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Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke
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The Women's 100m Backstroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary[1] heats swam during the morning session on July 21, with the top-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals[2] that evening. The top-8 finishers then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.[3]
At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:
- WR: 59.58 swum by Natalie Coughlin (USA) on August 13, 2002 in Fort Lauderdale, USA.
- CR: 1:00.16 swum by Cihong He (China) on September 10, 1994 in Rome, Italy