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

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 May 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | César Cielo | Brazil | 46.91 | Rome | 30 July 2009 |
| European record | Alain Bernard | France | 47.12 | Rome | 29 July 2009 |
| Championship record | Alain Bernard | France | 47.50 | Eindhoven | 22 March 2008 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 19 May at 10:20.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 4 | Clément Mignon | France | 48.40 | Q |
| 2 | 9 | 3 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 48.59 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 48.61 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 6 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 48.64 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 4 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 48.68 | Q |
| 6 | 9 | 4 | Jérémy Stravius | France | 48.82 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 5 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 48.84 | Q |
| 8 | 10 | 5 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 48.86 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 8 | Richárd Bohus | Hungary | 48.92 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 2 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 48.94 | Q |
| 11 | 10 | 3 | Mehdy Metella | France | 49.15 | |
| 12 | 10 | 6 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 49.17 | Q |
| 13 | 10 | 1 | Kacper Majchrzak | Poland | 49.21 | Q |
| 14 | 10 | 2 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 49.25 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Anže Tavčar | Slovenia | 49.27 | Q |
| 16 | 8 | 9 | Dieter Dekoninck | Belgium | 49.29 | |
| 17 | 9 | 0 | Marius Radu | Romania | 49.31 | Q |
| 18 | 9 | 6 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 49.36 | Q |
| 19 | 8 | 2 | Luca Leonardi | Italy | 49.37 | |
| 20 | 9 | 1 | Markel Alberdi | Spain | 49.42 | |
| 21 | 7 | 0 | Doğa Çelik | Turkey | 49.46 | |
| 22 | 9 | 8 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 49.51 | |
| 22 | 6 | 3 | Tom Kremer | Israel | 49.51 | |
| 24 | 6 | 0 | Matias Koski | Finland | 49.53 | |
| 25 | 8 | 1 | Péter Holoda | Hungary | 49.59 | |
| 25 | 6 | 6 | Curtis Coulter | Ireland | 49.59 | |
| 27 | 7 | 1 | Kemal Arda Gürdal | Turkey | 49.73 | |
| 28 | 7 | 5 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | Lithuania | 49.75 | |
| 29 | 10 | 0 | Isak Eliasson | Sweden | 49.77 | |
| 30 | 8 | 0 | Christos Katrantzis | Greece | 49.78 | |
| 31 | 7 | 4 | Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate | Spain | 49.85 | |
| 32 | 7 | 9 | Ben Schwietert | Netherlands | 49.86 | |
| 33 | 10 | 7 | Odyssefs Meladinis | Greece | 49.88 | |
| 33 | 4 | 2 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 49.88 | |
| 35 | 7 | 3 | Kyle Stolk | Netherlands | 49.89 | |
| 36 | 9 | 9 | Jonathan Boffa | Italy | 49.99 | |
| 37 | 8 | 3 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 50.02 | |
| 38 | 9 | 7 | Jasper Aerents | Belgium | 50.04 | |
| 39 | 10 | 9 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 50.05 | |
| 39 | 10 | 8 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 50.05 | |
| 41 | 6 | 1 | Maarten Brzoskowski | Netherlands | 50.09 | |
| 42 | 5 | 4 | Andrej Barna | Serbia | 50.10 | |
| 43 | 4 | 3 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 50.15 | |
| 44 | 3 | 0 | Alin Coste | Romania | 50.20 | |
| 45 | 5 | 3 | Shane Ryan | Ireland | 50.22 | |
| 45 | 7 | 6 | David Gamburg | Israel | 50.22 | |
| 47 | 6 | 5 | Bruno Ortiz-Cañavate | Spain | 50.29 | |
| 48 | 6 | 7 | Alexi Konovalov | Israel | 50.30 | |
| 49 | 6 | 8 | Emre Sakçı | Turkey | 50.33 | |
| 50 | 3 | 5 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 50.35 | |
| 51 | 4 | 4 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 50.40 | |
