Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	15 August (heats and semifinals) 16 August (final)
Competitors:	46
Nations:	23
Win Value:	26.33
Gold:	Nicolò Martinenghi
Gold Nation:	ITA
Silver:	Simone Cerasuolo
Silver Nation:	ITA
Bronze:	Lucas Matzerath
Bronze Nation:	GER
Prev:	2020
Next:	2024

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 15 and 16 August 2022.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record European record			25.95		25 July 2017
Championship record			26.09		8 August 2018

The heats were started on 15 August at 09:12.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	4		26.71	Q
2	3	4		26.85	Q
3	4	5		26.89
4	3	3		27.07
5	3	5		27.10	Q
6	4	4		27.32	Q
7	5	6		27.38	Q
8	4	7		27.41	Q
9	5	5		27.42	Q
10	5	7		27.46	Q
11	5	3		27.48	Q
12	4	6		27.52	Q
13	5	0		27.57	Q
14	3	7		27.58	Q, NR
15	4	2		27.62	Q
16	5	8		27.75	Q
17	3	8		27.81	Q
18	4	8		27.87	Q
19	4	3		27.93
20	3	1		28.00
21	5	2		28.01
22	3	2		28.13
23	2	4		28.22
24	4	9		28.24
25	3	6		28.26
26	5	9		28.30
27	4	1		28.32
28	3	0		28.35
29	4	0		28.38
30	2	3		28.41
31	3	9		28.46
32	5	1		28.47
33	1	5		28.80
34	2	7		28.85
35	2	6		28.88
36	1	4		28.89
37	1	6		28.91
38	2	1		28.97
39	2	5		29.04
40	2	8		29.06
41	1	3		29.07
42	2	2		29.28
43	2	9	Aleksas Savickas	29.55
44	1	2		29.59
45	1	7		29.64
46	1	8		29.97
	1	1
	2	0

The semifinals were started at 18:29.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	4	26.64	Q
2	1	4	26.86	Q
3	2	5	27.16	Q
4	2	6	27.19	q
5	2	3	27.27	q
6	2	7	27.34	q
6	1	3	27.34	Q
8	1	6	27.43	q
9	1	5	27.50
10	2	1	27.55
11	2	2	27.68
12	1	2	27.70
13	1	1	27.73
13	1	7	27.73
15	2	8	27.77
16	1	8	27.98

The final was held at 18:12.^[5]