Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

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Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
DatesMay 26, 2012 (heats and semifinals)
May 27, 2012 (final)
Competitors48 from 26 nations
Winning time21.80
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of France.svg  France
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
2014  

The men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 26 and 27. The heats and semifinals took place on May 26, the final on May 27. [1]

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Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record César Cielo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 20.91 São Paulo December 18, 2009
European record Frédérick Bousquet Flag of France.svg  France 20.94 Montpellier April 26, 2009
Championship record Frédérick Bousquet Flag of France.svg  France 21.36 Budapest August 14, 2010

Results

Heats

53 swimmers participated in 7 heats. [2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
174 Frédérick Bousquet Flag of France.svg  France 22.29Q
265 Marco Orsi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 22.30Q
364 Alain Bernard Flag of France.svg  France 22.31Q
455 Stefan Nystrand Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 22.33Q
561 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 22.38Q, NR
666 Andrea Rolla Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 22.39Q
775 Krisztián Takács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 22.40Q
873 Andriy Govorov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 22.41Q
977 Dominik Kozma Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 22.43Q
1052 Norbert Trandafir Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 22.45Q, =NR
1156 Lucio Spadaro Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 22.50
1244 Kristian Golomeev Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 22.54Q
1354 Amaury Leveaux Flag of France.svg  France 22.61
1476 Marco di Carli Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22.66Q
1558 Flori Lang Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 22.70Q
1668 Filip Wypych Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 22.70Q
1767 Jasper Aerents Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 22.75Q
1862 Oleg Tikhobaev Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22.79Q
1971 Petter Stymne Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 22.81
2053 Vitaly Syrnikov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22.82
2138 Ivan Levaj Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 22.87
2243 Mario Todorović Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 22.89
2372 Steffen Deibler Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22.89
2447 Árni Már Árnason Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 22.91
2557 Yoris Grandjean Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 22.91
2648 Fotios Koliopoulos Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 22.93
2778 Christoph Fildebrandt Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22.93
2833 Boris Stojanović Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 22.98
2951 Duje Draganja Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 23.00
3045 Alexandre Escudier Agostinho Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 23.08
3134 Aurelien Künzi Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 23.11
3236 Roman Kucik Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 23.13
3341 Pjotr Degtjarjov Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 23.13
3442 Mindaugas Sadauskas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 23.21
3531 Uvis Kalnins Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 23.26
3612 Alon Mandel Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 23.31
3735 Martin Spitzer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 23.32
3837 Simonas Bilis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 23.33
3926 Richárd Bohus Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 23.33
4028 Viktar Vabishchevich Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 23.42
4123 Arseni Kukharau Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 23.47
4216 Viacheslav Andrusenko Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 23.67
4322 Justinas Bilis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 23.68
4427 Tadas Duškinas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 23.75
4515 Evgheni Coroliuc Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 23.77
4614 Hedin Olsen Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg  Faroe Islands 24.18
4721 Matej Kuchar Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 24.41
4813 Matti Mattsson Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 24.87
24 Martin Verner Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic DNS
25 Aleksander Hetland Flag of Norway.svg  Norway DNS
32 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or Flag of Israel.svg  Israel DNS
46 Tiago Venâncio Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal DNS
63 Ioannis Kalargaris Flag of Greece.svg  Greece DNS

Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final. [3]

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15 Stefan Nystrand Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 22.06Q
26 Andriy Govorov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 22.20Q
34 Marco Orsi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 22.22Q
42 Norbert Trandafir Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 22.33Q, NR
57 Marco di Carli Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22.43
63 Andrea Rolla Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 22.44
78 Oleg Tikhobaev Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22.53
81 Filip Wypych Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 22.55

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Frédérick Bousquet Flag of France.svg  France 22.22Q
23 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 22.24Q, NR
35 Alain Bernard Flag of France.svg  France 22.26Q
47 Kristian Golomeev Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 22.37Q
56 Krisztián Takács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 22.40
68 Jasper Aerents Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 22.49
72 Dominik Kozma Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 22.51
81 Flori Lang Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 22.59

Final

The final was held at 17:05. [4]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg6 Frédérick Bousquet Flag of France.svg  France 21.80
Silver medal icon.svg4 Stefan Nystrand Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 22.04
Bronze medal icon.svg5 Andriy Govorov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 22.18
42 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 22.22 NR
43 Marco Orsi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 22.22
48 Kristian Golomeev Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 22.22
77 Alain Bernard Flag of France.svg  France 22.24
81 Norbert Trandafir Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 22.65

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