# Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 14 and 15 August 2022.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Hunter Armstrong | United States | 23.71 | Greensboro | 28 April 2022 |
| European recordChampionship record | Kliment Kolesnikov | Russia | 23.80 | Budapest | 18 May 2021 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 14 August at 09:35.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 24.69 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 24.72 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 6 | Björn Seeliger | Sweden | 24.79 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | Ole Braunschweig | Germany | 24.81 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | Michele Lamberti | Italy | 24.88 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 5 | Yohann Ndoye Brouard | France | 24.89 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 6 | Simone Stefanì | Italy | 24.97 | |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Tomasz Polewka | Poland | 25.04 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | Michael Laitarovsky | Israel | 25.05 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | 7 | Kacper Stokowski | Poland | 25.09 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | Lorenzo Mora | Italy | 25.18 | |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Juan Segura | Spain | 25.24 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 4 | Ksawery Masiuk | Poland | 25.27 | |
| 14 | 4 | 8 | Roman Mityukov | Switzerland | 25.31 | Q |
| 15 | 1 | 9 | Shane Ryan | Ireland | 25.33 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 0 | Andrei Anghel | Romania | 25.37 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 7 | Tomáš Franta | Czech Republic | 25.37 | Q |
| 18 | 5 | 7 | Jonathon Marshall | Great Britain | 25.42 | Q |
| 19 | 5 | 2 | Paweł Franke | Poland | 25.46 | |
| 20 | 2 | 5 | Jonathon Adam | Great Britain | 25.49 | QSO |
| 20 | 3 | 9 | David Gerchik | Israel | 25.49 | QSO |
| 22 | 3 | 1 | Inbar Danziger | Israel | 25.65 | |
| 23 | 5 | 1 | Sebastian Somerset | Great Britain | 25.69 | |
| 24 | 4 | 9 | João Costa | Portugal | 25.70 | |
| 25 | 2 | 4 | Benedek Kovács | Hungary | 25.73 | |
| 26 | 3 | 0 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 25.76 | |
| 27 | 4 | 1 | Theodoros Andreopoulos | Greece | 25.81 | |
| 28 | 5 | 8 | Evangelos Makrygiannis | Greece | 25.85 | |
| 29 | 2 | 2 | Francisco Santos | Portugal | 25.88 | |
| 30 | 3 | 2 | Jan Cejka | Czech Republic | 25.89 | |
| 31 | 2 | 3 | Oleksandr Zheltyakov | Ukraine | 25.91 | |
| 32 | 2 | 8 | Rémi Fabiani | Luxembourg | 26.03 | |
| 33 | 2 | 0 | Markus Lie | Norway | 26.07 | |
| 34 | 4 | 0 | Adam Maraana | Israel | 26.09 | |
| 35 | 5 | 9 | Nicolás García | Spain | 26.10 | |
| 36 | 2 | 6 | Antoine Herlem | France | 26.15 | |
| 37 | 2 | 7 | Kaloyan Levterov | Bulgaria | 26.30 | |
| 38 | 1 | 4 | Erikas Grigaitis | Lithuania | 26.34 | |
| 39 | 1 | 6 | Anže Ferš Eržen | Slovenia | 26.40 | |
| 40 | 1 | 5 | Alex Ahtiainen | Estonia | 26.43 | |
| 41 | 2 | 9 | Riedel Lentz | Denmark | 26.46 | |
| 42 | 2 | 1 | Filippos Iakovidis | Cyprus | 26.89 | |
| 43 | 1 | 2 | Olli Kokko | Finland | 27.92 | |
| 44 | 1 | 8 | Martin Muja | Kosovo | 28.15 | |
| 45 | 1 | 7 | Thomas Wareing | Malta | 28.35 | |
| 46 | 1 | 1 | Ared Ruci | Albania | 29.98 | |
| 47 | 1 | 0 | Kevin Shkurti | Albania | 31.32 | |
| | 1 | 3 | Oskar Hoff | Sweden | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 8 | Simon Bucher | Austria | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 5 | 3 | Mewen Tomac | France | Did not start | Did not start |

### Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 14 August at 10:15.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | David Gerchik | Israel | 25.11 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Jonathon Adam | Great Britain | 25.26 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 14 August at 18:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | 4 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 24.48 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 24.65 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 6 | Michael Laitarovsky | Israel | 24.74 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Ole Braunschweig | Germany | 24.75 | q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Michele Lamberti | Italy | 24.82 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Yohann Ndoye Brouard | France | 24.96 | q |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Kacper Stokowski | Poland | 24.98 | q |
| 8 | 2 | 6 | Tomasz Polewka | Poland | 25.04 | q |
| 9 | 2 | 5 | Björn Seeliger | Sweden | 25.09 | |
| 10 | 2 | 7 | Roman Mityukov | Switzerland | 25.11 | |
| 11 | 2 | 1 | Tomáš Franta | Czech Republic | 25.12 | |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | Andrei Anghel | Romania | 25.14 | |
| 13 | 1 | 7 | Shane Ryan | Ireland | 25.19 | |
| 14 | 2 | 8 | Jonathon Marshall | Great Britain | 25.26 | |
| 15 | 1 | 8 | David Gerchik | Israel | 25.27 | |
| 16 | 1 | 2 | Juan Segura | Spain | 25.48 | |

### Final

The final was held on 15 August at 19:24.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 24.36 | NR |
| | 5 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 24.40 | NR |
| | 6 | Ole Braunschweig | Germany | 24.68 | |
| 4 | 3 | Michael Laitarovsky | Israel | 24.75 | |
| 5 | 2 | Michele Lamberti | Italy | 24.85 | |
| 6 | 1 | Kacper Stokowski | Poland | 24.99 | |
| 7 | 7 | Yohann Ndoye Brouard | France | 25.06 | |
| 8 | 8 | Tomasz Polewka | Poland | 25.08 | |