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

Event:	Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates:	3 August 2018 (heats and semifinals) 4 August 2018 (final)
Competitors:	56
Nations:	33
Win Value:	57.10
Gold:	Adam Peaty
Gold Nation:	GBR
Silver:	James Wilby
Silver Nation:	GBR
Bronze:	Anton Chupkov
Bronze Nation:	RUS
Prev:	2016
Next:	2020

The Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 3 and 4 August 2018.^[1] ^[2] It was won by Adam Peaty in a world record time of 57.10.^[3]

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		57.13	Rio de Janeiro	7 August 2016
Championship record	Adam Peaty		58.36	London	17 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
3 August				57.89	CR
4 August				57.10	WR, CR

The heats were started on 3 August at 10:46.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	4	57.89	Q, CR
2	4	3	59.12	Q
3	4	5	59.14
4	5	5	59.15	Q
5	6	5	59.53	Q
6	5	4	59.77	Q
7	5	3	59.84	Q
8	6	6	59.92
9	6	3	1:00.07	Q
10	4	6	1:00.08	Q
10	5	6	1:00.08	Q
12	4	4	1:00.14	Q
13	6	7	1:00.20	Q
14	6	2	1:00.49	Q
15	5	7	1:00.60	Q
16	6	8	1:00.63	Q
17	3	3	1:00.90	Q
18	4	2	1:00.94	Q
19	5	1	1:01.00
20	5	2	1:01.05
21	4	7	1:01.08
22	3	1	1:01.19
23	4	1	1:01.23
24	4	0	1:01.24
24	5	9	1:01.24
26	3	8	1:01.26
26	5	8	1:01.26
28	6	0	1:01.39
29	6	9	1:01.52
30	3	5	1:01.55
31	4	8	1:01.69
32	5	0	1:01.73
33	3	7	1:01.80
34	4	9	1:02.09
35	2	4	1:02.12
36	2	7	1:02.26
37	2	1	1:02.29
38	2	2	1:02.38
39	6	1	1:02.49
40	3	2	1:02.58
41	2	6	1:02.64
42	3	0	1:02.72
43	2	5	1:03.10
44	2	3	1:03.23
45	1	4	1:03.37
46	3	6	1:03.40
47	1	6	1:03.44
48	2	9	1:03.68
49	2	8	1:03.77
50	1	5	1:04.14
51	3	4	1:04.17
52	1	3	1:04.45
53	2	0	1:04.83
54	3	9	1:05.47
55	1	2	1:07.19
	1	7	Disqualified

The semifinals were held on 3 August at 17:39.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	James Wilby	59.23	Q
2	5	Arno Kamminga	59.74	Q
3	2	Andrius Šidlauskas	59.76	Q
4	3	Ilya Shymanovich	1:00.14
5	6	Giedrius Titenis	1:00.27
6	1	Alessandro Pinzuti	1:00.28
7	8	Erik Persson	1:00.54
8	7	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	1:00.88

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	Adam Peaty	58.04	Q
2	5	Anton Chupkov	59.43	Q
3	6	Fabio Scozzoli	59.65	Q
4	2	Čaba Silađi	59.91	Q
5	7	Darragh Greene	59.92
5	3	Kirill Prigoda	59.92
7	8	Anton Sveinn McKee	1:00.45
8	1	Marcin Stolarski	1:01.08

The swim-off was held on 3 August at 18:34.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kirill Prigoda		59.39	Q
2	5	Darragh Greene		1:00.44

The final was held on 4 August at 17:13.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	4	Adam Peaty	57.10	WR
	5	James Wilby	58.64
	3		59.06
4	8	Kirill Prigoda	59.20
5	6	Fabio Scozzoli	59.61
6	7	Andrius Šidlauskas	59.62
7	2	Arno Kamminga	59.69
8	1	Čaba Silađi	1:00.15