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
Dates	18–19 August
Competitors	42 from 25 nations
Winning time	53.32
Medalists
Chris Walker-Hebborn    Great Britain   Jérémy Stravius    France   Jan-Philip Glania    Germany

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

Results

Heats

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

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

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

Semifinal 2

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

Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.32
02 !	5	Jérémy Stravius	France	53.64
03 !	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

References