Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 May 2016.Entry listStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordAkihiro Yamaguchi2:07.01Gifu15 September 2012European recordDániel Gyurta2:07.23Barcelona2 August 2013Championship recordMarco Koch2:07.47Berlin21 August 2014

Results Heats The heats were held on 18 May at 10:29.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Marco Koch 2:11.29 Q 2 4 5 Matti Mattsson 2:11.78 Q 3 3 4 Ross Murdoch 2:11.87 Q 4 5 3 Erik Persson 2:12.21 Q 5 3 5 Anton Sveinn McKee 2:12.25 Q 6 4 3 Mikhail Dorinov 2:12.76 Q 7 5 5 Craig Benson 2:12.79 Q 8 4 4 Andrew Willis 2:12.88 9 3 3 Luca Pizzini 2:12.92 Q 10 5 2 Dmytro Oseledets 2:13.33 Q 11 4 2 Max Pilger 2:13.64 Q 12 5 7 Yannick Käser 2:13.69 Q 13 4 0 Ronen Faor 2:13.72 Q 14 5 8 Johannes Dietrich 2:13.76 Q 15 5 6 Panagiotis Samilidis 2:13.82 Q 16 3 8 Dávid Horváth 2:13.91 Q 17 4 6 Dimitrios Koulouris 2:14.19 Q 18 3 7 Luke Davies 2:14.30 19 4 9 Christopher Rothbauer 2:14.57 19 3 2 Laurent Carnol 2:14.57 21 4 7 Jonas Coreelman 2:14.81 22 2 4 Iliy Gladishev 2:14.91 23 2 3 Martin Allikvee 2:14.97 24 3 6 Nicholas Quinn 2:15.04 25 3 0 Daniils Bobrovs 2:15.12 26 4 8 Valeriy Dymo 2:15.16 27 1 6 Maksym Shemberev 2:16.19 28 3 1 Patrik Schwarzenbach 2:16.34 29 2 0 Luchezar Shumkov 2:16.50 30 2 9 Irakli Bolkvadze 2:17.24 31 2 8 Martin Liivamägi 2:17.26 32 2 6 Christoph Meier 2:17.29 33 2 7 Marko Blaževski 2:17.33 34 5 9 Andrius Šidlauskas 2:17.53 34 3 9 Alpkan Örnek 2:17.53 36 2 2 Berkay Şendikici 2:17.59 37 2 5 Eitan Yudashkin 2:17.92 38 5 0 Luca Pfyffer 2:18.20 39 2 1 Demir Atasoy 2:18.28 40 4 1 Sverre Næss 2:19.24 41 1 3 Tomás Veloso 2:19.59 42 5 1 Dan Sweeney 2:21.16 43 1 5 Silver Hein 2:22.49 44 1 7 Deni Baholli 2:27.60 1 2 Jørgen Braathen DSQ 1 4 Gal Nevo DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 18 May at 18:22.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Matti Mattsson 2:10.10 Q 2 5 Erik Persson 2:11.13 Q 3 1 Panagiotis Samilidis 2:11.22 Q 4 3 Mikhail Dorinov 2:11.25 Q 5 6 Luca Pizzini 2:11.54 Q 6 8 Dimitrios Koulouris 2:12.09 7 2 Max Pilger 2:13.82 8 7 Ronen Faor 2:14.84

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Ross Murdoch 2:09.72 Q 2 4 Marco Koch 2:09.82 Q 3 3 Anton Sveinn McKee 2:10.91 Q 4 6 Craig Benson 2:11.93 5 2 Dmytro Oseledets 2:11.97 6 8 Dávid Horváth 2:12.34 7 1 Johannes Dietrich 2:14.13 8 7 Yannick Käser 2:15.11

Final The final was held on 19 May at 18:46.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Ross Murdoch 2:08.33 5 Marco Koch 2:08.40 8 Luca Pizzini 2:10.39 4 2 Erik Persson 2:10.50 5 3 Matti Mattsson 2:10.69 6 7 Panagiotis Samilidis 2:11.15 7 1 Mikhail Dorinov 2:11.42 8 6 Anton Sveinn McKee 2:11.73

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