The Women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 4 and 5 August 2018.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordZhao Jing27.06Rome30 July 2009European recordDaniela SamulskiAliaksandra Herasimenia27.23RomeBudapest30 July 200927 July 2017Championship recordFrancesca Halsall27.57London21 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 4 August Heat Georgia Davies 27.21 CR, ER

Results Heats The heats were started on 4 August at 10:17.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Georgia Davies 27.21 Q, ER, CR 2 6 4 Anastasia Fesikova 27.23 Q, NR 3 5 5 Mimosa Jallow 27.42 Q, NR 4 6 5 Maria Kameneva 27.70 Q, 5 4 5 Simona Baumrtová 27.78 Q, NR 6 4 6 Kathleen Dawson 27.92 Q 7 4 4 Mie Nielsen 27.97 Q 8 5 6 Kira Toussaint 28.04 Q 9 6 3 Béryl Gastaldello 28.19 Q 10 6 6 Ida Lindborg 28.23 Q 11 4 3 Maaike de Waard 28.30 Q 11 5 7 Cassie Wild 28.30 13 4 2 Alicja Tchórz 28.33 Q 14 6 8 Tessa Vermeulen 28.35 15 5 3 Silvia Scalia 28.37 Q 15 6 2 Julie Kepp Jensen 28.37 Q 17 3 4 Sasha Touretski 28.46 Q, NR 18 5 1 Carlotta Zofkova 28.48 Q 19 5 2 Theodora Drakou 28.53 Q 20 4 7 Lucy Hope 28.61 21 4 1 Polina Egorova 28.65 22 6 1 Mathilde Cini 28.66 23 5 9 Nina Kost 28.72 24 5 8 Jenna Laukkanen 28.85 25 6 9 Katalin Burián 28.94 26 3 5 Victoria Bierre 29.04 27 6 0 Anastasiia Abdeeva 29.08 28 4 9 Anika Apostalon 29.22 29 4 0 Ekaterina Avramova 29.27 30 4 8 Agata Naskręt 29.38 31 2 4 Signhild Joensen 29.54 32 3 6 Gabriela Georgieva 29.58 33 5 0 Karolina Hájková 29.61 34 3 3 Shahar Menahem 29.66 35 2 5 Elçin Türkmenoğlu 29.71 36 3 8 Magdalena Kuras 29.91 37 3 7 Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir 29.93 38 3 0 Ieva Maļuka 29.94 39 3 9 Margaret Markvardt 29.96 40 2 7 Aviv Barzelay 30.01 41 3 2 Arina Baikova 30.02 42 2 6 Lena Grabowski 30.03 43 2 8 Vilma Ruotsalainen 30.04 44 2 2 Kertu Kaare 30.23 45 3 1 Sezin Eliguel 30.25 46 2 1 Weronika Górecka 30.60 47 1 5 Eda Zećiri 30.95 48 1 4 Fjorda Šabani 31.17 49 1 3 Ani Poghosyan 33.05 — 2 3 Kalia Antoniou Disqualified 6 7 Caroline Pilhatsch

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 4 August at 17:49.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Anastasia Fesikova 27.49 Q 2 6 Béryl Gastaldello 27.86 Q, NR 3 5 Simona Baumrtová 27.91 Q 4 7 Silvia Scalia 27.96 5 8 Theodora Drakou 28.08 6 2 Maaike de Waard 28.09 7 3 Mie Nielsen 28.14 8 1 Sasha Touretski 28.70

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Georgia Davies 27.46 Q 2 5 Mimosa Jallow 27.62 Q 3 7 Alicja Tchórz 27.72 Q, NR 4 6 Kira Toussaint 27.92 Q 5 8 Carlotta Zofkova 27.94 Q, NR 6 3 Kathleen Dawson 28.11 7 1 Julie Kepp Jensen 28.32 8 2 Ida Lindborg 28.77

Final The final was held on 5 August at 18:21.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Georgia Davies 27.23 5 Anastasia Fesikova 27.31 3 Mimosa Jallow 27.70 4 6 Alicja Tchórz 27.74 5 2 Béryl Gastaldello 28.10 6 8 Carlotta Zofkova 28.31 7 7 Simona Baumrtová 28.38 8 1 Kira Toussaint 28.80

References