| 51 | 7 | 8 | Christoffer Carlsen | Sweden | 50.40 | |
| 53 | 3 | 4 | Uroš Nikolić | Serbia | 50.48 | |
| 53 | 6 | 2 | Oskitz Aguilar | Spain | 50.48 | |
| 55 | 5 | 0 | Søren Dahl | Denmark | 50.55 | |
| 56 | 6 | 9 | Alexandre Haldemann | Switzerland | 50.56 | |
| 57 | 4 | 1 | Ivan Levaj | Croatia | 50.59 | |
| 58 | 4 | 6 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 50.64 | |
| 59 | 4 | 5 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 50.66 | |
| 60 | 5 | 1 | Baslakov İskender | Turkey | 50.72 | |
| 61 | 6 | 4 | Daniel Macovei | Romania | 50.75 | |
| 62 | 5 | 8 | Markus Lie | Norway | 50.77 | |
| 63 | 5 | 7 | Erik van Dooren | Switzerland | 50.78 | |
| 64 | 7 | 7 | Pjotr Degtjarjov | Estonia | 50.86 | |
| 65 | 3 | 2 | Robin Andreasson | Sweden | 50.95 | |
| 66 | 4 | 0 | Daniel Forndal | Sweden | 50.96 | |
| 67 | 3 | 6 | Alexei Sancov | Moldova | 51.03 | |
| 68 | 3 | 7 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 51.07 | |
| 69 | 3 | 9 | Kregor Zirk | Estonia | 51.11 | |
| 70 | 4 | 7 | Illya Teslenko | Ukraine | 51.15 | |
| 71 | 4 | 9 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 51.16 | |
| 72 | 5 | 6 | Jordan Sloan | Ireland | 51.23 | |
| 73 | 4 | 8 | Aleksi Schmid | Switzerland | 51.42 | |
| 74 | 2 | 7 | Gabriel Lopes | Portugal | 51.43 | |
| 75 | 3 | 8 | Andri Aedma | Estonia | 51.44 | |
| 76 | 3 | 3 | Cameron Kurle | Great Britain | 51.50 | |
| 77 | 3 | 1 | David Brandl | Austria | 51.58 | |
| 77 | 2 | 3 | Tadas Duškinas | Lithuania | 51.58 | |
| 79 | 5 | 5 | Ziv Kalontarov | Israel | 51.68 | |
| 80 | 2 | 4 | Pit Brandenburger | Luxembourg | 51.72 | |
| 81 | 2 | 5 | Matthew Zammit | Malta | 51.80 | |
| 82 | 2 | 8 | Omiros Zagkas | Cyprus | 51.89 | |
| 83 | 2 | 1 | Vahan Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 53.12 | |
| 84 | 2 | 0 | Davide Bernardi | San Marino | 53.41 | |
| 85 | 1 | 4 | Vladimir Mamikonyan | Armenia | 53.76 | |
| 86 | 1 | 5 | Cristian Santi | San Marino | 55.04 | |
| 87 | 1 | 3 | Gianluca Pasolini | San Marino | 55.13 | |
| 88 | 2 | 6 | Pavel Izbisciuc | Moldova | 55.74 | |
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| | 5 | 9 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | DNS | DNS |
| | 8 | 7 | Robert Renwick | Great Britain | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 19 May at 18:22.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 48.62 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 48.83 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Jérémy Stravius | France | 48.86 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 48.87 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Anže Tavčar | Slovenia | 48.88 | |
| 6 | 2 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 48.92 | |
| 7 | 7 | Kacper Majchrzak | Poland | 49.11 | |
| 7 | 8 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 49.11 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 48.36 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Clément Mignon | France | 48.59 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 48.65 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 48.76 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 48.89 | |
| 6 | 2 | Richárd Bohus | Hungary | 48.99 | |
| 7 | 8 | Marius Radu | Romania | 49.11 | |
| 8 | 1 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 49.18 | |

### Final

The final was held on 20 May at 18:47.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 48.25 |
| | 6 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 48.32 |
| | 5 | Clément Mignon | France | 48.36 |
| 4 | 1 | Jérémy Stravius | France | 48.53 |
| 5 | 2 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 48.64 |
| 6 | 3 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 48.72 |
| 7 | 7 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 48.75 |
| 8 | 8 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 48.85 |