Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The Women's 100m Breaststroke 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-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals that evening. The top-8 finishers 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: 1:06.52 swum by Penny Heyns (South Africa) on August 23, 1999 in Sydney, Australia. * CR: 1:07.18 swum by Xuejuan Luo (China) on July 22, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The Women's 100m Breaststroke 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-16 finishers advancing to Semifinals that evening. The top-8 finishers 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: 1:06.52 swum by Penny Heyns (South Africa) on August 23, 1999 in Sydney, Australia. * CR: 1:07.18 swum by Xuejuan Luo (China) on July 22, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan