Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates:	7 August (heats and semifinals) 8 August (final)
Competitors:	53
Nations:	28
Win Value:	26.09
Gold:	Adam Peaty
Gold Nation:	GBR
Silver:	Fabio Scozzoli
Silver Nation:	ITA
Bronze:	Peter John Stevens
Bronze Nation:	SLO
Prev:	2016
Next:	2020

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 7 and 8 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 European record	Adam Peaty		25.95	Budapest	25 July 2017
Championship record	Adam Peaty		26.62	Berlin	22 August 2014

The following new records were set during this competition.

The heats were started on 7 August at 09:14.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Adam Peaty	26.50	Q, CR
2	5	4	Fabio Scozzoli	27.04	Q
3	6	5	Ilya Shymanovich	27.09	Q
4	6	3	Čaba Silađi	27.12	Q
5	5	5	Ties Elzerman	27.16	Q
6	5	3	Alessandro Pinzuti	27.17	Q
7	4	4	Kirill Prigoda	27.21	Q
7	6	6	Peter John Stevens	27.21	Q
9	3	3	Ross Murdoch	27.27	Q
9	4	5	Johannes Skagius	27.27	Q
11	4	2	James Wilby	27.44
12	6	2	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	27.49	Q
13	6	1	Nikola Obrovac	27.62	Q
14	5	7	Darragh Greene	27.66	Q
14	4	0	Bernhard Reitshammer	27.66	Q
16	4	6	Arno Kamminga	27.71	Q
17	6	8	Ioannis Karpouzlis	27.74	Q
18	6	7	Emre Sakçı	27.76
19	5	6	Giedrius Titenis	27.78
20	5	2	Ilya Khomenko	27.79
21	6	9	Tobias Bjerg	27.84
22	5	9	Andrius Šidlauskas	27.85
23	5	8	Marek Botík	27.89
23	4	3	Oleg Kostin	27.89
25	6	0	Luca Pizzini	27.93
26	4	9	Tomáš Klobučník	28.03
27	4	7	Alex Murphy	28.09
27	3	6	Christopher Rothbauer	28.09
29	3	4	Yannick Käser	28.28
30	3	5	William Wihanto	28.30
31	3	8	Valentin Bayer	28.33
32	5	0	Lachezar Shumkov	28.40
33	2	5	Bartłomiej Roguski	28.43
34	5	1	Itay Goldfaden	28.47
35	2	6	Mikhail Dorinov	28.51
36	3	2	Martin Allikvee	28.54
36	1	5	Ivan Strilets	28.54
38	1	4	Mykyta Kopytelov	28.65
39	3	7	Demir Atasoy	28.69
40	4	8	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	28.71
41	3	0	Filipp Provorkov	28.77
42	2	4	Berkay Öğretir	28.90
43	2	3	Teemu Vuorela	28.93
44	2	2	Jozef Beňo	28.95
45	2	7	Daniils Bobrovs	28.99
46	3	1	Dávid Horváth	29.03
47	1	6	Andri Aedma	29.34
48	2	8	Johannes Dietrich	29.49
49	2	0	Lyubomir Epitropov	29.63
50	2	1	Oktaycan Emirbayer	29.72
51	3	9	Oleksandr Karpenko	29.79
52	1	3	Michael Stafrace	30.03
53	1	2	Deni Baholli	31.43
	2	9	Jacques Laeuffer
	4	1	Marcin Stolarski

The semifinals were started on 7 August at 17:18.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	Fabio Scozzoli	26.80	Q
2	5	Čaba Silađi	26.99	Q, NR
3	6	Kirill Prigoda	27.17	Q
4	3	Alessandro Pinzuti	27.32
5	2	Johannes Skagius	27.39
6	1	Darragh Greene	27.44
7	7	Nikola Obrovac	27.75
8	8	Ioannis Karpouzlis	27.97

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	Adam Peaty	26.23	Q, CR
2	6	Peter John Stevens	27.08	Q
3	5	Ilya Shymanovich	27.09	Q
4	3	Ties Elzerman	27.15	Q
5	7	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	27.16	Q
6	2	Ross Murdoch	27.39
7	1	Bernhard Reitshammer	27.47
8	8	Arno Kamminga	27.72

The final was started on 8 August at 16:48.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	4	Adam Peaty	26.09	CR
	5	Fabio Scozzoli	26.79
	6	Peter John Stevens	27.06
4	8	Kirill Prigoda	27.18
5	3	Čaba Silađi	27.20
6	7	Ties Elzerman	27.24
7	1	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	27.29
8	2	Ilya Shymanovich	27.32