The Men's 200 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. PreliminaryWorlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-11. and SemifinalWorlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Semifinals , from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-11. heats were on 21 July, while the FinalWorlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Freestyle Final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-11. swam on 22 July.

Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: WR and CR: 1:44.06 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Ian Thorpe 1:45.14 2 Pieter van den Hoogenband 1:46.43 3 Grant Hackett 1:46.85 4 Květoslav Svoboda 1:48.73 5 Andrei Kapralov 1:48.76 6 Federico Cappellazzo 1:48.79 7 Peter Mankoč 1:48.96 8 Nate Dusing 1:49.35

Semifinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S2 L4 Pieter van den Hoogenband 1:46.32 q 2 S1 L4 Ian Thorpe 1:47.20 q 3 S2 L6 Grant Hackett 1:47.72 q 4 S2 L3 Nate Dusing 1:48.66 q 5 S2 L8 Andrei Kapralov 1:48.84 q 6 S1 L8 Peter Mankoč 1:48.92 q 7 S2 L5 Květoslav Svoboda 1:49.23 q 8 S1 L7 Federico Cappellazzo 1:49.23 q 9 S1 L6 Rick Say 1:49.52 10 S1 L3 George Bovell 1:49.64 11 S1 L5 Stefan Herbst 1:49.76 12 S2 L7 Olaf Wildeboer 1:49.85 13 S1 L1 Maxim Kuznetsov 1:49.98 14 S2 L1 Dominik Meichtry 1:50.59 15 S1 L2 Romāns Miloslavskis 1:50.66 16 S2 L2 Klete Keller 1:51.69

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H12 L4 Pieter van den Hoogenband 1:47.21 q 2 H13 L4 Ian Thorpe 1:47.99 q 3 H12 L3 Květoslav Svoboda 1:49.30 q 4 H12 L6 Stefan Herbst 1:49.47 q 5 H12 L5 Nate Dusing 1:49.49 q 6 H08 L4 George Bovell 1:49.51 q 7 H11 L4 Grant Hackett 1:49.66 q 8 H13 L3 Rick Say 1:49.75 q 9 H11 L5 Klete Keller 1:49.77 q 10 H10 L5 Romāns Miloslavskis 1:50.05 q 11 H13 L2 Olaf Wildeboer 1:50.06 q 12 H11 L3 Federico Cappellazzo 1:50.19 q 13 H10 L8 Dominik Meichtry 1:50.29 q 14 H12 L7 Maxim Kuznetsov 1:50.48 q 15 H11 L7 Andrei Kapralov 1:50.53 q 15 H11 L8 Peter Mankoč 1:50.53 q 17 H12 L8 Kyu Chul Han 1:50.54 18 H10 L4 Nikolaos Xylouris 1:50.61 18 H11 L1 Rodrigo Castro 1:50.61 20 H11 L2 Zuo Chen 1:50.62 21 H12 L2 Yu Liu 1:50.74 22 H13 L6 Mark Johnston 1:50.77 23 H13 L8 Dragoș Coman 1:50.90 24 H09 L3 Sergiy Fesenko 1:51.00 25 H13 L7 Lars Conrad 1:51.02 26 H09 L6 Saulius Binevičius 1:51.12 27 H10 L1 Shunichi Fujita 1:51.36 28 H09 L5 Shai Livnat 1:51.44 29 H12 L1 Daisuke Hosokawa 1:51.52 30 H11 L6 Athanasios Oikonomou 1:51.55 31 H13 L1 Tamás Kerékjártó 1:51.63 32 H09 L4 Cezar Bădiță 1:52.37 33 H10 L7 Rafael Mósca 1:52.93 34 H09 L8 Gian Carlo Zolezzi 1:53.26 35 H09 L1 Miguel Molina 1:53.76 36 H08 L5 Victor Rogut 1:53.78 37 H08 L6 Alexandros Aresti 1:54.09 38 H10 L3 Aytekin Mindan 1:54.28 39 H07 L1 Danil Haustov 1:54.61 40 H10 L6 Luis Monteiro 1:54.70 41 H07 L6 Mihail Alexandrov 1:54.75 42 H07 L7 Adil Bellaz 1:54.88 43 H08 L2 Petr Vasilev 1:54.94 44 H05 L1 Ken Tomson 1:55.06 45 H07 L5 Igor Erhartic 1:55.07 46 H06 L6 Vyacheslav Titarenko 1:55.34 46 H08 L1 Erwin Maldonado 1:55.34 48 H08 L8 Max Schnettler 1:55.51 49 H06 L3 Albert Subirats 1:55.56 50 H06 L4 Ronald Cowen 1:55.57 51 H09 L7 Shilo Ayalon 1:55.61 52 H06 L1 Igor Čerenšek 1:55.66 53 H05 L4 Tuck Kar Wong 1:56.10 54 H05 L7 Carl Probert 1:56.37 55 H06 L5 Jonas Tilly 1:56.97 56 H07 L2 Ivan Grougnet 1:57.42 57 H08 L7 Anovar Bennaceur 1:57.53 58 H07 L3 Andrei Zaharov 1:57.73 59 H05 L2 Zurab Khomasuridze 1:57.78 60 H06 L8 Emanuele Nicolini 1:57.87 61 H05 L3 Sergey Tsoy 1:58.05 62 H07 L4 Cem Pasaoglu 1:58.17 63 H07 L8 William Muriel 1:58.21 64 H05 L8 David Cartin 1:58.38 65 H05 L5 Dániel Gyurta 1:58.58 66 H05 L6 Carlos Melendez 1:58.68 67 H04 L1 Youssef Hafdi 1:58.94 68 H06 L7 Mohammad Naeem Masri 1:59.18 69 H04 L3 Kunakorn Yimsomruay 1:59.25 70 H06 L2 Mikayel Koloyan 2:00.64 71 H03 L5 Babak Farhoudi 2:01.25 72 H02 L5 Sean Dehere 2:02.07 73 H03 L3 Davy Bisslik 2:02.23 74 H04 L2 Kenny Roberts 2:02.70 75 H04 L4 Obied Ahmed Al Jassimi 2:03.15 76 H04 L8 Benjamin Wells 2:03.23 77 H03 L8 Bradford Worrell 2:03.55 78 H03 L6 Fernando Medrano 2:03.84 79 H03 L2 Yann Lausan 2:04.92 80 H03 L7 Dean Palacios 2:05.04 81 H04 L5 Maher Al-Moatar 2:05.73 82 H03 L1 Mumtaz Ahmed 2:06.01 83 H03 L4 Sergey Dyachkov 2:06.42 84 H04 L7 Vasilii Danilov 2:06.47 85 H04 L6 Barnsley Albert 2:06.82 86 H09 L2 Serhiy Advena 2:07.61 87 H02 L4 Neil Agius 2:07.68 88 H02 L3 Patrick Boustany 2:08.23 89 H02 L1 Connor Keith 2:10.62 90 H02 L7 Kin-Vincent Duenas 2:10.92 91 H02 L2 Clark Randrianandraina 2:12.14 92 H01 L5 Peter James Linch 2:14.84 93 H01 L3 Chisela Kanchela 2:16.43 94 H01 L4 Kreshnik Gjata 2:16.76 - - Loren Lindborg DQ - - Aldi Gugushka DQ - - Emiliano Brembilla DNS - - Oussama Mellouli DNS

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