The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18-19 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 recordMichael Phelps1:51.51Rome29 July 2009European recordLászló Cseh1:52.70Beijing13 August 2008Championship recordPaweł Korzeniowski1:54.38Eindhoven21 March 2008

Results Heats The heats were held on 18 May at 10:00.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 László Cseh 1:54.51 Q 2 4 5 Tamás Kenderesi 1:54.79 Q 3 2 4 Viktor Bromer 1:56.67 Q 4 2 3 Giacomo Carini 1:57.30 Q 5 2 5 Bence Biczó 1:57.60 6 2 0 Antani Ivanov 1:57.76 Q 7 4 3 Stefanos Dimitriadis 1:57.99 Q 8 3 3 Carlos Peralta 1:58.28 Q 9 3 1 Robert Žbogar 1:58.36 Q 10 3 4 Jan Świtkowski 1:58.51 Q 11 2 2 Nils Liess 1:58.52 Q 12 2 7 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:58.57 Q 13 4 2 Nuno Quintanilha 1:58.74 Q 14 2 6 Markus Gierke 1:58.75 Q 15 3 7 Benjamin Grátz 1:58.87 16 4 9 Sindri Jakobsson 1:58.93 Q 17 3 5 Louis Croenen 1:59.03 Q 18 2 1 Jesper Björk 1:59.08 Q 19 3 6 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:59.09 20 4 6 Alexander Kunert 1:59.10 21 3 2 Jan Šefl 1:59.30 22 4 0 Etay Gurevich 1:59.60 23 1 4 Kaan Özcan 1:59.87 24 3 8 Miguel Nascimento 1:59.94 25 3 0 Tomáš Havránek 2:00.14 26 3 9 Brendan Hyland 2:00.21 27 4 1 Alexandru Coci 2:00.49 28 4 7 Paul Lemaire 2:00.63 29 1 6 Richárd Nagy 2:00.69 30 2 9 Filip Milcevic 2:00.95 31 1 7 Osvald Nitski 2:01.46 32 1 5 Petr Novák 2:01.52 33 2 8 Yonatan Batsha 2:01.61 34 1 3 Tim Slanschek 2:01.66 35 1 2 Nico van Duijn 2:01.96 36 1 1 Jakub Maly 2:03.11 37 1 8 Arkadi Kalinovski 2:06.66 4 8 Diogo Carvalho DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 18 May at 19:03.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Tamás Kenderesi 1:56.02 Q 2 5 Giacomo Carini 1:56.81 Q 3 3 Stefanos Dimitriadis 1:57.44 Q 4 6 Robert Žbogar 1:58.39 5 8 Jesper Björk 1:58.49 6 2 Nils Liess 1:58.83 7 7 Nuno Quintanilha 1:59.10 8 1 Sindri Jakobsson 1:59.12

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 László Cseh 1:54.29 Q, CR 2 5 Viktor Bromer 1:55.28 Q 3 2 Jan Świtkowski 1:56.67 Q 4 6 Carlos Peralta 1:56.92 Q 5 8 Louis Croenen 1:57.56 Q 6 3 Antani Ivanov 1:57.90 7 1 Markus Gierke 1:58.13 8 7 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:58.79

Final The final was held on 19 May at 19:06.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 László Cseh 1:52.91 CR 5 Viktor Bromer 1:55.35 3 Tamás Kenderesi 1:55.39 4 6 Jan Świtkowski 1:56.22 5 7 Carlos Peralta 1:56.42 6 8 Louis Croenen 1:56.65 7 2 Giacomo Carini 1:56.81 8 1 Stefanos Dimitriadis 1:57.02

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