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

Women's 100 metre butterfly
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 100 metre butterfly ; at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	3 August (heats and semifinals); 4 August (final)
Competitors	37 from 24 nations
Winning time	56.13
Medalists
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The Women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 3 and 4 August 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	55.48	Rio de Janeiro	7 August 2016
Championship record	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	55.89	London	20 May 2016

The heats were started on 3 August at 10:36.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	56.87	Q
2	2	4	Elena Di Liddo	Italy	57.91	Q
3	3	5	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	57.92	Q
4	2	3	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	58.23	Q
5	3	4	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	58.24	Q
6	4	5	Marie Wattel	France	58.47	Q
7	3	6	Louise Hansson	Sweden	58.52	Q
8	2	6	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	58.65	Q
9	3	7	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	58.69	Q
10	4	3	Aliena Schmidtke	Germany	58.89	Q
11	4	6	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	58.93	Q
12	2	5	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	58.95	Q
13	4	7	Kinge Zandringa	Netherlands	59.00	Q
14	3	2	Claudia Tarzia	Italy	59.54
15	2	8	Ana Catarina Monteiro	Portugal	59.63	Q
16	4	0	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	59.65	Q
17	3	3	Charlotte Atkinson	Great Britain	59.66	Q
18	2	1	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	59.94
19	2	7	Amit Ivry	Israel	1:00.00
20	4	2	Emily Large	Great Britain	1:00.01
21	3	1	Lucie Svěcená	Czech Republic	1:00.02
22	3	8	Emilie Løvberg	Norway	1:00.06
23	4	8	Svenja Stoffel	Switzerland	1:00.46
24	1	5	Nida Eliz Üstündağ	Turkey	1:00.61
25	2	2	Sara Junevik	Sweden	1:00.63
26	1	4	Zehra Duru Bilgin	Turkey	1:00.65
27	1	7	Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary	1:00.80
28	4	1	Polina Egorova	Russia	1:00.90
29	3	9	Anastasiya Kuliashova	Belarus	1:01.56
30	1	3	İmge Erdemli	Turkey	1:02.12
31	1	2	Margaret Markvardt	Estonia	1:02.15
32	2	9	Claudia Hufnagl	Austria	1:02.36
33	2	0	Aleyna Özkan	Turkey	1:02.82
34	1	6	Gerda Pak	Estonia	1:03.27
35	1	0	Leoni Richter	Switzerland	1:03.47
36	4	9	Alexandra Schegoleva	Cyprus	1:03.53
37	1	8	Beatrice Felici	San Marino	1:07.42
—	1	9	Alsu Bayramova	Azerbaijan	Did not start

The semifinals were held on 3 August at 17:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Elena Di Liddo	Italy	57.82	Q
2	6	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	58.34	Q
3	2	Aliena Schmidtke	Germany	58.42	Q
4	3	Marie Wattel	France	58.52
5	7	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	58.53
6	5	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	58.99
7	8	Charlotte Atkinson	Great Britain	59.36
8	1	Ana Catarina Monteiro	Portugal	59.44

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	56.66	Q
2	3	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	57.54	Q
3	5	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	57.79	Q
4	6	Louise Hansson	Sweden	57.99	Q
5	2	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	58.40	Q
6	7	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	58.44
7	1	Kinge Zandringa	Netherlands	58.64
8	8	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	59.54	NR

The final was held on 4 August at 17:18.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	56.23
	5	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	57.40
	6	Elena Di Liddo	Italy	57.68
4	3	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	57.72
5	7	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	57.77	NR
6	2	Louise Hansson	Sweden	57.99
7	1	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	58.45
8	8	Aliena Schmidtke	Germany	58.90