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

Event:	Women's 100 metre butterfly
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	21–22 August
Competitors:	31
Nations:	22
Win Value:	56.51
Gold:	Jeanette Ottesen
Goldnoc:	DEN
Silver:	Sarah Sjöström
Silvernoc:	SWE
Bronze:	Ilaria Bianchi
Bronzenoc:	ITA

The Women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21–22 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Dana Vollmer	55.98	London	28 July 2012
European record	Sarah Sjöström	56.06	Rome	27 July 2009
Championship record	Martina Moravcová	57.20	Berlin	2 August 2002

The heats were held at 10:05.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	57.42	Q
2	4	4	57.80	Q
3	3	5	57.84	Q
4	2	4	57.95	Q
5	4	5	58.09	Q
6	4	7	58.41	Q
7	2	5	58.43	Q
8	4	6	58.64	Q
9	3	2	58.87
10	4	1	58.91	Q
11	2	7	58.95	Q
12	2	3	59.11	Q
13	3	7	59.24	Q
14	3	6	59.28
15	4	2	59.36	Q
16	3	1	59.69	Q
17	3	3	59.76
18	2	6	59.79	Q
19	4	3	59.89	Q
20	4	8	1:00.06
21	3	8	1:00.08
22	2	2	1:00.24
23	2	8	1:00.35
24	1	3	1:01.03
25	2	1	1:01.12
26	3	0	1:01.23
27	2	0	1:02.95
28	4	0	1:03.00
29	4	9	1:03.19
30	1	4	1:04.60
31	1	5	1:05.17

The semifinals were held at 18:31.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	57.45	Q
2	3	58.04	Q
3	5	58.28	Q
4	6	58.34	Q
5	7	58.59	Q
6	8	58.79
7	1	59.08
8	2	59.88

The final was held at 19:15.^[4]