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

Event:	Women's 100 metre backstroke
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	18–19 May
Competitors:	47
Nations:	28
Win Value:	58.73
Gold:	Mie Østergaard Nielsen
Goldnoc:	DEN
Silver:	Katinka Hosszú
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Kathleen Dawson
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 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	Gemma Spofforth	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	58.12	Rome	28 July 2009
European record							Rome	28 July 2009
Championship record	Anastasia Zuyeva		59.41	Eindhoven	21 March 2008

The heats were held on 18 May at 10:49.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	4		Q, CR
2	6	4		Q
3	5	2	1:00.60	Q
4	6	2	1:00.78	Q
5	3	4	1:00.82	Q
6	4	4	1:00.84	Q
7	6	7	1:00.88	Q
8	6	6	1:00.89	Q
9	6	5	1:00.98	Q
10	5	3	1:01.27	Q
10	4	1	1:01.27	Q
12	4	5	1:01.44	Q
12	5	5	1:01.44	Q
14	5	7	1:01.45
15	4	6	1:01.47	Q
16	5	6	1:01.49	Q
17	4	3	1:01.67	Q
18	4	7	1:01.88
19	5	1	1:01.93
20	4	2	1:02.11
21	4	8	1:02.13
22	4	0	1:02.35
23	6	9	1:02.38
24	3	5	1:02.41
25	5	8	1:02.52
26	6	0	1:02.61
27	3	6	1:02.66
28	6	8	1:02.70
29	3	2	1:02.75
30	5	9	1:02.94
31	3	7	1:03.00
32	2	2	1:03.02
33	2	8	1:03.34
34	3	3	1:03.44
35	5	0	1:03.53
35	3	1	1:03.53
37	2	5	1:03.62
38	3	8	1:03.95
39	6	1	1:04.08
40	2	6	1:04.55
41	3	9	1:04.68
42	1	4	1:04.84
43	2	3	1:05.18
44	3	0	1:05.65
45	2	1	1:05.68
46	1	5	1:06.07
47	1	3	1:12.67
	2	0
	2	4
	2	7
	4	9
	6	3

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 19:41.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4		Q, CR
2	5		Q
3	2	1:00.31	Q
4	1	1:00.46	Q
5	3	1:00.52	Q
6	6	1:00.81	Q
7	8	1:01.16
8	7	1:01.80

The final was held on 19 May at 19:00.^[5]