Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 23–24, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary[1] and Semifinal[2] heats swam on 23 July, while the Final[3] swam on 24 July.

Men's 200m Breaststroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	23 July (prelims & semifinals) 24 July (final)
Winning time	2 minutes 9.42 seconds
Medalists
Kosuke Kitajima    Japan   Ian Edmond    Great Britain   Brendan Hansen    United States

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

• WR: 2:09.52 swum by Dmitri Komornikov (Russia) on June 14, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain
• CR: 2:10.69 swum by Brendan Hansen (USA) on July 26, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:09.42	WR
2	Ian Edmond	Great Britain	2:10.92
3	Brendan Hansen	USA	2:11.11
4	Jim Piper	Australia	2:11.55
5	Dmitry Komornikov	Russia	2:12.30
6	Andrey Ivanov	Russia	2:13.20
7	Mike Brown	Canada	2:13.30
8	Maxim Podoprigora	Austria	2:13.33

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:09.73	q, CR
2	S1 L4	Ian Edmond	Great Britain	2:10.69	q
3	S1 L6	Brendan Hansen	USA	2:11.33	q
4	S2 L6	Jim Piper	Australia	2:11.88	q
5	S2 L5	Dmitry Komornikov	Russia	2:12.74	q
6	S2 L3	Andrey Ivanov	Russia	2:12.86	q
7	S1 L1	Maxim Podoprigora	Austria	2:13.17	q
8	S1 L5	Mike Brown	Canada	2:13.19	q
9	S2 L7	Morgan Knabe	Canada	2:13.23
10	S2 L8	Martin Gustavsson	Sweden	2:13.88
11	S1 L2	Yohan Bernard	France	2:14.23
12	S2 L1	Davide Rummolo	Italy	2:14.36
13	S1 L7	Domenico Fioravanti	Italy	2:14.60
14	S1 L3	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:14.84
15	S2 L2	Terence Parkin	South Africa	2:14.96
16	S1 L8	Jakob Sveinsson	Iceland	2:15.27

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:10.66	q, CR
2	H9 L5	Ian Edmond	Great Britain	2:12.07	q
3	H9 L4	Dmitry Komornikov	Russia	2:13.35	q
4	H9 L6	Mike Brown	Canada	2:13.38	q
5	H7 L2	Andrey Ivanov	Russia	2:13.45	q
6	H8 L1	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:13.63	q
7	H9 L3	Jim Piper	Australia	2:13.65	q
8	H7 L5	Brendan Hansen	United States	2:13.92	q
9	H9 L2	Terence Parkin	South Africa	2:14.14	q
10	H8 L5	Yohan Bernard	France	2:14.53	q
11	H7 L3	Morgan Knabe	Canada	2:14.72	q
12	H8 L8	Domenico Fioravanti	Italy	2:14.78	q
13	H7 L4	Davide Rummolo	Italy	2:14.79	q
13	H8 L6	Maxim Podoprigora	Austria	2:14.79	q
15	H9 L8	Martin Gustavsson	Sweden	2:14.96	q
16	H6 L4	Jakob Sveinsson	Iceland	2:15.20	q
17	H9 L1	Andrew Bree	Ireland	2:15.23
18	H8 L7	Taiki Kawagoe	Japan	2:15.24
19	H7 L1	Richárd Bodor	Hungary	2:15.74
20	H8 L3	Regan Harrison	Australia	2:15.77
21	H7 L7	Hugues Duboscq	France	2:15.89
22	H6 L5	Reiner Schneider	Germany	2:16.01
23	H9 L7	Jarno Pihlava	Finland	2:16.05
24	H7 L8	Kamil Kasprowicz	Germany	2:16.43
25	H6 L1	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	2:16.44
26	H6 L2	Daniel Málek	Czech Republic	2:16.86
27	H6 L6	Marcelo Tomazini	Brazil	2:16.88
28	H6 L3	Vlad Polyakov	Kazakhstan	2:17.18
29	H5 L4	Dov Malnik	Israel	2:17.84
30	H4 L4	Christopher Hansen	Norway	2:18.42
31	H4 L5	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	2:19.29
32	H5 L2	Vladimir Kirjanovs	Latvia	2:21.49
33	H3 L5	Wickus Nienaber	Swaziland	2:21.75
34	H5 L6	Tao Zhao	China	2:22.26
35	H4 L3	Lorenz Liechti	Switzerland	2:22.40
36	H4 L2	Hocine Haciane	Andorra	2:22.51
37	H4 L1	Chi Kin Tam	Hong Kong	2:22.94
38	H3 L4	Raphael Matthew Chua	Philippines	2:24.25
39	H5 L8	Francisco Suriano	El Salvador	2:24.51
40	H5 L7	Maksim Shilov	Uzbekistan	2:24.67
41	H4 L8	Sergey Voytsekhovich	Uzbekistan	2:25.15
42	H4 L7	Álvaro Fortuny	Guatemala	2:26.14
43	H3 L3	Kevin Hensley	Virgin Islands	2:30.93
44	H2 L2	Youssef Hafdi	Morocco	2:31.44
44	H3 L6	Marcos Burgos	Chile	2:31.44
46	H2 L6	Hei Meng Lao	Macau	2:31.90
47	H3 L7	Santiago Cavanagh	Bolivia	2:32.56
48	H2 L4	Grant Galant	South Africa	2:34.05
49	H2 L5	Nam Nguyen Thanh	Vietnam	2:34.10
50	H3 L8	Baktash Gheidi	Iran	2:38.07
51	H2 L8	Chisela Kanchela	Zambia	2:38.38
52	H2 L1	Joao Matias	Angola	2:39.21
53	H3 L1	Daniel Kang	Guam	2:41.51
54	H1 L5	Amar Shah	Kenya	2:41.97
55	H2 L3	Chan Wai Ma	Macau	2:43.35
56	H2 L7	Iyad Houseya	Palestine	2:55.75
-	H1 L3	Omar Jasim	Bahrain	DQ
-	H4 L6	Miguel Molina	Philippines	DQ
-	H5 L5	Malick Fall	Senegal	DQ
-	H5 L3	Haibo Wang	China	DQ
-	H5 L1	Vladimir Labzin	Estonia	DQ
-	H6 L7	Sofiane Daid	Algeria	DQ
-	H6 L8	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	DQ
-	H7 L6	Dave Denniston	United States	DQ
-	H8 L2	Thijs van Valkengoed	Netherlands	DQ
-	-	Jean-Luc Razakarivony	Madagascar	DNS
-	-	Ahmed Ouattara Zie	Ivory Coast	DNS

References

1. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200 Breast -- prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2013-06-12.
2. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200 Breast -- semis. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-23; retrieved 2013-06-12.
3. Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200 Breast -- final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2013-06-12.