The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2026 European Aquatics Championships was held on 13 and 14 August 2026.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nationality Time Location Date World record Kliment Kolesnikov 23.55 Kazan 27 July 2023 European record Championship record 23.80 Budapest 18 May 2021
Results Heats The heats were started on 13 August at 10:19.
Ranks Heats Lane Swimmer Country Time Notes 1 8 4 Kliment Kolesnikov Neutral Athletes B 24.12 Q 2 7 4 Pavel Samusenko Neutral Athletes B 24.13 Q 3 7 3 Miroslav Knedla 24.19 Q, NR 4 8 3 Ksawery Masiuk 24.46 Q 5 7 5 Georgii Iakovlev Neutral Athletes B 24.47 6 6 5 Apostolos Christou 24.52 Q 7 8 2 Robert Falborg Pedersen 24.55 Q, NR 8 8 5 Michele Lamberti 24.56 Q 9 6 3 Hubert Kós 24.57 Q 10 7 0 Tomer Shuster 24.62 Q 11 7 6 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 24.65 Q 12 6 7 Ralf Tribuntsov 24.66 Q 13 4 8 Rémi Fabiani 24.73 Q 14 8 0 Thomas Ceccon 24.75 Q 15 7 7 Iván Martínez 24.88 Q 16 6 2 Ole Braunschweig 24.90 16 6 4 Oliver Morgan 24.90 16 6 6 Jack Skerry 24.90 19 8 1 Mewen Tomac 24.94 20 8 6 Mantas Kaušpėdas 24.95 21 3 4 Hugo González 24.96 22 7 2 Francesco Lazzari 24.98 23 8 7 Adrián Santos 25.06 24 7 1 Aleksei Tkachev Neutral Athletes B 25.09 25 5 4 John Shortt 25.11 25 7 9 Artsiom Yarmak Neutral Athletes A 25.11 27 5 3 Michael Laitarovsky 25.14 28 6 8 Matthew Ward 25.18 29 6 0 Denis Popescu 25.19 30 3 8 Jan Čejka 25.25 30 7 8 Jakub Jan Krischke 25.25 32 5 6 Evangelos Makrygiannis 25.27 33 5 1 Lukas Edl 25.29 34 4 3 Rufus Bernhardt 25.30 35 3 2 Inbar Ono Danziger 25.36 35 3 3 Luka Čarapović 25.36 NR 35 3 6 Max Halbeisen 25.36 35 6 9 Thierry Bollin 25.36 39 5 2 Noah Verreth 25.39 40 8 9 Uladzimir Mamekin Neutral Athletes A 25.40 41 4 7 Vidar Carlbaum 25.42 42 4 5 Nikola Aćin 25.43 43 5 5 Noe Pantskhava 25.46 43 5 8 Giovanni Phillipson 25.46 45 6 1 Aleksander Styś 25.47 46 4 4 Rio Daodu 25.51 47 4 0 Tomasz Polewka 25.54 48 5 9 Daniel Zaitsev 25.55 49 4 9 Leon Opatril 25.58 49 5 7 Roman Mityukov 25.58 51 3 7 Aukan Goldin 25.62 52 8 8 Daniele Del Signore 25.73 53 4 2 Szymon Mróz 25.77 54 3 1 Frederik Lentz 25.79 55 4 6 Bernhard Reitshammer 25.83 56 3 5 Nikodim Markovic 25.84 56 5 0 Fritz Dietz 25.84 58 2 4 Tudor Iordache 25.87 58 2 7 Ronny Brännkärr 25.87 60 2 5 Kristians Brenčs 25.97 61 3 0 Alexandru Constantinescu 25.98 62 3 9 Roope Koskela 26.04 63 2 3 Ārons Roderts 26.07 64 2 2 Ajjuub Ezzat 26.15 65 1 4 Guðmundur Leo Rafnsson 26.19 65 2 6 Flavio Bucca 26.19 67 2 8 Daren Kirilov 26.23 68 2 9 Emīls Krampe 26.30 69 2 1 Dominik Grudinskij 26.33 70 2 0 Nikolass Deičmans 26.72 71 1 5 Zhulian Lavdaniti 27.29 72 1 3 Gevorg Tonoyan 27.49 4 1 Cornelius Jahn
Swim-off The swim-off was held on 13 August at 12:03.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 3 Oliver Morgan 24.63 Q 2 4 Jack Skerry 24.75 Q 3 5 Ole Braunschweig 24.81
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 13 August at 19:00.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 1 4 Pavel Samusenko Neutral Athletes B 24.03 Q 2 2 4 Kliment Kolesnikov Neutral Athletes B 24.14 Q 3 2 5 Miroslav Knedla 24.20 Q 4 2 2 Tomer Shuster 24.36 Q 5 1 1 Iván Martínez 24.40 Q, NR 6 1 2 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 24.43 Q 7 2 3 Apostolos Christou 24.44 Q 8 2 1 Thomas Ceccon 24.45 Q 9 1 5 Ksawery Masiuk 24.47 10 2 6 Michele Lamberti 24.57 11 1 3 Robert Falborg Pedersen 24.60 12 1 8 Oliver Morgan 24.63 13 2 7 Ralf Tribuntsov 24.69 14 1 6 Hubert Kós 24.73 15 2 8 Jack Skerry 24.82 16 1 7 Rémi Fabiani 24.96
Final The final was held on 14 August at 19:51.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 3 Miroslav Knedla 24.11 NR 5 Kliment Kolesnikov Neutral Athletes B 24.12 4 Pavel Samusenko Neutral Athletes B 24.14 4 1 Apostolos Christou 24.15 5 6 Tomer Shuster 24.44 6 2 Iván Martínez 24.49 7 8 Thomas Ceccon 24.54 8 7 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 24.65
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