Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	20–21 August
Competitors:	39
Nations:	21
Win Value:	59.63
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Gold2:	Mie Nielsen
Goldnoc2:	DEN
Bronze:	Georgia Davies
Bronzenoc:	GBR

The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20–21 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	align=left rowspan=2	Gemma Spofforth	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	58.12	Rome	28 July 2009
European record							Rome	28 July 2009
Championship record	Anastasia Zuyeva		59.41	Eindhoven	21 March 2008

The heats were held at 10:17.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	1:00.08	Q
2	5	4	1:00.13	Q
3	3	4	1:00.32	Q
4	3	5	1:00.80	Q
5	3	3	1:00.83	Q
6	5	3	1:00.92	Q
7	4	5	1:00.98	Q
8	5	7	1:01.14	Q
9	5	5	1:01.24	Q
10	4	3	1:01.40	Q
11	5	6	1:01.52	Q
12	4	6	1:01.59	Q
13	5	2	1:01.67	Q
14	4	1	1:02.26	Q
15	4	8	1:02.30	Q
16	3	0	1:02.34	Q
17	3	2	1:02.47
18	3	1	1:02.51
19	4	2	1:02.56
20	4	7	1:02.82
21	3	7	1:02.93
22	5	9	1:03.40
23	2	3	1:03.51
24	2	5	1:03.63
25	2	2	1:03.96
26	2	6	1:03.99
27	5	1	1:04.05
28	4	9	1:04.08
29	5	8	1:04.09
30	4	0	1:04.11
31	3	9	1:04.13
32	5	0	1:04.40
33	2	1	1:04.46
34	2	7	1:05.02
35	1	4	1:05.39
36	2	8	1:05.61
37	2	0	1:06.57
38	1	5	1:06.61
39	1	3	1:07.92
—	2	4		DNS
—	3	6		DNS
—	3	8		DNS

The semifinals were held at 19:34.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	1:00.18	Q
2	4	1:00.19	Q
3	6	1:00.53	Q
4	3	1:00.60	Q
5	2	1:00.95	Q
6	1	1:01.51
6	7	1:01.51
8	8	1:02.42

The final was held at 18:58.^[4]