Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	16–17 May
Competitors:	51
Nations:	23
Win Value:	53.79
Gold:	Camille Lacourt
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silver:	Grigoriy Tarasevich
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronze:	Simone Sabbioni
Bronzenoc:	ITA
Bronze2:	Apostolos Christou
Bronzenoc2:	GRE
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 May 2016.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol		51.94	Indianapolis	8 July 2009
European record	align=left rowspan=2	Camille Lacourt	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	52.11	Budapest	10 August 2010
Championship record							Budapest	10 August 2010

The heats were held on 16 May at 10:37.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	2	53.43	Q, NR
2	5	6	53.77	Q
3	5	3	54.21	Q
4	5	5	54.22	Q
5	4	4	54.31	Q
6	6	5	54.54	Q
7	4	5	54.63	Q
8	4	7	54.81	Q
9	4	3	54.86	Q
10	5	4	54.94	Q
11	6	4	55.04	Q
12	4	2	55.06	Q
13	4	6	55.10	Q
14	5	7	55.14
14	6	3	55.14	Q
16	5	1	55.15
17	6	6	55.25	Q
18	4	9	55.37	S-off
18	6	9	55.37	S-off
20	5	9	55.38
21	4	1	55.40
22	6	1	55.45
23	6	7	55.52
24	3	6	55.53
25	2	4	55.76
26	5	0	55.83
27	5	8	55.92
28	4	0	56.02
29	2	5	56.09
30	6	8	56.16
31	3	5	56.17
32	3	2	56.22
33	3	4	56.32
34	3	7	56.39
35	3	3	56.43
36	1	4	56.48
37	3	8	56.60
38	2	7	56.66
39	1	5	56.76
39	6	0	56.76
41	2	2	56.79
42	1	3	56.80
43	3	9	56.85
44	3	0	56.91
45	4	8	57.21
46	2	6	57.33
47	3	1	57.41
48	2	0	57.53
49	2	1	57.56
50	2	3	58.17
51	2	8	58.25
	5	2

The Swim-off were held on 16 May at 12:18.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			55.26	Q
2	5			55.58

The semifinals were held on 16 May at 18:17.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	53.70	Q
2	7	54.09	Q
3	4	54.14	Q
4	2	54.20	Q
5	5	54.39	Q
6	1	54.43
7	8	54.48
8	6	54.64

The final was on 17 May at 18:15.^[6]