | Diana López | Venezuela | 27.65 | |
| 60 | H07 L7 | Leonore Kelleher | Ireland | 27.67 | |
| 61 | H06 L4 | Kiera Aitken | Bermuda | 27.97 | |
| 62 | H07 L2 | Lizza Danila | Philippines | 28.29 | |
| 63 | H07 L8 | Ayeisha Collymore | Trinidad and Tobago | 28.41 | |
| 64 | H06 L2 | Khadija Ciss | Senegal | 28.45 | |
| 65 | H06 L6 | Geraldine Arce | Nicaragua | 28.56 | |
| 66 | H07 L1 | Carolina Cerqueda | Andorra | 28.62 | |
| 67 | H06 L5 | Roshendra Vrolijk | Aruba | 28.76 | |
| 68 | H02 L2 | Nicole Hayes | Palau | 29.05 | |
| 69 | H06 L7 | Sade Daal | Suriname | 29.14 | |
| 70 | H06 L3 | Menaka de Silva | Sri Lanka | 29.28 | |
| 71 | H06 L8 | Jakie Wellman | Zambia | 29.33 | |
| 72 | H05 L4 | Shrone Austin | Seychelles | 29.36 | |
| 73 | H06 L1 | Man Wai Fong | Macau | 29.57 | |
| 74 | H05 L3 | Eliane Droubry Dohi | Ivory Coast | 29.59 | |
| 75 | H05 L5 | Cheok Mei Ma | Macau | 29.78 | |
| 76 | H04 L4 | Eva Donde | Kenya | 29.84 | |
| 77 | H04 L2 | Binta Zahra Diop | Senegal | 30.33 | |
| 77 | H05 L6 | Emerlinda Zefanias Zamba | Mozambique | 30.33 | |
| 79 | H04 L6 | Tracy-Ann Route | Federated States of Micronesia | 30.47 | |
| 80 | H04 L8 | Clara Monika Bakale | Republic of the Congo | 30.56 | |
| 81 | H02 L8 | Asanti Mickle | Guyana | 30.60 | |
| 82 | H05 L7 | Samar Nassar | Jordan | 30.65 | |
| 83 | H05 L1 | Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana | Madagascar | 30.83 | |
| 84 | H04 L7 | Rovena Marku | Albania | 30.85 | |
| 85 | H03 L3 | Liana Ramerison Rabenja | Madagascar | 31.00 | |
| 86 | H02 L7 | Aminath Rouya Hussain | Maldives | 31.12 | |
| 87 | H05 L8 | Rubab Raza | Pakistan | 31.25 | |
| 88 | H04 L3 | Genevieve Meledje Lasm Quissoh | Ivory Coast | 31.30 | |
| 89 | H03 L6 | Sameera Bitar | Bahrain | 31.37 | |
| 90 | H03 L5 | Doli Akhter | Bangladesh | 31.42 | |
| 90 | H05 L2 | Ghazal El Jobeili | Lebanon | 31.42 | |
| 92 | H04 L1 | Joana Gjini | Albania | 31.95 | |
| 93 | H03 L4 | Melissa Ashby | Grenada | 32.17 | |
| 94 | H02 L4 | Jumana Taraif | Bahrain | 32.40 | |
| 95 | H01 L5 | Evelyn Otto | Palau | 33.30 | |
| 96 | H03 L8 | Christal Clashing | Antigua and Barbuda | 34.36 | |
| 97 | H01 L6 | Ket Sivan | Cambodia | 34.68 | |
| 98 | H02 L5 | Vilayphone Vongphachanh | Laos | 35.55 | |
| 99 | H02 L6 | Amira Edrahi | Libya | 42.05 | |
| 100 | H03 L1 | Ginette Botende | Republic of the Congo | 44.88 | |
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