Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 100 metre backstroke ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	16–17 May
Competitors	51 from 23 nations
Winning time	53.79
Medalists
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The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

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 on 16 May at 10:37.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	2	Robert Glință	Romania	53.43	Q, NR
2	5	6	Apostolos Christou	Greece	53.77	Q
3	5	3	Shane Ryan	Ireland	54.21	Q
4	5	5	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	54.22	Q
5	4	4	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	54.31	Q
6	6	5	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	54.54	Q
7	4	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	54.63	Q
8	4	7	Guy Barnea	Israel	54.81	Q
9	4	3	Gábor Balog	Hungary	54.86	Q
10	5	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	54.94	Q
11	6	4	Camille Lacourt	France	55.04	Q
12	4	2	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	55.06	Q
13	4	6	Tomasz Polewka	Poland	55.10	Q
14	5	7		Israel	55.14
14	6	3		Italy	55.14	Q
16	5	1	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	55.15
17	6	6		Russia	55.25	Q
18	4	9	Dávid Földházi	Hungary	55.37	S-off
18	6	9	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	55.37	S-off
20	5	9	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	55.38
21	4	1	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	55.40
22	6	1	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	55.45
23	6	7	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	55.52
24	3	6		Sweden	55.53
25	2	4		Sweden	55.76
26	5	0	Anton Loncar	Croatia	55.83
27	5	8	Ralf Tribuntsov	Estonia	55.92
28	4	0	Marcin Tarczyński	Poland	56.02
29	2	5		Croatia	56.09
30	6	8		Germany	56.16
31	3	5	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	56.17
32	3	2	Ģirts Feldbergs	Latvia	56.22
33	3	4		Turkey	56.32
34	3	7		Hungary	56.39
35	3	3		Croatia	56.43
36	1	4	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	56.48
37	3	8		Turkey	56.60
38	2	7		Turkey	56.66
39	1	5		Estonia	56.76
39	6	0		Greece	56.76
41	2	2		Croatia	56.79
42	1	3		Estonia	56.80
43	3	9	Axel Pettersson	Sweden	56.85
44	3	0	Daniel Martin	Romania	56.91
45	4	8	Joseph Hulme	Great Britain	57.21
46	2	6		Belgium	57.33
47	3	1	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	57.41
48	2	0	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	57.53
49	2	1		Czech Republic	57.56
50	2	3		Latvia	58.17
51	2	8		Estonia	58.25
	5	2	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	DNS

The Swim-off were held on 16 May at 12:18.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Dávid Földházi	Hungary	55.26	Q
2	5	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	55.58

The semifinals were held on 16 May at 18:17.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Apostolos Christou	Greece	53.36	Q
2	3	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.86	Q
3	5	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	54.18	Q
4	2	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	54.77
5	7	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	54.99
6	6	Guy Barnea	Israel	55.03
7	1		Italy	55.06
8	8	Dávid Földházi	Hungary	55.35

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	53.70	Q
2	7	Camille Lacourt	France	54.09	Q
3	4	Robert Glință	Romania	54.14	Q
4	2	Gábor Balog	Hungary	54.20	Q
5	5	Shane Ryan	Ireland	54.39	Q
6	1	Tomasz Polewka	Poland	54.43
7	8		Russia	54.48
8	6	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	54.64

The final was on 17 May at 18:15.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	6	Camille Lacourt	France	53.79
	5	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	53.89
	3	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	54.19
	4	Apostolos Christou	Greece	54.19
5	1	Gábor Balog	Hungary	54.35
6	2	Robert Glință	Romania	54.36
6	7	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	54.36
8	8	Shane Ryan	Ireland	54.49

2016 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
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1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
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3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
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