# Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The Men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21–22 August.

## 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 | 30 July 2009 |
| Championship record | Alain Bernard | France | 47.50 | Eindhoven | 22 March 2008 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:47.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 2 | Luca Leonardi | Italy | 48.66 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 5 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 48.84 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 7 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 48.86 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 6 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 48.92 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | 3 | Alexander Sukhorukov | Russia | 48.93 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 6 | Marco Orsi | Italy | 48.94 | |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 48.97 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 4 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 49.05 | |
| 9 | 6 | 4 | Fabien Gilot | France | 49.08 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 5 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 49.14 | Q |
| 10 | 8 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 49.14 | |
| 12 | 6 | 7 | Markus Deibler | Germany | 49.19 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 3 | Florent Manaudou | France | 49.24 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 2 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 49.24 | |
| 15 | 4 | 8 | Marius Radu | Romania | 49.28 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 6 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 49.49 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 1 | Grégory Mallet | France | 49.57 | |
| 18 | 7 | 1 | Kacper Majchrzak | Poland | 49.58 | Q |
| 19 | 6 | 2 | Christos Katrantzis | Greece | 49.62 | Q |
| 20 | 5 | 5 | Markel Alberdi | Spain | 49.66 | Q |
| 21 | 6 | 3 | Mehdy Metella | France | 49.68 | |
| 22 | 8 | 0 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 49.70 | Q |
| 23 | 7 | 0 | Jasper Aerents | Belgium | 49.77 | |
| 24 | 8 | 8 | Arseni Kukharau | Belarus | 49.80 | |
| 25 | 5 | 8 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | Lithuania | 49.84 | |
| 26 | 4 | 9 | Baslakov İskender | Turkey | 49.89 | |
| 27 | 6 | 8 | Emmanuel Vanluchene | Belgium | 50.07 | |
| 28 | 4 | 6 | Christoffer Carlsen | Sweden | 50.09 | |
| 29 | 5 | 4 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 50.11 | |
| 30 | 5 | 1 | Sebastian Szczepański | Poland | 50.12 | |
| 31 | 5 | 3 | Péter Holoda | Hungary | 50.14 | |
| 32 | 6 | 9 | Martin Verner | Czech Republic | 50.18 | |
| 33 | 8 | 7 | Doğa Çelik | Turkey | 50.25 | |
| 34 | 4 | 1 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 50.28 | |
| 35 | 5 | 2 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 50.29 | |
| 36 | 4 | 7 | Alexi Konovalov | Israel | 50.34 | |
| 37 | 8 | 9 | Pjotr Degtjarjov | Estonia | 50.44 | |
| 38 | 3 | 1 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 50.45 | |
| 39 | 4 | 3 | Joost Reijns | Netherlands | 50.53 | |
| 40 | 4 | 5 | Sidni Hoxha | Albania | 50.54 | |
| 40 | 7 | 9 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 50.54 | |
| 42 | 1 | 1 | Tadas Duškinas | Lithuania | 50.58 | |
| 43 | 3 | 4 | Radovan Siljevski | Serbia | 50.60 | |
| 44 | 5 | 7 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | 50.61 | |
| 45 | 2 | 6 | Daniel Macovei | Romania | 50.62 | |
| 46 | 5 | 9 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 50.63 | |
| 47 | 6 | 1 | Bruno Ortiz-Cañavate | Spain | 50.64 | |
| 48 | 3 | 5 | Pawel Werner | Poland | 50.75 | |
| 49 | 2 | 2 | Alexandre Haldemann | Switzerland | 50.80 | |
| 50 | 3 | 8 | Dawid Zieliński | Poland | 50.86 | |
| 51 | 3 | 6 | Alexander Nyström | Sweden | 50.91 | |
| 52 | 5 | 0 | David Gamburg | Israel | 50.92 | |
| 53 | 2 | 5 | Christian Scherübl | Austria | 51.03 | |
| 54 | 1 | 4 | Ensar Hajder | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 51.05 | |
| 55 | 4 | 0 | Oscar Ekström | Sweden | 51.15 | |
| 55 | 3 | 7 | David Karasek | Switzerland | 51.15 | |
| 57 | 4 | 4 | Ivan Levaj | Croatia | 51.20 | |
| 58 | 2 | 1 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 51.22 | |
| 59 | 6 | 0 | Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate | Spain | 51.27 | |
| 59 | 2 | 3 | Gustav Aberg | Sweden | 51.27 | |
| 61 | 3 | 9 | Boris Stojanović | Serbia | 51.30 | |
| 62 | 3 | 2 | Almog Olshtein | Israel | 51.40 | |
| 63 | 1 | 3 | Deividas Margevičius | Lithuania | 51.56 | |
| 64 | 3 | 0 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 51.58 | |
| 65 | 2 | 4 | Daniel Skaaning | Denmark | 51.59 | |
| 66 | 3 | 3 | Nikša Stojkovski | Croatia | 51.71 | |
| 67 | 2 | 8 | Alin Coste | Romania | 51.75 | |
| 68 | 2 | 7 | Martin Zhelev | Bulgaria | 51.84 | |
| 69 | 2 | 0 | Michal Navara | Slovakia | 51.85 | |
| 70 | 1 | 5 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 52.28 | |
| 71 | 2 | 9 | Davit Sikharulidze | Georgia | 52.30 | |
| 72 | 1 | 2 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | Cyprus | 52.75 | |
| 73 | 1 | 6 | Arnel Dudić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 53.12 | |
| 74 | 1 | 7 | Fred Karu | Estonia | 54.65 | |
| — | 4 | 2 | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or | Israel | | DNS |
| — | 7 | 8 | Kemal Arda Gürdal | Turkey | | DNS |
| — | 8 | 5 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18.23.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Florent Manaudou | France | 48.61 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 48.68 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 48.91 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 48.96 | |
| 5 | 5 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 49.05 | |
| 6 | 1 | Christos Katrantzis | Greece | 49.07 | |
| 7 | 8 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 49.33 | |
| 8 | 7 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 49.73 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Luca Leonardi | Italy | 48.67 | Q |
| 1 | 6 | Fabien Gilot | France | 48.67 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 48.83 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Alexander Sukhorukov | Russia | 48.94 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Marius Radu | Romania | 48.95 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Markus Deibler | Germany | 49.13 | |
| 7 | 1 | Kacper Majchrzak | Poland | 49.18 | |
| 8 | 8 | Markel Alberdi | Spain | 49.55 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:47.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 47.98 |
| | 5 | Fabien Gilot | France | 48.36 |
| | 3 | Luca Leonardi | Italy | 48.38 |
| 4 | 1 | Alexander Sukhorukov | Russia | 48.52 |
| 5 | 6 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 48.58 |
| 6 | 2 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 48.76 |
| 7 | 7 | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 48.82 |
| 8 | 8 | Marius Radu | Romania | 49.05 |