The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 May 2016.Entry listStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordLiam Tancock24.04Rome2 August 2009European recordChampionship recordCamille Lacourt24.07Budapest12 August 2010

Results Heats The heats were held on 18 May at 11:04.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Grigory Tarasevich 24.85 Q 2 5 4 Camille Lacourt 24.93 Q 3 3 4 Tomasz Polewka 25.00 Q 4 3 3 Jonatan Kopelev 25.17 Q 5 3 5 Shane Ryan 25.19 Q 6 3 2 Robert Glință 25.23 Q 7 4 6 Guy Barnea 25.25 Q 8 5 5 Nikita Ulyanov 25.29 Q 9 5 7 Richárd Bohus 25.44 Q 10 4 3 Simone Sabbioni 25.45 Q 11 5 3 Carl-Louis Schwarz 25.54 Q 12 5 6 Viktar Staselovich 25.55 Q 12 5 2 Apostolos Christou 25.55 Q 14 4 5 Chris Walker-Hebborn 25.59 Q 15 4 2 Ralf Tribuntsov 25.74 Q 16 3 8 Baskalov İskender 25.81 Q 17 4 1 Doruk Tekin 25.84 18 5 1 Benjamin Stasiulis 25.93 19 5 0 David Gamburg 25.96 20 5 8 Daniel Macovei 26.05 21 5 9 Tomáš Franta 26.07 22 1 6 Markus Lie 26.18 23 2 6 Karl Luht 26.22 24 4 7 Michail Kontizas 26.24 25 1 2 Boris Kirillov 26.29 26 3 9 Ģirts Feldbergs 26.31 27 2 5 Daniel Martin 26.43 28 4 0 Gytis Stankevičius 26.44 29 2 9 Marko Krce Rabar 26.46 30 2 4 Luke Greenbank 26.50 31 3 0 Mattias Carlsson 26.51 32 4 8 Kristian Komlenić 26.53 33 2 1 Petter Fredriksson 26.55 34 2 0 Ege Başer 26.57 35 2 3 Gabriel Lopes 26.58 36 3 1 Endri Vinter 26.65 37 1 7 Anton Loncar 26.67 38 4 9 Balázs Zámbó 26.70 39 1 4 Axel Pettersson 26.73 40 2 8 Teo Kolonić 26.74 41 2 2 Andrei Gussev 26.76 42 2 7 Pāvels Vilcāns 26.94 43 1 5 Berk Özkul 27.03 44 1 3 Thomas Maurer 27.13 45 1 1 Bogdan Plavin 28.75 3 6 Gábor Balog 3 7 Alexis Santos

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 18 May at 19:49.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Camille Lacourt 24.79 Q 2 3 Robert Glință 24.97 Q 3 6 Nikita Ulyanov 25.06 Q 4 5 Jonatan Kopelev 25.20 Q 5 7 Viktar Staselovich 25.25 6 1 Chris Walker-Hebborn 25.36 7 2 Simone Sabbioni 25.37 8 8 Baskalov İskender 25.94

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Tomasz Polewka 24.87 Q 2 4 Grigory Tarasevich 25.02 Q 3 2 Richárd Bohus 25.04 Q 4 6 Guy Barnea 25.09 Q 5 1 Apostolos Christou 25.28 6 3 Shane Ryan 25.32 7 7 Carl-Louis Schwarz 25.77 8 8 Ralf Tribuntsov 25.84

Final The final was held on 19 May at 19:32.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Camille Lacourt 24.77 2 Richárd Bohus 24.82 6 Grigoriy Tarasevich 24.86 4 7 Nikita Ulyanov 24.96 5 8 Jonatan Kopelev 25.00 6 1 Guy Barnea 25.02 7 3 Robert Glință 25.03 7 5 Tomasz Polewka 25.03

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