The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordRyan Murphy51.85Rio de Janeiro13 August 2016European recordChampionship recordCamille Lacourt52.11Budapest10 August 2010

Results Heats The heats were started on 5 August at 09:56.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 4 Evgeny Rylov 52.91 Q 2 5 4 Kliment Kolesnikov 53.01 Q 3 4 4 Grigoriy Tarasevich 53.34 4 5 2 Simone Sabbioni 53.95 Q 5 6 5 Robert Glință 54.01 Q 6 5 5 Apostolos Christou 54.40 Q 7 6 7 Jan-Philip Glania 54.44 Q 8 5 7 Luke Greenbank 54.47 Q 9 4 5 Yakov Toumarkin 54.57 Q 10 4 1 Conor Ferguson 54.61 Q 11 4 6 Christian Diener 54.63 Q 12 5 9 Tomáš Franta 54.65 Q 13 6 6 Shane Ryan 54.67 Q 14 3 7 Brodie Williams 54.83 Q 15 5 6 Richárd Bohus 54.85 Q 16 4 3 Thomas Ceccon 54.89 Q 16 4 8 Nicholas Pyle 54.89 18 4 7 Paul Bedel 54.92 Q 19 6 8 Maxence Orange 54.96 20 4 2 Mikita Tsmyh 55.00 21 3 5 Bernhard Reitshammer 55.06 22 6 2 Radosław Kawęcki 55.07 23 3 9 Ralf Tribuntsov 55.09 24 6 1 Stanislas Huille 55.11 25 5 1 Nikolaos Sofianidis 55.26 25 6 0 Gustav Höfkelt 55.26 27 5 3 Kacper Stokowski 55.34 28 3 8 Anton Lončar 55.39 29 2 4 Markus Lie 55.52 30 4 0 Thierry Bollin 55.53 31 1 6 Karl Luht 55.60 31 4 9 Jakub Skierka 55.60 33 3 3 Gytis Stankevičius 55.63 34 5 0 Elliot Clogg 55.77 34 6 3 Nikita Ulyanov 55.77 36 2 3 Björn Seeliger 55.89 37 3 1 Geoffroy Mathieu 56.09 38 3 0 Girts Feldbergs 56.12 39 2 8 Ivan Gajšek 56.41 40 6 9 Kamil Kaźmierczak 56.47 41 3 2 Viktar Staselovich 56.48 42 2 2 Nikola Acin 56.59 43 2 6 Armin Lelle 56.64 44 3 4 Jonatan Kopelev 56.81 45 2 7 Ege Başer 56.95 46 1 3 Metin Aydın 57.19 46 2 0 Berk Özkul 57.19 48 2 1 Adam Černek 57.83 49 1 4 Rasim Gör 57.90 50 2 5 Andrei-Mircea Anghel 59.14 51 2 9 Thomas Wareing 1:00.11 52 1 5 Dren Ukimeraj 1:04.62 5 8 David Gamburg Did not start

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:31.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Kliment Kolesnikov 52.95 Q, WJR 2 5 Robert Glință 53.63 Q 3 2 Christian Diener 54.10 Q 4 3 Jan-Philip Glania 54.24 Q 5 1 Richárd Bohus 54.58 6 6 Yakov Toumarkin 54.63 7 7 Shane Ryan 54.79 8 8 Paul Bedel 54.99

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Evgeny Rylov 53.20 Q 2 5 Simone Sabbioni 53.39 Q 3 3 Apostolos Christou 53.90 Q 4 8 Thomas Ceccon 54.24 Q 5 2 Conor Ferguson 54.38 6 1 Brodie Williams 54.60 7 7 Tomáš Franta 54.63 8 6 Luke Greenbank 54.65

Final The final was started on 6 August at 17:07.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Kliment Kolesnikov 52.53 WJR, NR 5 Evgeny Rylov 52.74 2 Apostolos Christou 53.72 4 6 Robert Glință 53.81 5 8 Thomas Ceccon 53.85 5 3 Simone Sabbioni 53.85 7 7 Christian Diener 53.92 8 1 Jan-Philip Glania 54.35

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