Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The heats were started on 5 August at 09:56.[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	52.91	Q
2	5	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	53.01	Q
3	4	4	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	53.34
4	5	2	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.95	Q
5	6	5	Robert Glință	Romania	54.01	Q
6	5	5	Apostolos Christou	Greece	54.40	Q
7	6	7	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.44	Q
8	5	7	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	54.47	Q
9	4	5	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	54.57	Q
10	4	1	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	54.61	Q
11	4	6	Christian Diener	Germany	54.63	Q
12	5	9	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	54.65	Q
13	6	6	Shane Ryan	Ireland	54.67	Q
14	3	7	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	54.83	Q
15	5	6	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	54.85	Q
16	4	3	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	54.89	Q
16	4	8	Nicholas Pyle	Great Britain	54.89
18	4	7	Paul Bedel	France	54.92	Q
19	6	8	Maxence Orange	France	54.96
20	4	2	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	55.00
21	3	5	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	55.06
22	6	2	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	55.07
23	3	9	Ralf Tribuntsov	Estonia	55.09
24	6	1	Stanislas Huille	France	55.11
25	5	1	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	55.26
25	6	0	Gustav Höfkelt	Sweden	55.26
27	5	3	Kacper Stokowski	Poland	55.34
28	3	8	Anton Lončar	Croatia	55.39
29	2	4	Markus Lie	Norway	55.52
30	4	0	Thierry Bollin	Switzerland	55.53
31	1	6	Karl Luht	Estonia	55.60
31	4	9	Jakub Skierka	Poland	55.60
33	3	3	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	55.63
34	5	0	Elliot Clogg	Great Britain	55.77
34	6	3	Nikita Ulyanov	Russia	55.77
36	2	3	Björn Seeliger	Sweden	55.89
37	3	1	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	56.09
38	3	0	Girts Feldbergs	Latvia	56.12
39	2	8	Ivan Gajšek	Croatia	56.41
40	6	9	Kamil Kaźmierczak	Poland	56.47
41	3	2	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	56.48
42	2	2	Nikola Acin	Serbia	56.59
43	2	6	Armin Lelle	Estonia	56.64
44	3	4	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	56.81
45	2	7	Ege Başer	Turkey	56.95
46	1	3	Metin Aydın	Turkey	57.19
46	2	0	Berk Özkul	Turkey	57.19
48	2	1	Adam Černek	Slovakia	57.83
49	1	4	Rasim Gör	Turkey	57.90
50	2	5	Andrei-Mircea Anghel	Romania	59.14
51	2	9	Thomas Wareing	Malta	1:00.11
52	1	5	Dren Ukimeraj	Kosovo	1:04.62
	5	8	David Gamburg	Israel	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:31.[4]

The final was started on 6 August at 17:07.[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	52.53	WJR, NR
	5	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	52.74
	2	Apostolos Christou	Greece	53.72
4	6	Robert Glință	Romania	53.81
5	8	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	53.85
5	3	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.85
7	7	Christian Diener	Germany	53.92
8	1	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	54.35