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

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Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
DatesMay 23, 2012 (heats and semifinals)
May 24, 2012 (final)
Competitors43 from 25 nations
Winning time24.73
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Israel.svg  Israel
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of France.svg  France
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Israel.svg  Israel
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary

The men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, the final on May 24. [1]

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Records

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

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record
European record
Liam Tancock Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 24.04 Rome August 2, 2009
Championship record Camille Lacourt Flag of France.svg  France 24.07 Budapest August 12, 2010

Results

Heats

43 swimmers participated in 6 heats. [2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
163 Mirco Di Tora Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 25.18Q
265 Jonatan Kopelev Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 25.24Q
366 Dorian Gandin Flag of France.svg  France 25.40Q
464 Guy Barnea Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 25.44Q
545 Aristeidis Grigoriadis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 25.46Q
662 Pavel Sankovich Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 25.49Q, NR
747 Christian Diener Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 25.52Q
853 Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 25.59Q
954 Helge Meeuw Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 25.62Q
1057 Lavrans Solli Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 25.67Q, NR
1156 Richárd Bohus Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 25.68Q
1243 Juan Miguel Rando Galvez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 25.71Q
1355 Vitaly Borisov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 25.78Q
1461 David Gamburg Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 25.86
1546 Karl Burdis Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 25.87Q
1658 Alexis Manacas Santos Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 25.88Q, NR
1744 Flori Lang Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 25.94Q
1867 Matteo Milli Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 25.99
1952 Sebastiano Ranfagni Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 26.06
2036 Jonathan Massacand Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 26.13
2134 Jakub Jasiński Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 26.24
2232 Martin Zhelev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 26.26 NR
2341 Olexandr Isakov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 26.30
2425 Martin Baďura Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 26.31 NR
2535 Ádám Szilágyi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 26.32
2568 Gábor Balog Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 26.32
2714 Itai Chammha Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 26.34
2842 Andres Olvik Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 26.41
2926 Mikhail Zvyagin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 26.43
3023 Konstantīns Blohins Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 26.47
3151 Roko Šimunić Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 26.48
3238 Matas Andriekus Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 26.51
3327 Pavels Vilcans Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 26.61
3431 Sasa Gerbec Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 26.63
3548 Mateusz Wysoczynski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 26.64
3624 Dominik Dür Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 26.69
3728 Justinas Bilis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 26.98
3822 Jean-François Schneiders Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 27.00
3915 Petar Petrović Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 27.04
3933 Mindaugas Sadauskas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 27.04
4121 Lukas Räuftlin Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 27.22
4237 Péter Bernek Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 28.34
4313 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 28.53

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Jonatan Kopelev Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 24.98Q
25 Guy Barnea Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 25.29Q
33 Pavel Sankovich Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 25.36Q, NR
42 Lavrans Solli Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 25.40Q, NR
56 Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 25.54
68 Flori Lang Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 25.75
71 Karl Burdis Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 25.78
87 Juan Miguel Rando Galvez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 25.88

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Mirco Di Tora Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 25.23Q
23 Aristeidis Grigoriadis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 25.29Q
37 Richárd Bohus Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 25.36Q, NR
45 Dorian Gandin Flag of France.svg  France 25.39Q
56 Christian Diener Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 25.51
61 Vitaly Borisov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 25.70
72 Helge Meeuw Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 25.78
88 Alexis Manacas Santos Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 26.01

Final

The final was held at 18:19. [4]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Jonatan Kopelev Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 24.73
Silver medal icon.svg5 Mirco Di Tora Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 24.95
Bronze medal icon.svg1 Dorian Gandin Flag of France.svg  France 25.14
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Guy Barnea Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 25.14
Bronze medal icon.svg7 Richárd Bohus Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 25.14 NR
62 Pavel Sankovich Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 25.25 NR
78 Lavrans Solli Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 25.28 NR
86 Aristeidis Grigoriadis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 25.46

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