Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	23 July (prelims, semifinals) 24 July (final)
Competitors	167
Winning time	48.42 seconds
Medalists
Alexander Popov   Russia   Pieter v.d. Hoogenband   Netherlands   Ian Thorpe   Australia

Main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

The Men's 100 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 23–24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam on July 23; while the Final swam on July 24.

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

• WR: 47.84 by Pieter van den Hoogenband (Netherlands) swum on 19 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia
• CR: 48.33 by Anthony Ervin (USA) swum on 27 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Alexander Popov	Russia	48.42
2	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	48.68
3	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.77
4	Jason Lezak	USA	48.94
5	Andrei Kapralov	Russia	48.95
6	Frédérick Bousquet	France	49.30
7	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	49.51
8	Milorad Čavić	Yugoslavia	49.65

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	48.39	q
2	S2 L5	Alexander Popov	Russia	48.51	q
3	S1 L5	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.71	q
4	S1 L4	Jason Lezak	USA	48.78	q
5	S2 L3	Andrei Kapralov	Russia	48.98	q
6	S1 L2	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	49.29	q
7	S2 L7	Frédérick Bousquet	France	49.44	q
8	S1 L7	Milorad Čavić	Yugoslavia	49.54	q
9	S2 L6	Torsten Spanneberg	Germany	49.55
10	S1 L1	Ashley Callus	Australia	49.56
11	S1 L3	Brent Hayden	Canada	49.60
12	S1 L6	Scott Tucker	USA	49.70
13	S2 L8	Lorenzo Vismara	Italy	49.72
14	S2 L1	Karel Novy	Switzerland	49.77
15	S2 L2	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	49.88
16	S1 L8	Stefan Herbst	Germany	50.12

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H21 L4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	48.86	q
2	H19 L3	Jason Lezak	United States	48.93	q
3	H20 L4	Alexander Popov	Russia	48.94	q
4	H19 L4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	49.17	q
5	H20 L3	Andrei Kapralov	Russia	49.21	q
6	H19 L2	Brent Hayden	Canada	49.54	q
7	H19 L1	Torsten Spanneberg	Germany	49.58	q
8	H20 L5	Scott Tucker	United States	49.59	q
9	H18 L6	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	49.63	q
9	H19 L5	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	49.63	q
11	H21 L6	Frédérick Bousquet	France	49.67	q
12	H17 L3	Milorad Čavić	FR Yugoslavia	49.68	q
13	H20 L8	Karel Novy	Switzerland	49.73	q
14	H21 L5	Ashley Callus	Australia	49.74	q
15	H20 L2	Lorenzo Vismara	Italy	49.78	q
16	H20 L7	Stefan Herbst	Germany	49.87	q
17	H21 L1	Christian Galenda	Italy	49.90
18	H20 L1	Johan Kenkhuis	Netherlands	50.07
19	H18 L5	Rolandas Gimbutis	Lithuania	50.12
20	H21 L2	Lars Frölander	Sweden	50.14
21	H19 L6	Romain Barnier	France	50.16
22	H21 L3	Salim Iles	Algeria	50.20
23	H17 L4	Zuo Chen	China	50.23
24	H18 L8	Vyacheslav Shyrshov	Ukraine	50.24
25	H21 L7	Attila Zubor	Hungary	50.28
26	H18 L4	Eduard Lorente	Spain	50.33
27	H16 L3	Danil Haustov	Estonia	50.42
28	H19 L7	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	50.43
29	H18 L2	Renaat Dreesen	Belgium	50.52
30	H18 L3	Jader Souza	Brazil	50.57
31	H21 L8	Yannick Lupien	Canada	50.58
32	H15 L2	Örn Arnarson	Iceland	50.59
33	H18 L1	Ricardo Bousquet	Puerto Rico	50.73
34	H20 L6	Duje Draganja	Croatia	50.76
35	H11 L8	Andrii Serdinov	Ukraine	50.77
36	H16 L7	Matti Rajakylä	Finland	50.83
37	H17 L1	Daisuke Hosokawa	Japan	50.86
38	H17 L8	Rodrigo Castro	Brazil	50.89
39	H18 L7	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	50.91
40	H17 L2	Pavel Lagoun	Belarus	50.99
41	H19 L8	Jere Hård	Finland	51.01
42	H16 L4	Paulius Viktoravičius	Lithuania	51.08
43	H16 L6	Igor Čerenšek	Croatia	51.20
44	H16 L5	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	51.21
45	H16 L2	Ravil Nachaev	Uzbekistan	51.23
46	H15 L1	Romāns Miloslavskis	Latvia	51.37
47	H16 L8	Raymond Rosal	Venezuela	51.57
48	H13 L4	Camilo Becerra	Colombia	51.68
49	H14 L7	Apostolos Tsagkarakis	Greece	51.73
50	H17 L5	Nuno Laurentino	Portugal	51.83
51	H14 L1	Paul Kutscher	Uruguay	51.88
52	H14 L5	Octavian Guţu	Moldova	52.06
52	H14 L6	Shai Livnat	Israel	52.06
54	H14 L8	Carl Probert	Fiji	52.10
54	H15 L5	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	52.10
56	H15 L6	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	52.12
57	H15 L8	Alexandros Aresti	Cyprus	52.17
58	H14 L2	Željko Panić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.18
59	H17 L6	Min Suk Kim	South Korea	52.25
60	H12 L4	Ismael Ortiz	Panama	52.45
61	H15 L4	Yun Ho Koh	South Korea	52.46
62	H15 L3	Francisco Picasso	Uruguay	52.55
63	H14 L4	Alexander Agafonov	Uzbekistan	52.59
64	H12 L7	Ken Tomson	Estonia	52.60
64	H14 L3	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	52.60
66	H15 L7	Allen Ong	Malaysia	52.66
67	H13 L3	Vyacheslav Titarenko	Kazakhstan	52.83
68	H12 L2	Adil Bellaz	Morocco	52.84
69	H13 L2	Ronald Cowen	Bermuda	52.99
70	H13 L1	Maximiliano Schnettler	Chile	53.07
71	H12 L3	Alexandr Ivlev	Moldova	53.11
72	H16 L1	Aytekin Mindan	Turkey	53.13
73	H11 L6	Heidar Ingi Marinosson	Iceland	53.15
74	H12 L5	Howard Hinds	Netherlands Antilles	53.19
75	H11 L5	Kin Lun Doo	Hong Kong	53.25
76	H11 L2	Nicholas Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	53.29
77	H07 L1	Kenny Roberts	Seychelles	53.33
78	H11 L7	Carlos Castro	Chile	53.35
79	H10 L3	Tuck Kar Wong	Malaysia	53.51
80	H13 L7	Roberto Sanso	Costa Rica	53.52
81	H12 L6	Ashby Brendan	Zimbabwe	53.55
82	H10 L2	Sean Dehere	Barbados	53.62
