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

The Women's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 August 2022.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World recordEuropean recordChampionship record | Benedetta Pilato | Italy | 29.30 | Budapest | 22 May 2021 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 16 August at 09:45.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Arianna Castiglioni | Italy | 29.91 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Benedetta Pilato | Italy | 29.93 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Rūta Meilutytė | Lithuania | 30.12 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Imogen Clark | Great Britain | 30.18 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | Veera Kivirinta | Finland | 30.34 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 3 | Lisa Angiolini | Italy | 30.62 | |
| 7 | 3 | 5 | Sophie Hansson | Sweden | 30.80 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | Martina Carraro | Italy | 30.90 | |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Florine Gaspard | Belgium | 30.94 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 6 | Ana Rodrigues | Portugal | 31.04 | Q, NR |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | Kotryna Teterevkova | Lithuania | 31.04 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Louise Palmans | Netherlands | 31.37 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 1 | Mona McSharry | Ireland | 31.41 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 2 | Klara Thormalm | Sweden | 31.43 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 2 | Kara Hanlon | Great Britain | 31.60 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 7 | Lisa Mamié | Switzerland | 31.72 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 7 | Dominika Sztandera | Poland | 31.74 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | 6 | Maria Drasidou | Greece | 31.77 | Q |
| 19 | 3 | 0 | Andrea Podmaníková | Slovakia | 31.86 | |
| 20 | 3 | 8 | Laura Lahtinen | Finland | 31.93 | |
| 21 | 4 | 9 | Maria Romanjuk | Estonia | 31.94 | |
| 22 | 3 | 7 | Jessica Vall | Spain | 32.07 | |
| 23 | 4 | 8 | Kamila Isayeva | Ukraine | 32.08 | |
| 24 | 2 | 8 | Meri Mataja | Croatia | 32.22 | |
| 25 | 2 | 1 | Nele Schulze | Germany | 32.28 | |
| 26 | 2 | 0 | Cecilia Viberg | Sweden | 32.30 | |
| 27 | 4 | 0 | Julia Månsson | Sweden | 32.54 | |
| 28 | 1 | 5 | Nina Stanisavljević | Serbia | 32.79 | |
| 29 | 4 | 1 | Jenna Laukkanen | Finland | 32.82 | |
| 30 | 1 | 3 | Eleni Kontogeorgou | Greece | 33.22 | |
| 31 | 1 | 4 | Martta Ruuska | Finland | 33.54 | |
| 32 | 1 | 7 | Varsenik Manucharyan | Armenia | 34.23 | |
| 33 | 1 | 2 | Amy Micallef | Malta | 35.55 | |
| | 1 | 6 | Defne Coşkun | Turkey | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 9 | Thea Blomsterberg | Denmark | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 9 | Niamh Coyne | Ireland | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 16 August at 18:31.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | Rūta Meilutytė | Lithuania | 29.44 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Benedetta Pilato | Italy | 29.85 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Imogen Clark | Great Britain | 30.10 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 4 | Arianna Castiglioni | Italy | 30.27 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Veera Kivirinta | Finland | 30.77 | q |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Florine Gaspard | Belgium | 30.86 | q |
| 7 | 2 | 7 | Mona McSharry | Ireland | 30.90 | q |
| 8 | 1 | 3 | Sophie Hansson | Sweden | 31.05 | q |
| 9 | 1 | 6 | Kotryna Teterevkova | Lithuania | 31.07 | |
| 10 | 2 | 1 | Kara Hanlon | Great Britain | 31.32 | |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Ana Rodrigues | Portugal | 31.33 | |
| 12 | 2 | 8 | Dominika Sztandera | Poland | 31.35 | |
| 13 | 1 | 7 | Klara Thormalm | Sweden | 31.38 | |
| 14 | 1 | 8 | Maria Drasidou | Greece | 31.57 | |
| 15 | 1 | 2 | Louise Palmans | Netherlands | 31.62 | |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Lisa Mamié | Switzerland | 31.69 | |

### Final

The final was held on 17 August at 18:05.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Rūta Meilutytė | Lithuania | 29.59 |
| | 5 | Benedetta Pilato | Italy | 29.71 |
| | 3 | Imogen Clark | Great Britain | 30.31 |
| 4 | 6 | Arianna Castiglioni | Italy | 30.43 |
| 5 | 2 | Veera Kivirinta | Finland | 30.86 |
| 6 | 8 | Sophie Hansson | Sweden | 31.02 |
| 7 | 1 | Mona McSharry | Ireland | 31.15 |
| 8 | 7 | Florine Gaspard | Belgium | 31.46 |