Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 100 metre backstroke ; at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	18–19 August
Competitors	42 from 25 nations
Winning time	53.32
Medalists

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18–19 August.^[1]

Records[]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	51.94	Indianapolis	8 July 2009
European record	Camille Lacourt	France	52.11	Budapest	10 August 2010
Championship record	Camille Lacourt	France	52.11	Budapest	10 August 2010

The heats were held at 10:12.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.88	Q
2	4	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	54.14	Q
3	3	2	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	54.27	Q
4	4	3	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.47	Q
5	4	5		Italy	54.71	Q
6	5	3		Russia	54.85	Q
7	5	2		Italy	54.87	Q
8	4	6	Christian Diener	Germany	54.94	Q
9	5	6	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	54.99	Q
10	3	6	Lavrans Solli	Norway	55.01	Q
11	4	1	Gábor Balog	Hungary	55.09	Q
12	3	4	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	55.29	Q
13	5	0		Sweden	55.43	Q
14	5	8	Péter Bernek	Hungary	55.46	Q
15	3	5		Italy	55.49
16	5	5	Bastiaan Lijesen	Netherlands	55.50	Q
17	4	2		Israel	55.53	Q
18	3	7	Guy Barnea	Israel	55.59
19	4	8	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	55.61
19	5	7	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	55.61
21	3	3	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	55.63
22	5	1	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	55.84
23	3	8	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	55.86
24	3	0	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	55.93
25	4	0		Germany	56.04
25	4	7	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	56.04
27	3	1		France	56.23
28	5	9		Czech Republic	56.44
29	3	9		Serbia	56.74
30	4	9	Axel Pettersson	Sweden	56.87
31	1	5		Croatia	56.96
31	2	2		Turkey	56.96
33	2	4	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	57.02
34	2	3		Bulgaria	57.11
35	2	8	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	57.23
36	2	9		Latvia	57.32
37	2	1		Ukraine	57.33
38	2	6		Croatia	57.38
39	2	7		Luxembourg	57.50
40	2	0		Czech Republic	57.60
41	1	4		Switzerland	57.71
42	1	3		Armenia	1:03.11
—	2	5		Turkey		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:22.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	53.93	Q
2	5	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.09	Q
3	6	Christian Diener	Germany	54.24	Q
4	8		Israel	54.76	Q
5	7	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	54.92
6	1	Péter Bernek	Hungary	54.93
7	3		Russia	55.02
8	2	Lavrans Solli	Norway	55.06

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.62	Q
2	5	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	54.17	Q
3	6		Italy	54.76	Q
4	2	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	54.80	Q
5	1		Sweden	54.85
6	7	Gábor Balog	Hungary	54.95
7	3		Italy	54.96
8	8	Bastiaan Lijesen	Netherlands	55.37

The final was held at 18:19. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.32
	5	Jérémy Stravius	France	53.64
	3	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.15
4	2	Christian Diener	Germany	54.23
5	6	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	54.49
6	1		Italy	54.57
7	8	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	54.82
8	7		Israel	54.87

2014 European Aquatics Championships

Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
	mixed
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
	mixed
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Team	team
Synchronised swimming
Individual	Solo	Duet
Team	Team	Combination
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Team	team
v t