The Women's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 8 and 9 August 2018.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordLilly King29.40Budapest25 July 2017European recordRūta Meilutytė29.48Barcelona3 August 2013Championship recordRūta Meilutytė29.88Berlin23 August 2014

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 8 August Semifinal Yuliya Yefimova 29.66 CR

Results Heats The heats were started on 8 August at 09:51.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Yuliya Yefimova 30.20 Q 2 5 5 Arianna Castiglioni30.30 Q 3 3 4 Imogen Clark30.40 Q 4 3 5 Natalia Ivaneeva30.60 Q 5 4 4 Rūta Meilutytė30.73 Q 5 4 5 Sarah Vasey30.73 Q 7 3 6 Sophie Hansson30.79 Q 8 3 3 Martina Carraro30.87 Q 9 4 3 Jenna Laukkanen31.03 Q 10 5 6 Mona McSharry31.09 Q 11 5 3 Ida Hulkko31.11 Q 12 5 2 Anna Sztankovics31.15 Q 13 4 6 Veera Kivirinta31.26 14 4 7 Matilde Schrøder31.32 Q 15 4 8 Tatiana Chișca31.40 Q 16 5 7 Fanny Lecluyse31.43 Q 17 3 7 Rikke Møller Pedersen31.44 Q 18 3 8 Jessica Eriksson31.77 19 5 8 Fanny Deberghes31.80 20 4 2 Jessica Vall31.86 21 3 9 Maria Romanjuk32.00 22 5 9 Kotryna Teterevkova32.01 23 2 6 Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş32.05 24 5 1 Weronika Hallmann32.08 25 2 5 Elena Guttmann32.11 25 3 2 Tes Schouten32.11 27 2 7 Anna Wermuth32.26 28 3 1 Susann Bjørnsen32.30 29 4 1 Alina Zmushka32.32 30 5 0 Petra Chocová32.35 31 2 3 Lisa Mamie32.48 31 1 3 Cornelia Pammer32.48 33 4 0 Tina Čelik32.65 34 2 4 Tjaša Vozel32.70 35 4 9 Vitalina Simonova32.77 36 2 8 Alina Bulmag32.80 37 1 4 Sara Staudinger32.89 38 1 5 Nikoleta Trníková32.98 39 2 1 Maria Harutjunjan33.04 40 2 2 Nikoletta Pavlopoulou33.08 41 3 0 Andrea Podmaníková33.32 42 2 9 Stina Colleou33.62 43 2 0 Thea Blomsterberg33.74

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 8 August at 17:25.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Rūta Meilutytė 30.38 Q 2 4 Arianna Castiglioni 30.40 Q 3 5 Natalia Ivaneeva 30.56 Q 4 6 Martina Carraro 30.70 Q 5 7 Anna Sztankovics 31.34 6 2 Mona McSharry 31.45 7 1 Tatiana Chișca 31.51 8 8 Rikke Møller Pedersen 31.70

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Yuliya Yefimova 29.66 Q, CR 2 5 Imogen Clark 30.04 Q 3 7 Ida Hulkko 30.53 Q 4 6 Sophie Hansson 30.72 Q 5 3 Sarah Vasey 31.02 6 2 Jenna Laukkanen 31.18 7 1 Matilde Schrøder 31.55 8 8 Fanny Lecluyse 31.57

Final The final was started on 9 August at 16:55.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Yuliya Yefimova 29.81 5 Imogen Clark 30.34 6 Arianna Castiglioni 30.41 4 3 Rūta Meilutytė 30.46 5 2 Ida Hulkko 31.02 6 1 Martina Carraro 31.11 7 7 Natalia Ivaneeva 31.19 8 8 Sophie Hansson 31.23

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