2003 World Aquatics Championships

2003 FINA World Championships Barcelona, Spain
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Synchronised swimming
Solo		women
Duet		women
Team		women
Combination		women
Water polo
Team	men	women

Barcelona, Spain was the host city of the X FINA World Aquatics Championships or the 10th FINA World Championships in Aquatics, which were held from July 12 until July 27, 2003.

The events were held in the following facilities all around the city: Palau Sant Jordi, Piscines Bernat Picornell, Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc, Club de Natació de Barcelona and the circuit along the beaches of Barcelona to the Port Vell for the open water swimming.

Medal table

      Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	12	13	6	31
2	Russia	10	5	6	21
3	Australia	8	12	6	26
4	China	7	4	8	19
5	Germany	5	6	5	16
6	Japan	3	3	3	9
7	Netherlands	3	2	2	7
8	Great Britain	2	3	3	8
9	Ukraine	2	3	2	7
10	Italy	2	2	1	5
11	Canada	2	0	1	3
12	Hungary	1	4	1	6
13	Spain	1	2	3	6
14	Poland	1	1	0	2
15	France	1	0	2	3
16	Finland	1	0	1	2
17	Belarus	1	0	0	1
18	Czech Republic	0	2	0	2
19	Slovakia	0	1	1	2
20	Denmark	0	1	0	1
20	Croatia	0	1	0	1
22	Romania	0	0	2	2
23	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
23	Mexico	0	0	1	1
23	Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	1	1
23	South Africa	0	0	1	1
23	Sweden	0	0	1	1
23	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Total		62	65	59	186

Results

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1 m springboard	Xiang Xu (CHN)	Wang Kenan (CHN)	Joona Puhakka (FIN)
3 m springboard	Aleksandr Dobroskok (RUS)	Peng Bo (CHN)	Dmitri Sautin (RUS)
10 m platform	Alexandre Despatie (CAN)	Mathew Helm (AUS)	Tian Liang (CHN)
3 m synchro springboard	Aleksandr Dobroskok (RUS) Dmitri Sautin (RUS)	Wang Tianling (CHN) Wang Feng (CHN)	Andreas Wels (GER) Tobias Schellenberg (GER)
10 m synchro platform	Mathew Helm (AUS) Robert Newbery (AUS)	Roman Volodkov (UKR) Anton Zakharov (UKR)	Tian Liang (CHN) Hu Jia (CHN)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1 m springboard	Irina Lashko (AUS)	Conny Schmalfuss (GER)	Blythe Hartley (CAN)
3 m springboard	Guo Jingjing (CHN)	Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS)	Wu Minxia (CHN)
10 m platform	Émilie Heymans (CAN)	Lao Lishi (CHN)	Li Na (CHN)
3 m synchro springboard	Guo Jingjing (CHN) Wu Minxia (CHN)	Vera Ilyina (RUS) Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS)	Paola Espinosa (MEX) Laura Sánchez (MEX)
10 m synchro platform	Lao Lishi (CHN) Li Ting (CHN)	Loudy Tourky (AUS) Lynda Dackiw (AUS)	Evgenya Olshevskaya (RUS) Svetlana Timoshinina (RUS)

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Evgeni Kochkarov (RUS)	Christian Hein (GER)	Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS)
10 km	Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS)	Christian Hein (GER)	David Meca (ESP)
25 km	Yuri Kudinov (RUS)	David Meca (ESP)	Petar Stoychev (BUL)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Viola Valli (ITA)	Jana Pechanová (CZE)	Britta Kamrau (GER)
10 km	Viola Valli (ITA)	Angela Maurer (GER)	Edith van Dijk (NED)
25 km	Edith van Dijk (NED)	Britta Kamrau (GER)	Angela Maurer (GER)

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

Synchronised swimming

Main article: Synchronised swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Solo routine	Virginie Dedieu (FRA)	Anastasia Ermakova (RUS)	Gemma Mengual (ESP)
Duet routine	Anastasia Davydova (RUS) Anastasia Ermakova (RUS)	Miya Tachibana (JPN) Miho Takeda (JPN)	Gemma Mengual (ESP) Paola Tirados (ESP)
Team routine	Russia	Japan	United States
Combination routine	Japan	United States Spain

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Hungary Tibor Benedek Péter Biros Rajmund Fodor István Gergely Tamás Kásás Gergely Kiss Norbert Madaras Tamás Molnár Barnabás Steinmetz Zoltán Szécsi Tamás Varga Zsolt Varga Attila Vári	Italy Alberto Angelini Fabio Bencivenga Fabrizio Buonocore Alessandro Calcaterra Roberto Calcaterra Maurizio Felugo Goran Fiorentini Marco Gerini Andrea Mangiante Francesco Postiglione Bogdan Rath Carlo Silipo Stefano Tempesti	Serbia and Montenegro Aleksandar Ćirić Vladimir Gojković Danilo Ikodinović Viktor Jelenić Predrag Jokić Nikola Kuljača Slobodan Nikić Aleksandar Šapić Dejan Savić Denis Šefik Vanja Udovičić Vladimir Vujasinović Boris Zloković

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's tournament	United States Nicolle Payne Heather Petri Ericka Lorenz Brenda Villa Ellen Estes Natalie Golda Margaret Dingeldein Jacqueline Frank Heather Moody Robin Beauregard Amber Stachowski Gabrielle Domanic Thalia Munro	Italy Francesca Conti Martina Miceli Carmela Allucci Silvia Bosurgi Erika Lava Manuela Zanchi Tania di Mario Cinzia Ragusa Giusy Malato Alexandra Araujo Maddalena Musumeci Melania Grego Noémi Tóth	Russia Valentina Voronisova Natalya Shepelina Yekaterina Salimova Sofia Konoukh Yelena Smurova Galina Zlotnikova Anastassia Zoubkova Veronika Linkova Tatiana Petrova Olga Turova Ekaterina Shishova Svetlana Bogdanova Maria Yaina

See also

• List of world records in swimming
• List of World Championships records in swimming

References

• FINA Official Championship Results History – Swimming (men) (Archived 2009-05-05)
• FINA Official Championship Results History – Swimming (women)
• Water Polo Results
• Swim Rankings results

External links

• FINA Official Website

Preceded by 2001 World Aquatics Championships (Fukuoka, Japan)

FINA World Aquatics Championships

Succeeded by 2005 World Aquatics Championships (Montreal, Canada)