The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 7 and 8 August 2018.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordEuropean recordAdam Peaty25.95Budapest25 July 2017Championship recordAdam Peaty26.62Berlin22 August 2014

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 7 August Heat Adam Peaty 26.50 CR 7 August Semifinal Adam Peaty 26.23 CR 8 August Final Adam Peaty 26.09 CR

Results Heats The heats were started on 7 August at 09:14.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 4 Adam Peaty 26.50 Q, CR 2 5 4 Fabio Scozzoli 27.04 Q 3 6 5 Ilya Shymanovich 27.09 Q 4 6 3 Čaba Silađi 27.12 Q 5 5 5 Ties Elzerman 27.16 Q 6 5 3 Alessandro Pinzuti 27.17 Q 7 4 4 Kirill Prigoda 27.21 Q 7 6 6 Peter John Stevens 27.21 Q 9 3 3 Ross Murdoch 27.27 Q 9 4 5 Johannes Skagius 27.27 Q 11 4 2 James Wilby 27.44 12 6 2 Fabian Schwingenschlögl 27.49 Q 13 6 1 Nikola Obrovac 27.62 Q 14 5 7 Darragh Greene 27.66 Q 14 4 0 Bernhard Reitshammer 27.66 Q 16 4 6 Arno Kamminga 27.71 Q 17 6 8 Ioannis Karpouzlis 27.74 Q 18 6 7 Emre Sakçı 27.76 19 5 6 Giedrius Titenis 27.78 20 5 2 Ilya Khomenko 27.79 21 6 9 Tobias Bjerg 27.84 22 5 9 Andrius Šidlauskas 27.85 23 5 8 Marek Botík 27.89 23 4 3 Oleg Kostin 27.89 25 6 0 Luca Pizzini 27.93 26 4 9 Tomáš Klobučník 28.03 27 4 7 Alex Murphy 28.09 27 3 6 Christopher Rothbauer 28.09 29 3 4 Yannick Käser 28.28 30 3 5 William Wihanto 28.30 31 3 8 Valentin Bayer 28.33 32 5 0 Lachezar Shumkov 28.40 33 2 5 Bartłomiej Roguski 28.43 34 5 1 Itay Goldfaden 28.47 35 2 6 Mikhail Dorinov 28.51 36 3 2 Martin Allikvee 28.54 36 1 5 Ivan Strilets 28.54 38 1 4 Mykyta Kopytelov 28.65 39 3 7 Demir Atasoy 28.69 40 4 8 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen 28.71 41 3 0 Filipp Provorkov 28.77 42 2 4 Berkay Öğretir 28.90 43 2 3 Teemu Vuorela 28.93 44 2 2 Jozef Beňo 28.95 45 2 7 Daniils Bobrovs 28.99 46 3 1 Dávid Horváth 29.03 47 1 6 Andri Aedma 29.34 48 2 8 Johannes Dietrich 29.49 49 2 0 Lyubomir Epitropov 29.63 50 2 1 Oktaycan Emirbayer 29.72 51 3 9 Oleksandr Karpenko 29.79 52 1 3 Michael Stafrace 30.03 53 1 2 Deni Baholli 31.43 2 9 Jacques Laeuffer 4 1 Marcin Stolarski

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 7 August at 17:18.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Fabio Scozzoli 26.80 Q 2 5 Čaba Silađi 26.99 Q, NR 3 6 Kirill Prigoda 27.17 Q 4 3 Alessandro Pinzuti 27.32 5 2 Johannes Skagius 27.39 6 1 Darragh Greene 27.44 7 7 Nikola Obrovac 27.75 8 8 Ioannis Karpouzlis 27.97

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Adam Peaty 26.23 Q, CR 2 6 Peter John Stevens 27.08 Q 3 5 Ilya Shymanovich 27.09 Q 4 3 Ties Elzerman 27.15 Q 5 7 Fabian Schwingenschlögl 27.16 Q 6 2 Ross Murdoch 27.39 7 1 Bernhard Reitshammer 27.47 8 8 Arno Kamminga 27.72

Final The final was started on 8 August at 16:48.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Adam Peaty 26.09 CR 5 Fabio Scozzoli 26.79 6 Peter John Stevens 27.06 4 8 Kirill Prigoda 27.18 5 3 Čaba Silađi 27.20 6 7 Ties Elzerman 27.24 7 1 Fabian Schwingenschlögl 27.29 8 2 Ilya Shymanovich 27.32

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