Women's 200m Butterfly at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	23 July 2003 (prelims, semifinals) 24 July 2003 (final)
Medalists
Otylia Jędrzejczak    Poland   Eva Risztov    Hungary   Yuko Nakanishi    Japan
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The Women's 200m Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 23–24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam in the morning session of 20 July, with the top-16 finishers advancing to semifinal^[2] heats that evening. The top-8 finishers from the Semifinals then advanced to swim again in the Final^[3] the next evening.

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

• WR: 2:05.78 swum by Otylia Jędrzejczak (Poland) on August 4, 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
• CR: 2:06.73 swum by Petria Thomas (Australia) on July 23, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[edit]

Final[edit]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:07.56
2	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:07.68
3	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:08.08
4	Mary DeScenza	USA	2:08.38
5	Francesca Segat	Italy	2:09.49
6	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:09.61
7	Felicity Galvez	Australia	2:10.58
8	Roser Vives	Spain	2:12.89

Semifinals[edit]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:08.42	q
2	S2 L4	Mary DeScenza	USA	2:08.71	q
3	S1 L4	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:08.88	q
4	S2 L3	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:09.41	q
5	S1 L6	Francesca Segat	Italy	2:10.72	q
6	S1 L3	Roser Vives	Spain	2:10.98	q
7	S1 L4	Felicity Galvez	Australia	2:10.99	q
8	S2 L6	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:11.42	q
9	S2 L8	Yukiko Osada	Japan	2:12.02
10	S1 L7	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	2:12.28
11	S2 L7	Li Cui	China	2:12.49
12	S2 L2	Tianyi Zhang	China	2:12.56
13	S2 L1	Mandy Loots	South Africa	2:12.74
14	S1 L2	Emily Mason	USA	2:12.76
14	S1 L1	Natalia Soutiaguina	Russia	2:12.76
16	S1 L8	Zampia Melachroinou	Greece	2:13.96

Preliminaries[edit]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H4 L5	Mary DeScenza	United States	2:09.08	q
2	H5 L4	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:09.32	q
3	H6 L4	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:10.30	q
4	H6 L7	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine	2:10.52	q, scratched semis
5	H6 L6	Felicity Galvez	Australia	2:10.65	q
6	H4 L4	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:10.68	q
7	H5 L2	Roser Vives	Spain	2:10.73	q
8	H6 L5	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:10.85	q
9	H6 L3	Francesca Segat	Italy	2:11.02	q
10	H5 L7	Tianyi Zhang	China	2:12.10	q
11	H5 L3	Emily Mason	United States	2:12.33	q
12	H4 L3	Li Cui	China	2:12.35	q
13	H5 L6	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	2:12.36	q
14	H5 L5	Georgina Lee	Great Britain	2:12.46	q, scratched semis
15	H4 L7	Natalia Soutiaguina	Russia	2:12.70	q
16	H4 L6	Yukiko Osada	Japan	2:12.77	q
17	H5 L8	Zampia Melachroinou	Greece	2:12.81
18	H3 L3	Mandy Loots	South Africa	2:12.84
19	H4 L2	María Peláez	Spain	2:13.64
20	H4 L1	Petra Zahrl	Austria	2:13.74
21	H6 L2	Jen Button	Canada	2:13.86
22	H5 L1	Elizabeth Van Welie	New Zealand	2:14.11
23	H6 L8	Raquel Felgueiras	Portugal	2:16.53
24	H2 L4	Vesna Stojanvoska	Macedonia	2:16.54
25	H6 L1	Sara Oliveira	Portugal	2:16.81
26	H3 L1	Gülşah Günenç	Turkey	2:17.66
27	H3 L5	Gabriella Fagundez	Sweden	2:18.06
28	H1 L3	Kyung Hwa Park	South Korea	2:18.40
29	H2 L2	Maria Rodriguez	Venezuela	2:19.06
30	H3 L2	Marcella Amar	Brazil	2:19.12
31	H2 L5	Maria Bulakhova	Russia	2:19.33
32	H4 L8	Monique Ferreira	Brazil	2:19.48
33	H3 L4	Leonore Kelleher	Ireland	2:19.53
34	H2 L6	Richa Mishra	India	2:19.58
35	H3 L8	Wing Suet Chan	Hong Kong	2:20.11
36	H2 L3	Angela Galea	Malta	2:22.57
37	H3 L6	Mariana Bertellotti	Argentina	2:25.24
38	H3 L7	Flora Kong	Hong Kong	2:26.39
39	H1 L4	Natasha George	Saint Lucia	2:39.77
-	-	Simona Muccioli	San Marino	DNS
-	-	Elize Taua	Samoa	DNS
-	-	Vered Borochovsky	Israel	DNS

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