Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	11 August (heats and semifinals) 12 August (final)
Competitors:	36
Nations:	24
Win Value:	53.24
Gold:	Marrit Steenbergen
Gold Nation:	NED
Silver:	Charlotte Bonnet
Silver Nation:	FRA
Bronze:	Freya Anderson
Bronze Nation:	GBR
Prev:	2020
Next:	2024

The Women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 11 and 12 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			51.71		23 July 2017
Championship record			52.67	Berlin	20 August 2014

The heats were started on 11 August at 09:15.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	4	53.92	Q
2	4	4	54.22	Q
3	2	5	54.40	Q
4	2	3	54.54	Q
5	3	5	54.64	Q
6	3	4	54.73	Q
7	3	6	54.94	Q
8	2	6	55.09	Q
9	2	2	55.18	Q
10	4	7	55.21
11	3	2	55.25
12	4	5	55.57	Q
13	4	6	55.66	Q,
14	4	3	55.69	Q
15	2	1	55.76	Q
16	3	8	55.84	Q
17	2	0	55.87	Q
18	2	8	55.94	Q
19	3	1	55.95	Q
20	3	3	55.96
21	3	7	56.20
22	4	8	56.39
22	4	2	56.39
24	3	0	56.43
25	3	9	56.48
26	4	9	56.53
27	4	1	56.71
28	1	5	56.79
29	2	9	56.81
30	1	4	56.86
31	1	6	57.13
32	1	3	57.84
33	1	7	58.58
34	1	8	59.67
34	1	2	59.67
36	1	1
	4	0
	2	7

The semifinals were started on 11 August at 18:07.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	4	53.56	Q
2	1	4	53.80	Q
3	1	5	54.13	Q
4	1	3	54.33	q
5	2	3	54.36	Q
6	2	6	54.40	q
7	2	5	54.57	q
8	1	6	54.79	q
9	1	2	55.15
10	2	2	55.24
11	2	1	55.58
12	2	8	55.65
13	1	8	55.68
14	1	7	55.79
14	1	1	55.79
16	2	7	55.81

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