Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Danube Arena
Dates:	20 May 2021 (heats and semifinals) 21 May 2021 (final)
Competitors:	48
Nations:	28
Win Value:	58.49
Gold:	Kathleen Dawson
Gold Nation:	GBR
Silver:	Margherita Panziera
Silver Nation:	ITA
Bronze:	Maria Kameneva
Bronze Nation:	RUS
Prev:	2018
Next:	2022

The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 May 2021.^[1] ^[2]

Records

Before the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record		57.57		28 July 2019
European record		58.12		28 July 2009
Championship record	Mie Nielsen	58.73	London	19 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
20 May				58.73	CR
20 May				58.44	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 20 May at 10:55.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	4		Q
2	5	4		Q
3	5	5		Q
4	4	4		Q
5	6	7		Q, NR
6	6	3	1:00.09	Q
7	6	2	1:00.17	Q
8	4	3	1:00.23	Q
9	4	5	1:00.44	Q
10	6	6	1:00.46	Q
11	6	5	1:00.54	Q
12	5	3	1:00.56	Q
13	5	2	1:00.71	Q
14	4	6	1:00.82	Q
15	4	7	1:01.05	Q
16	5	7	1:01.11
16	6	8	1:01.11
18	5	6	1:01.12
19	5	8	1:01.30
20	5	0	1:01.32
21	4	2	1:01.45
22	3	4	1:01.51
23	5	9	1:01.52
24	2	2	1:01.64
25	4	1	1:01.77
26	6	9	1:01.82
26	2	3	1:01.82
28	3	3	1:01.93
29	3	2	1:01.99
30	3	7	1:02.07
30	4	8	1:02.07
32	4	0	1:02.23
33	5	1	1:02.28
34	4	9	1:02.29
35	3	9	1:02.32
36	3	1	1:02.33
37	3	5	1:02.56
38	3	8	1:02.94
39	2	4	1:03.02
40	6	0	1:03.05
41	2	5	1:03.19
42	2	1	1:03.78
43	2	8	1:04.59
44	2	7	1:04.72
45	2	6	1:05.26
46	1	4	1:05.52
47	1	5	1:05.76
48	1	3	1:10.98
	2	0	Did not start
	3	0
	3	6
	6	1

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 20 May at 12:20.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			1:00.31	Q
2	4			1:01.16

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 20 May at 18:12.^[5]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	58.73	Q, =CR
2	5	59.53	Q
3	3	59.75	q
4	6	59.76	q
5	2
6	7
7	1
8	8

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	58.44	Q, CR
2	5	59.30	Q
3	3	59.78	q,, NR
4	2		q
5	6		q
6	1		NR
7	8
8	7

Final

First race

The final was held on 21 May at 18:24.^[6] The race was then declared void after the Swedish protested that the speaker in lane 1 malfunctioned and Hansson was not able to hear the starting gun.A re-race was scheduled for 20:45.

Lane	Time	Notes
4	58.18	CR
5	59.02
3	59.13
6	59.65
2	59.82
7
8
1

Re race

The final re race was held on 21 May at 20:45.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Time
	4	58.49
	6	59.01
	3	59.22
4	5	59.32
5	2	59.68
6	1
7	8
8	7