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

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	5 August (heats and semifinals) 6 August (final)
Competitors	52 from 26 nations
Winning time	52.53
Medalists
Kliment Kolesnikov   Russia   Evgeny Rylov   Russia   Apostolos Christou   Greece

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Murphy	United States	51.85	Rio de Janeiro	13 August 2016
European record Championship record	Camille Lacourt	France	52.11	Budapest	10 August 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 5 August at 09:56.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	52.91	Q
2	5	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	53.01	Q
3	4	4	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	53.34
4	5	2	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.95	Q
5	6	5	Robert Glință	Romania	54.01	Q
6	5	5	Apostolos Christou	Greece	54.40	Q
7	6	7	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.44	Q
8	5	7	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	54.47	Q
9	4	5	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	54.57	Q
10	4	1	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	54.61	Q
11	4	6	Christian Diener	Germany	54.63	Q
12	5	9	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	54.65	Q
13	6	6	Shane Ryan	Ireland	54.67	Q
14	3	7	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	54.83	Q
15	5	6	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	54.85	Q
16	4	3	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	54.89	Q
16	4	8	Nicholas Pyle	Great Britain	54.89
18	4	7	Paul Bedel	France	54.92	Q
19	6	8	Maxence Orange	France	54.96
20	4	2	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	55.00
21	3	5	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	55.06
22	6	2	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	55.07
23	3	9	Ralf Tribuntsov	Estonia	55.09
24	6	1	Stanislas Huille	France	55.11
25	5	1	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	55.26
25	6	0	Gustav Höfkelt	Sweden	55.26
27	5	3	Kacper Stokowski	Poland	55.34
28	3	8	Anton Lončar	Croatia	55.39
29	2	4	Markus Lie	Norway	55.52
30	4	0	Thierry Bollin	Switzerland	55.53
31	1	6	Karl Luht	Estonia	55.60
31	4	9	Jakub Skierka	Poland	55.60
33	3	3	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	55.63
34	5	0	Elliot Clogg	Great Britain	55.77
34	6	3	Nikita Ulyanov	Russia	55.77
36	2	3	Björn Seeliger	Sweden	55.89
37	3	1	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	56.09
38	3	0	Girts Feldbergs	Latvia	56.12
39	2	8	Ivan Gajšek	Croatia	56.41
40	6	9	Kamil Kaźmierczak	Poland	56.47
41	3	2	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	56.48
42	2	2	Nikola Acin	Serbia	56.59
43	2	6	Armin Lelle	Estonia	56.64
44	3	4	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	56.81
45	2	7	Ege Başer	Turkey	56.95
46	1	3	Metin Aydın	Turkey	57.19
46	2	0	Berk Özkul	Turkey	57.19
48	2	1	Adam Černek	Slovakia	57.83
49	1	4	Rasim Gör	Turkey	57.90
50	2	5	Andrei-Mircea Anghel	Romania	59.14
51	2	9	Thomas Wareing	Malta	1:00.11
52	1	5	Dren Ukimeraj	Kosovo	1:04.62
	5	8	David Gamburg	Israel	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:31.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	52.95	Q, WJR
2	5	Robert Glință	Romania	53.63	Q
3	2	Christian Diener	Germany	54.10	Q
4	3	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.24	Q
5	1	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	54.58
6	6	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	54.63
7	7	Shane Ryan	Ireland	54.79
8	8	Paul Bedel	France	54.99

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	53.20	Q
2	5	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.39	Q
3	3	Apostolos Christou	Greece	53.90	Q
4	8	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	54.24	Q
5	2	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	54.38
6	1	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	54.60
7	7	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	54.63
8	6	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	54.65

Final

The final was started on 6 August at 17:07.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	52.53	WJR, NR
	5	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	52.74
	2	Apostolos Christou	Greece	53.72
4	6	Robert Glință	Romania	53.81
5	8	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	53.85
5	3	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.85
7	7	Christian Diener	Germany	53.92
8	1	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.35