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

Men's 200m Individual Medley at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	24 July 2003 (prelims; semis) 25 July 2003 (final)
Winning time	1 minute 56.04 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   Ian Thorpe    Australia   Massimiliano Rosolino    Italy
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The Men's 200 Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 24–25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats swam July 24; the Final^[3] was July 25.

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

• WR: 1:57.94 swum by Michael Phelps (USA) on June 29, 2003 in Santa Clara, USA
• CR: 1:58.16 swum by Jani Sievinen (Finland) on September 11, 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results[edit]

Final[edit]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Michael Phelps	USA	1:56.04	WR
2	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:59.66	NR
3	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	1:59.71
4	Jani Sievinen	Finland	1:59.98
5	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	2:00.06
6	Takahiro Mori	Japan	2:01.29
7	Kevin Clements	USA	2:01.51
8	Brian Johns	Canada	2:01.62

Semifinals[edit]

Rank	Heat/Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Michael Phelps	USA	1:57.52	q, WR
2	S2 L5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	1:59.84	q
3	S1 L4	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	1:59.86	q
4	S2 L6	Takahiro Mori	Japan	2:00.29	q
5	S2 L8	Ian Thorpe	Australia	2:00.42	q
6	S1 L7	Brian Johns	Canada	2:00.98	q
7	S1 L5	Kevin Clements	USA	2:01.04	q
8	S1 L6	Jani Sievinen	Finland	2:01.08	q
9	S1 L2	Cezar Bădiță	Romania	2:01.58	NR
10	S2 L2	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	2:01.64
11	S1 L3	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	2:01.67
12	S2 L3	Christian Keller	Germany	2:01.76
13	S2 L1	Robin Francis	Great Britain	2:01.89
14	S1 L8	Justin Norris	Australia	2:02.09
15	S1 L1	Peng Wu	China	2:02.38
16	S2 L7	Tamás Kerékjártó	Hungary	2:02.81

Preliminaries[edit]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H11 L4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:59.71	q
2	H08 L5	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	2:00.94	q
3	H11 L5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	2:01.24	q
4	H09 L3	Kevin Clements	United States	2:01.43	q
5	H11 L2	Christian Keller	Germany	2:01.90	q
6	H09 L1	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	2:02.01	q
7	H11 L3	Takahiro Mori	Japan	2:02.02	q
8	H10 L4	Jani Sievinen	Finland	2:02.10	q
9	H10 L2	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	2:02.19	q
10	H11 L8	Cezar Bădiță	Romania	2:02.26	q
11	H09 L5	Tamás Kerékjártó	Hungary	2:02.32	q
12	H09 L6	Brian Johns	Canada	2:02.37	q
13	H10 L7	Robin Francis	Great Britain	2:02.50	q
14	H09 L8	Peng Wu	China	2:02.54	q
14	H10 L5	Ian Thorpe	Australia	2:02.54	q
16	H10 L6	Justin Norris	Australia	2:02.61	q
17	H09 L4	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	2:02.66
18	H08 L8	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	2:02.67
19	H11 L1	Ioannis Kokkodis	Greece	2:02.68
20	H08 L4	Alexei Zatsepine	Russia	2:02.82
21	H10 L3	István Batházi	Hungary	2:02.83
22	H11 L7	Jiro Miki	Japan	2:02.89
23	H08 L3	Igor Berezutskiy	Russia	2:02.90
24	H10 L1	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:02.92
25	H09 L7	Tao Zhao	China	2:03.23
26	H07 L3	Guntars Deičmans	Latvia	2:03.77
27	H07 L2	Sergiy Sergeyev	Ukraine	2:04.13
28	H06 L4	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	2:04.36
29	H08 L2	Krešimir Čač	Croatia	2:04.46
30	H11 L6	Jens Kruppa	Germany	2:04.73
31	H06 L5	Theo Verster	South Africa	2:04.85
32	H06 L6	Marko Milenkovič	Slovenia	2:05.17
33	H07 L4	Jan Vitazka	Czech Republic	2:05.28
34	H07 L5	Carlos Sayao	Canada	2:05.47
35	H07 L1	Yves Platel	Switzerland	2:05.64
36	H08 L6	Terence Parkin	South Africa	2:05.66
37	H08 L7	Michael Halika	Israel	2:05.68
38	H06 L2	Miguel Molina	Philippines	2:06.53
39	H06 L3	Paulius Andrijauskas	Lithuania	2:06.95
40	H07 L7	Aleksandar Miladinovski	Macedonia	2:07.33
41	H06 L7	Oleg Pukhnaty	Uzbekistan	2:07.54
42	H05 L6	Malick Fall	Senegal	2:07.65
43	H06 L1	Orel Oral	Turkey	2:07.84
44	H07 L6	Andrew Bree	Ireland	2:07.90
45	H05 L2	Raouf Benabid	Algeria	2:09.82
46	H05 L4	Francisco Picasso	Uruguay	2:10.25
47	H05 L1	Kunakorn Yimsomruay	Thailand	2:11.05
48	H06 L8	Andrew Mackay	Cayman Islands	2:11.15
49	H05 L7	David Cartin	Costa Rica	2:11.31
50	H05 L8	Marcos Burgos	Chile	2:11.86
51	H05 L3	George Demetriades	Cyprus	2:11.87
52	H05 L5	Yi-Khy Saw	Malaysia	2:11.88
53	H04 L4	Khaly Ciss	Senegal	2:11.97
54	H04 L6	Rehan Poncha	India	2:12.75
55	H10 L8	Dmytro Nazarenko	Ukraine	2:14.05
56	H04 L3	Carlos Melendez	El Salvador	2:14.80
57	H03 L3	Youssef Hafdi	Morocco	2:14.81
58	H04 L1	Jonathan Mauri	Costa Rica	2:14.92
59	H02 L4	Kevin Hensley	Virgin Islands	2:15.74
60	H03 L2	Ranui Teriipaia	Tahiti	2:15.86
61	H03 L5	Dean Palacios	Northern Mariana Islands	2:16.56
62	H03 L8	Roy Barahona	Honduras	2:16.91
63	H04 L7	Obied Ahmed Al Jassimi	United Arab Emirates	2:17.02
64	H02 L5	Kenny Roberts	Seychelles	2:17.10
65	H04 L2	James Walsh	Philippines	2:17.22
66	H03 L4	Sergey Tsoy	Uzbekistan	2:18.65
67	H02 L7	Joao Matias	Angola	2:18.77
68	H03 L6	Marc Dansou	Benin	2:20.29
69	H03 L7	Seung Gin Lee	Northern Mariana Islands	2:20.56
70	H02 L3	Fernando Medrano	Nicaragua	2:24.61
71	H02 L1	Hei Meng Lao	Macau	2:24.81
72	H03 L1	Daniel Kang	Guam	2:25.12
73	H01 L6	Yann Lausan	Tahiti	2:27.33
74	H04 L5	Aung Kyaw Moe	Myanmar	2:29.15
75	H01 L4	Kin-Vincent Duenas	Guam	2:30.84
76	H01 L5	Chisela Kanchela	Zambia	2:31.15
77	H01 L3	Muzeya Muzyamba	Zambia	2:32.18
78	H02 L6	Ahmed Ouattara Zie	Ivory Coast	2:40.79
-	H08 L1	Diogo Yabe	Brazil	DQ
-	-	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	DNS
-	-	Jean-Luc Razakarivony	Madagascar	DNS
-	-	Nuno Rola	Angola	DNS

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