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

Event:	Men's 100 metre butterfly
Competition:	2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates:	8 August (heats and semifinals) 9 August (final)
Competitors:	59
Nations:	31
Win Value:	50.64
Gold:	Piero Codia
Gold Nation:	ITA
Silver:	Mehdy Metella
Silver Nation:	FRA
Bronze:	James Guy
Bronze Nation:	GBR
Prev:	2016
Next:	2020

The Men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 8 and 9 August 2018.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	49.82	Rome	1 August 2009
European record	Milorad Čavić	49.95	Rome	1 Aug 2009
Championship record	László Cseh	50.86	London	21 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

The heats were started on 8 August at 09:35.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	6	5	Piero Codia	51.59	Q
2	6	4	James Guy	51.75	Q
3	7	3	Konrad Czerniak	51.84	Q
4	5	4	László Cseh	51.92	Q
5	7	4	Kristóf Milák	52.04	Q
6	5	5	Egor Kuimov	52.16	Q
7	7	5	Mehdy Metella	52.32	Q
8	5	6	Yauhen Tsurkin	52.42	Q
9	6	7	Mathys Goosen	52.48	Q
10	6	2	Marius Kusch	52.51	Q
11	7	6	Aleksandr Sadovnikov	52.53	Q
12	7	7	Joeri Verlinden	52.68	Q
13	5	2	Matteo Rivolta	52.69	Q
14	4	6	Liubomyr Lemeshko	52.71	Q
15	5	3	Philip Heintz	52.76	Q
16	6	3	Jan Świtkowski	52.83	Q
17	5	1	Viktor Bromer	52.87
18	4	5	Andreas Vazaios	52.89
19	6	6	Federico Burdisso	52.90
20	7	1	Kaan Türker Ayar	53.00
21	4	2	Jacob Peters	53.02
22	4	4	Deividas Margevičius	53.15
23	6	1	Ümitcan Güreş	53.21
24	7	2	Andriy Khloptsov	53.22
25	5	8	Brendan Hyland	53.37
25	4	3	Noè Ponti	53.37
27	7	9	Louis Croenen	53.39
28	5	9	Kregor Zirk	53.46
29	6	9	Danas Rapšys	53.57
30	3	8	Daniel Zaitsev	53.61
31	4	7	Simon Sjödin	53.64
32	6	8	Pierre Henry	53.68
33	4	8	Nans Roch	53.71
34	5	7	Michal Chudy	53.81
35	3	6	Diogo Carvalho	53.83
35	7	8	Ramon Klenz	53.83
37	6	0	Antani Ivanov	53.86
38	7	0	Jan Šefl	53.98
39	2	8	Gabriel Lópes	54.16
40	5	0	Marcus Schlesinger	54.19
41	4	1	Riku Poeytaekivi	54.20
42	4	0	Petr Novák	54.39
43	2	2	Nikita Korolev	54.46
43	3	5	Niko Mäkelä	54.46
45	3	3	Bence Biczó	54.53
46	2	5	Cevin Siim	54.71
47	2	3	Ádám Halás	54.79
48	3	4	Berk Özkul	54.85
49	2	6	Xaver Gschwentner	54.95
50	2	4	İlker Altınbilek	55.01
51	3	2	Sergey Kuznetsov	55.19
52	2	7	Paul Espernberger	55.37
53	2	1	Filip Zelić	55.41
54	3	7	Simon Bucher	55.42
55	3	0	Armin Lelle	55.73
56	2	0	Teimuraz Kobakhidze	56.01
57	3	1	Julien Henx	58.16
58	1	3	Ruben Gharibyan
59	1	4	Dijon Kadriju
	1	5	Teemu Vuorela
	3	9	Markus Lie

The semifinals were started on 8 August at 17:17.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	László Cseh	51.65	Q
2	4	James Guy	51.78	Q
3	3	Egor Kuimov	51.95	Q
4	7	Joeri Verlinden	52.16
5	6	Yauhen Tsurkin	52.21
6	2	Marius Kusch	52.23
7	1	Liubomyr Lemeshko	52.34
8	8	Jan Świtkowski	53.23

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	7	Aleksandr Sadovnikov	51.67	Q
2	5	Konrad Czerniak	51.74	Q
3	3	Kristóf Milák	51.76	Q
4	6	Mehdy Metella	51.97	Q
5	4	Piero Codia	52.02	Q
6	8	Philip Heintz	52.41
7	2	Mathys Goosen	52.58
8	1	Matteo Rivolta	53.42

The final was started on 9 August at 17:00.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	8	Piero Codia	50.64	CR
	1	Mehdy Metella	51.24
	2	James Guy	51.42
4	6	Kristóf Milák	51.51
5	7	Egor Kuimov	51.65
6	3	Konrad Czerniak	51.72
7	5	Aleksandr Sadovnikov	51.81
8	4	László Cseh	51.84