The Women's 1500m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 1500m Freestyle - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2013-07-20. heats swam during the morning session on July 21, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the event's Final2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 1500m Freestyle - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2013-07-20. during the evening session on July 22.
At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: WR: 15:52.10 swum by Janet Evans (USA) on March 26, 1988 in Orlando, USA. CR: 16:01.02 swum by Hannah Stockbauer (Germany) on July 28, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan
Results
Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Hannah Stockbauer 16:00.18 CR 2 Hayley Peirsol 16:09.64 3 Jana Henke 16:10.13 4 Regina Sych 16:13.13 NR 5 Diana Munz 16:14.28 6 Brittany Reimer 16:15.98 7 Rebecca Cooke 16:20.41 8 Chen Hua 16:29.06
Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H2 L5 Chen Hua 16:15.55 q 2 H1 L4 Jana Henke 16:15.93 q 3 H3 L4 Hannah Stockbauer 16:15.95 q 4 H3 L3 Brittany Reimer 16:16.21 q 5 H2 L4 Diana Munz 16:16.78 q 6 H1 L5 Rebecca Cooke 16:17.95 q 7 H2 L8 Hayley Peirsol 16:20.34 q 8 H1 L2 Regina Sych 16:23.33 q 9 H3 L6 Simona Păduraru 16:25.50 10 H1 L1 Olga Beresneva 16:27.76 NR 11 H2 L7 Erika Villaécija 16:32.17 12 H2 L2 Ai Shibata 16:32.19 13 H2 L3 Taryn Lencoe 16:35.83 14 H1 L6 Amanda Pascoe 16:38.70 15 H3 L1 Jana Pechanová 16:39.75 16 H2 L6 Réka Nagy 16:41.81 17 H3 L2 Nayara Ribeiro 16:43.97 18 H3 L5 Sashiko Yamada 16:45.48 19 H3 L7 Sarah Paton 16:57.10 20 H2 L1 Anja Čarman 16:58.64 21 H1 L7 Maria Bulakhova 17:00.55 22 H1 L3 Zhang Yan 17:14.85 23 H3 L8 Andrea De León 18:05.05
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