# Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming competition of the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships consisted of 40 long course (50m) events, swum July 20–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Swimming's 40 events were split evenly between males and females (20 each) and were:
* freestyle (free): 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500;
* backstroke (back): 50, 100 and 200;
* breaststroke (breast): 50, 100 and 200;
* butterfly (fly): 50, 100 and 200;
* Individual Medley (IM): 200 and 400; and
* relay: 4×100 and 4×200 freestyle, and 4×100 medley.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 50m free details | Alexander Popov  Russia | 21.92 CR | Mark Foster  Great Britain | 22.20 | Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands | 22.29 |
| 100m free details | Alexander Popov  Russia | 48.42 | Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands | 48.68 | Ian Thorpe  Australia | 48.77 |
| 200m free details | Ian Thorpe  Australia | 1:45.14 | Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands | 1:46.43 | Grant Hackett  Australia | 1:46.85 |
| 400m free details | Ian Thorpe  Australia | 3:42.58 | Grant Hackett  Australia | 3:45.17 | Dragoş Coman  Romania | 3:46.87 NR |
| 800m free details | Grant Hackett  Australia | 7:43.82 | Larsen Jensen  USA | 7:48.09 AM | Igor Chervynskyi  Ukraine | 7:53.15 NR |
| 1500m free details | Grant Hackett  Australia | 14:43.14 | Igor Chervynskyi  Ukraine | 15:01.04 NR | Erik Vendt  USA | 15:01.28 |
| 50m back details | Thomas Rupprath  Germany | 24.80 WR | Matt Welsh  Australia | 25.01 | Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa | 25.07 |
| 100m back details | Aaron Peirsol  USA | 53.61 CR | Arkady Vyatchanin  Russia Matt Welsh  Australia | 53.92 | not awarded | not awarded |
| 200m back details | Aaron Peirsol  USA | 1:55.92 | Gordan Kožulj  Croatia | 1:57.47 NR | Simon Dufour  France | 1:57.90 |
| 50m breast details | James Gibson  Great Britain | 27.56 | Oleg Lisogor  Ukraine | 27.74 | Mihály Flaskay  Hungary | 27.79 |
| 100m breast details | Kosuke Kitajima  Japan | 59.78 WR | Brendan Hansen  USA | 1:00.21 | James Gibson  Great Britain | 1:00.37 |
| 200m breast details | Kosuke Kitajima  Japan | 2:09.42 WR | Ian Edmond  Great Britain | 2:10.92 | Brendan Hansen  USA | 2:11.11 |
| 50m fly details | Matt Welsh  Australia | 23.43 WR | Ian Crocker  USA | 23.62 | Yevgeny Korotyshkin  Russia | 23.73 |
| 100m fly details | Ian Crocker  USA | 50.98 WR | Michael Phelps  USA | 51.10 | Andrei Serdinov  Ukraine | 51.59 ER |
| 200m fly details | Michael Phelps  USA | 1:54.35 | Takashi Yamamoto  Japan | 1:55.52 | Tom Malchow  USA | 1:55.66 |
| 200m IM details | Michael Phelps  USA | 1:56.04 WR | Ian Thorpe  Australia | 1:59.66 OC | Massimiliano Rosolino  Italy | 1:59.71 |
| 400m IM details | Michael Phelps  USA | 4:09.09 WR | László Cseh  Hungary | 4:10.79 ER | Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia | 4:15.36 AF |
| 4 × 100 m free relay details | Russia Andrei Kapralov Ivan Usov Denis Pimankov Alexander Popov | 3:14.06 CR, ER | USA Scott Tucker Neil Walker Ryan Wochomurka Jason Lezak | 3:14.80 | France Romain Barnier Julien Sicot Fabien Gilot Frédérick Bousquet | 3:15.66 NR |
| 4 × 200 m free relay details | Australia Grant Hackett Craig Stevens Nicholas Sprenger Ian Thorpe | 7:08.58 | USA Michael Phelps Nate Dusing Aaron Peirsol Klete Keller | 7:10.26 AM | Germany Johannes Oesterling Lars Conrad Stefan Herbst Christian Keller | 7:14.02 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay details | USA Aaron Peirsol Brendan Hansen Ian Crocker Jason Lezak | 3:31.54 WR | Russia Arkady Vyatchanin Roman Ivanovski Igor Marchenko Alexander Popov | 3:34.72 ER | Japan Tomomi Morita Kosuke Kitajima Takashi Yamamoto Daisuke Hosokawa | 3:36.12 AS |
Legend: WR – World Record; CR – Championship Record

