Women's 100m Breaststroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	21 July (prelims + semis); 22 July (final)
Medalists
Luo Xuejuan    China   Amanda Beard    United States   Leisel Jones    Australia

The Women's 100m Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 21, 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: 1:06.52 swum by Penny Heyns (South Africa) on August 23, 1999, in Sydney, Australia.
• CR: 1:07.18 swum by Luo Xuejuan (China) on July 22, 2001, in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Luo Xuejuan	China	1:06.80
2	Amanda Beard	USA	1:07.42
3	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:07.47
4	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:08.06
5	Tara Kirk	USA	1:08.30
6	Brooke Hanson	Australia	1:08.55
7	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:08.76
8	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	1:09.39

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:06.37	q, WR
2	S1 L4	Amanda Beard	USA	1:07.57	q
3	S2 L3	Luo Xuejuan	China	1:07.76	q
4	S1 L5	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.88	q
5	S2 L7	Tara Kirk	USA	1:08.24	q
6	S2 L5	Brooke Hanson	Australia	1:08.25	q
7	S2 L2	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:08.86	q
8	S2 L6	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	1:09.25	q
9	S1 L3	Vipa Bernhardt	Germany	1:09.50
10	S1 L2	Madelon Baans	Netherlands	1:09.69
11	S1 L6	Masami Tanaka	Japan	1:09.77
12	S1 L1	Emma Igelström	Sweden	1:10.07
13	S1 L8	Lauren Van Oosten	Canada	1:10.15
14	S2 L8	Maria Östling	Sweden	1:10.24
15	S1 L7	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	1:10.37
16	S2 L1	Majken Thorup	Denmark	1:10.51

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:07.75	q
2	H8 L5	Amanda Beard	United States	1:08.15	q
3	H7 L5	Brooke Hanson	Australia	1:08.48	q
4	H9 L6	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:08.72	q
5	H9 L4	Luo Xuejuan	China	1:08.88	q
6	H8 L7	Vipa Bernhardt	Germany	1:09.00	q
7	H9 L7	Rhiannon Leier	Canada	1:09.37	q
8	H8 L6	Masami Tanaka	Japan	1:09.42	q
9	H9 L3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:09.43	q
10	H7 L7	Madelon Baans	Netherlands	1:09.81	q
11	H9 L5	Tara Kirk	United States	1:09.83	q
12	H8 L2	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	1:10.05	q
13	H9 L8	Majken Thorup	Denmark	1:10.25	q
14	H7 L4	Emma Igelström	Sweden	1:10.40	q
15	H7 L1	Maria Östling	Sweden	1:10.47	q
16	H7 L3	Lauren Van Oosten	Canada	1:10.53	q
17	H6 L6	Ingrid Haiden	South Africa	1:10.76
18	H9 L2	Svitlana Bondarenko	Ukraine	1:10.79
19	H7 L6	Luo Nan	China	1:10.99
19	H7 L2	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	1:10.99
21	H9 L1	Yuliya Pidslina	Ukraine	1:11.07
22	H8 L3	Jaime King	Great Britain	1:11.24
23	H8 L8	Diana Remenyi	Hungary	1:11.35
24	H8 L1	Sara Farina	Italy	1:11.43
25	H7 L8	Tamara Sambrailo	Slovenia	1:11.94
26	H5 L5	İlkay Dikmen	Turkey	1:12.06
27	H6 L2	Smiljana Marinović	Croatia	1:12.38
28	H6 L7	Natalia Hissamutdinova	Estonia	1:12.41
29	H5 L3	Ramona Pedretti	Switzerland	1:12.67
30	H6 L1	Roberta Crescentini	Italy	1:12.80
31	H5 L2	Carmela Schlegel	Switzerland	1:12.84
32	H6 L3	Salma Zeinhom	Egypt	1:13.14
33	H6 L8	Agustina De Giovanni	Argentina	1:13.20
34	H4 L4	Íris Edda Heimisdóttir	Iceland	1:13.28
35	H5 L4	Ziada Jardine	South Africa	1:13.47
35	H6 L4	Aikaterini Sarakatsani	Greece	1:13.47
37	H6 L5	Emma Robinson	Ireland	1:13.55
38	H5 L6	Javiera Salcedo	Argentina	1:13.66
39	H4 L5	Barbara Ferreira	Portugal	1:14.79
40	H5 L1	Ka Lei Liu	Hong Kong	1:15.19
41	H4 L3	Valeria Silva	Peru	1:15.44
42	H5 L8	Patricia Comini-Ribeiro	Brazil	1:16.04
43	H4 L2	Ka Yi Suen	Hong Kong	1:16.43
44	H5 L7	Yi Ting Siow	Malaysia	1:17.21
45	H4 L7	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	1:17.61
46	H4 L1	Varduhi Avetisyan	Armenia	1:17.67
47	H4 L6	Natalya Filina	Azerbaijan	1:19.49
48	H4 L8	Sin Ian Lei	Macau	1:19.53
49	H3 L6	Jamie Shufflebarger	Virgin Islands	1:19.80
50	H3 L4	Magdalena Sutanto	Indonesia	1:20.22
51	H3 L5	Alessandra Cenni	San Marino	1:20.84
52	H3 L3	Sivranjani Vaidyanathan	India	1:22.41
53	H2 L6	Roshendra Vrolijk	Aruba	1:22.97
54	H3 L1	Samar Nassar	Jordan	1:23.18
55	H3 L2	Melissa Ashby	Grenada	1:23.94
56	H2 L3	Sade Daal	Suriname	1:24.61
57	H3 L7	Liana Ramerison Rabenja	Madagascar	1:25.48
58	H2 L4	N. Ravojanahary	Madagascar	1:26.08
59	H2 L5	Ana Galindo	Honduras	1:26.50
60	H2 L7	Doli Akhter	Bangladesh	1:27.53
61	H1 L3	Asanti Mickle	Guyana	1:30.94
62	H2 L1	Nayana Shakya	Nepal	1:34.99
63	H1 L5	Mariyam Nafha Ali	Maldives	1:39.28
64	H1 L4	Pamela Girimbabazi	Rwanda	1:48.12
-	H2 L2	Rovena Marku	Albania	DQ
-	-	Éliane Droubry	Ivory Coast	DNS

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