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
Dates	20 July 2003 (prelims & finals)
Medalists
USA    Germany    Australia

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
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, Yanwei Xu, Jiaying Pang	3:41.46
8	Italy	Cecilia Vianini, Cristina Chiuso, Sara Parise, Luisa Striani	3:48.18

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat/Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	H1 L4	Australia	Libby Lenton, Sophie Edington Elka Graham, Jodie Henry	3:41.16	q
2	H1 L5	Great Britain	Melanie Marshall, Kathryn Evans Rosalind Brett, Karen Legg	3:41.68	q
3	H3 L3	Netherlands	Manon van Rooijen, Marleen Veldhuis Annabel Kosten, Chantal Groot	3:41.74	q
4	H3 L4	Germany	Katrin Meissner, Daniela Götz Alessa Ries, Petra Dallmann	3:42.77	q
5	H3 L5	Sweden	Josefin Lillhage, Ida Mattsson Therese Alshammar, Johanna Sjöberg	3:42.89	q
6	H2 L4	United States	Gabrielle Rose, Lindsay Benko Rhi Jeffrey, Maritza Correia	3:43.14	q
7	H2 L5	China	Yu Yang, Jiaru Cheng Jiaying Pang, Yanwei Xu	3:43.36	q
8	H2 L6	Italy	Cecilia Vianini, Cristina Chiuso Luisa Striani, Federica Pellegrini	3:44.53	q
9	H1 L3	South Korea	Yoon Ji Ryu, Hyun Ju Kim Min Ji Shim, So Eun Sun	3:45.46
10	H3 L6	Greece	Nery-Mantey Niangkouara, Eleni Kosti Zampia Melachroinou, Zoi Dimoschaki	3:46.35
11	H1 L6	Switzerland	Dominique Diezi, Nicole Zahnd Marjorie Sagne, Hanna Miluska	3:47.44
12	H2 L3	Belarus	Hanna Scherba, Marya Scherba Sviatlana Khakhlova, Alena Popchanka	3:47.85
13	H3 L2	Belgium	Tine Bossuyt, Nina van Koeckhoven Bieke Vandenabeele, Fabienne Dufour	3:48.49
14	H2 L2	Brazil	Flávia Delaroli, Rebeca Gusmão Monique Ferreira, Tatiana Lima	3:49.02
15	H2 L7	Estonia	Elina Partyka, Nele Trepp Jana Kolukanova, Triin Aljand	3:51.43
16	H1 L2	Hong Kong	Jennifer Ng, Hang Yu Sze Flora Kong, Sherry Tsai	3:54.96
17	H1 L7	India	Shikha Tandon, Ambica Iyengar Sivranjani Vaidyanathan, Richa Mishra	4:13.00
-	-	Venezuela		DNS

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