Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre butterfly

Women's 100 metre butterfly
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 100 metre butterfly ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	19 May
Competitors	37 from 26 nations
Winning time	55.89
Medalists
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The Women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	55.64	Kazan	3 August 2015
European record	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	55.64	Kazan	3 August 2015
Championship record	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	56.51	Berlin	22 August 2014

The heats were held on 19 May at 10:41.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	57.20	Q
2	4	4	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	57.86	Q
3	3	3	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	58.34	Q
4	5	3	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	58.47	Q
5	5	6	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	58.55	Q
6	4	5	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	58.62	Q
7	3	3	Lucie Svěcená	Czech Republic	58.83	Q
8	4	3	Katarína Listopadová	Slovakia	58.99	Q
9	5	1	Danielle Villars	Switzerland	59.05	Q
10	3	5	Marie Wattel	France	59.15	Q
11	4	6	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	59.16	Q
12	4	7	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	59.26	Q
13	3	1	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	59.27	Q
14	4	1	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	59.56	Q
15	3	6	Kristel Vourna	Greece	59.63	Q
16	1	3	Darya Stepanyuk	Ukraine	59.83	Q
17	5	5	Louise Hansson	Sweden	59.85
18	3	7	Keren Siebner	Israel	59.96
19	5	8	Amit Ivry	Israel	1:00.15
20	3	2	Emilia Pikkarainen	Finland	1:00.17
21	4	2	Svenja Stoffel	Switzerland	1:00.20
22	5	0	Nastja Govejšek	Slovenia	1:00.31
23	2	3	Bryndis Hansen	Iceland	1:00.33
24	4	0	Barbora Mišendová	Slovakia	1:00.45
25	2	5	Lisa Höpink	Germany	1:00.49
26	2	6	Kim Busch	Netherlands	1:00.64
27	2	2	Ana Monteiro	Portugal	1:00.65
28	2	8	Nida Üstündağ	Turkey	1:00.74
29	5	9	Dobromira Ivanova	Bulgaria	1:00.96
30	2	0	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:01.21
31	4	8	Sasha Touretski	Switzerland	1:01.22
32	4	9	Gizem Bozkurt	Turkey	1:01.25
33	1	4	Margaret Markvardt	Estonia	1:01.40
34	3	9	Julia Mrozinski	Germany	1:01.84
35	2	4	Fanny Teijonsalo	Finland	1:02.14
36	2	7	Alessia Polieri	Italy	1:02.92
37	1	5	Noel Borshi	Albania	1:04.67
	2	1	Tanja Kylliaeinen	Finland	DNS
	3	0	Birgit Koschischek	Austria	DNS
	3	8	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	DNS
	5	2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	DNS
	5	7	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	DNS

The semifinals were held on 19 May at 18:30.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	57.38	Q
2	3	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	58.58	Q
3	5	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	58.71	Q
4	1	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	58.73	Q
5	6	Katarína Listopadová	Slovakia	58.90
6	7	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	59.07
7	2	Marie Wattel	France	59.27
8	8	Darya Stepanyuk	Ukraine	59.67

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	56.12	Q, CR
2	5	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	57.47	Q
3	3	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	57.83	Q
4	6	Lucie Svěcená	Czech Republic	58.71	Q
5	1	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	58.84
6	7	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	58.99
7	8	Kristel Vourna	Greece	59.19
8	2	Danielle Villars	Switzerland	59.26

The final was held on 20 May at 19:18.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	55.89	CR
	5	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	56.83
	3	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	57.52
4	6	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	57.54
5	1	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	58.48
6	2	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	58.86
7	8	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	59.02
8	7	Lucie Svěcená	Czech Republic	59.06