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

The Men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 May 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Michael Phelps | United States | 49.82 | Rome | 1 August 2009 |
| European record | Milorad Čavić | Serbia | 49.95 | Rome | 1 August 2009 |
| Championship record | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 51.38 | Berlin | 23 August 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 20 May at 10:42.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 52.05 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 5 | Piero Codia | Italy | 52.38 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 5 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 52.46 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 52.48 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 4 | Mehdy Metella | France | 52.49 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Matteo Rivolta | Italy | 52.65 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 3 | Lyubomyr Lemeshko | Ukraine | 52.65 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 9 | Søren Dahl | Denmark | 52.78 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Bence Pulai | Hungary | 52.79 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 7 | Oskar Krupecki | Poland | 52.88 | |
| 11 | 5 | 3 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 52.89 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 6 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 53.06 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 7 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 53.09 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Oleksiy Ivanov | Ukraine | 53.21 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 1 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 53.23 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 6 | Ivan Lenđer | Serbia | 53.23 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 1 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 53.24 | Q |
| 18 | 5 | 0 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 53.39 | |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | Andriy Khloptsov | Ukraine | 53.45 | |
| 20 | 5 | 7 | Nico van Duijn | Switzerland | 53.48 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Jesper Björk | Sweden | 53.50 | |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | 53.58 | |
| 23 | 5 | 9 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 53.60 | |
| 24 | 3 | 5 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 53.69 | |
| 25 | 6 | 0 | Paul Lemaire | France | 53.70 | |
| 26 | 3 | 2 | Alexander Kunert | Germany | 53.74 | |
| 27 | 6 | 2 | Alexandru Coci | Romania | 53.75 | |
| 28 | 3 | 3 | Kaan Türker Ayar | Turkey | 53.78 | |
| 29 | 4 | 2 | Nils Liess | Switzerland | 53.80 | |
| 30 | 3 | 9 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 53.85 | |
| 31 | 7 | 9 | Kregor Zirk | Estonia | 53.87 | |
| 32 | 3 | 7 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 53.92 | |
| 32 | 4 | 6 | Tom Kremer | Israel | 53.92 | |
| 34 | 4 | 5 | Markus Gierke | Germany | 53.94 | |
| 34 | 7 | 0 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 53.94 | |
| 36 | 7 | 2 | Marcus Schlesinger | Israel | 53.96 | |
| 37 | 7 | 8 | Deividas Margevicius | Lithuania | 53.97 | |
| 38 | 3 | 6 | Alexander Linge | Sweden | 54.01 | |
| 39 | 2 | 7 | Petr Novák | Czech Republic | 54.04 | |
| 40 | 4 | 7 | Carlos Peralta | Spain | 54.07 | |
| 41 | 4 | 1 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 54.08 | |
| 42 | 4 | 4 | Guy Barnea | Israel | 54.09 | |
| 43 | 3 | 0 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 54.24 | |
| 44 | 4 | 0 | Filip Milcevic | Austria | 54.30 | |
| 44 | 3 | 8 | Aleksi Schmid | Switzerland | 54.30 | |
| 46 | 4 | 3 | Sascha Subarsky | Austria | 54.33 | |
| 47 | 2 | 6 | Tadas Duškinas | Lithuania | 54.34 | |
| 48 | 3 | 4 | Nuno Quintanilha | Portugal | 54.41 | |
| 49 | 2 | 8 | Tomas Havránek | Czech Republic | 54.54 | |
| 50 | 3 | 1 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 54.55 | |
| 51 | 1 | 5 | Sindri Jakobsson | Norway | 54.58 | |
| 52 | 2 | 3 | Ralf Tribuntsov | Estonia | 54.75 | |
| 53 | 2 | 2 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 54.87 | |
| 54 | 2 | 9 | Arkadi Kalinovski | Estonia | 54.90 | |
| 55 | 2 | 4 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 54.95 | |
| 56 | 4 | 9 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 55.00 | |
| 57 | 1 | 3 | Berk Özkul | Turkey | 55.03 | |
| 58 | 2 | 1 | Yonatan Batsha | Israel | 55.82 | |
| 59 | 1 | 4 | Thomas Maurer | Switzerland | 56.23 | |
| 60 | 1 | 6 | Alexei Sancov | Moldova | 57.62 | |
| 61 | 1 | 2 | Pavel Izbisciuc | Moldova | 57.69 | |
| | 7 | 3 | Joeri Verlinden | Netherlands | DSQ | DSQ |
| | 2 | 0 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | DNS | DNS |
| | 2 | 5 | Phillipp Forster | Germany | DNS | DNS |
| | 6 | 8 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 20 May at 18:25.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 51.90 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Piero Codia | Italy | 52.16 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Lyubomyr Lemeshko | Ukraine | 52.38 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 52.43 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 52.76 | |
| 6 | 1 | Ivan Lenđer | Serbia | 52.96 | |
| 7 | 6 | Søren Dahl | Denmark | 52.99 | |
| 8 | 8 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 53.18 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 51.64 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Mehdy Metella | France | 52.00 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 52.11 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Matteo Rivolta | Italy | 52.33 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 52.69 | |
| 6 | 2 | Bence Pulai | Hungary | 52.73 | |
| 7 | 1 | Oleksiy Ivanov | Ukraine | 52.98 | |
| 8 | 8 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 53.07 | |

### Final

The final was on 21 May at 16:30.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 50.86 | CR |
| | 5 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 51.22 | |
| | 3 | Mehdy Metella | France | 51.70 | |
| 4 | 2 | Piero Codia | Italy | 51.82 | |
| 5 | 7 | Matteo Rivolta | Italy | 51.96 | |
| 6 | 6 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 51.98 | |
| 7 | 1 | Lyubomyr Lemeshko | Ukraine | 52.25 | |
| 8 | 8 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 53.00 | |