# Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The Men's 100 metre backstroke 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 | Nationality | Time | Location | Date |
| World recordEuropean record | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 51.60 | Budapest | 20 June 2022 |
| Championship record | Camille Lacourt | France | 52.11 | Budapest | 10 August 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 16 August at 09:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 53.71 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 53.78 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 3 | João Costa | Portugal | 53.87 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Roman Mityukov | Switzerland | 54.01 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | Ksawery Masiuk | Poland | 54.04 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Michele Lamberti | Italy | 54.37 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lorenzo Mora | Italy | 54.41 | |
| 8 | 3 | 8 | Jonathon Adam | Great Britain | 54.43 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 6 | Kacper Stokowski | Poland | 54.44 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | 4 | Yohann Ndoye-Brouard | France | 54.49 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Tomas Franta | Czech Republic | 54.52 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | Ole Braunschweig | Germany | 54.53 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 1 | Jonathon Marshall | Great Britain | 54.57 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 7 | Benedek Kovács | Hungary | 54.67 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Matteo Restivo | Italy | 54.69 | |
| 16 | 4 | 5 | Mewen Tomac | France | 55.33 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 5 | Markus Lie | Norway | 55.34 | Q |
| 18 | 5 | 6 | Oleksandr Zheltyakov | Ukraine | 55.49 | WD |
| 19 | 3 | 0 | Nicolás García | Spain | 55.57 | Q |
| 20 | 2 | 8 | Theodoros Andreopoulos | Greece | 55.63 | |
| 21 | 2 | 3 | Kaloyan Levterov | Bulgaria | 55.65 | |
| 21 | 5 | 8 | Brodie Williams | Great Britain | 55.65 | |
| 23 | 1 | 4 | Andrei Anghel | Romania | 55.67 | |
| 23 | 4 | 0 | Antoine Herlem | France | 55.67 | |
| 25 | 5 | 2 | Evangelos Makrygiannis | Greece | 55.77 | |
| 26 | 3 | 7 | Francisco Santos | Portugal | 55.81 | |
| 27 | 2 | 1 | David Gerchik | Israel | 55.87 | |
| 28 | 2 | 6 | Diego Mira | Spain | 55.94 | |
| 29 | 5 | 0 | Sebastian Somerset | Great Britain | 55.98 | |
| 30 | 2 | 4 | Tomasz Polewka | Poland | 56.13 | |
| 31 | 3 | 9 | Erikas Grigaitis | Lithuania | 56.17 | |
| 32 | 2 | 9 | Nils Liess | Switzerland | 56.24 | |
| 33 | 3 | 6 | Jan Čejka | Czech Republic | 56.38 | |
| 34 | 5 | 9 | Inbar Danziger | Israel | 56.40 | |
| 35 | 3 | 5 | Michael Laitarovsky | Israel | 56.70 | |
| 36 | 4 | 8 | Adam Maraana | Israel | 56.95 | |
| 37 | 2 | 0 | Max Mannes | Luxembourg | 57.21 | |
| 38 | 2 | 2 | Paweł Franke | Poland | 57.50 | |
| 39 | 4 | 9 | Armin Evert Lelle | Estonia | 57.54 | |
| 40 | 1 | 3 | Dylan Cachia | Malta | 1:00.08 | |
| 41 | 1 | 7 | Martin Muja | Kosovo | 1:00.90 | |
| 42 | 1 | 6 | Ared Ruci | Albania | 1:05.68 | |
| 43 | 1 | 2 | Kevin Shkurti | Albania | 1:07.16 | |
| | 1 | 5 | Primož Šenica Pavletič | Slovenia | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 7 | Sašo Boškan | Slovenia | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 4 | 2 | Shane Ryan | Ireland | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 16 August at 19:52.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | Yohann Ndoye-Brouard | France | 52.97 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 53.20 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 53.48 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Ksawery Masiuk | Poland | 53.71 | q |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | Roman Mityukov | Switzerland | 53.75 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Mewen Tomac | France | 53.89 | q |
| 7 | 2 | 5 | João Costa | Portugal | 53.90 | q |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Ole Braunschweig | Germany | 54.05 | q |
| 9 | 1 | 6 | Kacper Stokowski | Poland | 54.18 | |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | Tomas Franta | Czech Republic | 54.27 | |
| 11 | 1 | 7 | Jonathon Marshall | Great Britain | 54.43 | |
| 12 | 2 | 1 | Benedek Kovács | Hungary | 54.47 | |
| 13 | 1 | 3 | Michele Lamberti | Italy | 54.56 | |
| 14 | 2 | 6 | Jonathon Adam | Great Britain | 54.76 | |
| 15 | 2 | 8 | Markus Lie | Norway | 54.91 | |
| 16 | 1 | 8 | Nicolás García | Spain | 55.52 | |

### Final

The final was held on 17 August at 18:10.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 52.21 | |
| | 5 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 52.24 | |
| | 4 | Yohann Ndoye-Brouard | France | 52.92 | |
| 4 | 2 | Roman Mityukov | Switzerland | 53.55 | NR |
| 5 | 1 | João Costa | Portugal | 54.01 | |
| 6 | 6 | Ksawery Masiuk | Poland | 54.05 | |
| 7 | 8 | Ole Braunschweig | Germany | 54.25 | |
| 8 | 7 | Mewen Tomac | France | 54.79 | |