The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, the final on May 24.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordMichael Phelps1:51.51RomeJuly 29, 2009European recordLászló Cseh1:52.70BeijingAugust 13, 2008Championship recordPaweł Korzeniowski1:54.38EindhovenMarch 21, 2008

Results

Heats 31 swimmers participated in 4 heats.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Bence Biczó 1:57.47 Q 2 3 4 Dinko Jukić 1:57.69 Q 3 2 4 László Cseh 1:58.08 Q 4 2 5 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:58.16 Q 5 4 3 Francesco Pavone 1:58.23 Q 6 4 5 Velimir Stjepanović 1:58.32 Q 7 2 7 Alexandru Coci 1:58.42 Q 8 1 2 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 1:58.97 Q 9 3 5 Stefanos Dimitriadis 1:58.97 Q 10 3 3 Jordan Coelho 1:59.32 Q 11 2 3 Konstantinos Markozis 1:59.48 12 4 2 Tom Kremer 1:59.50 Q 13 2 6 Egon van der Straeten 1:59.70 Q 14 3 6 Robert Žbogar 1:59.80 Q 15 3 7 Andreas Vazaios 2:00.05 16 2 2 Alexandre Liess 2:00.18 Q 17 2 1 Jan Šefl 2:00.21 Q 18 3 1 Michal Poprawa 2:00.23 Q 18 3 2 Pedro Diogo Oliveira 2:00.23 20 4 1 Diogo Filipe Carvalho 2:00.52 21 4 7 Duarte Rafael Mourao 2:00.63 22 1 4 Sindri Thor Jakobsson 2:00.96 NR 23 4 8 Bernhard Wolf 2:01.69 24 1 5 Niksa Roki 2:01.82 25 1 6 Nico van Duijn 2:02.02 25 3 8 Alon Mandel 2:02.02 27 2 8 Avi Cohen 2:02.35 28 1 3 Jakub Maly 2:03.03 29 1 1 Pavel Naroshkin 2:04.15 NR 30 1 7 Edgaras Štura 2:08.18 4 6 Matteo Pelizzari DNS

Semifinals The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Velimir Stjepanović 1:56.84 Q 2 4 Dinko Jukić 1:57.02 Q 3 5 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:57.33 Q 4 2 Jordan Coelho 1:57.59 Q 5 1 Alexandre Liess 1:58.13 Q, NR 6 6 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 1:59.09 7 7 Egon van der Straeten 1:59.25 8 8 Michal Poprawa 2:00.56

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Bence Biczó 1:55.77 Q 2 3 Francesco Pavone 1:57.05 Q 3 5 László Cseh 1:57.44 Q 4 2 Stefanos Dimitriadis 1:58.51 5 1 Robert Žbogar 1:58.75 6 6 Alexandru Coci 1:59.49 7 7 Tom Kremer 1:59.51 8 8 Jan Šefl 1:59.87

Final The final was held at 17:57.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 7 László Cseh 1:54.95 4 Bence Biczó 1:55.85 2 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:56.48 4 3 Dinko Jukić 1:56.53 5 5 Velimir Stjepanović 1:57.06 6 6 Francesco Pavone 1:57.07 7 1 Jordan Coelho 1:58.24 8 8 Alexandre Liess 1:59.13

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