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 50m free details | Inge de Bruijn  Netherlands | 24.47 | Alice Mills  Australia | 25.07 | Libby Lenton  Australia | 25.08 |
| 100m free details | Hanna-Maria Seppälä  Finland | 54.37 | Jodie Henry  Australia | 54.58 | Jenny Thompson  USA | 54.65 |
| 200m free details | Alena Popchanka  Belarus | 1:58.32 | Martina Moravcová  Slovakia | 1:58.44 | Yang Yu  China | 1:58.54 |
| 400m free details | Hannah Stockbauer  Germany | 4:06.75 | Éva Risztov  Hungary | 4:07.24 | Diana Munz  USA | 4:07.67 |
| 800m free details | Hannah Stockbauer  Germany | 8:23.66 CR | Diana Munz  USA | 8:24.19 | Rebecca Cooke  Great Britain | 8:28.45 |
| 1500m free details | Hannah Stockbauer  Germany | 16:00.18 CR, NR | Hayley Peirsol  USA | 16:09.64 | Jana Henke  Germany | 16:10.13 |
| 50m back details | Nina Zhivanevskaya  Spain | 28.48 CR | Ilona Hlaváčková  Czech Republic | 28.50 | Noriko Inada  Japan | 28.62 |
| 100m back details | Antje Buschschulte  Germany | 1:00.50 | Louise Ørnstedt  Denmark Katy Sexton  Great Britain | 1:00.86 | not awarded | not awarded |
| 200m back details | Katy Sexton  Great Britain | 2:08.74 | Margaret Hoelzer  USA | 2:09.24 | Stanislava Komarova  Russia | 2:10.17 |
| 50m breast details | Luo Xuejuan  China | 30.67 | Brooke Hanson  Australia | 31.13 | Zoë Baker  Great Britain | 31.37 |
| 100m breast details | Luo Xuejuan  China | 1:06.80 | Amanda Beard  USA | 1:07.42 | Leisel Jones  Australia | 1:07.47 |
| 200m breast details | Amanda Beard  USA | 2:22.99 =WR | Leisel Jones  Australia | 2:24.33 OC | Qi Hui  China | 2:25.78 |
| 50m fly details | Inge de Bruijn  Netherlands | 25.84 CR | Jenny Thompson  USA | 26.00 | Anna-Karin Kammerling  Sweden | 26.06 |
| 100m fly details | Jenny Thompson  USA | 57.96 CR | Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland | 58.22 | Martina Moravcová  Slovakia | 58.24 |
| 200m fly details | Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland | 2:07.56 | Éva Risztov  Hungary | 2:07.68 | Yuko Nakanishi  Japan | 2:08.08 |
| 200m IM details | Yana Klochkova  Ukraine | 2:10.75 | Alice Mills  Australia | 2:12.75 OC | Zhou Yafei  China | 2:12.92 |
| 400m IM details | Yana Klochkova  Ukraine | 4:36.74 | Éva Risztov  Hungary | 4:37.39 | Beatrice Câșlaru  Romania | 4:41.86 |
| 4 × 100 m free relay details | USA Natalie Coughlin Lindsay Benko Rhi Jeffrey Jenny Thompson | 3:38.09 | Germany Petra Dallmann Katrin Meissner Antje Buschschulte Sandra Völker | 3:38.73 | Australia Libby Lenton Elka Graham Jodie Henry Alice Mills | 3:38.83 OC |
| 4 × 200 m free relay details | USA Lindsay Benko Rachel Komisarz Rhi Jeffrey Diana Munz | 7:55.70 CR, AM | Australia Elka Graham Linda Mackenzie Kirsten Thomson Alice Mills | 7:58.42 OC | China Zhou Yafei Xu Yanwei Pang Jiaying Yang Yu | 7:58.53 |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay details | China Zhan Shu Luo Xuejuan Zhou Yafei Yang Yu | 3:59.89 CR, AS | USA Natalie Coughlin Amanda Beard Jenny Thompson Lindsay Benko | 4:00.83 | Australia Giaan Rooney Leisel Jones Jessicah Schipper Jodie Henry | 4:01.37 |
Legend: WR – World Record; CR – Championship Record

### Medal standings

* Host nation (Spain)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States (USA) | 11 | 12 | 5 | 28 |
| 2 | Australia (AUS) | 6 | 10 | 6 | 22 |
| 3 | Germany (GER) | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | China (CHN) | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Netherlands (NED) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 9 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Spain (ESP)* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 15 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Tunisia (TUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (24 entries) | Totals (24 entries) | 40 | 42 | 38 | 120 |