Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
Women's 4x100m Free Relay at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships | |||||||
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Dates | 20 July 2003 (prelims & finals) | ||||||
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The women's 4x100m freestyle relay event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 20 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.
At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:
- WR: 3:36.00 swum by Germany on July 29, 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
- CR: 3:37.91 swum by China on September 7, 1994 in Rome, Italy
Results
Final
Rank | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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1 | USA | Natalie Coughlin, Lindsay Benko, Rhi Jeffrey, Jenny Thompson | 3:38.09 | |
2 | Germany | Petra Dallmann, Katrin Meissner, Antje Buschschulte, Sandra Völker | 3:38.73 | |
3 | Australia | Libby Lenton, Elka Graham, Jodie Henry, Alice Mills | 3:38.83 | |
4 | Netherlands | Manon van Rooijen, Marleen Veldhuis, Annabel Kosten, Chantal Groot | 3:41.04 | |
5 | Great Britain | Alison Sheppard, Karen Legg, Melanie Marshall, Karen Pickering | 3:41.17 | |
6 | Sweden | Josefin Lillhage, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna-Karin Kammerling, Therese Alshammar | 3:41.36 | |
7 | China | Jiaru Cheng, Yu Yang, Xu Yanwei, Jiaying Pang | 3:41.46 | |
8 | Italy | Cecilia Vianini, Cristina Chiuso, Sara Parise, Luisa Striani | 3:48.18 |