Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 metre individual medley

The Women's 400m Individual Medley event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 27 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 400m I.M. at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	27 July 2003 (prelims & finals)
Medalists
Yana Klochkova    Ukraine   Éva Risztov    Hungary   Beatrice Câșlaru    Romania
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Main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

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

• WR: 4:33.59 swum by Yana Klochkova (Ukraine) on September 16, 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
• CR: 4:36.10 swum by Petra Schneider (East Germany) on August 1, 1982 in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine	4:36.74
2	Éva Risztov	Hungary	4:37.39
3	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	4:41.86
4	Maggie Bowen	USA	4:43.21
5	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	4:43.32
6	Diana Remenyi	Hungary	4:45.67
7	Georgina Bardach	Argentina	4:46.06
8	Jennifer Reilly	Australia	4:48.11

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H4 L4	Éva Risztov	Hungary	4:42.89	q
2	H4 L5	Nicole Hetzer	Germany	4:43.48	q
3	H5 L4	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine	4:44.14	q
4	H3 L3	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	4:44.26	q
5	H4 L3	Diana Remenyi	Hungary	4:44.77	q
6	H4 L2	Georgina Bardach	Argentina	4:45.16	q
7	H5 L5	Jennifer Reilly	Australia	4:45.57	q
8	H3 L5	Maggie Bowen	United States	4:47.08	q
9	H3 L6	Maiko Fujino	Japan	4:47.17
10	H3 L4	Hui Qi	China	4:47.20
11	H5 L2	Yana Tolkatcheva	Russia	4:47.72
12	H4 L6	Tianyi Zhang	China	4:47.84
13	H2 L6	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	4:48.59
14	H2 L4	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	4:48.75
15	H3 L1	Joanna Maranhão	Brazil	4:49.04
16	H3 L2	Elizabeth Warden	Canada	4:49.28
17	H5 L3	Maddy Crippen	United States	4:50.28
18	H5 L1	Paula Carballido	Spain	4:50.44
19	H5 L6	Elizabeth Van Welie	New Zealand	4:51.42
20	H4 L1	Helen Norfolk	New Zealand	4:51.54
21	H4 L7	Jessica Abbott	Australia	4:52.72
22	H5 L7	Yana Martynova	Russia	4:53.77
23	H4 L8	Julie Hjorth-Hansen	Denmark	4:54.30
24	H3 L8	Inbal Levavi	Israel	4:54.31
25	H3 L7	Yuliya Pidlisna	Ukraine	4:55.12
26	H2 L5	Yi Ting Siow	Malaysia	5:01.20
27	H5 L8	Veronica Massari	Italy	5:01.50
28	H2 L3	Elisabeth Jarland	Norway	5:02.54
29	H2 L7	Vanessa Duenas Uribe	Colombia	5:07.33
30	H2 L8	Richa Mishra	India	5:11.67
31	H2 L2	Wing Suet Chan	Hong Kong	5:11.69
32	H2 L1	Sabria Dahane	Algeria	5:15.88
33	H1 L4	Shrone Austin	Seychelles	5:17.39
34	H1 L5	Jamie Shufflebarger	Virgin Islands	5:24.89
35	H1 L3	Susan Anchia	Costa Rica	5:28.37
36	H1 L6	Ana Galindo	Honduras	5:37.85
-	-	Jakie Wellman	Zambia	DNS

References

1. Worlds 2003 results: Women's 400 IM -- prelims. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-27; retrieved 2014-06-12.
2. Worlds 2003 results: Women's 400 IM -- final. Published by Omega Timing on 2003-07-27; retrieved 2014-06-12.