Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre breaststroke
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	22–23 August
Competitors:	45
Nations:	26
Win Value:	27.00
Gold:	Adam Peaty
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Giedrius Titenis
Silvernoc:	LTU
Bronze:	Damir Dugonjič
Bronzenoc:	SLO

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22–23 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Cameron van der Burgh	26.67	Rome	29 July 2009
European record	Adam Peaty	26.78	Glasgow	28 July 2014
Championship record	Oleg Lisogor	27.18	Berlin	2 August 2002

The heats were held at 10:24.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	4	26.91	Q, CR
2	3	4	27.25	Q
3	3	6	27.39	Q
4	5	5	27.44	Q
5	4	4	27.55	Q
6	4	7	27.63	Q
7	3	3	27.64	Q
8	3	5	27.66	Q
8	4	3	27.66	Q
10	5	3	27.74	Q
11	4	2	27.85	Q
12	5	2	27.88	Q
13	3	7	27.94	Q
14	5	6	28.01	Q
15	3	2	28.03	Q
16	3	1	28.04	Q
17	4	0	28.15
18	5	0	28.16
19	4	6	28.17
20	4	1	28.18
21	5	1	28.26
22	5	7	28.33
23	4	8	28.37
24	5	9	28.39
25	4	9	28.40
26	3	8	28.41
27	2	4	28.48
28	2	7	28.49
29	1	8	28.58
30	2	2	28.61
31	2	3	28.78
32	3	9	28.83
33	2	6	28.89
34	2	5	28.96
35	3	0	29.04
36	2	1	29.07
37	2	0	29.18
38	2	9	29.31
39	1	4	29.49
40	1	2	29.67
41	1	5	29.68
42	1	6	29.82
43	1	7	30.06
44	1	3	30.08
45	1	1	30.10
—	2	8		DNS
—	4	5		DNS
—	5	8		DNS

The semifinals were held at 19:26.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	26.62	Q, WR
2	2	27.39	Q
3	3	27.40	Q
4	5	27.61	Q
5	6	27.68	Q
6	7	27.83
7	1	27.87
8	8	28.18

The final was held at 17:30.^[4]