Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 7 and 8 August 2018.

Men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	7 August (heats and semifinals) 8 August (final)
Competitors	53 from 28 nations
Winning time	26.09
Medalists
Adam Peaty   Great Britain   Fabio Scozzoli   Italy   Peter John Stevens   Slovenia

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	25.95	Budapest	25 July 2017
Championship record	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.62	Berlin	22 August 2014

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
7 August	Heat	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.50	CR
7 August	Semifinal	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.23	CR
8 August	Final	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.09	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 7 August at 09:14.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.50	Q, CR
2	5	4	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	27.04	Q
3	6	5	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	27.09	Q
4	6	3	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	27.12	Q
5	5	5	Ties Elzerman	Netherlands	27.16	Q
6	5	3	Alessandro Pinzuti	Italy	27.17	Q
7	4	4	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	27.21	Q
7	6	6	Peter John Stevens	Slovenia	27.21	Q
9	3	3	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	27.27	Q
9	4	5	Johannes Skagius	Sweden	27.27	Q
11	4	2	James Wilby	Great Britain	27.44
12	6	2	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	27.49	Q
13	6	1	Nikola Obrovac	Croatia	27.62	Q
14	5	7	Darragh Greene	Ireland	27.66	Q
14	4	0	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	27.66	Q
16	4	6	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	27.71	Q
17	6	8	Ioannis Karpouzlis	Greece	27.74	Q
18	6	7	Emre Sakçı	Turkey	27.76
19	5	6	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	27.78
20	5	2	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	27.79
21	6	9	Tobias Bjerg	Denmark	27.84
22	5	9	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	27.85
23	5	8	Marek Botík	Slovakia	27.89
23	4	3	Oleg Kostin	Russia	27.89
25	6	0	Luca Pizzini	Italy	27.93
26	4	9	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	28.03
27	4	7	Alex Murphy	Ireland	28.09
27	3	6	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	28.09
29	3	4	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	28.28
30	3	5	William Wihanto	Finland	28.30
31	3	8	Valentin Bayer	Austria	28.33
32	5	0	Lachezar Shumkov	Bulgaria	28.40
33	2	5	Bartłomiej Roguski	Poland	28.43
34	5	1	Itay Goldfaden	Israel	28.47
35	2	6	Mikhail Dorinov	Russia	28.51
36	3	2	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	28.54
36	1	5	Ivan Strilets	Ukraine	28.54
38	1	4	Mykyta Kopytelov	Ukraine	28.65
39	3	7	Demir Atasoy	Turkey	28.69
40	4	8	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland	28.71
41	3	0	Filipp Provorkov	Estonia	28.77
42	2	4	Berkay Öğretir	Turkey	28.90
43	2	3	Teemu Vuorela	Finland	28.93
44	2	2	Jozef Beňo	Slovakia	28.95
45	2	7	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	28.99
46	3	1	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	29.03
47	1	6	Andri Aedma	Estonia	29.34
48	2	8	Johannes Dietrich	Austria	29.49
49	2	0	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	29.63
50	2	1	Oktaycan Emirbayer	Turkey	29.72
51	3	9	Oleksandr Karpenko	Ukraine	29.79
52	1	3	Michael Stafrace	Malta	30.03
53	1	2	Deni Baholli	Albania	31.43
	2	9	Jacques Laeuffer	Switzerland	Did not start
	4	1	Marcin Stolarski	Poland

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 7 August at 17:18.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	26.80	Q
2	5	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	26.99	Q, NR
3	6	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	27.17	Q
4	3	Alessandro Pinzuti	Italy	27.32
5	2	Johannes Skagius	Sweden	27.39
6	1	Darragh Greene	Ireland	27.44
7	7	Nikola Obrovac	Croatia	27.75
8	8	Ioannis Karpouzlis	Greece	27.97

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.23	Q, CR
2	6	Peter John Stevens	Slovenia	27.08	Q
3	5	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	27.09	Q
4	3	Ties Elzerman	Netherlands	27.15	Q
5	7	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	27.16	Q
6	2	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	27.39
7	1	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	27.47
8	8	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	27.72

Final

The final was started on 8 August at 16:48.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	26.09	CR
	5	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	26.79
	6	Peter John Stevens	Slovenia	27.06
4	8	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	27.18
5	3	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	27.20
6	7	Ties Elzerman	Netherlands	27.24
7	1	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	27.29
8	2	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	27.32