Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 100 metre backstroke ; at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	18–19 August
Competitors	42 from 25 nations
Winning time	53.32
Medalists

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18–19 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	51.94	Indianapolis	8 July 2009
European record	Camille Lacourt	France	52.11	Budapest	10 August 2010
Championship record	Camille Lacourt	France	52.11	Budapest	10 August 2010

The heats were held at 10:12.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.88	Q
2	4	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	54.14	Q
3	3	2	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	54.27	Q
4	4	3	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.47	Q
5	4	5	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	54.71	Q
6	5	3	Nikita Ulyanov	Russia	54.85	Q
7	5	2	Luca Mencarini	Italy	54.87	Q
8	4	6	Christian Diener	Germany	54.94	Q
9	5	6	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	54.99	Q
10	3	6	Lavrans Solli	Norway	55.01	Q
11	4	1	Gábor Balog	Hungary	55.09	Q
12	3	4	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	55.29	Q
13	5	0	Mattias Carlsson	Sweden	55.43	Q
14	5	8	Péter Bernek	Hungary	55.46	Q
15	3	5	Niccolò Bonacchi	Italy	55.49
16	5	5	Bastiaan Lijesen	Netherlands	55.50	Q
17	4	2	David Gamburg	Israel	55.53	Q
18	3	7	Guy Barnea	Israel	55.59
19	4	8	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	55.61
19	5	7	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	55.61
21	3	3	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	55.63
22	5	1	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	55.84
23	3	8	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	55.86
24	3	0	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	55.93
25	4	0	Nicolas Graesser	Germany	56.04
25	4	7	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	56.04
27	3	1	Eric Ress	France	56.23
28	5	9	Martin Baďura	Czech Republic	56.44
29	3	9	Petar Petrović	Serbia	56.74
30	4	9	Axel Pettersson	Sweden	56.87
31	1	5	Marko Krce-Rabar	Croatia	56.96
31	2	2	Doruk Tekin	Turkey	56.96
33	2	4	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	57.02
34	2	3	Martin Zhelev	Bulgaria	57.11
35	2	8	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	57.23
36	2	9	Antons Voitovs	Latvia	57.32
37	2	1	Sergiy Varvaruk	Ukraine	57.33
38	2	6	Teo Kolonić	Croatia	57.38
39	2	7	Jean-François Schneiders	Luxembourg	57.50
40	2	0	Roman Dmytriyev	Czech Republic	57.60
41	1	4	Elijah Stolz	Switzerland	57.71
42	1	3	Aram Kostanyan	Armenia	1:03.11
—	2	5	Baslakov İskender	Turkey		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:22.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	53.93	Q
2	5	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.09	Q
3	6	Christian Diener	Germany	54.24	Q
4	8	David Gamburg	Israel	54.76	Q
5	7	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	54.92
6	1	Péter Bernek	Hungary	54.93
7	3	Nikita Ulyanov	Russia	55.02
8	2	Lavrans Solli	Norway	55.06

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.62	Q
2	5	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	54.17	Q
3	6	Luca Mencarini	Italy	54.76	Q
4	2	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	54.80	Q
5	1	Mattias Carlsson	Sweden	54.85
6	7	Gábor Balog	Hungary	54.95
7	3	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	54.96
8	8	Bastiaan Lijesen	Netherlands	55.37

The final was held at 18:19. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.32
	5	Jérémy Stravius	France	53.64
	3	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.15
4	2	Christian Diener	Germany	54.23
5	6	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	54.49
6	1	Luca Mencarini	Italy	54.57
7	8	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	54.82
8	7	David Gamburg	Israel	54.87