83	H06 L7	Gentle Offoin	Nigeria	53.70
84	H08 L4	Babak Farhoudi	Iran	83.76
85	H12 L8	Diego Mularoni	San Marino	53.88
86	H11 L4	Wing Fu	Hong Kong	53.90
87	H10 L4	Gregory Arkhurst	Ivory Coast	54.01
88	H10 L5	Martyn Forde	Barbados	54.07
89	H13 L8	Anovar Bennaceur	Tunisia	54.25
90	H12 L1	Cem Pasaoglu	Turkey	54.32
91	H09 L6	Carles Ridaura	Andorra	54.34
92	H09 L4	Gustavo Adolfo Martinez	Honduras	54.49
93	H10 L7	Zurab Khomasuridze	Georgia	54.52
94	H09 L5	Wing Cheung Victor Wong	Macau	54.58
95	H09 L8	Obied Ahmed Al Jassimi	United Arab Emirates	54.67
96	H06 L6	Yann Lausan	Tahiti	54.88
96	H13 L6	Maran Cruz	Puerto Rico	54.88
98	H10 L6	Alois Dansou	Benin	54.89
99	H08 L6	Kunakorn Yimsomruay	Thailand	54.90
100	H17 L7	Shaohua Huang	China	54.98
101	H09 L1	Levan Berdize	Georgia	55.07
102	H09 L7	Ayoub Salem Almas	United Arab Emirates	55.16
103	H08 L7	Khaly Ciss	Senegal	55.17
104	H10 L8	Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin	Nigeria	55.23
105	H11 L1	Mikayel Koloyan	Armenia	55.34
106	H07 L8	Abed Rahman Kaaki	Lebanon	55.41
107	H06 L4	Onan Thom	Guyana	55.44
107	H08 L5	Jamie Peterkin	Saint Lucia	55.44
109	H08 L3	Joao Aguiar	Angola	55.48
110	H08 L2	Davy Bisslik	Aruba	55.52
111	H07 L4	Miguel Navarro	Bolivia	55.61
112	H10 L1	Mauricio Prudencio	Bolivia	55.70
113	H07 L7	Kuan Fong Lao	Macau	55.86
114	H08 L8	Zaid Almarafi	Jordan	56.05
115	H04 L5	Rony Bakale	Republic of the Congo	56.15
115	H05 L3	Lam Le Ba	Vietnam	56.15
117	H06 L8	Ranui Teriipaia	Tahiti	56.18
118	H08 L1	Fadi Jalabi	Syria	56.20
119	H09 L3	Othmane Elghnimi	Morocco	56.25
120	H06 L5	Bradford Worrell	Saint Lucia	56.27
121	H09 L2	Omar Abu Faris	Jordan	56.36
122	H06 L2	Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw	Suriname	56.49
122	H07 L5	Benjamin Wells	Papua New Guinea	56.49
124	H06 L3	Rama Vyombo	Kenya	56.65
125	H07 L3	Abdoulaye Mbow	Senegal	56.75
126	H04 L4	Dean Palacios	Northern Mariana Islands	57.07
127	H05 L4	Patrick Boustany	Lebanon	57.15
128	H04 L3	Seung Gin Lee	Northern Mariana Islands	57.20
129	H06 L1	Omar Núñez	Nicaragua	57.27
130	H05 L1	Loren Lindborg	Marshall Islands	57.30
131	H02 L2	Hesham Al Shehabi	Bahrain	57.44
132	H05 L2	Jean Laurent Ravera	Monaco	57.49
133	H04 L1	Tamir Andrei	Mongolia	57.66
133	H05 L7	Connor Keith	Guam	57.66
135	H07 L6	Sergey Dyachkov	Azerbaijan	57.73
136	H01 L5	Yan Lin Aung	Myanmar	57.79
137	H05 L8	Asela Pradeep Perera	Sri Lanka	57.93
138	H05 L6	Ahmed Ouattara Zie	Ivory Coast	58.04
139	H03 L3	Kabir Walia	Kenya	58.21
140	H03 L5	Kin-Vincent Duenas	Guam	58.35
141	H04 L2	Orkhan Samadov	Azerbaijan	58.42
142	H07 L2	Nuno Rola	Angola	58.48
143	H03 L8	Peter James Linch	Zambia	58.60
144	H04 L6	Urnultsaikhan Ganbold	Mongolia	58.62
145	H04 L8	Clark Randrianandraina	Madagascar	58.80
146	H03 L4	Ronald Ying	Guyana	59.44
147	H03 L2	Neil Agius	Malta	59.81
148	H03 L7	Leonel Matonse	Mozambique	59.87
149	H03 L1	Mohammed S. Abbas	Iraq	59.96
150	H04 L7	Kreshnik Gjata	Albania	1:00.13
151	H02 L6	Chisela Kanchela	Zambia	1:01.51
152	H02 L4	Edgar Luberenga	Uganda	1:01.61
153	H03 L6	Aldi Gugushka	Albania	1:01.78
154	H02 L8	Joshua Marfleet	Samoa	1:02.97
155	H02 L1	Carlos Notarianni	Marshall Islands	1:03.88
156	H01 L2	Hassan Mubah	Maldives	1:04.28
157	H01 L1	Momadon Ouedrago	Burkina Faso	1:07.09
158	H01 L3	A.A. Romain Belemtougri	Burkina Faso	1:19.42
-	H01 L4	Mohammed Sultan Judat	Yemen	DQ
-	H01 L6	Ahmed Fargani	Libya	DQ
-	H05 L5	Aung Kyaw Moe	Myanmar	DQ
-	-	Christoph Bühler	Switzerland	DNS
-	-	Ayoub Salem Mallalah	United Arab Emirates	DNS
-	-	Shade Sule Cole	Cameroon	DNS
-	-	Fils Theodore Tchena	Cameroon	DNS
-	-	Gibrilla Kanu	Sierra Leone	DNS
-	-	Emery Nziyumvira	Burundi	DNS
-	-	Fidel Davis	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	DNS