Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

Men's 50 metre breaststroke
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
VenueForo Italico
Dates15 August (heats and semifinals)
16 August (final)
Competitors46 from 23 nations
Winning time26.33
Medalists
gold medal Nicolò Martinenghi  Italy
silver medal Simone Cerasuolo  Italy
bronze medal Lucas Matzerath  Germany

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 15 and 16 August 2022.

Records

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

Name Nationality Time Location Date
World record
European record		 Adam Peaty Great Britain 25.95 Budapest 25 July 2017
Championship record 26.09 Glasgow 8 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 15 August at 09:12.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 4 Nicolò Martinenghi Italy 26.71 Q
2 3 4 Simone Cerasuolo Italy 26.85 Q
3 4 5 Fabio Scozzoli Italy 26.89
4 3 3 Federico Poggio Italy 27.07
5 3 5 Lucas Matzerath Germany 27.10 Q
6 4 4 Jan Kozakiewicz Poland 27.32 Q
7 5 6 Peter John Stevens Slovenia 27.38 Q
8 4 7 Volodymyr Lisovets Ukraine 27.41 Q
9 5 5 Bernhard Reitshammer Austria 27.42 Q
10 5 7 Olli Kokko Finland 27.46 Q
11 5 3 Kristian Pitshugin Israel 27.48 Q
12 4 6 Andrius Šidlauskas Lithuania 27.52 Q
13 5 0 Valentin Bayer Austria 27.57 Q
14 3 7 Tonislav Sabev Bulgaria 27.58 Q, NR
15 4 2 Arkadios Aspougalis Greece 27.62 Q
16 5 8 Carl Aitkaci France 27.75 Q
17 3 8 Bartosz Skóra Poland 27.81 Q
18 4 8 Antoine Viquerat France 27.87 Q
19 4 3 James Wilby Great Britain 27.93
20 3 1 Heiko Gigler Austria 28.00
21 5 2 Jørgen Bråthen Norway 28.01
22 3 2 Gregory Butler Great Britain 28.13
23 2 4 Darragh Greene Ireland 28.22
24 4 9 Daniel Räisänen Sweden 28.24
25 3 6 Nicholas Lia Norway 28.26
26 5 9 Eoin Corby Ireland 28.30
27 4 1 Konstantinos Meretsolias Greece 28.32
28 3 0 Maksym Ovchinnikov Ukraine 28.35
29 4 0 Christoffer Haarsaker Norway 28.38
30 2 3 Panayiotis Panaretos Cyprus 28.41
31 3 9 Lyubomir Epitropov Bulgaria 28.46
32 5 1 Uroš Živanović Serbia 28.47
33 1 5 Maksym Tkachuk Ukraine 28.80
34 2 7 Constantin Malachi Moldova 28.85
35 2 6 Markos Iakovidis Cyprus 28.88
36 1 4 Emil Hassling Sweden 28.89
37 1 6 David Kyzymenko Ukraine 28.91
38 2 1 Matěj Zábojník Czech Republic 28.97
39 2 5 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Finland 29.04
40 2 8 Luka Mladenovic Austria 29.06
41 1 3 Denis Svet Moldova 29.07
42 2 2 Savvas Thomoglou Greece 29.28
43 2 9 Aleksas Savickas Lithuania 29.55
44 1 2 Daniils Bobrovs Latvia 29.59
45 1 7 Luka Eradze Georgia 29.64
46 1 8 Raoul Stafrace Malta 29.97
1 1 Giacomo Casadei San Marino Did not start
2 0 Oskar Hoff Sweden

Semifinals

The semifinals were started at 18:29.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 4 Nicolò Martinenghi Italy 26.64 Q
2 1 4 Simone Cerasuolo Italy 26.86 Q
3 2 5 Lucas Matzerath Germany 27.16 Q
4 2 6 Bernhard Reitshammer Austria 27.19 q
5 2 3 Peter John Stevens Slovenia 27.27 q
6 2 7 Valentin Bayer Austria 27.34 q
6 1 3 Volodymyr Lisovets Ukraine 27.34 Q
8 1 6 Olli Kokko Finland 27.43 q
9 1 5 Jan Kozakiewicz Poland 27.50
10 2 1 Arkadios Aspougalis Greece 27.55
11 2 2 Kristian Pitshugin Israel 27.68
12 1 2 Andrius Šidlauskas Lithuania 27.70
13 1 1 Carl Aitkaci France 27.73
13 1 7 Tonislav Sabev Bulgaria 27.73
15 2 8 Bartosz Skóra Poland 27.77
16 1 8 Antoine Viquerat France 27.98

Final

The final was held at 18:12.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Nicolò Martinenghi Italy 26.33 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Simone Cerasuolo Italy 26.95
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Lucas Matzerath Germany 27.11
4 7 Valentin Bayer Austria 27.19
5 8 Olli Kokko Finland 27.26 NR
6 6 Bernhard Reitshammer Austria 27.29
7 1 Volodymyr Lisovets Ukraine 27.59
8 2 Peter John Stevens Slovenia 27.74