Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 11 and 12 August 2022.

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	11 August (heats and semifinals) 12 August (final)
Competitors	46 from 24 nations
Winning time	58.26
Medalists
Nicolò Martinenghi   Italy   Federico Poggio   Italy   Andrius Šidlauskas   Lithuania

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	56.88	Gwangju	21 July 2019
Championship record			57.10	Glasgow	4 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 11 August at 09:58.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	59.08	Q
2	5	4	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	59.32	Q
3	3	5	Federico Poggio	Italy	59.49	Q
4	5	2	Valentin Bayer	Austria	59.76	Q, NR
5	5	5	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	1:00.17	Q
6	3	6	Simone Cerasuolo	Italy	1:00.51
7	3	4	James Wilby	Great Britain	1:00.62	Q
8	5	3	Matti Mattsson	Finland	1:00.68	Q
9	4	6	Andrea Castello	Italy	1:00.72
10	4	2	Darragh Greene	Ireland	1:00.75	Q
11	4	5	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	1:00.83	Q
12	3	3	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	1:00.86	Q
13	3	2	Volodymyr Lisovets	Ukraine	1:00.88	Q
14	5	1	Antoine Viquerat	France	1:00.90	Q
15	4	1	Dawid Wiekiera	Poland	1:01.09	Q
16	5	6	Gregory Butler	Great Britain	1:01.11	Q
17	4	8	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	1:01.20	Q
18	5	7	Kristian Pitshugin	Israel	1:01.34	QSO
18	5	0	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	1:01.34	QSO
20	4	7	Daniel Räisänen	Sweden	1:01.35
21	5	8	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	1:01.38
22	3	1	Tonislav Sabev	Bulgaria	1:01.39
23	2	2	Maksym Ovchinnikov	Ukraine	1:01.42
24	4	3	Eoin Corby	Ireland	1:01.47
25	3	8	Carl Aitkaci	France	1:01.63
25	3	7	Jan Kozakiewicz	Poland	1:01.63
27	4	9	Arkadios Aspougalis	Greece	1:01.93
28	2	7	Olli Kokko	Finland	1:01.94
29	2	4	Christoffer Haarsaker	Norway	1:02.39
30	5	9	Luka Mladenovic	Austria	1:02.46
31	2	5	Bartosz Skóra	Poland	1:02.57
32	2	8	David Kyzymenko	Ukraine	1:02.59
33	2	3	Uroš Živanović	Serbia	1:03.00
34	3	0	Aleksas Savickas	Lithuania	1:03.04
34	4	0	Savvas Thomoglou	Greece	1:03.04
36	3	9	Maksym Tkachuk	Ukraine	1:03.07
37	2	0	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	1:03.21
38	1	6	Emil Hassling	Sweden	1:03.31
39	2	9	Constantin Malachi	Moldova	1:03.36
40	2	6	Panayiotis Panaretos	Cyprus	1:03.42
41	1	5	Giacomo Casadei	San Marino	1:03.90
42	1	4	Denis Svet	Moldova	1:03.98
43	1	3	Luka Eradze	Georgia	1:05.75
44	2	1	Jørgen Bråthen	Norway	1:08.45
45	1	2	Even Qarri	Albania	1:09.19
46	1	7	Endi Kola	Albania	1:12.67

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 11 August at 11:12.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	1:00.63	Q, NR
2	4	Kristian Pitshugin	Israel	1:00.99

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 11 August at 18:35.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	58.44	Q
2	1	4	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	59.29	Q
3	2	3	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	59.45	Q
4	1	5	Valentin Bayer	Austria	59.59	Q, NR
5	2	5	Federico Poggio	Italy	59.66	q
6	1	2	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	1:00.08	q
7	2	2	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	1:00.18	q
8	1	3	James Wilby	Great Britain	1:00.26	q
9	2	1	Dawid Wiekiera	Poland	1:00.49
10	1	7	Antoine Viquerat	France	1:00.61
11	2	6	Matti Mattsson	Finland	1:00.64
12	1	8	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	1:00.84
13	2	8	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	1:01.02
14	2	7	Volodymyr Lisovets	Ukraine	1:01.21
15	1	1	Gregory Butler	Great Britain	1:01.25
16	1	6	Darragh Greene	Ireland	1:01.39

Final

The final was held on 12 August at 18:18.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	58.26	=NR
	2	Federico Poggio	Italy	58.98
	3	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	59.50
4	6	Valentin Bayer	Austria	59.54	NR
4	8	James Wilby	Great Britain	59.54
6	1	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	59.64
7	5	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	59.68
8	7	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	1:00.12