The men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, the final on May 24.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordEuropean recordLiam Tancock24.04RomeAugust 2, 2009Championship recordCamille Lacourt24.07BudapestAugust 12, 2010

Results

Heats 43 swimmers participated in 6 heats.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 3 Mirco Di Tora 25.18 Q 2 6 5 Jonatan Kopelev 25.24 Q 3 6 6 Dorian Gandin 25.40 Q 4 6 4 Guy Barnea 25.44 Q 5 4 5 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 25.46 Q 6 6 2 Pavel Sankovich 25.49 Q, NR 7 4 7 Christian Diener 25.52 Q 8 5 3 Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio 25.59 Q 9 5 4 Helge Meeuw 25.62 Q 10 5 7 Lavrans Solli 25.67 Q, NR 11 5 6 Richárd Bohus 25.68 Q 12 4 3 Juan Miguel Rando Galvez 25.71 Q 13 5 5 Vitaly Borisov 25.78 Q 14 6 1 David Gamburg 25.86 15 4 6 Karl Burdis 25.87 Q 16 5 8 Alexis Manacas Santos 25.88 Q, NR 17 4 4 Flori Lang 25.94 Q 18 6 7 Matteo Milli 25.99 19 5 2 Sebastiano Ranfagni 26.06 20 3 6 Jonathan Massacand 26.13 21 3 4 Jakub Jasiński 26.24 22 3 2 Martin Zhelev 26.26 NR 23 4 1 Olexandr Isakov 26.30 24 2 5 Martin Baďura 26.31 NR 25 3 5 Ádám Szilágyi 26.32 25 6 8 Gábor Balog 26.32 27 1 4 Itai Chammha 26.34 28 4 2 Andres Olvik 26.41 29 2 6 Mikhail Zvyagin 26.43 30 2 3 Konstantīns Blohins 26.47 31 5 1 Roko Šimunić 26.48 32 3 8 Matas Andriekus 26.51 33 2 7 Pavels Vilcans 26.61 34 3 1 Sasa Gerbec 26.63 35 4 8 Mateusz Wysoczynski 26.64 36 2 4 Dominik Dür 26.69 37 2 8 Justinas Bilis 26.98 38 2 2 Jean-François Schneiders 27.00 39 1 5 Petar Petrović 27.04 39 3 3 Mindaugas Sadauskas 27.04 41 2 1 Lukas Räuftlin 27.22 42 3 7 Péter Bernek 28.34 43 1 3 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen 28.53

Semifinals The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Jonatan Kopelev 24.98 Q 2 5 Guy Barnea 25.29 Q 3 3 Pavel Sankovich 25.36 Q, NR 4 2 Lavrans Solli 25.40 Q, NR 5 6 Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio 25.54 6 8 Flori Lang 25.75 7 1 Karl Burdis 25.78 8 7 Juan Miguel Rando Galvez 25.88

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Mirco Di Tora 25.23 Q 2 3 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 25.29 Q 3 7 Richárd Bohus 25.36 Q, NR 4 5 Dorian Gandin 25.39 Q 5 6 Christian Diener 25.51 6 1 Vitaly Borisov 25.70 7 2 Helge Meeuw 25.78 8 8 Alexis Manacas Santos 26.01

Final The final was held at 18:19.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Jonatan Kopelev 24.73 5 Mirco Di Tora 24.95 1 Dorian Gandin 25.14 3 Guy Barnea 25.14 7 Richárd Bohus 25.14 NR 6 2 Pavel Sankovich 25.25 NR 7 8 Lavrans Solli 25.28 NR 8 6 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 25.46

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