# 2003 World Aquatics Championships

The 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships were held July 12–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. The championships featured competition in all 5 of FINA's disciplines: Swimming, Diving, Synchronised swimming, Water Polo, and Open Water Swimming.
Competition was held in the facilities all around the city: Palau Sant Jordi, Piscines Bernat Picornell, Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc, Club de Natació de Barcelona and Port Vell.

## Schedule

Competition dates were:
* Diving: July 13–19 and 21;
* Synchronized Swimming: July 13–19;
* Open Water: July 13 (5K), 16 (10K) and 19 (25K);
* Water Polo:
* Swimming: July 20–27.

## Medal table

* Host nation (Spain)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States (USA) | 12 | 13 | 6 | 31 |
| 2 | Russia (RUS) | 10 | 5 | 6 | 21 |
| 3 | Australia (AUS) | 8 | 12 | 6 | 26 |
| 4 | China (CHN) | 7 | 4 | 8 | 19 |
| 5 | Germany (GER) | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
| 6 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 11 | Canada (CAN) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 13 | Spain (ESP)* | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 14 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 20 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 23 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | Tunisia (TUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (28 entries) | Totals (28 entries) | 62 | 65 | 59 | 186 |

## Results
### Diving
#### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1 m springboard | Xiang Xu (CHN) | Wang Kenan (CHN) | Joona Puhakka (FIN) |
| 3 m springboard | Aleksandr Dobroskok (RUS) | Peng Bo (CHN) | Dmitri Sautin (RUS) |
| 10 m platform | Alexandre Despatie (CAN) | Mathew Helm (AUS) | Tian Liang (CHN) |
| 3 m synchro springboard | Aleksandr Dobroskok (RUS) Dmitri Sautin (RUS) | Wang Tianling (CHN) Wang Feng (CHN) | Andreas Wels (GER) Tobias Schellenberg (GER) |
| 10 m synchro platform | Mathew Helm (AUS) Robert Newbery (AUS) | Roman Volodkov (UKR) Anton Zakharov (UKR) | Tian Liang (CHN) Hu Jia (CHN) |

#### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1 m springboard | Irina Lashko (AUS) | Conny Schmalfuss (GER) | Blythe Hartley (CAN) |
| 3 m springboard | Guo Jingjing (CHN) | Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS) | Wu Minxia (CHN) |
| 10 m platform | Émilie Heymans (CAN) | Lao Lishi (CHN) | Li Na (CHN) |
| 3 m synchro springboard | Guo Jingjing (CHN) Wu Minxia (CHN) | Vera Ilyina (RUS) Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS) | Paola Espinosa (MEX) Laura Sánchez (MEX) |
| 10 m synchro platform | Lao Lishi (CHN) Li Ting (CHN) | Loudy Tourky (AUS) Lynda Dackiw (AUS) | Evgenya Olshevskaya (RUS) Svetlana Timoshinina (RUS) |

### Open water swimming
#### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 5 km | Evgeni Kochkarov (RUS) | Christian Hein (GER) | Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS) |
| 10 km | Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS) | Christian Hein (GER) | David Meca (ESP) |
| 25 km | Yuri Kudinov (RUS) | David Meca (ESP) | Petar Stoychev (BUL) |

#### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 5 km | Viola Valli (ITA) | Jana Pechanová (CZE) | Britta Kamrau (GER) |
| 10 km | Viola Valli (ITA) | Angela Maurer (GER) | Edith van Dijk (NED) |
| 25 km | Edith van Dijk (NED) | Britta Kamrau (GER) | Angela Maurer (GER) |

### Synchronised swimming

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Solo routine | Virginie Dedieu (FRA) | Anastasia Ermakova (RUS) | Gemma Mengual (ESP) |
| Duet routine | Anastasia Davydova (RUS) Anastasia Ermakova (RUS) | Miya Tachibana (JPN) Miho Takeda (JPN) | Gemma Mengual (ESP) Paola Tirados (ESP) |
| Team routine | Russia | Japan | United States |
| Combination routine | Japan | United States Spain | |

### Water polo
#### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Team | Hungary Tibor Benedek Péter Biros Rajmund Fodor István Gergely Tamás Kásás Gergely Kiss Norbert Madaras Tamás Molnár Barnabás Steinmetz Zoltán Szécsi Tamás Varga Zsolt Varga Attila Vári | Italy Alberto Angelini Fabio Bencivenga Fabrizio Buonocore Alessandro Calcaterra Roberto Calcaterra Maurizio Felugo Goran Fiorentini Marco Gerini Andrea Mangiante Francesco Postiglione Bogdan Rath Carlo Silipo Stefano Tempesti | Serbia and Montenegro Aleksandar Ćirić Vladimir Gojković Danilo Ikodinović Viktor Jelenić Predrag Jokić Nikola Kuljača Slobodan Nikić Aleksandar Šapić Dejan Savić Denis Šefik Vanja Udovičić Vladimir Vujasinović Boris Zloković |

#### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Team | United States Nicolle Payne Heather Petri Ericka Lorenz Brenda Villa Ellen Estes Natalie Golda Margaret Dingeldein Jacqueline Frank Heather Moody Robin Beauregard Amber Stachowski Gabrielle Domanic Thalia Munro | Italy Francesca Conti Martina Miceli Carmela Allucci Silvia Bosurgi Erika Lava Manuela Zanchi Tania di Mario Cinzia Ragusa Giusi Malato Alexandra Araujo Maddalena Musumeci Melania Grego Noémi Tóth | Russia Valentina Voronisova Natalya Shepelina Yekaterina Salimova Sofia Konoukh Yelena Smurova Galina Zlotnikova Anastassia Zoubkova Veronika Linkova Tatiana Petrova Olga Turova Ekaterina Shishova Svetlana Bogdanova Maria Yaina |