Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 100 metre backstroke ; at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	5 August (heats and semifinals); 6 August (final)
Competitors	52 from 26 nations
Winning time	52.53
Medalists
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The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records[]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Murphy	United States	51.85	Rio de Janeiro	13 August 2016
European record Championship record	Camille Lacourt	France	52.11	Budapest	10 August 2010

The heats were started on 5 August at 09:56.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	52.91	Q
2	5	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	53.01	Q
3	4	4	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	53.34
4	5	2	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.95	Q
5	6	5	Robert Glință	Romania	54.01	Q
6	5	5	Apostolos Christou	Greece	54.40	Q
7	6	7	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.44	Q
8	5	7	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	54.47	Q
9	4	5	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	54.57	Q
10	4	1	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	54.61	Q
11	4	6	Christian Diener	Germany	54.63	Q
12	5	9	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	54.65	Q
13	6	6	Shane Ryan	Ireland	54.67	Q
14	3	7	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	54.83	Q
15	5	6	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	54.85	Q
16	4	3	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	54.89	Q
16	4	8	Nicholas Pyle	Great Britain	54.89
18	4	7		France	54.92	Q
19	6	8		France	54.96
20	4	2	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	55.00
21	3	5	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	55.06
22	6	2	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	55.07
23	3	9	Ralf Tribuntsov	Estonia	55.09
24	6	1		France	55.11
25	5	1		Greece	55.26
25	6	0		Sweden	55.26
27	5	3	Kacper Stokowski	Poland	55.34
28	3	8	Anton Lončar	Croatia	55.39
29	2	4	Markus Lie	Norway	55.52
30	4	0	Thierry Bollin	Switzerland	55.53
31	1	6		Estonia	55.60
31	4	9	Jakub Skierka	Poland	55.60
33	3	3	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	55.63
34	5	0		Great Britain	55.77
34	6	3		Russia	55.77
36	2	3	Björn Seeliger	Sweden	55.89
37	3	1	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	56.09
38	3	0	Girts Feldbergs	Latvia	56.12
39	2	8		Croatia	56.41
40	6	9		Poland	56.47
41	3	2	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	56.48
42	2	2	Nikola Acin	Serbia	56.59
43	2	6		Estonia	56.64
44	3	4	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	56.81
45	2	7		Turkey	56.95
46	1	3		Turkey	57.19
46	2	0	Berk Özkul	Turkey	57.19
48	2	1		Slovakia	57.83
49	1	4		Turkey	57.90
50	2	5		Romania	59.14
51	2	9		Malta	1:00.11
52	1	5		Kosovo	1:04.62
	5	8		Israel	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:31.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	52.95	Q, WJR
2	5	Robert Glință	Romania	53.63	Q
3	2	Christian Diener	Germany	54.10	Q
4	3	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.24	Q
5	1	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	54.58
6	6	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	54.63
7	7	Shane Ryan	Ireland	54.79
8	8		France	54.99

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	53.20	Q
2	5	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.39	Q
3	3	Apostolos Christou	Greece	53.90	Q
4	8	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	54.24	Q
5	2	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	54.38
6	1	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	54.60
7	7	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	54.63
8	6	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	54.65

The final was started on 6 August at 17:07.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	52.53	WJR, NR
	5	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	52.74
	2	Apostolos Christou	Greece	53.72
4	6	Robert Glință	Romania	53.81
5	8	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	53.85
5	3	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.85
7	7	Christian Diener	Germany	53.92
8	1	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.35

2018 European Aquatics Championships

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