Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 24 and 25. The heats and semifinals took place on May 24, the final on May 25.[1]

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 24, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 25, 2012 (final)
Competitors	59 from 31 nations
Winning time	48.77
Medalists
Filippo Magnini    Italy   Alain Bernard    France   Norbert Trandafir    Romania

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	César Cielo	Brazil	46.91	Rome	July 30, 2009
European record	Alain Bernard	France	47.12	Rome	July 30, 2009
Championship record	Alain Bernard	France	47.50	Eindhoven	March 22, 2008

Results

Heats

66 swimmers participated in 9 heats.[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	5	Amaury Leveaux	France	48.77	Q
2	9	4	Marco di Carli	Germany	48.81	Q
3	7	2	Norbert Trandafir	Romania	49.09	Q
4	9	2	Dieter Dekoninck	Belgium	49.12	Q
5	8	4	Filippo Magnini	Italy	49.24	Q
6	7	4	Alain Bernard	France	49.31	Q
7	9	1	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	49.37	Q
8	7	5	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	49.38	Q
9	9	8	Jasper Aerents	Belgium	49.39
10	9	7	Oleg Tikhobaev	Russia	49.51	Q
11	8	7	Emmanuel Vanluchene	Belgium	49.56
12	6	1	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	49.62	NR
13	8	3	Steffen Deibler	Germany	49.63	Q
14	6	6	Kemal Arda Gürdal	Turkey	49.64	Q, NR
15	7	3	Michele Santucci	Italy	49.66	Q
16	6	4	Mindaugas Sadauskas	Lithuania	49.74	Q
17	8	2	Vitaly Syrnikov	Russia	49.75	Q
18	8	1	Martin Verner	Czech Republic	49.83	Q
19	8	5	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	49.87	Q
20	3	3	Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece	49.89
21	9	6	Christoph Fildebrandt	Germany	49.92
22	6	5	Petter Stymne	Sweden	49.99
22	7	8	Krisztián Takács	Hungary	49.99
24	8	6	Andrea Rolla	Italy	50.13
25	6	8	Tiago Andre Venancio	Portugal	50.16
26	5	5	Uvis Kalnins	Latvia	50.23
27	5	1	Lars Frölander	Sweden	50.31
28	3	1	Filip Wypych	Poland	50.35
29	6	7	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	50.36
30	7	7	Craig Gibbons	Great Britain	50.49
31	6	3	Arseni Kukharau	Belarus	50.52
32	4	1	Pjotr Degtjarjov	Estonia	50.55
33	4	5	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland	50.62
34	4	6	Radovan Siljevski	Serbia	50.67
35	3	7	Viacheslav Andrusenko	Russia	50.69
35	4	7	Martin Spitzer	Austria	50.69
37	3	6	Ivan Levaj	Croatia	50.85
37	5	8	Aurelien Künzi	Switzerland	50.85
39	3	2	Gard Kvale	Norway	50.89
40	5	7	Daniel Rast	Switzerland	50.91
41	1	4	Fotios Koliopoulos	Greece	50.92
42	3	8	Radoslaw Bor	Poland	51.09
43	5	6	Pawel Werner	Poland	51.10
44	2	1	Evgheni Coroliuc	Moldova	51.14
45	3	4	Árni Már Árnason	Iceland	51.18
46	3	5	Boris Stojanović	Serbia	51.19
47	4	2	Simonas Bilis	Lithuania	51.21
48	5	4	Alexandre Escudier Agostinho	Portugal	51.27
49	5	2	Ioannis Kalargaris	Greece	51.44
50	4	3	Mario Alexandre Pereira	Portugal	51.58
51	2	4	Christian Scherübl	Austria	51.59
52	4	8	Luis Emanuel Vaz	Portugal	51.74
53	2	3	Balázs Zámbó	Hungary	52.51
54	2	5	Tadas Duškinas	Lithuania	52.60
55	2	6	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	52.97
56	2	7	Ole Martin Ree	Norway	53.08
57	1	5	Tal Hanani	Israel	53.32
58	1	3	Hedin Olsen	Faroe Islands	53.37	NR
59	2	2	Aleksandar Nikolov	Bulgaria	53.55
	4	4	Mattias Carlsson	Sweden	DNS
	5	3	Andriy Govorov	Ukraine	DNS
	6	2	Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or	Israel	DNS
	7	1	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	DNS
	7	6	Marco Orsi	Italy	DNS
	8	8	Flori Lang	Switzerland	DNS
	9	3	Markus Deibler	Germany	DNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Marco di Carli	Germany	48.96	Q
2	5	Dieter Dekoninck	Belgium	49.19	Q
3	6	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	49.21	Q
4	3	Alain Bernard	France	49.27	Q
5	7	Michele Santucci	Italy	49.47
5	8	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	49.47
7	2	Steffen Deibler	Germany	49.54
8	1	Vitaly Syrnikov	Russia	49.56

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Amaury Leveaux	France	48.52	Q
2	3	Filippo Magnini	Italy	48.84	Q
3	5	Norbert Trandafir	Romania	49.08	Q
4	6	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	49.45	Q
5	2	Oleg Tikhobaev	Russia	49.61
6	7	Kemal Arda Gürdal	Turkey	49.66
7	1	Mindaugas Sadauskas	Lithuania	49.86
8	8	Martin Verner	Czech Republic	50.03

Final

The final was held at 17:42.[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Filippo Magnini	Italy	48.77
	1	Alain Bernard	France	48.95
	6	Norbert Trandafir	Romania	49.13
4	4	Amaury Leveaux	France	49.16
5	8	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	49.17
6	3	Marco di Carli	Germany	49.18
7	7	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	49.19
8	2	Dieter Dekoninck	Belgium	49.42

References

1. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.
2. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.
3. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.
4. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-25.