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Women's 1500m Freestyle at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	21 July (prelims); 22 July (final)
Winning time	16 minutes 0.18 seconds
Medalists
Hannah Stockbauer    Germany   Hayley Peirsol    United States   Jana Henke    Germany
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The Women's 1500m Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary heats swam during the morning session on July 21, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the event's Final during the evening session on July 22.

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

• WR: 15:52.10 swum by Janet Evans (USA) on March 26, 1988 in Orlando, USA.
• CR: 16:01.02 swum by Hannah Stockbauer (Germany) on July 28, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	16:00.18	CR
2	Hayley Peirsol	USA	16:09.64
3	Jana Henke	Germany	16:10.13
4	Regina Sych	Russia	16:13.13	NR
5	Diana Munz	USA	16:14.28
6	Brittany Reimer	Canada	16:15.98
7	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	16:20.41
8	Chen Hua	China	16:29.06

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H2 L5	Chen Hua	China	16:15.55	q
2	H1 L4	Jana Henke	Germany	16:15.93	q
3	H3 L4	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	16:15.95	q
4	H3 L3	Brittany Reimer	Canada	16:16.21	q
5	H2 L4	Diana Munz	United States	16:16.78	q
6	H1 L5	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	16:17.95	q
7	H2 L8	Hayley Peirsol	United States	16:20.34	q
8	H1 L2	Regina Sych	Russia	16:23.33	q
9	H3 L6	Simona Păduraru	Romania	16:25.50
10	H1 L1	Olga Beresneva	Ukraine	16:27.76	NR
11	H2 L7	Erika Villaécija	Spain	16:32.17
12	H2 L2	Ai Shibata	Japan	16:32.19
13	H2 L3	Taryn Lencoe	Canada	16:35.83
14	H1 L6	Amanda Pascoe	Australia	16:38.70
15	H3 L1	Jana Pechanová	Czech Republic	16:39.75
16	H2 L6	Réka Nagy	Hungary	16:41.81
17	H3 L2	Nayara Ribeiro	Brazil	16:43.97
18	H3 L5	Sashiko Yamada	Japan	16:45.48
19	H3 L7	Sarah Paton	Australia	16:57.10
20	H2 L1	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	16:58.64
21	H1 L7	Maria Bulakhova	Russia	17:00.55
22	H1 L3	Zhang Yan	China	17:14.85
23	H3 L8	Andrea De León	Uruguay	18:05.05

References

1. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 1500m Freestyle - prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2013-07-20.
2. 2003 FINA Worlds results: Women's 1500m Freestyle - Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-21; retrieved 2013-07-20.

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