The
Swimming
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competition of the 10th
FINA World Aquatics Championships
The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ...
consisted of 40
long course
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(50m) events, swum July 20–27, 2003 in
Barcelona, Spain.
HistoFINA: Swimming, long course
Published by FINA
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, last updated in 2011. Retrieved 2013-06-01. Swimming's 40 events were split evenly between males and females (20 each) and were:
* freestyle (free): 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500;
*backstroke
Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimm ...
(back): 50, 100 and 200;
* breaststroke (breast): 50, 100 and 200;
*butterfly
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(fly): 50, 100 and 200;
*Individual Medley
Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles—backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle—into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as a medley relay.
Individual m ...
(IM): 200 and 400; and
*relay
A relay
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: 4×100 and 4×200 freestyle, and 4×100 medley.
Participating nations
Event schedule
Results
Men
Legend: WR – World Record
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; CR – Championship Record
Women
Legend: WR – World Record
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; CR – Championship Record
Medal standings
References
{{Swimming at the World Aquatics Championships
2003 World Aquatics Championships
World Aquatics Championships
The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ...
Swimming at the World Aquatics Championships