Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The Women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	19–20 August
Competitors	42 from 24 nations
Winning time	52.67
Medalists
Sarah Sjöström   Sweden   Femke Heemskerk   Netherlands   Michelle Coleman   Sweden

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Britta Steffen	Germany	52.07	Rome	31 July 2009
European record
Championship record	Britta Steffen	Germany	53.30	Budapest	2 August 2006

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:22.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	53.55	Q
2	5	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	53.66	Q
3	3	4	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	54.05	Q
4	5	5	Pernille Blume	Denmark	54.28	Q
5	3	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	54.45	Q
6	4	5	Veronika Popova	Russia	54.74	Q
7	3	5	Charlotte Bonnet	France	54.79	Q
8	4	6	Maud van der Meer	Netherlands	55.00	Q
9	5	3	Louise Hansson	Sweden	55.06
10	3	0	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	55.07	Q
11	5	8	Esmee Vermeulen	Netherlands	55.18
12	4	3	Erika Ferraioli	Italy	55.24	Q
13	3	2	Margarita Nesterova	Russia	55.31	Q
14	4	7	Fatima Gallardo	Spain	55.35	Q
15	5	1	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	55.49	Q
16	5	6	Arina Openysheva	Russia	55.52
17	5	2	Anna Santamans	France	55.58	Q
18	3	7	Giada Galizi	Italy	55.62	Q
19	3	8	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	55.68	Q
20	5	7	Birgit Koschischek	Austria	55.75
21	3	1	Julie Levisen	Denmark	55.76
22	5	0	Darya Stepanyuk	Ukraine	55.82
23	4	1	Rebecca Turner	Great Britain	55.88
24	4	2	Alice Mizzau	Italy	55.90
25	3	3	Mariya Baklakova	Russia	56.10
26	4	9	Shauna Lee	Great Britain	56.24
27	4	0	Ilse Kraaijeveld	Netherlands	56.29
28	4	8	Cloe Hache	France	56.64
29	2	5	Miroslava Najdanovski	Serbia	56.89
30	3	9	Anna Kolárová	Czech Republic	56.91
31	2	1	Keren Siebner	Israel	56.95
32	2	8	Katarina Simonović	Serbia	57.05
33	2	4	Magdalena Kuras	Sweden	57.16
34	2	6	Tess Grossmann	Estonia	57.24
35	2	0	Alina Vats	Ukraine	57.28
36	2	2	Noemi Girardet	Switzerland	57.37
37	1	5	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	57.46
38	1	3	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	57.68
39	2	3	Yuliya Khitraya	Belarus	57.78
40	2	9	Katharina Egger	Austria	58.55
41	2	7	Eva Gliožerytė	Lithuania	58.70
42	1	4	Monika Vasilyan	Armenia	1:00.47
—	5	9	Chiara Masini	Italy		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:11.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Pernille Blume	Denmark	54.26	Q
2	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	54.31	Q
3	3	Veronika Popova	Russia	54.58	Q
4	7	Fatima Gallardo	Spain	54.85	Q
5	6	Maud van der Meer	Netherlands	55.14
6	2	Erika Ferraioli	Italy	55.29
7	8	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	55.51
8	1	Anna Santamans	France	55.77

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	53.66	Q
2	5	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	54.15	Q
3	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	54.48
4	6	Charlotte Bonnet	France	54.90	Q
5	2	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	55.13	Q
6	7	Margarita Nesterova	Russia	55.32
7	8	Giada Galizi	Italy	55.60
8	1	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	55.61

Final

The final was held at 19:18.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	52.67	CR
	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	53.64
	5	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	53.75
4	3	Pernille Blume	Denmark	54.15
5	2	Veronika Popova	Russia	54.34
6	7	Fatima Gallardo	Spain	54.93
7	1	Charlotte Bonnet	France	54.96
8	8	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	55.46