Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates:	5 August (heats and semifinals) 6 August (final)
Competitors:	52
Nations:	26
Win Value:	52.53
Gold:	Kliment Kolesnikov
Gold Nation:	RUS
Silver:	Evgeny Rylov
Silver Nation:	RUS
Bronze:	Apostolos Christou
Bronze Nation:	GRE
Prev:	2016
Next:	2020

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.^[1] ^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Murphy		51.85	Rio de Janeiro	13 August 2016
European record Championship record	Camille Lacourt		52.11	Budapest	10 August 2010

The heats were started on 5 August at 09:56.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	4	52.91	Q
2	5	4	53.01	Q
3	4	4	53.34
4	5	2	53.95	Q
5	6	5	54.01	Q
6	5	5	54.40	Q
7	6	7	54.44	Q
8	5	7	54.47	Q
9	4	5	54.57	Q
10	4	1	54.61	Q
11	4	6	54.63	Q
12	5	9	54.65	Q
13	6	6	54.67	Q
14	3	7	54.83	Q
15	5	6	54.85	Q
16	4	3	54.89	Q
16	4	8	54.89
18	4	7	54.92	Q
19	6	8	54.96
20	4	2	55.00
21	3	5	55.06
22	6	2	55.07
23	3	9	55.09
24	6	1	55.11
25	5	1	55.26
25	6	0	55.26
27	5	3	55.34
28	3	8	55.39
29	2	4	55.52
30	4	0	55.53
31	1	6	55.60
31	4	9	55.60
33	3	3	55.63
34	5	0	55.77
34	6	3	55.77
36	2	3	55.89
37	3	1	56.09
38	3	0	56.12
39	2	8	56.41
40	6	9	56.47
41	3	2	56.48
42	2	2	56.59
43	2	6	56.64
44	3	4	56.81
45	2	7	56.95
46	1	3	57.19
46	2	0	57.19
48	2	1	57.83
49	1	4	57.90
50	2	5	59.14
51	2	9	1:00.11
52	1	5	1:04.62
	5	8	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:31.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	52.95	Q, WJR
2	5	53.63	Q
3	2	54.10	Q
4	3	54.24	Q
5	1	54.58
6	6	54.63
7	7	54.79
8	8	54.99

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	53.20	Q
2	5	53.39	Q
3	3	53.90	Q
4	8	54.24	Q
5	2	54.38
6	1	54.60
7	7	54.63
8	6	54.65

The final was started on 6 August at 17:07.^[5]