The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 May 2016.Entry listStart 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 on 16 May at 10:37.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 2 Robert Glință 53.43 Q, NR 2 5 6 Apostolos Christou 53.77 Q 3 5 3 Shane Ryan 54.21 Q 4 5 5 Yakov Toumarkin 54.22 Q 5 4 4 Grigoriy Tarasevich 54.31 Q 6 6 5 Simone Sabbioni 54.54 Q 7 4 5 Radosław Kawęcki 54.63 Q 8 4 7 Guy Barnea 54.81 Q 9 4 3 Gábor Balog 54.86 Q 10 5 4 Chris Walker-Hebborn 54.94 Q 11 6 4 Camille Lacourt 55.04 Q 12 4 2 Conor Ferguson 55.06 Q 13 4 6 Tomasz Polewka 55.10 Q 14 5 7 David Gamburg 55.14 14 6 3 Christopher Ciccarese 55.14 Q 16 5 1 Jonatan Kopelev 55.15 17 6 6 Nikita Ulyanov 55.25 Q 18 4 9 Dávid Földházi 55.37 S-off 18 6 9 Ádám Telegdy 55.37 S-off 20 5 9 Tomáš Franta 55.38 21 4 1 Viktar Staselovich 55.40 22 6 1 Luke Greenbank 55.45 23 6 7 Benjamin Stasiulis 55.52 24 3 6 Mattias Carlsson 55.53 25 2 4 Petter Fredriksson 55.76 26 5 0 Anton Loncar 55.83 27 5 8 Ralf Tribuntsov 55.92 28 4 0 Marcin Tarczyński 56.02 29 2 5 Marko Rabar 56.09 30 6 8 Carl-Louis Schwarz 56.16 31 3 5 Gabriel Lopes 56.17 32 3 2 Ģirts Feldbergs 56.22 33 3 4 Doruk Tekin 56.32 34 3 7 Zámbó Balázs 56.39 35 3 3 Kristian Komlenić 56.43 36 1 4 Raphaël Stacchiotti 56.48 37 3 8 Ege Başer 56.60 38 2 7 Baslakov İskender 56.66 39 1 5 Karl Luht 56.76 39 6 0 Michail Kontizas 56.76 41 2 2 Teo Kolonic 56.79 42 1 3 Endri Vinter 56.80 43 3 9 Axel Pettersson 56.85 44 3 0 Daniel Martin 56.91 45 4 8 Joseph Hulme 57.21 46 2 6 Nils Van Audekerke 57.33 47 3 1 Gytis Stankevičius 57.41 48 2 0 Boris Kirillov 57.53 49 2 1 Roman Dmitriyev 57.56 50 2 3 Pāvels Vilcāns 58.17 51 2 8 Andrei Gussev 58.25 5 2 Danas Rapšys

Swim-off The Swim-off were held on 16 May at 12:18.Swim-off results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Dávid Földházi 55.26 Q 2 5 Ádám Telegdy 55.58

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 16 May at 18:17.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Apostolos Christou 53.36 Q 2 3 Simone Sabbioni 53.86 Q 3 5 Yakov Toumarkin 54.18 Q 4 2 Chris Walker-Hebborn 54.77 5 7 Conor Ferguson 54.99 6 6 Guy Barnea 55.03 7 1 Christopher Ciccarese 55.06 8 8 Dávid Földházi 55.35

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Grigoriy Tarasevich 53.70 Q 2 7 Camille Lacourt 54.09 Q 3 4 Robert Glință 54.14 Q 4 2 Gábor Balog 54.20 Q 5 5 Shane Ryan 54.39 Q 6 1 Tomasz Polewka 54.43 7 8 Nikita Ulyanov 54.48 8 6 Radosław Kawęcki 54.64

Final The final was on 17 May at 18:15.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Camille Lacourt 53.79 5 Grigoriy Tarasevich 53.89 3 Simone Sabbioni 54.19 4 Apostolos Christou 54.19 5 1 Gábor Balog 54.35 6 2 Robert Glință 54.36 6 7 Yakov Toumarkin 54.36 8 8 Shane Ryan 54.49

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