Women's 200m Backstroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	25 July (prelims + semis); 26 July (final)
Medalists
Katy Sexton    Great Britain   Margaret Hoelzer    United States   Stanislava Komarova    Russia
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The Women's 200m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 25–26 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 25, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals^[2] that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.^[3]

At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 2:06.62 swum by Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary) on August 25, 1991 in Athens, Greece.
• CR: 2:07.40 swum by Cihong He (China) on September 11, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	2:08.74
2	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:09.24
3	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:10.17
4	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	2:10.82
5	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:10.95
6	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:12.53
7	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:12.82
8	Sarah Price	Great Britain	2:13.78

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:09.39	q
2	S2 L2	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	2:10.47	q
3	S1 L4	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	2:11.08	q
4	S2 L6	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:11.13	q
5	S2 L5	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:11.38	q
6	S1 L3	Sarah Price	Great Britain	2:11.69	q
7	S1 L1	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:12.15	q
8	S1 L5	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:12.36	q
9	S2 L3	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:13.09
10	S1 L7	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	2:13.39
11	S1 L6	Alenka Kejžar	Slovenia	2:13.50
12	S2 L8	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	2:14.58
13	S2 L7	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	2:14.61
14	S1 L8	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:15.20
15	S2 L1	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	2:15.43
16	S1 L2	Frances Adcock	Australia	2:15.49

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H3 L4	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	2:10.98	q
2	H3 L3	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	2:11.93	q
3	H4 L5	Margaret Hoelzer	United States	2:12.35	q
4	H5 L6	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	2:12.72	q
5	H5 L3	Aya Terakawa	Japan	2:12.79	q
6	H5 L5	Sarah Price	Great Britain	2:12.82	q
7	H3 L5	Hanae Ito	Japan	2:13.01	q
8	H3 L6	Alenka Kejžar	Slovenia	2:13.32	q
9	H4 L4	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	2:13.57	q
10	H5 L1	Frances Adcock	Australia	2:13.78	q
11	H4 L3	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	2:14.37	q
12	H3 L7	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	2:14.38	q
13	H5 L7	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	2:14.75	q
14	H4 L1	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	2:14.90	q
15	H4 L8	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	2:14.91	q
16	H4 L6	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:14.92	q
17	H3 L1	Melissa Corfe	South Africa	2:15.25
18	H4 L2	Elizabeth Warden	Canada	2:15.64
19	H5 L2	Shu Zhan	China	2:16.43
20	H4 L7	Zoe Tonks	Australia	2:16.53
21	H5 L8	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	2:17.60
22	H3 L2	Xiujun Chen	China	2:18.06
23	H2 L4	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	2:18.88
24	H2 L5	Sherry Tsai	Hong Kong	2:19.27
25	H3 L8	Derya Erke	Turkey	2:19.39
26	H2 L3	Inbal Levavi	Israel	2:19.47
27	H2 L6	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong	Thailand	2:20.33
28	H1 L1	Berit Aljand	Estonia	2:22.58
29	H2 L8	Valeria Silva	Peru	2:22.91
30	H2 L7	Edith Van der Schilden	Luxembourg	2:23.94
31	H2 L2	Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila	Philippines	2:24.72
32	H2 L1	Saida Iskandarova	Uzbekistan	2:25.52
33	H1 L3	Susan Anchia	Costa Rica	2:28.49
34	H1 L5	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	2:29.60
35	H1 L2	Ana Galindo	Honduras	2:35.71
36	H1 L6	Olga Gnedovskaya	Uzbekistan	2:39.72
37	H1 L7	Krystle Babao	Papua New Guinea	2:44.93
-	-	Natalie Coughlin	United States	DNS
-	-	Talita Ribeiro	Brazil	DNS