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

Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 50 metre backstroke ; at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 23, 2012 (heats and semifinals); May 24, 2012 (final)
Competitors	43 from 25 nations
Winning time	24.73
Medalists

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]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.04	Rome	August 2, 2009
Championship record	Camille Lacourt	France	24.07	Budapest	August 12, 2010

Results

Heats

43 swimmers participated in 6 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	3	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	25.18	Q
2	6	5	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	25.24	Q
3	6	6	Dorian Gandin	France	25.40	Q
4	6	4	Guy Barnea	Israel	25.44	Q
5	4	5	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	25.46	Q
6	6	2	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	25.49	Q, NR
7	4	7	Christian Diener	Germany	25.52	Q
8	5	3	Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio	Italy	25.59	Q
9	5	4	Helge Meeuw	Germany	25.62	Q
10	5	7	Lavrans Solli	Norway	25.67	Q, NR
11	5	6	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	25.68	Q
12	4	3	Juan Miguel Rando Galvez	Spain	25.71	Q
13	5	5	Vitaly Borisov	Russia	25.78	Q
14	6	1	David Gamburg	Israel	25.86
15	4	6	Karl Burdis	Ireland	25.87	Q
16	5	8	Alexis Manacas Santos	Portugal	25.88	Q, NR
17	4	4	Flori Lang	Switzerland	25.94	Q
18	6	7	Matteo Milli	Italy	25.99
19	5	2	Sebastiano Ranfagni	Italy	26.06
20	3	6	Jonathan Massacand	Switzerland	26.13
21	3	4	Jakub Jasiński	Poland	26.24
22	3	2	Martin Zhelev	Bulgaria	26.26	NR
23	4	1	Olexandr Isakov	Ukraine	26.30
24	2	5	Martin Baďura	Czech Republic	26.31	NR
25	3	5	Ádám Szilágyi	Hungary	26.32
25	6	8	Gábor Balog	Hungary	26.32
27	1	4	Itai Chammha	Israel	26.34
28	4	2	Andres Olvik	Estonia	26.41
29	2	6	Mikhail Zvyagin	Russia	26.43
30	2	3	Konstantīns Blohins	Latvia	26.47
31	5	1	Roko Šimunić	Croatia	26.48
32	3	8	Matas Andriekus	Lithuania	26.51
33	2	7	Pavels Vilcans	Latvia	26.61
34	3	1	Sasa Gerbec	Croatia	26.63
35	4	8	Mateusz Wysoczynski	Poland	26.64
36	2	4	Dominik Dür	Austria	26.69
37	2	8	Justinas Bilis	Lithuania	26.98
38	2	2	Jean-François Schneiders	Luxembourg	27.00
39	1	5	Petar Petrović	Serbia	27.04
39	3	3	Mindaugas Sadauskas	Lithuania	27.04
41	2	1	Lukas Räuftlin	Switzerland	27.22
42	3	7	Péter Bernek	Hungary	28.34
43	1	3	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland	28.53

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	24.98	Q
2	5	Guy Barnea	Israel	25.29	Q
3	3	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	25.36	Q, NR
4	2	Lavrans Solli	Norway	25.40	Q, NR
5	6	Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio	Italy	25.54
6	8	Flori Lang	Switzerland	25.75
7	1	Karl Burdis	Ireland	25.78
8	7	Juan Miguel Rando Galvez	Spain	25.88

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	25.23	Q
2	3	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	25.29	Q
3	7	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	25.36	Q, NR
4	5	Dorian Gandin	France	25.39	Q
5	6	Christian Diener	Germany	25.51
6	1	Vitaly Borisov	Russia	25.70
7	2	Helge Meeuw	Germany	25.78
8	8	Alexis Manacas Santos	Portugal	26.01

Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	24.73
	5	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	24.95
	1	Dorian Gandin	France	25.14
	3	Guy Barnea	Israel	25.14
	7	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	25.14	NR
6	2	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	25.25	NR
7	8	Lavrans Solli	Norway	25.28	NR
8	6	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	25.46

References

^ "Men's 50 Metre Backstroke – Entry list" (PDF). Omega Timing. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
^ "Men's 50 Metre Backstroke – Heats results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 23 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
^ "Men's 50 Metre Backstroke – Semifinals results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 23 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
^ "Men's 50 Metre Backstroke – Final results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 24 May 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.

[1] "Men's 50 Metre Backstroke – Entry list" (PDF). Omega Timing. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.

[2] "Men's 50 Metre Backstroke – Heats results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 23 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.

[3] "Men's 50 Metre Backstroke – Semifinals results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 23 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.

[4] "Men's 50 Metre Backstroke – Final results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 24 May 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.

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