| Event: | Women's 100 metre butterfly |
| Championship: | 2016 European Aquatics Championships |
| Dates: | 19 May |
| Competitors: | 37 |
| Nations: | 26 |
| Win Value: | 55.89 |
| Gold: | Sarah Sjöström |
| Goldnoc: | SWE |
| Silver: | Jeanette Ottesen |
| Silvernoc: | DEN |
| Bronze: | Ilaria Bianchi |
| Bronzenoc: | ITA |
| Prev: | 2014 |
| Next: | 2018 |
The Women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 May 2016.[1] [2]
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 | Sarah Sjöström | align=left rowspan=2 | align=left rowspan=2 | 55.64 | Kazan | 3 August 2015 | |
| European record | ||||||||
| Championship record | Jeanette Ottesen | 56.51 | Berlin | 22 August 2014 |
The heats were held on 19 May at 10:41.[3]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 4 | 57.20 | Q | |||
| 2 | 4 | 4 | 57.86 | Q | |||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 58.34 | Q | |||
| 4 | 5 | 3 | 58.47 | Q | |||
| 5 | 5 | 6 | 58.55 | Q | |||
| 6 | 4 | 5 | 58.62 | Q | |||
| 7 | 3 | 3 | 58.83 | Q | |||
| 8 | 4 | 3 | 58.99 | Q | |||
| 9 | 5 | 1 | 59.05 | Q | |||
| 10 | 3 | 5 | 59.15 | Q | |||
| 11 | 4 | 6 | 59.16 | Q | |||
| 12 | 4 | 7 | 59.26 | Q | |||
| 13 | 3 | 1 | 59.27 | Q | |||
| 14 | 4 | 1 | 59.56 | Q | |||
| 15 | 3 | 6 | 59.63 | Q | |||
| 16 | 1 | 3 | 59.83 | Q | |||
| 17 | 5 | 5 | 59.85 | ||||
| 18 | 3 | 7 | 59.96 | ||||
| 19 | 5 | 8 | 1:00.15 | ||||
| 20 | 3 | 2 | 1:00.17 | ||||
| 21 | 4 | 2 | 1:00.20 | ||||
| 22 | 5 | 0 | 1:00.31 | ||||
| 23 | 2 | 3 | 1:00.33 | ||||
| 24 | 4 | 0 | 1:00.45 | ||||
| 25 | 2 | 5 | 1:00.49 | ||||
| 26 | 2 | 6 | 1:00.64 | ||||
| 27 | 2 | 2 | 1:00.65 | ||||
| 28 | 2 | 8 | 1:00.74 | ||||
| 29 | 5 | 9 | 1:00.96 | ||||
| 30 | 2 | 0 | 1:01.21 | ||||
| 31 | 4 | 8 | 1:01.22 | ||||
| 32 | 4 | 9 | 1:01.25 | ||||
| 33 | 1 | 4 | 1:01.40 | ||||
| 34 | 3 | 9 | 1:01.84 | ||||
| 35 | 2 | 4 | 1:02.14 | ||||
| 36 | 2 | 7 | 1:02.92 | ||||
| 37 | 1 | 5 | 1:04.67 | ||||
| 2 | 1 | ||||||
| 3 | 0 | ||||||
| 3 | 8 | ||||||
| 5 | 2 | ||||||
| 5 | 7 | ||||||
The semifinals were held on 19 May at 18:30.[4]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 57.38 | Q | |||
| 2 | 3 | 58.58 | Q | |||
| 3 | 5 | 58.71 | Q | |||
| 4 | 1 | 58.73 | Q | |||
| 5 | 6 | 58.90 | ||||
| 6 | 7 | 59.07 | ||||
| 7 | 2 | 59.27 | ||||
| 8 | 8 | 59.67 |
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 56.12 | Q, CR | |||
| 2 | 5 | 57.47 | Q | |||
| 3 | 3 | 57.83 | Q | |||
| 4 | 6 | 58.71 | Q | |||
| 5 | 1 | 58.84 | ||||
| 6 | 7 | 58.99 | ||||
| 7 | 8 | 59.19 | ||||
| 8 | 2 | 59.26 |
The final was held on 20 May at 19:18.[5]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 55.89 | CR | ||||
| 5 | 56.83 | |||||
| 3 | 57.52 | |||||
| 4 | 6 | 57.54 | ||||
| 5 | 1 | 58.48 | ||||
| 6 | 2 | 58.86 | ||||
| 7 | 8 | 59.02 | ||||
| 8 | 7 | 59.06 |