The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18–19 August.Start list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordAaron Peirsol51.94Indianapolis8 July 2009European recordCamille Lacourt52.11Budapest10 August 2010Championship record

Results Heats The heats were held at 10:12.Heats Results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Chris Walker-Hebborn 53.88 Q 2 4 4 Jérémy Stravius 54.14 Q 3 3 2 Benjamin Stasiulis 54.27 Q 4 4 3 Jan-Philip Glania 54.47 Q 5 4 5 Christopher Ciccarese 54.71 Q 6 5 3 Nikita Ulyanov 54.85 Q 7 5 2 Luca Mencarini 54.87 Q 8 4 6 Christian Diener 54.94 Q 9 5 6 Juan Miguel Rando 54.99 Q 10 3 6 Lavrans Solli 55.01 Q 11 4 1 Gábor Balog 55.09 Q 12 3 4 Radosław Kawęcki 55.29 Q 13 5 0 Mattias Carlsson 55.43 Q 14 5 8 Péter Bernek 55.46 Q 15 3 5 Niccolò Bonacchi 55.49 16 5 5 Bastiaan Lijesen 55.50 Q 17 4 2 David Gamburg 55.53 Q 18 3 7 Guy Barnea 55.59 19 4 8 Pavel Sankovich 55.61 19 5 7 Yakov Toumarkin 55.61 21 3 3 Andrey Shabasov 55.63 22 5 1 Danas Rapšys 55.84 23 3 8 Viktar Staselovich 55.86 24 3 0 Pedro Oliveira 55.93 25 4 0 Nicolas Graesser 56.04 25 4 7 Jonatan Kopelev 56.04 27 3 1 Eric Ress 56.23 28 5 9 Martin Baďura 56.44 29 3 9 Petar Petrović 56.74 30 4 9 Axel Pettersson 56.87 31 1 5 Marko Krce-Rabar 56.96 31 2 2 Doruk Tekin 56.96 33 2 4 Gytis Stankevičius 57.02 34 2 3 Martin Zhelev 57.11 35 2 8 Boris Kirillov 57.23 36 2 9 Antons Voitovs 57.32 37 2 1 Sergiy Varvaruk 57.33 38 2 6 Teo Kolonić 57.38 39 2 7 57.50 40 2 0 Roman Dmytriyev 57.60 41 1 4 Elijah Stolz 57.71 42 1 3 Aram Kostanyan 1:03.11 — 2 5 Baslakov İskender DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 18:22.Semifinals Results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Jérémy Stravius 53.93 Q 2 5 Jan-Philip Glania 54.09 Q 3 6 Christian Diener 54.24 Q 4 8 David Gamburg 54.76 Q 5 7 Radosław Kawęcki 54.92 6 1 Péter Bernek 54.93 7 3 Nikita Ulyanov 55.02 8 2 Lavrans Solli 55.06

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Chris Walker-Hebborn 53.62 Q 2 5 Benjamin Stasiulis 54.17 Q 3 6 Luca Mencarini 54.76 Q 4 2 Juan Miguel Rando 54.80 Q 5 1 Mattias Carlsson 54.85 6 7 Gábor Balog 54.95 7 3 Christopher Ciccarese 54.96 8 8 Bastiaan Lijesen 55.37

Final The final was held at 18:19. Final Results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Chris Walker-Hebborn 53.32 5 Jérémy Stravius 53.64 3 Jan-Philip Glania 54.15 4 2 Christian Diener 54.23 5 6 Benjamin Stasiulis 54.49 6 1 Luca Mencarini 54.57 7 8 Juan Miguel Rando 54.82 8 7 David Gamburg 54.87

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