Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 200 Metre Butterfly
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	20–21 August
Competitors:	34
Nations:	23
Win Value:	1:55.29
Gold:	Viktor Bromer
Goldnoc:	DEN
Silver:	Bence Biczó
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Paweł Korzeniowski
Bronzenoc:	POL
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20–21 August.^[1]

Records

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

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

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	4	1:55.43	Q
2	4	6	1:56.37	Q
3	3	4	1:56.63	Q
4	3	5	1:56.66	Q
5	3	2	1:57.15	Q
6	2	6	1:57.67	Q
7	3	3	1:57.70	Q
8	2	3	1:57.77	Q
9	2	7	1:57.78	Q
10	2	5	1:57.81	Q
11	4	5	1:57.93
12	4	1	1:58.11	Q
13	3	7	1:58.15	Q
14	4	4	1:58.29	Q
15	3	6	1:58.36	Q
16	4	0	1:58.48	Q
17	2	0	1:58.55	Q
18	4	3	1:58.60
19	1	4	1:59.04
20	4	7	1:59.66
21	1	6	1:59.80
22	1	5	2:00.01
23	2	8	2:00.09
24	2	1	2:00.09
24	4	8	2:00.09
26	3	0	2:00.83
27	2	2	2:01.07
28	4	9	2:01.60
29	3	8	2:01.69
30	2	9	2:02.67
31	1	3	2:02.82
32	1	2	2:03.10
33	1	1	2:03.77
34	1	7	2:05.49
—	3	1		DNS
—	3	9		DNS
—	4	2		DNS

The semifinals were held at 19:01.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	1:56.46	Q
2	4	1:56.74	Q
3	3	1:56.78	Q
4	6	1:57.03	Q
5	1	1:57.52
6	8	1:57.64
7	2	1:58.31
8	7	1:58.42

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:55.55	Q
2	1	1:56.43	Q
3	5	1:56.44	Q
4	2	1:57.23	Q
5	3	1:57.35
6	6	1:57.41
7	7	1:58.19
8	8	1:58.89

The final was held at 19:02.^[4]