Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke ; at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 23, 2012 (heats and semifinals); May 24, 2012 (final)
Competitors	45 from 25 nations
Winning time	1:00.08
Medalists

The women's 100 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	Gemma Spofforth	Great Britain	58.12	Rome	July 28, 2009
Championship record	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	59.41	Eindhoven	March 21, 2008

Results

Heats

45 swimmers participated in 6 heats.[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Arianna Barbieri	Italy	1:00.26	Q, NR
2	5	6	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	1:00.76	Q
3	6	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	1:00.98	Q
4	6	5	Jenny Mensing	Germany	1:01.23	Q
5	4	4	Duane da Rocha Marce	Spain	1:01.28	Q
6	4	3	Ekaterina Avramova	Bulgaria	1:01.38	Q
7	5	3	Elena Gemo	Italy	1:01.43
8	4	6	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	1:01.44	Q, NR
9	6	3	Cloe Credeville	France	1:01.49	Q
10	6	7	Lisa Graf	Germany	1:01.61	Q
11	5	4	Alexianne Castel	France	1:01.65	Q
12	5	5	Mercedes Peris	Spain	1:01.78	Q
13	5	2	Alicja Tchorz	Poland	1:02.27	Q
14	5	1	Eszter Povázsay	Hungary	1:02.38	Q
15	6	1	Klaudia Nazieblo	Poland	1:02.64	Q
16	5	8	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	1:02.75	Q
17	4	1	Hazal Sarikaya	Turkey	1:02.82	Q
18	3	6	Uschi Halbreiner	Austria	1:02.97
19	3	4	Iryna Glavnyk	Ukraine	1:03.10
20	5	7	Annemarie Worst	Netherlands	1:03.12
21	4	7	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	1:03.30	NR
22	4	2	Melanie Nocher	Ireland	1:03.42
23	2	5	Alzbeta Rehorková	Czech Republic	1:03.58
23	6	8	Ivana Gabrilo	Switzerland	1:03.58
25	6	2	Therese Svendsen	Sweden	1:03.80
26	3	3	Klára Václavíková	Czech Republic	1:03.95
27	2	3	Anni Alitalo	Finland	1:04.14
28	3	5	Anna Volchkov	Israel	1:04.20
29	3	2	Fabienne Nadarajah	Austria	1:04.50
30	2	6	Lotta Nevalainen	Finland	1:04.51
31	2	1	Gizem Cam	Turkey	1:04.68
32	3	1	Katarína Milly	Slovakia	1:04.69
33	2	8	Tatiana Perstniova	Moldova	1:04.71
34	2	7	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	1:04.85
35	2	4	Veronica Orheim Bjørlykke	Norway	1:04.99
36	3	8	Dorina Szekeres	Hungary	1:05.02
37	1	2	Johanna Gerda Gustafsdottir	Iceland	1:05.38
38	2	2	Desiree Felner	Austria	1:05.50
39	1	5	Mònica Ramirez Abella	Andorra	1:05.77
40	1	3	Valeria Mihhailova	Estonia	1:06.47
41	1	4	Karin Tomecková	Slovakia	1:06.89
42	1	6	Birita Debes	Faroe Islands	1:07.21
	3	7	Katarzyna Gorniak	Poland	DSQ
	4	8	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	DSQ
	6	6	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	DSQ

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Alexianne Castel	France	1:00.48
2	5	Jenny Mensing	Germany	1:00.58	Q
3	4	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	1:01.00	Q
4	6	Cloe Credeville	France	1:01.44	Q
5	3	Ekaterina Avramova	Bulgaria	1:01.48	Q
6	7	Alicja Tchorz	Poland	1:02.33
7	1	Klaudia Nazieblo	Poland	1:02.51
8	8	Hazal Sarikaya	Turkey	1:02.98

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	1:00.45	Q
2	4	Arianna Barbieri	Italy	1:00.52	Q
3	3	Duane da Rocha Marce	Spain	1:00.56	Q
4	6	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	1:00.88	Q, NR
5	7	Mercedes Peris	Spain	1:01.71
6	2	Lisa Graf	Germany	1:02.05
7	8	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	1:02.47
8	1	Eszter Povázsay	Hungary	1:02.74

Final

The final was held at 17:53.[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Jenny Mensing	Germany	1:00.08
	5	Arianna Barbieri	Italy	1:00.54
	2	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	1:00.57	NR
4	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	1:00.59
5	3	Duane da Rocha Marce	Spain	1:00.89
6	7	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	1:01.01
7	8	Ekaterina Avramova	Bulgaria	1:01.48
8	1	Cloe Credeville	France	1:01.54

References

2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre backstroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.
2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre backstroke Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.
2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre backstroke Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.
2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre backstroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.

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[1] 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre backstroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.

[2] 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre backstroke Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

[3] 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre backstroke Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

[4] 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre backstroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.

2012 European Aquatics Championships

Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Team	team
Synchronised swimming
Individual	Solo	Duet