Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

Men's 50 metre breaststroke
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 50 metre breaststroke ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	20–21 May
Competitors	49 from 30 nations
Winning time	26.66
Medalists
	← 2014 2018 →

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.42	Kazan	4 August 2015
European record	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.42	Kazan	4 August 2015
Championship record	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.62	Berlin	22 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 20 May at 11:07.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.93	Q
2	5	3	Peter John Stevens	Slovenia	27.32	Q
3	4	4	Andrea Toniato	Italy	27.37	Q
4	4	5	Damir Dugonjič	Slovenia	27.49	Q
5	6	5	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	27.54	Q
6	6	6	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	27.57	Q
7	4	4	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	27.72	Q
8	4	6	Sami Aaltomaa	Finland	27.73	Q
9	5	5	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	27.74	Q
10	6	8	Petr Bartůněk	Czech Republic	27.79	Q
11	5	2	Johannes Skagius	Sweden	27.82	Q
12	6	3	Giacomo Perez-Dortona	France	27.84	Q
12	5	6	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	27.84	Q
14	4	2	Marek Botík	Slovakia	27.92	Q
15	5	7	Yaron Shagalov	Israel	27.93	Q
16	4	3	Alexander Murphy	Ireland	28.00	Q
17	6	9	Jørgen Bråthen	Norway	28.11
18	6	2	Martin Schweizer	Switzerland	28.15
19	6	7	Demir Atasoy	Turkey	28.17
20	3	5	Luchezar Shumkov	Bulgaria	28.21
21	5	1	Gábor Financsek	Hungary	28.22
22	4	9	Charlie Attwood	Great Britain	28.29
23	4	7	Nikolajs Maskaļenko	Latvia	28.33
24	6	0	Emre Sakçı	Turkey	28.42
25	4	1	Kristijan Tomić	Croatia	28.44
26	5	9	Lyubomir Agov	Bulgaria	28.56
26	5	8	Itay Goldfaden	Israel	28.56
28	4	0	Filipp Provorkov	Estonia	28.59
28	3	7	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	28.59
30	3	2	Théo Bussiere	France	28.60
31	4	8	Matěj Kuchar	Slovakia	28.66
32	2	4	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	28.70
33	5	0	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	28.76
34	3	0	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	28.85
35	3	3	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	28.94
36	2	5	Max Pilger	Germany	28.96
37	3	1	Mikhail Dorinov	Russia	29.01
38	3	6	Jolann Bovey	Switzerland	29.05
39	3	4	Martti Aljand	Estonia	29.06
40	3	9	Johannes Dietrich	Austria	29.12
41	2	6	Dimitrios Koulouris	Greece	29.14
42	2	1	Luca Pfyffer	Switzerland	29.31
43	2	3	Markos Kalopsidiotis	Cyprus	29.34
44	2	7	Omiros Zagkas	Cyprus	29.63
45	2	8	Tomas Veloso	Portugal	29.85
46	3	8	Dan Sweeney	Ireland	30.11
47	1	5	Berkay Şendikici	Turkey	30.24
48	1	4	Adi Mešetović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	30.50
49	1	3	Lum Zhaveli	Kosovo	30.85
	2	2	Sverre Næss	Norway	DNS
	6	1	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 20 May at 19:32.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	27.25	Q
2	4	Peter John Stevens	Slovenia	27.29	Q
3	5	Damir Dugonjič	Slovenia	27.46	Q
4	7	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	27.77
5	1	Marek Botík	Slovakia	27.78
6	6	Sami Aaltomaa	Finland	27.82
7	8	Alexander Murphy	Ireland	27.83
8	2	Petr Bartůněk	Czech Republic	27.89

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.66	Q
2	2	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	27.48	Q
3	5	Andrea Toniato	Italy	27.53	Q
4	3	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	27.56	Q
5	7	Johannes Skagius	Sweden	27.64	Q
6	6	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	27.71
7	1	Giacomo Perez-Dortona	France	27.87
8	8	Yaron Shagalov	Israel	28.11

Final

The final was on 21 May at 17:43.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.66
	3	Peter Stevens	Slovenia	27.09
	5	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	27.31
4	2	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	27.46
5	8	Johannes Skagius	Sweden	27.54
6	6	Damir Dugonjič	Slovenia	27.56
7	1	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	27.72
8	7	Andrea Toniato	Italy	27.79

References

[1] Entry list

[2] Start list

[3] Heats results

[4] Semifinals results

[5] Final results

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]