Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	May 23, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 24, 2012 (final)
Competitors:	30
Nations:	18
Win Value:	1:54.95
Gold:	László Cseh
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Bence Biczó
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Ioannis Drymonakos
Bronzenoc:	GRE
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

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.^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps		align=left	1:51.51	Rome	July 29, 2009
European record	László Cseh		align=left	1:52.70	Beijing	August 13, 2008
Championship record	Paweł Korzeniowski		align=left	1:54.38	Eindhoven	March 21, 2008

Results

Heats

31 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4			1:57.47	Q
2	3	4			1:57.69	Q
3	2	4			1:58.08	Q
4	2	5			1:58.16	Q
5	4	3			1:58.23	Q
6	4	5			1:58.32	Q
7	2	7			1:58.42	Q
8	1	2			1:58.97	Q
9	3	5			1:58.97	Q
10	3	3			1:59.32	Q
11	2	3			1:59.48
12	4	2			1:59.50	Q
13	2	6			1:59.70	Q
14	3	6			1:59.80	Q
15	3	7			2:00.05
16	2	2			2:00.18	Q
17	2	1			2:00.21	Q
18	3	1			2:00.23	Q
18	3	2			2:00.23
20	4	1			2:00.52
21	4	7			2:00.63
22	1	4			2:00.96	NR
23	4	8			2:01.69
24	1	5			2:01.82
25	1	6			2:02.02
25	3	8			2:02.02
27	2	8			2:02.35
28	1	3			2:03.03
29	1	1			2:04.15	NR
30	1	7			2:08.18
	4	6			DNS

Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			1:56.84	Q
2	4			1:57.02	Q
3	5			1:57.33	Q
4	2			1:57.59	Q
5	1			1:58.13	Q, NR
6	6			1:59.09
7	7			1:59.25
8	8			2:00.56

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			1:55.77	Q
2	3			1:57.05	Q
3	5			1:57.44	Q
4	2			1:58.51
5	1			1:58.75
6	6			1:59.49
7	7			1:59.51
8	8			1:59.87

Final

The final was held at 17:57.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7			1:54.95
	4			1:55.85
	2			1:56.48
4	3			1:56.53
5	5			1:57.06
6	6			1:57.07
7	1			1:58.24
8	8			1:59.13

Notes and References

1. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C51A1_Start%20List%20%28Heats%20Individual%29_15_Men_200_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly entry list
2. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_15_Men_200_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_215_Men_200_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly Semifinals results
4. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20%28One%20Heat%20-%20Individual%29_115_Heat1_Men_200_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly Final results