Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre backstroke
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	20–21 May
Competitors:	42
Nations:	26
Win Value:	27.57
Gold:	Francesca Halsall
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Mie Østergaard Nielsen
Silvernoc:	DEN
Bronze:	Georgia Davies
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 50 metre backstroke 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	Time	Location	Date
World record	Zhao Jing	27.06	Rome	30 July 2009
European record	Daniela Samulski	27.23	Rome	30 July 2009
Championship record	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	27.64	Budapest	14 August 2010

The heats were held on 20 May at 10:57.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	27.87	Q
2	5	4	28.02	Q
3	3	5	28.12	Q
4	4	4	28.17	Q
5	5	3	28.31	Q
6	5	1	28.55
6	5	7	28.55	Q
8	3	2	28.57	Q
8	5	5	28.57	Q
10	4	5	28.67	Q
11	3	3	28.68	Q
12	5	9	28.70	Q
13	5	6	28.81	Q
14	4	2	28.82	Q
15	4	6	28.86	Q
16	5	8	29.01	Q
17	4	1	29.08	Q
18	3	9	29.17
19	3	0	29.21
20	4	8	29.26
21	4	3	29.35
22	3	7	29.40
23	4	7	29.45
24	3	8	29.60
24	2	4	29.60
26	2	7	29.63
27	4	0	29.71
28	2	2	29.79
28	4	9	29.79
30	2	8	29.84
31	1	3	29.88
32	2	5	29.98
33	2	3	29.99
34	2	0	30.00
35	2	9	30.10
36	2	6	30.24
37	1	4	30.36
38	1	2	30.64
39	2	1	30.66
40	1	5	30.76
41	1	6	31.00
42	1	7	33.57
	3	1
	3	8
	5	0
	5	2

The semifinals were held on 20 May at 18:53.^[4]

The final was on 21 May at 17:05.^[5]