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

Event:	Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	May 21, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 22, 2012 (final)
Competitors:	59
Nations:	30
Win Value:	1:00.55
Gold:	Fabio Scozzoli
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Valeriy Dymo
Silvernoc:	UKR
Bronze:	Mattia Pesce
Bronzenoc:	ITA

The men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 21 and 22. The heats and semifinals took place on May 21, the final on May 22.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Brenton Rickard		align=left	58.58	Rome	July 27, 2009
European record	Hugues Duboscq		align=left	58.64	Rome	July 27, 2009
Championship record	Alexander Dale Oen		align=left	59.20	Budapest	August 10, 2010

Results

Heats

59 swimmers participated in 8 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4			1:00.96	Q, NR
2	8	5			1:01.13	Q
3	8	4			1:01.14	Q
4	7	5			1:01.21	Q
5	6	6			1:01.28	Q
6	8	2			1:01.40	Q
7	8	7			1:01.46
8	7	4			1:01.54	Q
9	6	4			1:01.55	Q
10	8	1			1:01.63	Q
11	7	6			1:01.67	Q
12	7	2			1:01.72	Q
13	6	7			1:01.75	Q
14	6	1			1:01.80
15	8	6			1:01.81	Q
16	5	4			1:01.85	Q
17	7	8			1:01.89	Q
17	8	8			1:01.89	Q
19	6	5			1:01.90
19	7	1			1:01.90
19	8	3			1:01.90
22	5	2			1:01.95
23	6	3			1:01.99
24	4	2			1:02.09
25	4	3			1:02.16	NR
26	3	1			1:02.17
27	3	5			1:02.18
28	7	7			1:02.19
29	5	5			1:02.20
30	6	2			1:02.23
31	6	8			1:02.32
32	4	8			1:02.41
33	5	6			1:02.47
34	7	3			1:02.51
35	4	1			1:02.61
35	4	5			1:02.61
37	4	6			1:02.74
38	3	2			1:02.82
39	5	8			1:02.96
40	5	7			1:03.04
41	3	6			1:03.08
42	3	8			1:03.23
43	3	4			1:03.30
44	3	3			1:03.34
45	2	3			1:03.44
46	2	7			1:03.61
47	2	1			1:03.62
48	1	3			1:03.71
49	2	5			1:03.72
50	5	3			1:03.74
51	2	2			1:04.12
52	3	7			1:04.14
53	2	4			1:04.53
54	4	7			1:04.62
55	1	4			1:05.01
56	1	5			1:05.05
57	2	6			1:05.15
58	2	8			1:05.23
	5	1			DSQ

Semifinals

The eight fastest riders advanced to the final.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			1:00.64	Q
2	5			1:00.72	Q
3	3			1:01.29	Q
4	2			1:01.34
5	6			1:01.50
6	7			1:01.68
7	1			1:01.79
8	8			1:02.25

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			1:00.90	Q
2	4			1:01.01	Q
3	1			1:01.19	Q
4	7			1:01.19	Q, NR
5	3			1:01.29	Q
6	6			1:01.35
7	2			1:01.66
8	8			1:01.68

Final

The final was held at 17:29.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3			1:00.55
	8			1:00.68
	5			1:00.93
4	2			1:00.99
5	1			1:01.12
6	6			1:01.33
7	4			1:01.51
8	7			1:01.57

Notes and References

1. http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C51A1_Start%20List%20(Heats%20Individual)_5_Men_100_Breast.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre breaststroke entry list
2. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_5_Men_100_Breast.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre breaststroke Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_205_Men_100_Breast.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre breaststroke Semifinals results
4. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20%28One%20Heat%20-%20Individual%29_105_Heat1_Men_100_Breast.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre breaststroke Final results