Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	4 August (heats and semifinals) 5 August (final)
Competitors	48 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:05.53
Medalists
Yuliya Yefimova    Russia   Rūta Meilutytė    Lithuania   Arianna Castiglioni    Italy

The Women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 4 and 5 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	Lilly King	United States	1:04.13	Budapest	25 July 2017
European record	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:04.35	Barcelona	29 July 2013
Championship record	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:06.16	London	17 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
4 August	Semifinal	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:05.87	CR
5 August	Final	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:05.53	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 4 August at 09:50.[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:06.89	Q
2	4	5	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	1:07.13	Q
3	5	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:07.25	Q
4	4	3	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	1:07.32	Q
5	3	4	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:07.53	Q
6	4	6	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	1:07.62	Q
7	4	7	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	1:07.70	Q
8	5	6	Martina Carraro	Italy	1:07.83	Q
9	3	3	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	1:07.90	Q
10	3	6	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	1:07.92	Q
11	5	0	Anna Sztankovics	Hungary	1:08.05	Q
12	3	7	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	1:08.17	Q
13	5	8	Imogen Clark	Great Britain	1:08.41	Q
14	4	8	Ida Hulkko	Finland	1:08.48	Q
15	3	5	Mona McSharry	Ireland	1:08.53	Q
15	3	8	Matilde Schrøder	Denmark	1:08.53	Q
15	5	5	Sarah Vasey	Great Britain	1:08.53
18	4	2	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	1:08.56
18	5	3	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	1:08.56
20	3	2	Natalia Ivaneeva	Russia	1:08.64
21	5	2	Jessica Steiger	Germany	1:08.88
22	1	4	Anna Wermuth	Denmark	1:08.93
23	5	7	Chloé Tutton	Great Britain	1:08.94
24	2	5	Jessica Eriksson	Sweden	1:08.99
25	3	1	Fanny Deberghes	France	1:09.11
26	5	9	Lisa Mamié	Switzerland	1:09.14
27	4	0	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	1:09.18
28	5	1	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	1:09.22
29	4	1	Weronika Hallmann	Poland	1:09.28
30	2	6	Tatiana Chișca	Moldova	1:09.31	NR
31	2	1	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	1:09.44
32	3	0	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	1:09.70
33	2	3	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	1:09.87
34	2	2	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	1:09.91
35	2	7	Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary	1:10.21
36	1	6	Alina Bulmag	Moldova	1:10.35
36	1	2	Cornelia Pammer	Austria	1:10.35
38	1	3	Nikoletta Pavlopoulou	Greece	1:10.49
39	2	0	Stina Kajsa Colleou	Norway	1:10.78
40	1	5	Sara Staudinger	Switzerland	1:10.96
41	2	8	Raquel Pereira	Portugal	1:11.22
42	3	9	Tina Čelik	Slovenia	1:11.44
43	2	4	Elena Guttmann	Austria	1:11.53
44	1	1	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	1:11.80
44	1	7	Lea Polonsky	Israel	1:11.80
46	1	8	Maria Harutjunjan	Estonia	1:11.97
47	2	9	Veera Kivirinta	Finland	1:12.00
48	4	9	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	1:12.18

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 4 August at 17:31.[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	1:06.99	Q
2	4	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	1:07.01	Q
3	3	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	1:07.58	Q
4	6	Martina Carraro	Italy	1:07.71	Q
5	2	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	1:07.90
6	7	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	1:07.95
7	1	Ida Hulkko	Finland	1:08.04
8	8	Mona McSharry	Ireland	1:08.40

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:05.87	Q, CR
2	3	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:07.08	Q
3	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:07.16	Q
4	6	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	1:07.61	Q
5	2	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	1:07.96
6	1	Imogen Clark	Great Britain	1:08.36
7	7	Anna Sztankovics	Hungary	1:08.59
8	8	Matilde Schrøder	Denmark	1:08.76

Final

The final was held on 5 August at 17:25.[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:05.53	CR
	2	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:06.26
	3	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	1:06.54
4	6	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:06.98
5	5	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor	Great Britain	1:07.30
6	7	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	1:07.55
7	8	Martina Carraro	Italy	1:07.59
8	1	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	1:07.67

References

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