Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke

Women's 50 metre backstroke
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships

Dates

22–23 August

Competitors

44 from 22 nations

Winning time

27.81

Medalists

2014 European Aquatics Championships

Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
	mixed
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
	mixed
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Team	team
Synchronised swimming
Individual	Solo	Duet
Team	Team	Combination
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Team	team
v t e

The Women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22–23 August.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Zhao Jing	China	27.06	Rome	30 July 2009
European record	Daniela Samulski	Germany	27.23	Rome	30 July 2009
Championship record	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus	27.64	Budapest	14 August 2010

The heats were held at 10:14.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	27.93	Q
2	5	4	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	28.05	Q
3	4	4	Mercedes Peris	Spain	28.24	Q
4	4	5	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	28.25	Q
5	5	6	Arianna Barbieri	Italy	28.32	Q
6	5	5	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus	28.34	Q
7	4	3	Aleksandra Urbanczyk	Poland	28.40	Q
8	3	5	Daria Ustinova	Russia	28.43	Q
9	5	3	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	28.79	Q
10	4	2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	28.81	Q
11	5	7	Elena Gemo	Italy	28.83	Q
12	4	6	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	28.86	Q
13	3	2	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	28.88
14	3	1	Mathilde Cini	France	28.89	Q
15	3	0	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	28.91	Q
15	5	0	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	28.91
15	3	3	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	28.91	Q
18	4	7	Anni Alitalo	Finland	29.05	Q
19	3	8	Ida Lindborg	Sweden	29.06
20	2	3	Justine Ress	France	29.15
21	5	8	Béryl Gastaldello	France	29.17
22	5	1	Klaudia Nazieblo	Poland	29.20
23	4	1	Sviatlana Khakhlova	Belarus	29.21
24	3	6	Maria Kameneva	Russia	29.24
25	5	2	Amit Ivry	Israel	29.25
26	2	5	Ekaterina Tomashevskaya	Russia	29.28
27	2	1	Caroline Pilhatsch	Austria	29.46
27	2	4	Ava Schollmayer	Slovenia	29.46
29	4	8	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	29.47
30	5	9	Camille Gheorghiu	France	29.50
31	3	7	Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir	Iceland	29.52
32	2	6	Desiree Felner	Austria	29.71
33	2	2	Alina Vats	Ukraine	29.72
34	2	0	Patricia Hais	Austria	29.81
35	3	9	Magdalena Kuras	Sweden	29.92
36	2	8	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	29.96
37	4	9	Aliaksandra Kavaleva	Belarus	30.01
38	1	5	Sigrid Sepp	Estonia	30.11
39	2	7	Karin Tomecková	Slovakia	30.14
40	1	4	Susanne Hirvonen	Finland	30.16
41	2	9	Julia Kukla	Austria	30.61
42	1	2	Kätlin Sepp	Estonia	30.72
43	1	3	Eva Gliožerytė	Lithuania	31.01
44	1	6	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	31.54
—	4	0	Katarína Listopadová	Slovakia		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:51.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	28.13	Q
2	5	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	28.19	Q
3	3	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus	28.46	Q
4	6	Daria Ustinova	Russia	28.48	Q
5	7	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	28.50
6	1	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	28.71
7	2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	28.86
8	8	Anni Alitalo	Finland	28.94

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	27.78	Q
2	5	Mercedes Peris	Spain	27.91	Q
3	3	Arianna Barbieri	Italy	28.30	Q
4	7	Elena Gemo	Italy	28.44	Q
5	6	Aleksandra Urbanczyk	Poland	28.49
6	1	Mathilde Cini	France	28.55
7	2	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	28.64
8	8	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	28.81

The final was held at 16:57.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	6	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	27.81
	3	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	27.82
	4	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	27.87
4	5	Mercedes Peris	Spain	27.98
5	2	Arianna Barbieri	Italy	28.36
6	1	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus	28.37
7	7	Elena Gemo	Italy	28.59
8	8	Daria Ustinova	Russia	28.63