2003 World Aquatics Championships

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10th FINA World Championships
Host cityBarcelona, Spain
Date(s)July 12–27, 2003
Officially opened byJuan Carlos I

The 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships were held July 12–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. The championships featured competition in all 5 of FINA's disciplines: Swimming, Diving, Synchronised swimming, Water Polo, and Open Water Swimming.

Competition was held in the facilities all around the city: Palau Sant Jordi, Piscines Bernat Picornell, Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc, Club de Natació de Barcelona and Port Vell.

Schedule

Competition dates were:

  • Diving: July 13–19 and 21;
  • Synchronized Swimming: July 13–19;
  • Open Water: July 13 (5K), 16 (10K) and 19 (25K);
  • Water Polo:
  • Swimming: July 20–27.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Spain)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)1213631
2 Russia (RUS)105621
3 Australia (AUS)812626
4 China (CHN)74819
5 Germany (GER)56516
6 Japan (JPN)3339
7 Netherlands (NED)3227
8 Great Britain (GBR)2338
9 Ukraine (UKR)2327
10 Italy (ITA)2215
11 Canada (CAN)2013
12 Hungary (HUN)1416
13 Spain (ESP)*1236
14 Poland (POL)1102
15 France (FRA)1023
16 Finland (FIN)1012
17 Belarus (BLR)1001
18 Czech Republic (CZE)0202
19 Slovakia (SVK)0112
20 Croatia (CRO)0101
 Denmark (DEN)0101
22 Romania (ROU)0022
23 Bulgaria (BUL)0011
 Mexico (MEX)0011
 Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)0011
 South Africa (RSA)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
 Tunisia (TUN)0011
Totals (28 entries)626559186

Results

Diving

Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
1 m springboard  Xiang Xu (CHN)  Wang Kenan (CHN)  Joona Puhakka (FIN)
3 m springboard  Aleksandr Dobroskok (RUS)  Peng Bo (CHN)  Dmitri Sautin (RUS)
10 m platform  Alexandre Despatie (CAN)  Mathew Helm (AUS)  Tian Liang (CHN)
3 m synchro springboard  Aleksandr Dobroskok (RUS)
 Dmitri Sautin (RUS)
 Wang Tianling (CHN)
 Wang Feng (CHN)
 Andreas Wels (GER)
 Tobias Schellenberg (GER)
10 m synchro platform  Mathew Helm (AUS)
 Robert Newbery (AUS)
 Roman Volodkov (UKR)
 Anton Zakharov (UKR)
 Tian Liang (CHN)
 Hu Jia (CHN)
Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
1 m springboard  Irina Lashko (AUS)  Conny Schmalfuss (GER)  Blythe Hartley (CAN)
3 m springboard  Guo Jingjing (CHN)  Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS)  Wu Minxia (CHN)
10 m platform  Émilie Heymans (CAN)  Lao Lishi (CHN)  Li Na (CHN)
3 m synchro springboard  Guo Jingjing (CHN)
 Wu Minxia (CHN)
 Vera Ilyina (RUS)
 Yuliya Pakhalina (RUS)
 Paola Espinosa (MEX)
 Laura Sánchez (MEX)
10 m synchro platform  Lao Lishi (CHN)
 Li Ting (CHN)
 Loudy Tourky (AUS)
 Lynda Dackiw (AUS)
 Evgenya Olshevskaya (RUS)
 Svetlana Timoshinina (RUS)

Open water swimming

Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
5 km  Evgeni Kochkarov (RUS)  Christian Hein (GER)  Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS)
10 km  Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS)  Christian Hein (GER)  David Meca (ESP)
25 km  Yuri Kudinov (RUS)  David Meca (ESP)  Petar Stoychev (BUL)
Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
5 km  Viola Valli (ITA)  Jana Pechanová (CZE)  Britta Kamrau (GER)
10 km  Viola Valli (ITA)  Angela Maurer (GER)  Edith van Dijk (NED)
25 km  Edith van Dijk (NED)  Britta Kamrau (GER)  Angela Maurer (GER)

Swimming

Synchronised swimming

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Solo routine  Virginie Dedieu (FRA)  Anastasia Ermakova (RUS)  Gemma Mengual (ESP)
Duet routine  Anastasia Davydova (RUS)
 Anastasia Ermakova (RUS)
 Miya Tachibana (JPN)
 Miho Takeda (JPN)
 Gemma Mengual (ESP)
 Paola Tirados (ESP)
Team routine  Russia  Japan  United States
Combination routine  Japan  United States
 Spain

Water polo

Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team  Hungary
Tibor Benedek
Péter Biros
Rajmund Fodor
István Gergely
Tamás Kásás
Gergely Kiss
Norbert Madaras
Tamás Molnár
Barnabás Steinmetz
Zoltán Szécsi
Tamás Varga
Zsolt Varga
Attila Vári
 Italy
Alberto Angelini
Fabio Bencivenga
Fabrizio Buonocore
Alessandro Calcaterra
Roberto Calcaterra
Maurizio Felugo
Goran Fiorentini
Marco Gerini
Andrea Mangiante
Francesco Postiglione
Bogdan Rath
Carlo Silipo
Stefano Tempesti
 Serbia and Montenegro
Aleksandar Ćirić
Vladimir Gojković
Danilo Ikodinović
Viktor Jelenić
Predrag Jokić
Nikola Kuljača
Slobodan Nikić
Aleksandar Šapić
Dejan Savić
Denis Šefik
Vanja Udovičić
Vladimir Vujasinović
Boris Zloković
Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team  United States
Nicolle Payne
Heather Petri
Ericka Lorenz
Brenda Villa
Ellen Estes
Natalie Golda
Margaret Dingeldein
Jacqueline Frank
Heather Moody
Robin Beauregard
Amber Stachowski
Gabrielle Domanic
Thalia Munro
 Italy
Francesca Conti
Martina Miceli
Carmela Allucci
Silvia Bosurgi
Erika Lava
Manuela Zanchi
Tania di Mario
Cinzia Ragusa
Giusi Malato
Alexandra Araujo
Maddalena Musumeci
Melania Grego
Noémi Tóth
 Russia
Valentina Voronisova
Natalya Shepelina
Yekaterina Salimova
Sofia Konoukh
Yelena Smurova
Galina Zlotnikova
Anastassia Zoubkova
Veronika Linkova
Tatiana Petrova
Olga Turova
Ekaterina Shishova
Svetlana Bogdanova
Maria Yaina

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