The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordIppei Watanabe2:06.67Tokyo29 January 2017European recordAnton Chupkov2:06.96Budapest28 July 2017Championship recordMarco Koch 2:07.47Berlin21 August 2014

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 6 August Final Anton Chupkov 2:06.80 CR, ER

Results Heats The heats were started on 5 August at 10:32.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Anton Chupkov 2:07.70 Q 2 4 5 Kirill Prigoda 2:08.91 Q 3 3 5 Ilya Khomenko 2:09.63 4 4 3 Luca Pizzini 2:10.18 Q 5 3 4 Ross Murdoch 2:10.30 Q 6 2 4 James Wilby 2:10.81 Q 7 2 5 Arno Kamminga 2:10.82 Q 8 3 2 Darragh Greene 2:11.22 Q 9 3 3 Mikhail Dorinov 2:11.29 10 4 2 Matti Mattsson 2:11.44 Q 11 2 0 Mykyta Koptyelov 2:11.50 Q 12 4 1 Andrius Šidlauskas 2:11.52 Q 13 3 1 Valentin Bayer 2:11.73 Q 14 2 2 Dávid Horváth 2:11.85 Q 15 2 3 Erik Persson 2:12.43 Q 16 2 1 Jacques Laeuffer 2:12.57 Q 17 2 7 Christopher Rothbauer 2:12.61 Q 18 3 7 Bartłomiej Roguski 2:12.69 Q 19 2 6 Max Pilger 2:12.84 20 4 6 Giedrius Titenis 2:13.16 21 3 6 Yannick Käser 2:13.66 22 4 7 Ilya Shymanovich 2:13.85 23 4 0 Martin Allikvee 2:13.93 24 2 9 Ivan Strilets 2:13.94 25 4 8 Filip Chrápavý 2:13.99 26 3 9 Tomáš Klobučník 2:14.04 27 3 0 Lyubomir Epitropov 2:14.20 28 2 8 Johannes Dietrich 2:14.30 29 3 8 Daniils Bobrovs 2:14.69 30 1 4 Tomas Veloso 2:15.95 31 1 3 Lachezar Shumkov 2:17.22 32 1 2 Jozef Beňo 2:18.33 1 5 Berkay Öğretir Did not start 4 9 Teemu Vuorela

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:49.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Ross Murdoch 2:08.57 Q 2 4 Kirill Prigoda 2:08.63 Q 3 3 Arno Kamminga 2:10.00 Q 4 2 Andrius Šidlauskas 2:10.12 Q 5 6 Matti Mattsson 2:10.19 6 7 Dávid Horváth 2:10.70 7 8 Bartłomiej Roguski 2:11.32 8 1 Jacques Laeuffer 2:12.44

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Anton Chupkov 2:07.95 Q 2 5 Luca Pizzini 2:08.52 Q 3 3 James Wilby 2:09.59 Q 4 1 Erik Persson 2:09.84 Q 5 2 Mykyta Koptyelov 2:10.41 6 6 Darragh Greene 2:11.36 7 7 Valentin Bayer 2:12.33 8 8 Christopher Rothbauer 2:12.44

Final The final was started on 6 August at 18:08.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Anton Chupkov 2:06.80 CR, ER 2 James Wilby 2:08.39 5 Luca Pizzini 2:08.54 4 3 Ross Murdoch 2:08.55 5 6 Kirill Prigoda 2:08.77 6 8 Andrius Šidlauskas 2:09.71 7 1 Arno Kamminga 2:09.87 8 7 Erik Persson 2:10.25

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