Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 21 and 22. The heats and semifinals took place on May 21, the final on May 22.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre backstroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-20.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordAaron Peirsol51.94IndianapolisJuly 8, 2009European recordChampionship recordCamille Lacourt52.11BudapestAugust 10, 2010

Results

Heats 43 swimmers participated in 6 heats.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre backstroke Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-21.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 6 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin 54.22 Q, =NR 2 6 3 Guy Barnea 54.44 Q 3 4 4 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 54.45 Q 4 5 3 Jonatan Kopelev 54.61 5 4 5 Mirco di Tora 54.77 Q 6 5 4 Helge Meeuw 54.78 Q 7 5 5 Vitaly Borisov 54.78 Q 8 6 6 Péter Bernek 54.82 Q 9 3 4 Lavrans Solli 54.83 Q, NR 10 4 3 Pavel Sankovich 54.96 Q, NR 10 5 6 Matteo Milli 54.96 Q 12 5 7 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 55.01 13 6 7 Felix Wolf 55.13 Q 14 6 4 Jérémy Stravius 55.21 Q 15 5 2 Sebastiano Ranfagni 55.39 16 5 1 Olexandr Isakov 55.48 Q 17 4 2 Christian Diener 55.59 18 6 2 Richárd Bohus 55.67 Q 19 1 4 Pedro Oliveira 55.83 Q, NR 20 6 8 Gábor Balog 55.83 21 4 1 Mikhail Zvyagin 55.87 SO 21 6 1 Andres Olvik 55.87 SO 23 4 7 Jonathan Massacand 55.90 24 3 2 Martin Baďura 56.26 25 2 4 Konstantīns Blohins 56.28 NR 26 3 3 Martin Zhelev 56.36 26 3 5 Matas Andriekus 56.36 28 5 8 Karl Burdis 56.43 29 6 5 Juan Miguel Rando Galvez 56.54 30 1 3 Jan Šefl 56.58 31 4 8 Flori Lang 56.66 32 2 2 Jakub Jasiński 56.77 33 2 7 Pavels Vilcans 56.92 34 3 1 Jean-François Schneiders 56.93 35 2 8 Danas Rapšys 57.00 36 3 6 Lukas Räuftlin 57.31 36 3 7 Andriy Nikishenko 57.31 38 2 5 Mateusz Wysoczynski 57.56 39 1 5 Roko Šimunić 57.61 40 2 3 Sebastian Stoss 57.73 41 2 6 Dominik Dür 58.09 42 2 1 Justinas Bilis 58.13 43 3 8 Petar Petrović 58.95

Swim-Off The swim-off took place to determine the last semifinal participant.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre backstroke Swim-off results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-21.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Mikhail Zvyagin 55.97 Q 2 5 Andres Olvik 56.15

Semifinals The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre backstroke Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-21.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Richárd Bohus 54.35 Q 2 3 Vitaly Borisov 54.74 Q 3 7 Jérémy Stravius 54.79 Q 4 5 Mirco di Tora 54.88 Q 5 6 Lavrans Solli 54.90 6 4 Guy Barnea 54.95 7 2 Matteo Milli 55.25 8 8 Mikhail Zvyagin 56.02

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Helge Meeuw 53.80 Q 2 5 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 53.90 Q 3 4 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin 54.26 Q 4 6 Péter Bernek 54.47 Q 5 2 Pavel Sankovich 55.06 6 1 Olexandr Isakov 55.33 7 7 Felix Wolf 55.40 8 8 Pedro Oliveira 55.90

Final The final was held at 17:14.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre backstroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 53.86 4 Helge Meeuw 54.06 3 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin 54.14 NR 4 2 Péter Bernek 54.77 5 7 Vitaly Borisov 54.78 5 8 Mirco di Tora 54.78 7 1 Jérémy Stravius 54.96 8 6 Richárd Bohus 55.00

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