Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	May 22, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 23, 2012 (final)
Competitors:	61
Nations:	30
Win Value:	53.61
Gold:	Sarah Sjöström
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Britta Steffen
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Daniela Schreiber
Bronzenoc:	GER

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 22, 2012 (heats) and May 23, 2012 (final).^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Britta Steffen		align=left	52.07	Rome	July 31, 2009
Championship record	Britta Steffen		align=left	53.30	Budapest	August 2, 2006

Results

Heats

62 swimmers participated in 8 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	4	54.65	Q
2	8	4	54.68	Q
3	6	4	54.69	Q
4	7	3	55.40	Q
5	7	5	55.46	Q
6	8	5	55.52
7	6	5	55.57
8	6	3	55.59
9	8	1	55.63	Q
10	7	2	55.64	Q
11	5	2	55.66	Q
12	5	1	55.68	Q
13	6	1	55.69	Q
14	7	6	55.84	Q
15	8	6	55.85	Q
16	4	4	55.92	Q
17	4	5	55.92	Q
18	5	4	55.97	Q
19	7	7	55.98	Q
20	6	2	55.99
21	8	8	56.08
22	6	7	56.10
23	6	6	56.14
24	5	5	56.15
24	7	1	56.15
26	7	8	56.18
27	6	8	56.19
28	8	7	56.23
29	4	7	56.38
30	4	1	56.42
31	4	3	56.46
32	8	2	56.60
33	3	4	56.67
34	5	6	56.75
35	3	6	56.81
36	4	6	57.03
36	5	3	57.03
38	3	7	57.06
39	2	3	57.15
40	5	7	57.25
41	4	8	57.27
42	5	8	57.35
43	2	7	57.59
44	3	3	57.60
45	2	1	57.61	NR
46	2	6	57.69
46	3	2	57.69
48	2	2	58.06
49	2	8	58.12	NR
50	2	4	58.19
51	3	5	58.37
52	2	5	58.43
53	3	8	58.44
54	4	2	58.92
55	3	1	59.58
56	1	4	59.70
57	1	6	1:00.47
58	1	3	1:01.00
59	1	5	1:01.10
60	1	7	1:01.62
61	1	2	1:03.69
	8	3	DNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	55.14	Q
2	5	55.40	Q
3	1	55.70
4	2	55.88
5	8	55.92
6	6	56.00
7	3	56.04
8	7	56.26

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	54.53	Q
2	4	54.71	Q
3	2	54.98	Q
4	6	55.07	Q
5	3	55.57	Q
6	8	55.65	Q
7	7	56.00
8	1	56.05

Final

The final was held at 18.13.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time
	2	53.61
	5	54.15
	4	54.41
4	6	55.03
5	3	55.17
6	1	55.51
7	7	55.68
8	8	56.31

Notes and References

http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C51A1_Start%20List%20%28Heats%20Individual%29_13_Women_100_Free.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre freestyle entry list
http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_13_Women_100_Free.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre freestyle Heats results
http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_213_Women_100_Free.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre freestyle Semifinals results
http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20%28One%20Heat%20-%20Individual%29_113_Heat1_Women_100_Free.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre freestyle Final results