The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 25 and 26. The heats and semifinals took place on May 25, the final on May 26.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre backstroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordAaron Peirsol1:51.92RomeJuly 31, 2009European recordArkady Vyatchanin1:54.75RomeJuly 31, 2009Championship recordArkady Vyatchanin1:55.44BudapestAugust 5, 2006

Results

Heats 43 swimmers participated in 6 heats.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre backstroke Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-25.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Radosław Kawęcki 1:58.79 Q 2 5 5 Yannick Lebherz 1:58.85 Q 3 4 4 Péter Bernek 1:59.07 Q 4 5 3 Matteo Milli 1:59.30 Q 5 5 6 Gábor Balog 1:59.63 Q 6 6 7 Pedro Diogo Oliveira 1:59.72 Q, NR 7 4 2 Olexandr Isakov 1:59.79 Q 8 6 4 Benjamin Stasiulis 1:59.91 Q 9 6 5 Sebastiano Ranfagni 1:59.98 Q 10 6 6 Federico Turrini 2:00.20 11 6 2 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 2:00.25 Q 12 4 6 Felix Wolf 2:00.81 Q 13 4 5 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin 2:00.93 Q 14 5 8 Itai Chammah 2:01.05 15 4 3 Christian Diener 2:01.15 16 6 3 Eric Ress 2:01.21 Q 17 1 3 Ivan Trofimov 2:01.82 Q 18 3 6 Dmitry Gorbunov 2:01.93 Q 19 2 4 Martin Zhelev 2:01.95 Q, NR 20 3 5 Luca Marin 2:02.23 21 5 1 Sebastian Stoss 2:02.30 22 4 7 Dávid Verrasztó 2:02.33 23 3 2 Balázs Zámbó 2:02.36 24 5 2 Vitaly Borisov 2:02.49 25 1 5 Tomáš Fučík 2:02.51 26 2 6 Andres Olvik 2:02.67 NR 27 6 1 Mikhail Zvyagin 2:02.81 28 5 7 Mattias Carlsson 2:02.82 29 6 8 Lukas Räuftlin 2:02.84 30 3 4 Danas Rapšys 2:03.22 31 3 8 Květoslav Svoboda 2:03.38 32 4 8 Andriy Nikishenko 2:03.64 33 3 3 David Gamburg 2:03.71 34 3 7 Konstantīns Blohins 2:03.99 35 4 1 Mateusz Wysoczynski 2:04.02 36 2 7 Marco Aldabe Bomstad 2:04.29 37 2 1 Oliver Šimkovič 2:04.58 38 2 8 Matas Andriekus 2:04.85 39 3 1 Jean François Schneiders 2:05.20 40 2 5 Dominik Dür 2:06.78 41 2 2 Lavrans Solli 2:07.12 42 2 3 Karl Burdis 2:31.44 1 4 Jonathan Massacand DNS

Semifinals The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre backstroke Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-25.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Yannick Lebherz 1:58.23 Q 2 7 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin 1:58.33 Q 3 6 Benjamin Stasiulis 1:59.09 Q 4 2 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 1:59.58 5 3 Pedro Diogo Oliveira 1:59.94 6 5 Matteo Milli 2:01.57 7 1 Ivan Trofimov 2:02.51 8 8 Martin Zhelev 2:03.18

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Péter Bernek 1:56.11 Q, NR 2 4 Radosław Kawęcki 1:56.68 Q 3 3 Gábor Balog 1:58.43 Q 4 2 Sebastiano Ranfagni 1:58.86 Q 5 7 Felix Wolf 1:59.41 Q 6 6 Olexandr Isakov 1:59.98 7 1 Eric Ress 2:00.04 8 8 Dmitry Gorbunov 2:01.77

Final The final was held at 18:01.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre backstroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-26.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Radosław Kawęcki 1:55.28 CR, NR 4 Péter Bernek 1:55.88 NR 6 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin 1:57.35 NR 4 7 Sebastiano Ranfagni 1:57.99 5 3 Yannick Lebherz 1:58.39 5 8 Felix Wolf 1:58.39 7 1 Benjamin Stasiulis 1:58.55 8 2 Gábor Balog 1:58.74

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