Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary[1] heats swam in the morning session, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final[2] that evening.

Women's 4x200m Free Relay
at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates24 July 2003 (prelims & finals)
Medalists
  USA
  Australia
  China
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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
RankNationSwimmersTimeNotes
1 USA Lindsay Benko, Rachel Komisarz,
Rhi Jeffrey, Diana Munz 		7:55.70CR
2 Australia Elka Graham, Linda Mackenzie,
Kirsten Thomson, Alice Mills 		7:58.42
3 China Zhou Yafei, Xu Yanwei,
Pang Jiaying, Yang Yu 		7:58.53
4 Great Britain Karen Legg, Melanie Marshall,
Janine Belton, Karen Pickering 		8:00.01
5 Spain Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero,
Laura Roca, Erika Villaécija 		8:03.84
6 Sweden Johanna Sjöberg, Josefin Lillhage,
Ida Mattsson, Malin Svahnström 		8:05.05
7 Netherlands Marleen Veldhuis, Manon van Rooijen,
Haike van Stralen, Celina Lemmen 		8:05.82
8 Canada Brittany Reimer, Marianne Limpert,
Jennifer Fratesi, Laura Nicholls 		8:08.42

Preliminaries
RankHeat/LaneNationSwimmersTimeNotes
1H3 L4 United States Rhi Jeffrey, Rachel Komisarz
Gabrielle Rose, Margaret Hoelzer 		8:02.64q
2H2 L4 China Yafei Zhou, Jiaying Pang
Xu Yanwei, Yu Yang 		8:04.97q
3H3 L3 Spain Tatiana Rouba, Melissa Caballero
Laura Roca, Erika Villaécija 		8:05.52q
4H3 L5 Great Britain Janine Belton, Georgina Lee
Karen Nisbet, Karen Legg 		8:05.65q
5H2 L3 Sweden Ida Mattsson, Josefin Lillhage
Johanna Sjöberg, Lotta Wänberg 		8:06.87q
6H3 L6 Netherlands Manon van Rooijen, Marleen Veldhuis
Celina Lemmen, Haike van Stralen 		8:07.30q
7H2 L5 Australia Giaan Rooney, Heidi Crawford
Linda Mackenzie, Melanie Houghton 		8:07.97q
8H1 L5 Canada Brittany Reimer, Jen Button
Marianne Limpert, Laura Nicholls 		8:08.85q
9H1 L4 Germany Alessa Ries, Silke Nowotzin
Daniela Götz, Nicole Hetzer 		8:09.05
10H1 L6 Russia Polina Shornikova, Daria Parshina
Yana Tolkatcheva, Regina Sytch 		8:09.98
11H1 L3 Switzerland Hanna Miluska, Nicole Zahnd
Sandrine Paquier, Chantal Strasser 		8:11.91
12H3 L2 Brazil Monique Ferreira, Mariana Brochado
Ana Muniz, Paula Ribeiro 		8:13.13
13H1 L2 Italy Sara Parise, Cecilia Vianini
Luisa Striani, Veronica Massari 		8:13.18
14H2 L2 Greece Zoi Dimoschaki, Marianna Lymperta
Eleni Kosti, Zampia Melachroinou 		8:15.26
15H1 L7 Croatia Sanja Jovanović, Petra Banović
Smiljana Marinović, Anita Galić 		8:20.72
16H3 L7 Hong Kong Hang Yu Sze, Flora Kong
Jennifer Ng, Sherry Tsai 		8:33.86
17H2 L7 India Shikha Tandon, Ambica Iyengar
Sivranjani Vaidyanathan, Richa Mishra 		9:02.37
-H2 L6 New Zealand Alison Fitch, Helen Norfolk
Hannah McLean, Elizabeth Van Welie 		DQ

References
  1. Worlds 2003 results: Women's 4x200 Free Relay -- prelims. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2014-06-16.
  2. Worlds 2003 results: Women's 4x200 Free Relay -- final. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-24; retrieved 2014-06-16.
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