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

The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 6 and 7 August 2018.

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	6 August (heats and semifinals) 7 August (final)
Competitors	47 from 25 nations
Winning time	59.19
Medalists
Anastasia Fesikova   Russia   Georgia Davies   Great Britain   Carlotta Zofkova   Italy

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Kathleen Baker	United States	58.00	Irvine	28 July 2018
European record	Gemma Spofforth	Great Britain	58.12	Rome	28 July 2009
Championship record	Mie Østergaard Nielsen	Denmark	58.73	London	19 May 2016

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 6 August at 10:22.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	3	Margherita Panziera	Italy	59.86	Q
2	4	4	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	59.87	Q
3	5	5	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	59.99	Q
4	5	6	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	1:00.03	Q
5	3	6	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	1:00.07	Q
6	3	3	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	1:00.12	Q
7	5	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:00.15	Q
8	5	7	Katalin Burián	Hungary	1:00.28	Q
8	4	1	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	1:00.28	Q
10	3	5	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	1:00.29	Q
11	4	3	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	1:00.30	Q
12	4	6	Mathilde Cini	France	1:00.55	Q
13	3	4	Daria Ustinova	Russia	1:00.67	Q
14	5	2	Laura Riedemann	Germany	1:00.77	Q
15	3	7	Tessa Vermeulen	Netherlands	1:00.79	Q
16	5	1	Silvia Scalia	Italy	1:00.92
17	4	5	Polina Egorova	Russia	1:01.05
18	3	2	Anastasiia Avdeeva	Russia	1:01.17
19	5	8	Theodora Drakou	Greece	1:01.18	Q
20	3	1	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	1:01.36
20	4	7	Cassie Wild	Great Britain	1:01.36
22	4	2	Lisa Graf	Germany	1:01.67
23	2	3	Caroline Pilhatsch	Austria	1:01.73
24	2	5	Nina Kost	Switzerland	1:01.85
25	2	4	Julie Kepp Jensen	Denmark	1:01.87
26	3	0	Ida Lindborg	Sweden	1:02.00
27	4	8	África Zamorano	Spain	1:02.11
28	4	0	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	1:02.12
29	2	2	Anika Apostalon	Czech Republic	1:02.19
30	4	9	Victoria Bierre	Denmark	1:02.55
31	2	8	Cristina García	Spain	1:02.84
32	2	6	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	1:02.97
33	2	1	Shahar Menahem	Israel	1:03.15
34	5	9	Agata Naskręt	Poland	1:03.28
35	2	0	Signhild Joensen	Faroe Islands	1:03.30
36	1	4	Lena Grabowski	Austria	1:03.36
37	3	9	Karolina Hájková	Slovakia	1:03.48
38	1	3	Elçin Türkmenoğlu	Turkey	1:03.65
39	1	7	Margaret Markvardt	Estonia	1:03.77
40	3	8	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	1:03.82
41	1	2	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	1:04.01
42	1	5	Vilma Ruotsalainen	Finland	1:04.41
43	1	6	Weronika Górecka	Poland	1:04.82
44	1	1	Sezin Eliguel	Turkey	1:04.85
45	1	8	Fjorda Shabani	Kosovo	1:05.87
46	2	9	Arina Baikova	Latvia	1:06.63
47	1	0	Eda Zeqiri	Kosovo	1:09.75
—	2	7	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	Did not start
	5	0	Alicja Tchórz	Poland

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 6 August at 17:13.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	59.38	Q
2	5	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	59.97	Q
3	3	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	1:00.02	Q
4	7	Mathilde Cini	France	1:00.18
5	2	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	1:00.49
6	1	Laura Riedemann	Germany	1:00.53
7	6	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	1:00.83
8	8	Theodora Drakou	Greece	1:01.82

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	59.67	Q
2	3	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	59.88	Q
3	5	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	59.89	Q
4	4	Margherita Panziera	Italy	59.90	Q
5	2	Katalin Burián	Hungary	1:00.01	Q
6	1	Daria Ustinova	Russia	1:00.56
7	7	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	1:00.57
8	8	Tessa Vermeulen	Netherlands	1:00.98

Final

The final was started on 7 August at 16:55.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Anastasia Fesikova	Russia	59.19
	7	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	59.36
	3	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	59.61
4	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	59.64
5	2	Margherita Panziera	Italy	59.71
6	6	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	59.93
7	1	Katalin Burián	Hungary	1:00.05
8	8	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	1:00.14