Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre breaststroke
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	20–21 May
Competitors:	49
Nations:	30
Win Value:	26.66
Gold:	Adam Peaty
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Peter John Stevens
Silvernoc:	SVN
Bronze:	Ross Murdoch
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 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	align=left rowspan=2	Adam Peaty	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	26.42	Kazan	4 August 2015
European record							Kazan	4 August 2015
Championship record	Adam Peaty		26.62	Berlin	22 August 2014

The heats were held on 20 May at 11:07.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	4	26.93	Q
2	5	3	27.32	Q
3	4	4	27.37	Q
4	4	5	27.49	Q
5	6	5	27.54	Q
6	6	6	27.57	Q
7	4	4	27.72	Q
8	4	6	27.73	Q
9	5	5	27.74	Q
10	6	8	27.79	Q
11	5	2	27.82	Q
12	6	3	27.84	Q
12	5	6	27.84	Q
14	4	2	27.92	Q
15	5	7	27.93	Q
16	4	3	28.00	Q
17	6	9	28.11
18	6	2	28.15
19	6	7	28.17
20	3	5	28.21
21	5	1	28.22
22	4	9	28.29
23	4	7	28.33
24	6	0	28.42
25	4	1	28.44
26	5	9	28.56
26	5	8	28.56
28	4	0	28.59
28	3	7	28.59
30	3	2	28.60
31	4	8	28.66
32	2	4	28.70
33	5	0	28.76
34	3	0	28.85
35	3	3	28.94
36	2	5	28.96
37	3	1	29.01
38	3	6	29.05
39	3	4	29.06
40	3	9	29.12
41	2	6	29.14
42	2	1	29.31
43	2	3	29.34
44	2	7	29.63
45	2	8	29.85
46	3	8	30.11
47	1	5	30.24
48	1	4	30.50
49	1	3	30.85
	2	2
	6	1

The semifinals were held on 20 May at 19:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	26.66	Q
2	2	27.48	Q
3	5	27.53	Q
4	3	27.56	Q
5	7	27.64	Q
6	6	27.71
7	1	27.87
8	8	28.11

The final was on 21 May at 17:43.^[5]