The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 24 and 25. The heats and semifinals took place on May 24, the final on May 25.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordCésar Cielo46.91RomeJuly 30, 2009European recordAlain Bernard47.12RomeJuly 30, 2009Championship recordAlain Bernard47.50EindhovenMarch 22, 2008

Results

Heats 66 swimmers participated in 9 heats.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 9 5 Amaury Leveaux 48.77 Q 2 9 4 Marco di Carli 48.81 Q 3 7 2 Norbert Trandafir 49.09 Q 4 9 2 Dieter Dekoninck 49.12 Q 5 8 4 Filippo Magnini 49.24 Q 6 7 4 Alain Bernard 49.31 Q 7 9 1 Dominik Kozma 49.37 Q 8 7 5 Pieter Timmers 49.38 Q 9 9 8 Jasper Aerents 49.39 10 9 7 Oleg Tikhobaev 49.51 Q 11 8 7 Emmanuel Vanluchene 49.56 12 6 1 Yauhen Tsurkin 49.62 NR 13 8 3 Steffen Deibler 49.63 Q 14 6 6 Kemal Arda Gürdal 49.64 Q, NR 15 7 3 Michele Santucci 49.66 Q 16 6 4 Mindaugas Sadauskas 49.74 Q 17 8 2 Vitaly Syrnikov 49.75 Q 18 8 1 Martin Verner 49.83 Q 19 8 5 Stefan Nystrand 49.87 Q 20 3 3 Kristian Golomeev 49.89 21 9 6 Christoph Fildebrandt 49.92 22 6 5 Petter Stymne 49.99 22 7 8 Krisztián Takács 49.99 24 8 6 Andrea Rolla 50.13 25 6 8 Tiago Andre Venancio 50.16 26 5 5 Uvis Kalnins 50.23 27 5 1 Lars Frölander 50.31 28 3 1 Filip Wypych 50.35 29 6 7 Peter Mankoč 50.36 30 7 7 Craig Gibbons 50.49 31 6 3 Arseni Kukharau 50.52 32 4 1 Pjotr Degtjarjov 50.55 33 4 5 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen 50.62 34 4 6 Radovan Siljevski 50.67 35 3 7 Viacheslav Andrusenko 50.69 35 4 7 Martin Spitzer 50.69 37 3 6 Ivan Levaj 50.85 37 5 8 Aurelien Künzi 50.85 39 3 2 Gard Kvale 50.89 40 5 7 Daniel Rast 50.91 41 1 4 Fotios Koliopoulos 50.92 42 3 8 Radoslaw Bor 51.09 43 5 6 Pawel Werner 51.10 44 2 1 Evgheni Coroliuc 51.14 45 3 4 Árni Már Árnason 51.18 46 3 5 Boris Stojanović 51.19 47 4 2 Simonas Bilis 51.21 48 5 4 Alexandre Escudier Agostinho 51.27 49 5 2 Ioannis Kalargaris 51.44 50 4 3 Mario Alexandre Pereira 51.58 51 2 4 Christian Scherübl 51.59 52 4 8 Luis Emanuel Vaz 51.74 53 2 3 Balázs Zámbó 52.51 54 2 5 Tadas Duškinas 52.60 55 2 6 Irakli Revishvili 52.97 56 2 7 Ole Martin Ree 53.08 57 1 5 Tal Hanani 53.32 58 1 3 Hedin Olsen 53.37 NR 59 2 2 Aleksandar Nikolov 53.55 4 4 Mattias Carlsson DNS 5 3 Andriy Govorov DNS 6 2 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or DNS 7 1 Dominik Meichtry DNS 7 6 Marco Orsi DNS 8 8 Flori Lang DNS 9 3 Markus Deibler DNS

Semifinals The eight fastest swimmers advanced to the final.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Marco di Carli 48.96 Q 2 5 Dieter Dekoninck 49.19 Q 3 6 Pieter Timmers 49.21 Q 4 3 Alain Bernard 49.27 Q 5 7 Michele Santucci 49.47 5 8 Stefan Nystrand 49.47 7 2 Steffen Deibler 49.54 8 1 Vitaly Syrnikov 49.56

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Amaury Leveaux 48.52 Q 2 3 Filippo Magnini 48.84 Q 3 5 Norbert Trandafir 49.08 Q 4 6 Dominik Kozma 49.45 Q 5 2 Oleg Tikhobaev 49.61 6 7 Kemal Arda Gürdal 49.66 7 1 Mindaugas Sadauskas 49.86 8 8 Martin Verner 50.03

Final The final was held at 17:42.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-25.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Filippo Magnini 48.77 1 Alain Bernard 48.95 6 Norbert Trandafir 49.13 4 4 Amaury Leveaux 49.16 5 8 Dominik Kozma 49.17 6 3 Marco di Carli 49.18 7 7 Pieter Timmers 49.19 8 2 Dieter Dekoninck 49.42

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