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

Event:	Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	16–17 May
Competitors:	62
Nations:	33
Win Value:	58.36
Gold:	Adam Peaty
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Ross Murdoch
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Giedrius Titenis
Bronzenoc:	LTU
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 100 metre breaststroke 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	align=left rowspan=2	Adam Peaty	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	57.92	London	17 April 2015
European record							London	17 April 2015
Championship record	Adam Peaty		58.68	Berlin	18 August 2014

The heats were held on 16 May at 11:11.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	4	58.94	Q
2	5	4	59.91	Q
3	6	4	59.95	Q
4	6	3	1:00.33	Q
5	7	2	1:00.41	Q
6	6	5	1:00.63
7	5	3	1:00.79	Q
8	5	5	1:00.86	Q
9	6	2	1:01.13	Q
10	6	8	1:01.27	Q
11	7	3	1:01.29	Q
12	6	1	1:01.30	Q
13	7	5	1:01.44	Q
14	7	1	1:01.49	Q
15	6	0	1:01.51	Q
16	6	6	1:01.56
17	4	4	1:01.57	Q
18	7	6	1:01.59	Q
19	4	0	1:01.60
20	5	6	1:01.65
20	6	7	1:01.65
22	5	2	1:01.69
23	3	1	1:01.83
24	7	0	1:01.84
25	5	7	1:01.85
26	4	7	1:02.04
27	4	2	1:02.05
28	4	3	1:02.06
29	7	7	1:02.15
30	7	8	1:02.22
31	2	4	1:02.23
31	5	1	1:02.23
33	4	8	1:02.26
34	7	9	1:02.33
35	3	0	1:02.57
36	3	5	1:02.59
37	3	4	1:02.64
38	2	7	1:02.65
39	6	9	1:02.66
40	5	9	1:02.67
41	5	0	1:02.71
42	3	8	1:02.86
43	2	5	1:02.89
44	4	6	1:02.91
45	4	5	1:03.20
46	2	3	1:03.23
47	2	6	1:03.30
48	1	4	1:03.41
49	2	2	1:03.46
49	3	3	1:03.46
51	3	9	1:03.47
52	3	6	1:03.49
53	2	0	1:03.57
54	3	2	1:03.73
55	3	7	1:03.75
56	2	9	1:03.80
57	2	1	1:03.98
58	1	5	1:04.14
59	4	1	1:04.76
60	1	3	1:04.79
61	1	6	1:08.28
	5	8	DSQ
	2	8	DNS
	4	9	DNS

The semifinals were held on 16 May 18:44.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	59.67	Q
2	5	1:00.06	Q
3	3	1:00.98	Q
4	8	1:01.13	Q
5	6	1:01.14
6	7	1:01.27
7	1	1:01.46
8	2	1:01.56

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	58.74	Q
2	5	59.99	Q
3	3	1:00.48	Q
4	6	1:00.59	Q
5	1	1:01.32
6	7	1:01.41
7	2	1:01.53
8	8	1:01.65

The final was held on 17 May 18:36.^[5]