# Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 22, 2012 (heats) and May 23, 2012 (final).

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record European record | Britta Steffen | Germany | 52.07 | Rome | July 31, 2009 |
| Championship record | Britta Steffen | Germany | 53.30 | Budapest | August 2, 2006 |

## Results
### Heats

62 swimmers participated in 8 heats.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Britta Steffen | Germany | 54.65 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 54.68 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 4 | Daniela Schreiber | Germany | 54.69 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 3 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 55.40 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 5 | Gabriella Fagundez | Sweden | 55.46 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | 5 | Ida Marko-Varga | Sweden | 55.52 | |
| 7 | 6 | 5 | Silke Lippok | Germany | 55.57 | |
| 8 | 6 | 3 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 55.59 | |
| 9 | 8 | 1 | Birgit Koschischek | Austria | 55.63 | Q |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Alice Mizzau | Italy | 55.64 | Q |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Katarína Filová | Slovakia | 55.66 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Nery Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 55.68 | Q |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 55.69 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 6 | Burcu Dolunay | Turkey | 55.84 | Q |
| 15 | 8 | 6 | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 55.85 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 4 | Nastja Govejšek | Slovenia | 55.92 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 5 | Eszter Dara | Hungary | 55.92 | Q |
| 18 | 5 | 4 | Miroslava Najdanovski | Serbia | 55.97 | Q |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | Nina Rangelova | Bulgaria | 55.98 | Q |
| 20 | 6 | 2 | Theodora Drakou | Greece | 55.99 | |
| 21 | 8 | 8 | Sara Isaković | Slovenia | 56.08 | |
| 22 | 6 | 7 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 56.10 | |
| 23 | 6 | 6 | Darya Stepanyuk | Ukraine | 56.14 | |
| 24 | 5 | 5 | Erica Buratto | Italy | 56.15 | |
| 24 | 7 | 1 | Cecilie Johannessen | Norway | 56.15 | |
| 26 | 7 | 8 | Yuliya Khitraya | Belarus | 56.18 | |
| 27 | 6 | 8 | Aksana Dziamidava | Belarus | 56.19 | |
| 28 | 8 | 7 | Mylène Lazare | France | 56.23 | |
| 29 | 4 | 7 | Miroslava Syllabová | Slovakia | 56.38 | |
| 30 | 4 | 1 | Eva Hannesdóttir | Iceland | 56.42 | |
| 31 | 4 | 3 | Henriette Brekke | Norway | 56.46 | |
| 32 | 8 | 2 | Ágnes Mutina | Hungary | 56.60 | |
| 33 | 3 | 4 | Danielle Carmen Villars | Switzerland | 56.67 | |
| 34 | 5 | 6 | Maria Ugolkova | Russia | 56.75 | |
| 35 | 3 | 6 | Laura Kurki | Finland | 56.81 | |
| 36 | 4 | 6 | Sarah Blake Bateman | Iceland | 57.03 | |
| 36 | 5 | 3 | Theodora Giareni | Greece | 57.03 | |
| 38 | 3 | 7 | Bethany Carson | Ireland | 57.06 | |
| 39 | 2 | 3 | Urša Bežan | Slovenia | 57.15 | |
| 40 | 5 | 7 | Ragnheidur Ragnarsdóttir | Iceland | 57.25 | |
| 41 | 4 | 8 | Anna Stylianou | Cyprus | 57.27 | |
| 42 | 5 | 8 | Eva Chavez-Diaz | Austria | 57.35 | |
| 43 | 2 | 7 | Jūratė Ščerbinskaitė | Lithuania | 57.59 | |
| 44 | 3 | 3 | Monica Johannessen | Norway | 57.60 | |
| 45 | 2 | 1 | Gabriela Ņikitina | Latvia | 57.61 | NR |
| 46 | 2 | 6 | Vaiva Gimbutytė | Lithuania | 57.69 | |
| 46 | 3 | 2 | Linda Laihorinne | Finland | 57.69 | |
| 48 | 2 | 2 | Sara Joo | Hungary | 58.06 | |
| 49 | 2 | 8 | Clelia Tini | San Marino | 58.12 | NR |
| 50 | 2 | 4 | Lotta Nevalainen | Finland | 58.19 | |
| 51 | 3 | 5 | Susann Bjørnsen | Norway | 58.37 | |
| 52 | 2 | 5 | Katarzyna Gorniak | Poland | 58.43 | |
| 53 | 3 | 8 | Valeriya Podlesna | Ukraine | 58.44 | |
| 54 | 4 | 2 | Yana Parakhouskaya | Belarus | 58.92 | |
| 55 | 3 | 1 | Ingibjørg Kristin Jonsdóttir | Iceland | 59.58 | |
| 56 | 1 | 4 | Anastasia Bogdanovski | Macedonia | 59.70 | |
| 57 | 1 | 6 | Birita Debes | Faroe Islands | 1:00.47 | |
| 58 | 1 | 3 | Monica Ramirez Abella | Andorra | 1:01.00 | |
| 59 | 1 | 5 | Milica Marković | Montenegro | 1:01.10 | |
| 60 | 1 | 7 | Gudrun Mortensen | Faroe Islands | 1:01.62 | |
| 61 | 1 | 2 | Cecilia Eysturdal | Faroe Islands | 1:03.69 | |
| | 8 | 3 | Lisa Vitting | Germany | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 55.14 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 55.40 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Eszter Dara | Hungary | 55.70 | |
| 4 | 2 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 55.88 | |
| 5 | 8 | Nina Rangelova | Bulgaria | 55.92 | |
| 6 | 6 | Katarína Filová | Slovakia | 56.00 | |
| 7 | 3 | Birgit Koschischek | Austria | 56.04 | |
| 8 | 7 | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 56.26 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Daniela Schreiber | Germany | 54.53 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Britta Steffen | Germany | 54.71 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Nery-Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 54.98 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Alice Mizzau | Italy | 55.07 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Gabriella Fagundez | Sweden | 55.57 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | Miroslava Najdanovski | Serbia | 55.65 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | Burcu Dolunay | Turkey | 56.00 | |
| 8 | 1 | Nastja Govejšek | Slovenia | 56.05 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18.13.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 2 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 53.61 |
| | 5 | Britta Steffen | Germany | 54.15 |
| | 4 | Daniela Schreiber | Germany | 54.41 |
| 4 | 6 | Alice Mizzau | Italy | 55.03 |
| 5 | 3 | Nery-Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 55.17 |
| 6 | 1 | Gabriella Fagundez | Sweden | 55.51 |
| 7 | 7 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 55.68 |
| 8 | 8 | Miroslava Najdanovski | Serbia | 56.31 |