Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 100 metre breaststroke ; at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 22, 2012 (heats and semifinals); May 23, 2012 (final)
Competitors	49 from 29 nations
Winning time	1:07.33
Medalists

The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 22 and 23. The heats and semifinals took place on May 22, the final on May 23.^[1]

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Jessica Hardy	United States	1:04.45	Federal Way	August 7, 2009
European record	Yuliya Efimova	Russia	1:05.41	Rome	July 28, 2009
Championship record	Yuliya Efimova	Russia	1:06.32	Budapest	August 11, 2010

Results[]

Heats[]

49 swimmers participated in 7 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	3	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany	1:07.85	Q
2	6	4	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:08.05	Q
3	6	6	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	1:08.37	Q, NR
4	7	4	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:08.38	Q
5	6	3	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	1:08.58	Q
6	7	5	Concepcion Badillo Diaz	Spain	1:08.75	Q
7	5	7	Martina Moravciková	Czech Republic	1:08.92	Q
8	5	5	Marina Garcia Urzainqui	Spain	1:09.17	Q
9	7	6	Valentina Artemyeva	Russia	1:09.35	Q
10	4	5		Norway	1:09.65	Q
11	6	8	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	1:09.66	Q
12	5	2	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	1:09.67	Q
13	7	7	Dilara Buse Günaydin	Turkey	1:09.67	Q
14	5	8	Tanja Šmid	Slovenia	1:09.98	Q
15	5	6	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	1:10.16	Q
16	4	6	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	1:10.21	Q
17	6	5	Joline Höstman	Sweden	1:10.23
18	7	1	Anna Sztankovics	Hungary	1:10.37
19	4	3	Sara Nordenstam	Norway	1:10.39
20	7	2	Vanessa Grimberg	Germany	1:10.46
21	5	3	Sophie Allen	Great Britain	1:10.56
22	2	2		Hungary	1:10.59
23	6	2		Russia	1:10.61
24	5	4		Italy	1:10.69
25	5	1	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	1:10.82
26	2	5		Latvia	1:10.83	NR
26	3	4	Ganna Dzerkal	Ukraine	1:10.83
28	7	8	Fanny Babou	France	1:10.88
29	4	4		Portugal	1:10.91
30	6	7	Tjasa Vozel	Slovenia	1:10.93
31	3	6	Raminta Dvariškytė	Lithuania	1:11.07
32	1	5	Ivana Ninković	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:11.19	NR
33	3	8		Cyprus	1:11.34
34	4	8		Slovakia	1:11.65
35	2	4	Anastasiya Malyavina	Ukraine	1:11.94
35	3	3	Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir	Iceland	1:11.94
37	4	2		Greece	1:11.98
38	4	1		Poland	1:12.12
39	3	7		Ireland	1:12.28
40	4	7	Tatiana Chisca	Moldova	1:12.30
41	3	5		Moldova	1:12.33
42	2	7		Hungary	1:12.70
43	3	2		Czech Republic	1:12.84
44	2	6		Austria	1:13.14
45	2	3		Latvia	1:13.23
46	1	4		Bulgaria	1:13.89
47	1	3		Estonia	1:14.22
	6	1	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	DSQ
	3	1		Turkey	DSQ

Semifinals[]

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.^[3]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:07.65	Q
2	4	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.70	Q
3	6	Marina Garcia Urzainqui	Spain	1:08.08	Q
4	3		Spain	1:08.40	Q
5	7	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	1:08.87	Q
6	8	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	1:09.22
7	1		Norway	1:09.44
	2	Tanja Šmid	Slovenia		DSQ

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany	1:08.01	Q
2	5	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	1:08.37	Q, NR
3	6	Martina Moravciková	Czech Republic	1:08.93	Q
4	3	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	1:09.00
5	8	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	1:09.68
6	2	Valentina Artemyeva	Russia	1:09.76
7	7	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	1:10.06
8	1	Dilara Buse Günaydin	Turkey	1:10.32

Final[]

The final was held at 17.52.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.33
	4	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:07.85
	6	Marina Garcia Urzainqui	Spain	1:07.91
4	3	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany	1:07.95
5	2	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	1:08.72
6	7		Spain	1:08.76
7	1	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	1:08.82
8	8	Martina Moravciková	Czech Republic	1:08.87

References[]

^ 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-20.
^ 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.
^ 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.
^ 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

[1] 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-20.

[2] 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.

[3] 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.

[4] 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

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