The Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2026 European Aquatics Championships was held on 10 and 11 August 2026.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows: Name Nation Time Location Date World recordEuropean record Adam Ramsay-Peaty 56.88 Gwangju 21 July 2019 Championship record 57.10 Glasgow 4 August 2018

Results Heats The heats begin on 10 August at 10:39.

Qualification Rules: The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to the semi-finals.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 8 3 Adam Ramsay-Peaty Q 2 7 4 Nicolò Martinenghi Q 2 8 5 Simone Cerasuolo Q 4 6 2 Jack Kelly Q, NR 5 8 6 Melvin Imoudu Q 6 8 4 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B Q 7 6 3 Filip Nowacki Q 8 7 3 Caspar Corbeau Q 9 6 5 Ivan Kozhakin Neutral Athletes B Q 10 6 4 Lucas Matzerath Q 11 7 5 Ludovico Viberti 12 8 7 Aleksas Savickas Q 13 6 6 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A Q 14 7 6 Carl Aitkaci Q 15 7 7 Evangelos Ntoumas 1:00.09 Q 16 7 8 Jan Kalusowski 1:00.10 Q 17 8 2 Gregory Butler 1:00.12 18 4 9 Charlie Egeland 1:00.13 Q 18 8 9 Subajr Biltaev 1:00.13 20 7 2 Dawid Wiekiera 1:00.23 21 8 1 Luka Mladenovic 1:00.28 22 8 8 Christian Mantegazza 1:00.33 23 6 7 Aleksandr Zhigalov Neutral Athletes B 1:00.36 23 8 0 Nil Cadevall 1:00.36 25 7 1 Andrius Sidlauskas 1:00.39 26 6 9 Darragh Greene 1:00.51 27 4 4 Matti Mattsson 1:00.58 28 7 9 Daniil Pisetskii Neutral Athletes B 1:00.68 29 5 5 Valentin Bayer 1:00.76 30 6 0 Volodymyr Lisovets 1:00.77 30 7 0 Mathis Schonung 1:00.77 32 4 6 Mark Teler 1:00.80 33 4 7 Einar Margeir Ágústsson 1:00.87 34 6 1 Koen de Groot 1:00.93 35 5 0 Christopher Palvadre 1:01.01 36 5 1 Bernhard Reitshammer 1:01.06 37 5 4 Eoin Corby 1:01.19 38 5 9 Stepan Babenko 1:01.26 39 5 8 Elias Elsgaard 1:01.29 40 4 3 Oliver Munn 1:01.30 41 5 6 Darius Coman 1:01.36 42 3 1 Daniel Rumenov Marinov 1:01.60 43 5 2 Doruk Yoğurtcuoğlu 1:01.69 44 4 2 Filip Mujan 1:01.72 45 4 5 Gian-Luca Gartmann 1:01.84 46 3 6 Finn Kemp 1:01.85 47 3 2 Jami Ihalainen 1:01.90 48 5 3 Adam Bradley 1:01.94 49 2 7 Shawn Wolf 1:01.99 50 2 6 Mathias Christensen 1:02.06 51 6 8 Nusrat Allahverdi 1:02.18 52 3 7 Ralf Roose 1:02.20 52 5 7 Snorri Dagur Einarsson 1:02.20 54 3 4 Laurin Korber-Perner 1:02.22 55 3 5 Uroš Živanović 1:02.26 56 4 0 Maksym Ovchinnikov 1:02.36 57 2 3 Sam Bengtsson Nimander 1:02.58 58 3 9 João Reisen 1:02.60 58 4 1 Kerem İlyem 1:02.60 60 3 3 Marios Zafeiropoulos 1:02.63 61 2 5 Davin Lindholm 1:02.73 62 4 8 Jørgen Bråthen 1:02.78 63 2 4 Linus Forsgren 1:02.83 64 1 5 Julius Nyberg 1:03.09 65 2 1 Denis Svet 1:03.31 66 2 2 Constantin Malachi 1:03.43 67 3 0 Daniel Ketrtes 1:03.52 68 3 8 Patrick Pelegrina 1:03.85 69 1 3 Ashot Chakhoyan 1:04.11 70 1 4 Kristaps Čilipāns 1:04.27 71 2 8 Kristjan Reivart 1:04.54

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 10 August at 19:05.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 1 4 Nicolò Martinenghi 58.67 Q 2 1 5 Jack Kelly 58.90 Q, NR 3 2 4 Adam Ramsay-Peaty 58.94 Q 4 2 6 Filip Nowacki 59.03 Q 5 2 3 Melvin Imoudu 59.13 Q 6 2 2 Ivan Kozhakin Neutral Athletes B 59.15 Q 7 1 6 Caspar Corbeau 59.24 Q 8 2 5 Simone Cerasuolo 59.29 Q 9 1 3 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 59.34 10 1 2 Lucas Matzerath 59.39 11 2 7 Aleksas Savickas 59.77 12 1 7 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 59.80 13 2 8 Jan Kalusowski 59.89 14 2 1 Carl Aitkaci 59.91 15 1 1 Evangelos Ntoumas 59.92 16 1 8 Charlie Egeland 59.94

Final The final was held on 11 August at 18:48.

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 Nicolò Martinenghi 58.58 7 Ivan Kozhakin Neutral Athletes B 58.68 8 Simone Cerasuolo 58.90 4 2 Melvin Imoudu 59.05 5 3 Adam Ramsay-Peaty 59.10 6 6 Filip Nowacki 59.11 7 5 Jack Kelly 59.36 8 1 Caspar Corbeau 59.48

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