The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 6 and 7 August 2018.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordKathleen Baker58.00Irvine28 July 2018European recordGemma Spofforth58.12Rome28 July 2009Championship recordMie Østergaard Nielsen58.73London19 May 2016

Results Heats The heats were started on 6 August at 10:22.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 3 Margherita Panziera 59.86 Q 2 4 4 Anastasia Zuyeva 59.87 Q 3 5 5 Mie Nielsen 59.99 Q 4 5 6 Georgia Davies 1:00.03 Q 5 3 6 Carlotta Zofkova 1:00.07 Q 6 3 3 Kira Toussaint 1:00.12 Q 7 5 4 Katinka Hosszú 1:00.15 Q 8 5 7 Katalin Burián 1:00.28 Q 8 4 1 Mimosa Jallow 1:00.28 Q 10 3 5 Simona Baumrtová 1:00.29 Q 11 4 3 Kathleen Dawson 1:00.30 Q 12 4 6 Mathilde Cini 1:00.55 Q 13 3 4 Daria Ustinova 1:00.67 Q 14 5 2 Laura Riedemann 1:00.77 Q 15 3 7 Tessa Vermeulen 1:00.79 Q 16 5 1 Silvia Scalia 1:00.92 17 4 5 Polina Egorova 1:01.05 18 3 2 Anastasiia Avdeeva 1:01.17 19 5 8 Theodora Drakou 1:01.18 Q 20 3 1 Duane Da Rocha 1:01.36 20 4 7 Cassie Wild 1:01.36 22 4 2 Lisa Graf 1:01.67 23 2 3 Caroline Pilhatsch 1:01.73 24 2 5 Nina Kost 1:01.85 25 2 4 Julie Kepp Jensen 1:01.87 26 3 0 Ida Lindborg 1:02.00 27 4 8 África Zamorano 1:02.11 28 4 0 Ekaterina Avramova 1:02.12 29 2 2 Anika Apostalon 1:02.19 30 4 9 Victoria Bierre 1:02.55 31 2 8 Cristina García 1:02.84 32 2 6 Gabriela Georgieva 1:02.97 33 2 1 Shahar Menahem 1:03.15 34 5 9 Agata Naskręt 1:03.28 35 2 0 Signhild Joensen 1:03.30 36 1 4 Lena Grabowski 1:03.36 37 3 9 Karolina Hájková 1:03.48 38 1 3 Elçin Türkmenoğlu 1:03.65 39 1 7 Margaret Markvardt 1:03.77 40 3 8 Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir 1:03.82 41 1 2 Aviv Barzelay 1:04.01 42 1 5 Vilma Ruotsalainen 1:04.41 43 1 6 Weronika Górecka 1:04.82 44 1 1 Sezin Eliguel 1:04.85 45 1 8 Fjorda Shabani 1:05.87 46 2 9 Arina Baikova 1:06.63 47 1 0 Eda Zeqiri 1:09.75 — 2 7 Jenna Laukkanen Did not start 5 0 Alicja Tchórz

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 6 August at 17:13.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Anastasia Zuyeva 59.38 Q 2 5 Georgia Davies 59.97 Q 3 3 Kira Toussaint 1:00.02 Q 4 7 Mathilde Cini 1:00.18 5 2 Simona Baumrtová 1:00.49 6 1 Laura Riedemann 1:00.53 7 6 Mimosa Jallow 1:00.83 8 8 Theodora Drakou 1:01.82

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 Katinka Hosszú 59.67 Q 2 3 Carlotta Zofkova 59.88 Q 3 5 Mie Nielsen 59.89 Q 4 4 Margherita Panziera 59.90 Q 5 2 Katalin Burián 1:00.01 Q 6 1 Daria Ustinova 1:00.56 7 7 Kathleen Dawson 1:00.57 8 8 Tessa Vermeulen 1:00.98

Final The final was started on 7 August at 16:55.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Anastasia Fesikova 59.19 7 Georgia Davies 59.36 3 Carlotta Zofkova 59.61 4 5 Katinka Hosszú 59.64 5 2 Margherita Panziera 59.71 6 6 Mie Nielsen 59.93 7 1 Katalin Burián 1:00.05 8 8 Kira Toussaint 1:00.14

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