The Men's 200 Freestyle event at the 10th
FINA World Aquatics Championships
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swam on 21–22 July 2003 in
Barcelona, Spain
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. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were on 21 July, while the Final
[Worlds 2003 results]
Men's 200m Freestyle Final
from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-11. swam on 22 July.
Prior to the start of the event, the existing
World
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(WR) and
Championship
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Championship systems
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Title match system
In this system ...
(CR) records were both:
*WR and CR: 1:44.06 swum by
Ian Thorpe
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(Australia) on 25 July 2001 in
Fukuoka, Japan
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Results
Final
Semifinals
Preliminaries
References
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Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships