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

Event:	Women's 100 metre breaststroke
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	19–20 August
Competitors:	46
Nations:	26
Win Value:	1:06.23
Gold:	Rikke Møller Pedersen
Goldnoc:	DEN
Silver:	Jennie Johansson
Silvernoc:	SWE
Bronze:	Arianna Castiglioni
Bronzenoc:	ITA

The Women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rūta Meilutytė	1:04.35	Barcelona	28 July 2013
European record	Rūta Meilutytė	1:04.35	Barcelona	29 July 2013
Championship record	Yuliya Yefimova	1:06.32	Budapest	11 August 2010

The heats were held at 09:53.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	6	1:07.50	Q
2	5	4	1:07.57	Q
3	5	6	1:07.66	Q
4	3	4	1:07.83	Q
4	5	5	1:07.83	Q
6	5	3	1:08.16	Q
7	3	3	1:08.27	Q
8	5	1	1:08.39	Q
9	3	2	1:08.55	Q
10	3	5	1:08.77	Q
11	3	7	1:08.81	Q
12	4	2	1:08.84	Q
12	4	3	1:08.84	Q
14	3	1	1:08.97	Q
15	4	7	1:09.12	Q
16	3	6	1:09.19	Q
17	4	0	1:09.23
18	5	0	1:09.27
19	4	1	1:09.30
20	5	7	1:09.31
21	4	5	1:09.41
22	3	9	1:09.84
23	5	2	1:09.98
24	5	8	1:10.33
25	3	0	1:10.42
26	3	8	1:10.50
27	2	0	1:10.60
28	2	2	1:10.69
29	2	3	1:10.72
30	4	9	1:10.76
31	2	6	1:10.88
32	4	8	1:10.92
32	5	9	1:10.92
34	2	4	1:11.00
35	2	5	1:11.12
36	1	7	1:11.59
37	2	8	1:11.80
38	2	7	1:11.97
39	2	9	1:12.55
39	1	6	1:12.55
41	1	1	1:12.98
42	4	4	1:13.47
43	1	2	1:13.70
44	1	5	1:13.86
45	1	3	1:17.08
—	2	1		DSQ
—	1	4		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:38.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:06.34	Q
2	5	1:07.39	Q
3	7	1:07.66	Q
4	3	1:07.82	Q
5	8	1:08.20
6	6	1:08.38
7	2	1:08.39
8	1	1:08.89

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:07.31	Q
2	3	1:07.52	Q
3	5	1:07.70	Q
4	6	1:07.84	Q
5	2	1:07.89
6	8	1:08.19
7	1	1:08.50
8	7	1:08.59

The final was held 18:57.^[4]