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

The Women's 200 Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 – 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and semifinal heats swam on July 24, with the Final swum on July 25.
At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:
* WR: 2:22.99 swum by Hui Qi (China) on 13 April 2001 in Hangzhou, China.
* CR: 2:24.90 swum by Ágnes Kovács (Hungary) on 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Amanda Beard | USA | 2:22.99 | =WR |
| 2 | Leisel Jones | Australia | 2:24.33 | OC |
| 3 | Hui Qi | China | 2:25.78 | |
| 4 | Anne Poleska | Germany | 2:26.35 | |
| 5 | Mirna Jukić | Austria | 2:26.38 | |
| 6 | Sarah Poewe | Germany | 2:26.72 | |
| 7 | Masami Tanaka | Japan | 2:28.55 | |
| 8 | Diana Remenyi | Hungary | 2:29.20 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S1 L4 | Amanda Beard | USA | 2:25.54 | q |
| 2 | S2 L3 | Hui Qi | China | 2:26.30 | q |
| 3 | S2 L4 | Mirna Jukić | Austria | 2:26.46 | q |
| 4 | S2 L5 | Anne Poleska | Germany | 2:26.53 | q |
| 5 | S1 L3 | Leisel Jones | Australia | 2:26.59 | q |
| 6 | S1 L5 | Masami Tanaka | Japan | 2:27.62 | q |
| 7 | S2 L6 | Sarah Poewe | Germany | 2:27.65 | q |
| 8 | S1 L2 | Diana Remenyi | Hungary | 2:28.12 | q |
| 9 | S2 L2 | Ágnes Kovács | Hungary | 2:28.18 | |
| 10 | S2 L7 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:28.78 | |
| 11 | S1 L8 | Nan Luo | China | 2:28.79 | |
| 11 | S1 L6 | Yuliya Pidslina | Ukraine | 2:28.79 | |
| 13 | S1 L7 | Kristy Kowal | USA | 2:29.19 | |
| 14 | S2 L8 | Lauren van Oosten | Canada | 2:30.21 | |
| 15 | S1 L1 | Ingrid Haiden | South Africa | 2:31.57 | |
| 16 | S2 L1 | Rhiannon Leier | Canada | 2:31.63 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H5 L4 | Mirna Jukić | Austria | 2:27.91 | q |
| 2 | H4 L4 | Amanda Beard | United States | 2:27.95 | q |
| 3 | H4 L3 | Anne Poleska | Germany | 2:28.34 | q |
| 4 | H4 L5 | Masami Tanaka | Japan | 2:28.58 | q |
| 5 | H6 L4 | Hui Qi | China | 2:28.74 | q |
| 6 | H6 L5 | Leisel Jones | Australia | 2:28.79 | q |
| 7 | H6 L6 | Sarah Poewe | Germany | 2:28.90 | q |
| 8 | H6 L2 | Yuliya Pidslina | Ukraine | 2:28.97 | q |
| 9 | H4 L6 | Ágnes Kovács | Hungary | 2:29.74 | q |
| 10 | H5 L6 | Diana Remenyi | Hungary | 2:29.79 | q |
| 11 | H4 L7 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:29.84 | q |
| 12 | H5 L5 | Kristy Kowal | United States | 2:30.41 | q |
| 13 | H4 L1 | Rhiannon Leier | Canada | 2:30.71 | q |
| 14 | H3 L4 | Ingrid Haiden | South Africa | 2:31.37 | q |
| 15 | H6 L1 | Lauren Van Oosten | Canada | 2:31.41 | q |
| 16 | H6 L3 | Nan Luo | China | 2:31.42 | q |
| 17 | H5 L2 | Sarah Katsoulis | Australia | 2:31.89 | |
| 18 | H6 L7 | Elena Bogomazova | Russia | 2:32.44 | |
| 19 | H5 L7 | Sara Farina | Italy | 2:32.82 | |
| 20 | H5 L8 | İlkay Dikmen | Turkey | 2:33.31 | |
| 21 | H2 L5 | Tamara Sambrailo | Slovenia | 2:34.14 | |
| 22 | H5 L3 | Emma Igelström | Sweden | 2:35.03 | |
| 23 | H3 L3 | Natalia Hissamutdinova | Estonia | 2:35.42 | |
| 24 | H3 L2 | Ramona Pedretti | Switzerland | 2:35.94 | |
| 25 | H3 L1 | Oleksandra Bogata | Ukraine | 2:36.48 | |
| 26 | H3 L7 | Barbara Ferreira | Portugal | 2:36.69 | |
| 27 | H3 L5 | Yi Ting Siow | Malaysia | 2:36.77 | |
| 28 | H2 L3 | Elisabeth Jarland | Norway | 2:36.96 | |
| 29 | H3 L6 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 2:37.59 | |
| 30 | H3 L8 | Íris Edda Heimisdóttir | Iceland | 2:38.04 | |
| 31 | H6 L8 | Agustina De Giovanni | Argentina | 2:38.81 | |
| 32 | H2 L4 | Carmela Schlegel | Switzerland | 2:42.05 | |
| 33 | H5 L1 | Salma Zeinhom | Egypt | 2:43.72 | |
| 34 | H1 L5 | Katerine Moreno | Bolivia | 2:44.99 | |
| 35 | H2 L6 | Ka Lei Liu | Hong Kong | 2:46.00 | |
| 36 | H2 L8 | Sin Ian Lei | Macau | 2:47.50 | |
| 37 | H2 L7 | Magdalena Sutanto | Indonesia | 2:51.79 | |
| 38 | H1 L3 | Jamie Shufflebarger | Virgin Islands | 2:52.72 | |
| 39 | H1 L4 | Alessandra Cenni | San Marino | 2:56.42 | |
| 40 | H1 L6 | Éliane Droubry | Ivory Coast | 2:57.51 | |
| 41 | H2 L2 | Natalya Filina | Azerbaijan | 2:58.67 | |
| 42 | H1 L2 | Roshendra Vrolijk | Aruba | 3:02.93 | |
| 43 | H1 L7 | N. Ravojanahary | Madagascar | 3:07.03 | |
| - | H2 L1 | Valeria Silva | Peru | DQ | |
| - | - | Jaime King | Great Britain | DNS | |
| - | - | Smiljana Marinović | Croatia | DNS | |