The Men's 200 Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 24–25, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Preliminaries, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24. and Semifinal2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24. heats were on 24 July with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The Final2003 Worlds results: Men's 200m Backstroke Finals , from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-24. swam on 25 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: WR: 1:55.15 swum by Aaron Peirsol (USA) on March 22, 2002 in Minneapolis, USA CR: 1:57.13 swum by Aaron Peirsol (USA) on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Aaron Peirsol 1:55.92 2 Gordan Kožulj 1:57.47 3 Simon Dufour 1:57.90 4 Bryce Hunt 1:57.92 5 Matt Welsh 1:57.94 6 Arkady Vyatchanin 1:58.07 7 Răzvan Florea 1:58.66 8 Blaž Medvešek 1:58.96

Semifinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S2 L4 Aaron Peirsol 1:55.82 q, CR 2 S2 L5 Arkady Vyatchanin 1:57.88 q 3 S1 L5 Gordan Kožulj 1:57.94 q 4 S1 L6 Bryce Hunt 1:58.04 q 5 S1 L4 Matt Welsh 1:58.34 q 6 S1 L2 Răzvan Florea 1:58.52 q 7 S2 L6 Simon Dufour 1:58.81 q 8 S1 L3 Gregor Tait 1:59.02 swim off 8 S1 L7 Blaž Medvešek 1:59.02 swim off, q 10 S2 L2 Yoav Gath 1:59.22 11 S2 L7 Markus Rogan 1:59.29 12 S2 L1 Steffen Driesen 1:59.40 13 S2 L3 László Cseh 1:59.45 14 S2 L8 Keith Beavers 1:59.86 15 S1 L1 Jorge Sánchez 2:00.19 16 S1 L8 Helge Meeuw 2:00.21

Swim-off for 8th Blaz Medvesk (Slovenia) -- 1:58.61—q Gregor Tait (Great Britain) -- 1:58.80

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H8 L4 Aaron Peirsol 1:57.28 q 2 H6 L5 Matt Welsh 1:58.26 q 3 H8 L1 Arkady Vyatchanin 1:59.18 q 4 H7 L4 Gordan Kožulj 1:59.20 q 5 H8 L6 László Cseh 1:59.49 q 6 H8 L2 Gregor Tait 1:59.62 q 7 H8 L3 Simon Dufour 1:59.68 q 8 H7 L2 Bryce Hunt 1:59.71 q 9 H7 L8 Yoav Gath 1:59.82 q 10 H8 L5 Răzvan Florea 1:59.96 q 11 H7 L5 Markus Rogan 2:00.04 q 12 H6 L7 Blaž Medvešek 2:00.06 q 12 H8 L7 Steffen Driesen 2:00.06 q 14 H7 L6 Jorge Sánchez 2:00.27 q 15 H7 L3 Keith Beavers 2:00.56 q 16 H6 L8 Helge Meeuw 2:00.73 q 17 H5 L1 Anton Bugayov 2:00.76 18 H6 L2 Ray Hass 2:00.77 19 H4 L3 Tomomi Morita 2:01.10 20 H5 L2 Volodymyr Nikolaychuk 2:01.35 21 H6 L6 Evgueni Alechine 2:01.42 22 H5 L7 Alex Lim 2:01.43 23 H6 L3 Ouyang Kunpeng 2:01.44 24 H7 L1 Klaas Erik Zwering 2:01.56 25 H6 L4 James Goddard 2:01.91 26 H5 L4 Rogério Romero 2:02.06 27 H6 L1 Cameron Gibson 2:02.36 28 H5 L5 Ahmed Hussein 2:02.45 29 H4 L4 Pavel Suškov 2:02.65 30 H8 L8 Rui Yu 2:02.80 31 H7 L7 Viktor Bodrogi 2:03.22 32 H5 L6 Min Sung 2:04.10 33 H5 L8 Paulo Machado 2:04.21 34 H3 L6 Květoslav Svoboda 2:04.96 35 H5 L3 Sander Ganzevles 2:05.05 36 H4 L2 Martin Viilep 2:05.82 37 H4 L5 Andrei Mihailov 2:08.30 38 H3 L2 Jared Heine 2:08.88 39 H3 L4 Juan Carlo Antonio Piccio 2:10.18 40 H4 L8 Ashby Brendan 2:10.40 41 H3 L3 Yau Sun Fai 2:10.55 42 H2 L5 Kunakorn Yimsomruay 2:11.18 43 H3 L1 Long Do Huy 2:13.43 44 H4 L6 Yury Zaharov 2:13.81 45 H4 L1 Guillermo Andres Ramirez Lemis 2:14.18 46 H4 L7 Mauricio Prudencio 2:14.30 47 H3 L5 Mikhail Alekseyev 2:14.55 48 H2 L4 Oleg Deikrishvili 2:16.10 49 H2 L6 Mohammad Nazeri 2:18.09 50 H3 L8 Rony Bakale 2:19.03 51 H2 L8 Seung Gin Lee 2:19.89 52 H2 L3 Omar Abu Faris 2:20.02 53 H2 L1 Chi Lon Lei 2:21.29 54 H1 L4 Ammar Musaed Al Tamimi 2:22.56 55 H2 L2 Nuno Rola 2:25.33 56 H1 L5 Kabir Walia 2:25.49 57 H1 L6 Patrick Boustany 2:27.31 58 H1 L3 Clark Randrianandraina 2:33.65 59 H1 L2 Muzeya Muzyamba 2:34.69 - - Ryan Pini DNS

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