Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly
# Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The Women's 200m Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 23–24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam in the morning session of 20 July, with the top-16 finishers advancing to semifinal heats that evening. The top-8 finishers from the Semifinals then advanced to swim again in the Final the next evening.

At the start of the event, the World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

* WR: 2:05.78 swum by Otylia Jędrzejczak (Poland) on August 4, 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
* CR: 2:06.73 swum by Petria Thomas (Australia) on July 23, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

## Results

### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:07.56 |
| 2 | Éva Risztov | Hungary | 2:07.68 |
| 3 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:08.08 |
| 4 | Mary DeScenza | USA | 2:08.38 |
| 5 | Francesca Segat | Italy | 2:09.49 |
| 6 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:09.61 |
| 7 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:10.58 |
| 8 | Roser Vives | Spain | 2:12.89 |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | S2 L5 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:08.42 | q |
| 2 | S2 L4 | Mary DeScenza | USA | 2:08.71 | q |
| 3 | S1 L4 | Éva Risztov | Hungary | 2:08.88 | q |
| 4 | S2 L3 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:09.41 | q |
| 5 | S1 L6 | Francesca Segat | Italy | 2:10.72 | q |
| 6 | S1 L3 | Roser Vives | Spain | 2:10.98 | q |
| 7 | S1 L4 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:10.99 | q |
| 8 | S2 L6 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:11.42 | q |
| 9 | S2 L8 | Yukiko Osada | Japan | 2:12.02 | |
| 10 | S1 L7 | Jessicah Schipper | Australia | 2:12.28 | |
| 11 | S2 L7 | Li Cui | China | 2:12.49 | |
| 12 | S2 L2 | Tianyi Zhang | China | 2:12.56 | |
| 13 | S2 L1 | Mandy Loots | South Africa | 2:12.74 | |
| 14 | S1 L2 | Emily Mason | USA | 2:12.76 | |
| 14 | S1 L1 | Natalia Soutiaguina | Russia | 2:12.76 | |
| 16 | S1 L8 | Zampia Melachroinou | Greece | 2:13.96 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | H4 L5 | Mary DeScenza | United States | 2:09.08 | q |
| 2 | H5 L4 | Éva Risztov | Hungary | 2:09.32 | q |
| 3 | H6 L4 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:10.30 | q |
| 4 | H6 L7 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:10.52 | q, scratched semis |
| 5 | H6 L6 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:10.65 | q |
| 6 | H4 L4 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:10.68 | q |
| 7 | H5 L2 | Roser Vives | Spain | 2:10.73 | q |
| 8 | H6 L5 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:10.85 | q |
| 9 | H6 L3 | Francesca Segat | Italy | 2:11.02 | q |
| 10 | H5 L7 | Tianyi Zhang | China | 2:12.10 | q |
| 11 | H5 L3 | Emily Mason | United States | 2:12.33 | q |
| 12 | H4 L3 | Li Cui | China | 2:12.35 | q |
| 13 | H5 L6 | Jessicah Schipper | Australia | 2:12.36 | q |
| 14 | H5 L5 | Georgina Lee | Great Britain | 2:12.46 | q, scratched semis |
| 15 | H4 L7 | Natalia Soutiaguina | Russia | 2:12.70 | q |
| 16 | H4 L6 | Yukiko Osada | Japan | 2:12.77 | q |
| 17 | H5 L8 | Zampia Melachroinou | Greece | 2:12.81 | |
| 18 | H3 L3 | Mandy Loots | South Africa | 2:12.84 | |
| 19 | H4 L2 | María Peláez | Spain | 2:13.64 | |
| 20 | H4 L1 | Petra Zahrl | Austria | 2:13.74 | |
| 21 | H6 L2 | Jen Button | Canada | 2:13.86 | |
| 22 | H5 L1 | Elizabeth Van Welie | New Zealand | 2:14.11 | |
| 23 | H6 L8 | Raquel Felgueiras | Portugal | 2:16.53 | |
| 24 | H2 L4 | Vesna Stojanvoska | Macedonia | 2:16.54 | |
| 25 | H6 L1 | Sara Oliveira | Portugal | 2:16.81 | |
| 26 | H3 L1 | Gülşah Günenç | Turkey | 2:17.66 | |
| 27 | H3 L5 | Gabriella Fagundez | Sweden | 2:18.06 | |
| 28 | H1 L3 | Kyung Hwa Park | South Korea | 2:18.40 | |
| 29 | H2 L2 | Maria Rodriguez | Venezuela | 2:19.06 | |
| 30 | H3 L2 | Marcella Amar | Brazil | 2:19.12 | |
| 31 | H2 L5 | Maria Bulakhova | Russia | 2:19.33 | |
| 32 | H4 L8 | Monique Ferreira | Brazil | 2:19.48 | |
| 33 | H3 L4 | Leonore Kelleher | Ireland | 2:19.53 | |
| 34 | H2 L6 | Richa Mishra | India | 2:19.58 | |
| 35 | H3 L8 | Wing Suet Chan | Hong Kong | 2:20.11 | |
| 36 | H2 L3 | Angela Galea | Malta | 2:22.57 | |
| 37 | H3 L6 | Mariana Bertellotti | Argentina | 2:25.24 | |
| 38 | H3 L7 | Flora Kong | Hong Kong | 2:26.39 | |
| 39 | H1 L4 | Natasha George | Saint Lucia | 2:39.77 | |
| - | - | Simona Muccioli | San Marino | DNS | |
| - | - | Elize Taua | Samoa | DNS | |
| - | - | Vered Borochovsky | Israel | DNS | |
