The Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. PreliminaryWorlds 2003 results: Women's 4x200 Free Relay -- prelims. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2014-06-16. heats swam in the morning session, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the FinalWorlds 2003 results: Women's 4x200 Free Relay -- final. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2014-06-16. that evening.
At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: WR: 7:55.47 swum by East Germany on August 18, 1987 in Strasbourg, France. CR: 7:57.96 swum by China on September 5, 1994 in Rome, Italy
Results
Final Rank Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 Lindsay Benko, Rachel Komisarz, Rhi Jeffrey, Diana Munz 7:55.70 CR 2 Elka Graham, Linda Mackenzie, Kirsten Thomson, Alice Mills 7:58.42 3 Zhou Yafei, Xu Yanwei, Pang Jiaying, Yang Yu 7:58.53 4 Karen Legg, Melanie Marshall, Janine Belton, Karen Pickering 8:00.01 5 Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero, Laura Roca, Erika Villaécija 8:03.84 6 Johanna Sjöberg, Josefin Lillhage, Ida Mattsson, Malin Svahnström 8:05.05 7 Marleen Veldhuis, Manon van Rooijen, Haike van Stralen, Celina Lemmen 8:05.82 8 Brittany Reimer, Marianne Limpert, Jennifer Fratesi, Laura Nicholls 8:08.42
Preliminaries Rank Heat/Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 H3 L4 Rhi Jeffrey, Rachel Komisarz Gabrielle Rose, Margaret Hoelzer 8:02.64 q 2 H2 L4 Yafei Zhou, Jiaying Pang Xu Yanwei, Yu Yang 8:04.97 q 3 H3 L3 Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero Laura Roca, Erika Villaécija 8:05.52 q 4 H3 L5 Janine Belton, Georgina Lee Karen Nisbet, Karen Legg 8:05.65 q 5 H2 L3 Ida Mattsson, Josefin Lillhage Johanna Sjöberg, Lotta Wänberg 8:06.87 q 6 H3 L6 Manon van Rooijen, Marleen Veldhuis Celina Lemmen, Haike van Stralen 8:07.30 q 7 H2 L5 Giaan Rooney, Heidi Crawford Linda Mackenzie, Melanie Houghton 8:07.97 q 8 H1 L5 Brittany Reimer, Jen Button Marianne Limpert, Laura Nicholls 8:08.85 q 9 H1 L4 Alessa Ries, Silke Nowotzin Daniela Götz, Nicole Hetzer 8:09.05 10 H1 L6 Polina Shornikova, Daria Parshina Yana Tolkatcheva, Regina Sytch 8:09.98 11 H1 L3 Hanna Miluska, Nicole Zahnd Sandrine Paquier, Chantal Strasser 8:11.91 12 H3 L2 Monique Ferreira, Mariana Brochado Ana Muniz, Paula Ribeiro 8:13.13 13 H1 L2 Sara Parise, Cecilia Vianini Luisa Striani, Veronica Massari 8:13.18 14 H2 L2 Zoi Dimoschaki, Marianna Lymperta Eleni Kosti, Zampia Melachroinou 8:15.26 15 H1 L7 Sanja Jovanović, Petra Banović Smiljana Marinović, Anita Galić 8:20.72 16 H3 L7 Hang Yu Sze, Flora Kong Jennifer Ng, Sherry Tsai 8:33.86 17 H2 L7 Shikha Tandon, Ambica Iyengar Sivranjani Vaidyanathan, Richa Mishra 9:02.37 - H2 L6 Alison Fitch, Helen Norfolk Hannah McLean, Elizabeth Van Welie DQ
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