Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly

Men's 100 metre butterfly at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	8 August (heats and semifinals) 9 August (final)
Competitors	59 from 31 nations
Winning time	50.64
Medalists
Piero Codia    Italy   Mehdy Metella    France   James Guy    Great Britain
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The Men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 8 and 9 August 2018. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	49.82	Rome	1 August 2009
European record	Milorad Čavić	Serbia	49.95	Rome	1 Aug 2009
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	50.86	London	21 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
9 August	Final	Piero Codia	Italy	50.64	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 8 August at 09:35. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	5	Piero Codia	Italy	51.59	Q
2	6	4	James Guy	Great Britain	51.75	Q
3	7	3	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	51.84	Q
4	5	4	László Cseh	Hungary	51.92	Q
5	7	4	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	52.04	Q
6	5	5	Egor Kuimov	Russia	52.16	Q
7	7	5	Mehdy Metella	France	52.32	Q
8	5	6	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	52.42	Q
9	6	7	Mathys Goosen	Netherlands	52.48	Q
10	6	2	Marius Kusch	Germany	52.51	Q
11	7	6	Aleksandr Sadovnikov	Russia	52.53	Q
12	7	7	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	52.68	Q
13	5	2	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	52.69	Q
14	4	6	Liubomyr Lemeshko	Ukraine	52.71	Q
15	5	3	Philip Heintz	Germany	52.76	Q
16	6	3	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	52.83	Q
17	5	1	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	52.87
18	4	5	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	52.89
19	6	6	Federico Burdisso	Italy	52.90
20	7	1	Kaan Türker Ayar	Turkey	53.00
21	4	2	Jacob Peters	Great Britain	53.02
22	4	4	Deividas Margevičius	Lithuania	53.15
23	6	1	Ümitcan Güreş	Turkey	53.21
24	7	2	Andriy Khloptsov	Ukraine	53.22
25	5	8	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	53.37
25	4	3	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	53.37
27	7	9	Louis Croenen	Belgium	53.39
28	5	9	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	53.46
29	6	9	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	53.57
30	3	8	Daniel Zaitsev	Estonia	53.61
31	4	7	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	53.64
32	6	8	Pierre Henry	France	53.68
33	4	8	Nans Roch	France	53.71
34	5	7	Michal Chudy	Poland	53.81
35	3	6	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	53.83
35	7	8	Ramon Klenz	Germany	53.83
37	6	0	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	53.86
38	7	0	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	53.98
39	2	8	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	54.16
40	5	0	Marcus Schlesinger	Israel	54.19
41	4	1	Riku Poeytaekivi	Finland	54.20
42	4	0	Petr Novák	Czech Republic	54.39
43	2	2	Nikita Korolev	Russia	54.46
43	3	5	Niko Mäkelä	Finland	54.46
45	3	3	Bence Biczó	Hungary	54.53
46	2	5	Cevin Siim	Estonia	54.71
47	2	3	Ádám Halás	Slovakia	54.79
48	3	4	Berk Özkul	Turkey	54.85
49	2	6	Xaver Gschwentner	Austria	54.95
50	2	4	İlker Altınbilek	Turkey	55.01
51	3	2	Sergey Kuznetsov	Finland	55.19
52	2	7	Paul Espernberger	Austria	55.37
53	2	1	Filip Zelić	Croatia	55.41
54	3	7	Simon Bucher	Austria	55.42
55	3	0	Armin Lelle	Estonia	55.73
56	2	0	Teimuraz Kobakhidze	Georgia	56.01
57	3	1	Julien Henx	Luxembourg	58.16
58	1	3	Ruben Gharibyan	Armenia	1:02.02
59	1	4	Dijon Kadriju	Kosovo	1:02.55
	1	5	Teemu Vuorela	Finland	Did not start
	3	9	Markus Lie	Norway

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 8 August at 17:17. ^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	László Cseh	Hungary	51.65	Q
2	4	James Guy	Great Britain	51.78	Q
3	3	Egor Kuimov	Russia	51.95	Q
4	7	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	52.16
5	6	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	52.21
6	2	Marius Kusch	Germany	52.23
7	1	Liubomyr Lemeshko	Ukraine	52.34
8	8	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	53.23

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Aleksandr Sadovnikov	Russia	51.67	Q
2	5	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	51.74	Q
3	3	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	51.76	Q
4	6	Mehdy Metella	France	51.97	Q
5	4	Piero Codia	Italy	52.02	Q
6	8	Philip Heintz	Germany	52.41
7	2	Mathys Goosen	Netherlands	52.58
8	1	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	53.42

Final

The final was started on 9 August at 17:00. ^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8	Piero Codia	Italy	50.64	CR
	1	Mehdy Metella	France	51.24
	2	James Guy	Great Britain	51.42
4	6	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	51.51
5	7	Egor Kuimov	Russia	51.65
6	3	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	51.72
7	5	Aleksandr Sadovnikov	Russia	51.81
8	4	László Cseh	Hungary	51.84

References

1. Schedule
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Semifinals results
5. Final results