# Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley

The Women's 200m Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 20–21 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam in the morning session of 20 July, with the top-16 finishers advancing to semifinal heats that evening. The top-8 finishers from the Semifinals then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.
At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:
* WR: 2:09.72 swum by Yanyan Wu (China) on October 17, 1997 in Shanghai, China.
* CR: 2:10.86 swum by Yanyan Wu (China) on January 16, 1998 in Perth, Australia

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:10.75 | CR |
| 2 | Alice Mills | Australia | 2:12.75 | |
| 3 | Yafei Zhou | China | 2:12.92 | |
| 4 | Hui Qi | China | 2:14.51 | |
| 5 | Maggie Bowen | USA | 2:14.60 | |
| 6 | Ágnes Kovács | Hungary | 2:14.63 | |
| 7 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:14.65 | |
| 8 | Hanna Scherba | Belarus | 2:16.70 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S2 L4 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:13.63 | q |
| 2 | S2 L3 | Alice Mills | Australia | 2:13.69 | q |
| 3 | S1 L4 | Yafei Zhou | China | 2:13.79 | q |
| 4 | S1 L6 | Hanna Scherba | Belarus | 2:14.17 | q |
| 5 | S2 L2 | Ágnes Kovács | Hungary | 2:14.32 | q |
| 6 | S2 L6 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:14.71 | q |
| 7 | S1 L7 | Hui Qi | China | 2:14.74 | q |
| 8 | S2 L5 | Maggie Bowen | USA | 2:14.79 | q |
| 9 | S2 L7 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:14.88 | |
| 10 | S2 L1 | Gabrielle Rose | USA | 2:15.02 | |
| 11 | S1 L3 | Marianne Limpert | Canada | 2:15.14 | |
| 12 | S1 L5 | Alenka Kejžar | Slovenia | 2:15.15 | |
| 13 | S1 L2 | Elizabeth Warden | Canada | 2:15.43 | |
| 14 | S1 L8 | Maiko Fujino | Japan | 2:16.58 | |
| 15 | S1 L1 | Tatiana Rouba | Spain | 2:16.73 | |
| 16 | S2 L8 | Sara Parise | Italy | 2:16.75 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H8 L4 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:13.74 | q |
| 2 | H8 L6 | Yafei Zhou | China | 2:13.91 | q |
| 3 | H6 L5 | Maggie Bowen | United States | 2:14.88 | q |
| 4 | H7 L3 | Alenka Kejžar | Slovenia | 2:15.08 | q |
| 5 | H7 L6 | Alice Mills | Australia | 2:15.37 | q |
| 6 | H6 L6 | Marianne Limpert | Canada | 2:15.50 | q |
| 7 | H8 L1 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:15.56 | q |
| 8 | H7 L4 | Hanna Scherba | Belarus | 2:15.78 | q |
| 9 | H6 L7 | Ágnes Kovács | Hungary | 2:16.31 | q |
| 10 | H6 L4 | Elizabeth Warden | Canada | 2:16.35 | q |
| 11 | H6 L3 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:16.52 | q |
| 12 | H7 L5 | Hui Qi | China | 2:16.76 | q |
| 13 | H8 L5 | Gabrielle Rose | United States | 2:16.83 | q |
| 14 | H7 L7 | Tatiana Rouba | Spain | 2:16.85 | q |
| 15 | H7 L8 | Sara Parise | Italy | 2:17.00 | q |
| 16 | H8 L7 | Maiko Fujino | Japan | 2:17.03 | q |
| 17 | H6 L2 | Diana Remenyi | Hungary | 2:17.20 | |
| 18 | H5 L4 | Aleksandra Urbanczyk | Poland | 2:17.28 | |
| 19 | H7 L2 | Nicole Hetzer | Germany | 2:17.30 | |
| 20 | H8 L2 | Julie Hjorth-Hansen | Denmark | 2:17.34 | |
| 21 | H8 L8 | Paula Carballido | Spain | 2:17.50 | |
| 22 | H5 L7 | Helen Norfolk | New Zealand | 2:17.79 | |
| 23 | H8 L3 | Leisel Jones | Australia | 2:17.95 | |
| 24 | H4 L4 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 2:18.56 | |
| 25 | H5 L5 | Yana Tolkatcheva | Russia | 2:18.74 | |
| 26 | H5 L6 | Georgina Bardach | Argentina | 2:18.76 | |
| 27 | H6 L8 | Veronica Massari | Italy | 2:19.04 | |
| 28 | H5 L8 | Aikaterini Sarakatsani | Greece | 2:19.84 | |
| 29 | H4 L6 | Petra Banović | Croatia | 2:20.08 | |
| 30 | H7 L1 | Elizabeth Van Welie | New Zealand | 2:20.13 | |
| 31 | H4 L2 | Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir | Iceland | 2:20.35 | |
| 32 | H5 L3 | Mirna Jukić | Austria | 2:20.36 | |
| 33 | H1 L3 | Malin Svahnström | Sweden | 2:20.57 | |
| 34 | H4 L5 | Elisabeth Jarland | Norway | 2:20.83 | |
| 35 | H4 L3 | Yana Martynova | Russia | 2:22.48 | |
| 36 | H5 L2 | Yi Ting Siow | Malaysia | 2:25.82 | |
| 37 | H4 L8 | Valeria Silva | Peru | 2:26.61 | |
| 38 | H4 L1 | Sabria Dahane | Algeria | 2:27.27 | |
| 39 | H3 L1 | Katerine Moreno | Bolivia | 2:29.85 | |
| 40 | H3 L3 | Khadija Ciss | Senegal | 2:30.28 | |
| 41 | H3 L5 | Richa Mishra | India | 2:30.99 | |
| 42 | H3 L2 | Jamie Shufflebarger | Virgin Islands | 2:31.14 | |
| 43 | H3 L6 | Magdalena Sutanto | Indonesia | 2:31.92 | |
| 44 | H4 L7 | Shrone Austin | Seychelles | 2:32.42 | |
| 45 | H3 L7 | Ayeisha Collymore | Trinidad and Tobago | 2:32.61 | |
| 46 | H3 L8 | Angela Galea | Malta | 2:33.32 | |
| 47 | H3 L4 | Sivranjani Vaidyanathan | India | 2:33.61 | |
| 48 | H2 L4 | Susan Anchia | Costa Rica | 2:35.03 | |
| 49 | H2 L5 | Ana Galindo | Honduras | 2:39.70 | |
| 50 | H2 L3 | Roshendra Vrolijk | Aruba | 2:40.46 | |
| 51 | H2 L7 | Liana Ramerison Rabenja | Madagascar | 2:44.29 | |
| 52 | H1 L4 | Kiran Khan | Pakistan | 2:44.47 | |
| 53 | H1 L5 | Jakie Wellman | Zambia | 2:44.99 | |
| - | H2 L2 | Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana | Madagascar | DQ | |
| - | H5 L1 | Inbal Levavi | Israel | DQ | |
| - | - | Joscelin Yeo | Singapore | DNS | |
| - | - | Genevieve Meledje Lasm Quissoh | Ivory Coast | DNS | |
| - | - | Éliane Droubry | Ivory Coast | DNS | |