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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	May 26, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 27, 2012 (final)
Competitors:	18
Nations:	14
Win Value:	2:07.28
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Zsuzsanna Jakabos
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Martina Granström
Bronzenoc:	SWE

The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 26 and 27. The heats and semifinals took place on May 26, the final on May 27.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Liu Zige		align=left	2:01.81	Ji Nan	October 21, 2009
European record	Katinka Hosszú		align=left	2:04.27	Rome	July 29, 2009
Championship record	Otylia Jędrzejczak		align=left	2:05.78	Berlin	August 4, 2002

Results

Heats

19 swimmers participated in 3 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4			2:07.79	Q
2	2	4			2:09.17	Q
3	2	5			2:10.35	Q
4	3	4			2:11.10	Q
5	3	2			2:12.14	Q
6	1	6			2:12.23	Q
7	1	3			2:12.65	Q
8	2	6			2:12.84
9	2	2			2:13.09	Q, NR
10	3	3			2:13.57	Q
11	2	3			2:13.81	Q
12	1	2			2:15.23	Q
13	3	6			2:15.56	Q
14	3	5			2:15.61	Q
15	3	7			2:17.01	Q
16	2	7			2:19.85	Q
17	1	7			2:21.59	Q
18	3	1			2:29.22
	1	5			DNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			2:09.09	Q
2	5			2:09.14	Q
3	2			2:11.31	Q
4	6			2:11.47	NR
5	3			2:11.98
6	7			2:14.75
7	1			2:16.44
8	8			2:24.83

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			2:07.03	Q
2	5			2:08.65	Q
3	6			2:09.40	Q
4	1			2:10.47	Q
5	3			2:11.08	Q, NR
6	2			2:11.46
7	7			2:16.42
8	8			2:19.70

Final

The final was held at 17:20.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			2:07.28
	3			2:07.86
	5			2:08.22
4	6			2:08.91
5	2			2:09.01
6	7			2:09.14
7	1			2:10.70	NR
8	8			2:11.69

Notes and References

1. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C51A1_Start%20List%20%28Heats%20Individual%29_34_Women_200_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly entry list
2. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_34_Women_200_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C74A_Results%20%28Summary%20-%20Individual%29_234_Women_200_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly Semifinals results
4. http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2012/Debrecen/C73A1_Results%20%28One%20Heat%20-%20Individual%29_134_Heat1_Women_200_Fly.pdf 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly Final results