Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre butterfly
Competition:	2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	May 25, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 26, 2012 (final)
Competitors:	53
Nations:	27
Win Value:	51.45
Gold:	Milorad Čavić
Goldnoc:	SRB
Silver:	László Cseh
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Matteo Rivolta
Bronzenoc:	ITA

The men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 25 and 26. The heats and semifinals took place on May 25, the final on May 26.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps		align=left	49.82	Rome	August 1, 2009
European record	Milorad Čavić		align=left	49.95	Rome	August 1, 2009
Championship record	Yevgeny Korotyshkin		align=left	51.73	Budapest	August 14, 2010

Results

Heats

55 swimmers participated in 7 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4			52.32	Q
2	7	1			52.43	Q
3	5	4			52.46	Q
4	5	1			52.68	Q
5	7	5			52.72	Q
6	6	6			52.73	Q
7	6	3			52.75	Q
8	6	8			52.76	Q
9	6	5			52.86	Q
10	7	3			52.91	Q
11	6	4			52.96	Q
12	5	3			53.01	Q
13	6	2			53.04	Q
14	5	7			53.10
15	7	6			53.12	Q
16	5	5			53.23	Q
17	6	1			53.27	Q
18	5	6			53.47
19	7	8			53.51
20	3	5			53.54
21	4	2			53.56
22	4	5			53.57
23	3	3			53.59
23	7	2			53.59
25	4	8			53.63
26	5	2			53.84
27	4	4			53.85
28	2	3			53.89
29	2	4			53.97
30	4	7			53.99
31	3	2			54.05
32	3	8			54.09
33	4	6			54.10
34	6	7			54.17
35	3	4			54.27
36	4	1			54.34
37	3	6			54.49
38	3	1			54.54
39	7	7			54.56
40	3	7			54.62
41	1	3			54.92
42	1	2			55.04
43	2	1			55.23
44	1	4			55.37
45	1	1			55.40
46	2	8			55.53
47	2	2			55.62
48	2	6			55.66
49	1	5			55.70
50	1	6			55.71
51	2	5			55.76
52	2	7			55.90
53	1	7			55.91
	4	3			DNS
	5	8			DNS

Semifinal

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7			52.48	Q
2	4			52.52	Q
3	5			52.56	Q
4	2			52.91
4	3			52.91
6	6			52.93
7	1			53.03
8	8			53.07

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			51.95	Q, NR
2	5			52.08	Q
3	2			52.34	Q
4	7			52.38	Q
5	6			52.65	Q
6	3			52.68
7	8			52.86
8	1			53.12

Final

The final was held at 17:27.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			51.45	CR
	4			51.77	NR
	7			52.40
4	3			52.54
5	2			52.71
6	8			52.89
7	6			52.96
8	1			53.04

Notes and References

1. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C51A1_Start%20List%20%28Heats%20Individual%29_28_Men_100_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre butterfly entry list
2. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_28_Men_100_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre butterfly Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_228_Men_100_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre butterfly Semifinals results
4. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20%28One%20Heat%20-%20Individual%29_128_Heat1_Men_100_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre butterfly Final results