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

Event:	Men's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	19–20 August
Competitors:	36
Nations:	24
Win Value:	1:58.10
Gold:	László Cseh
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Philip Heintz
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Roberto Pavoni
Bronzenoc:	GBR

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Lochte	1:54.00	Shanghai	24 July 2011
European record	László Cseh	1:55.18	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	László Cseh	1:56.66	Debrecen	23 May 2012

The heats were held at 10:07.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	4		1:59.17	Q
2	3	4		1:59.60	Q
3	3	5		1:59.89	Q
4	4	5		2:00.16	Q
5	4	3		2:00.18	Q
6	2	6		2:00.32	Q
7	4	2		2:00.54	Q
8	4	6		2:00.83	Q
9	2	4		2:01.08	Q
10	2	7		2:01.17	Q
11	2	3		2:01.23	Q
12	2	5		2:01.34	Q
13	3	6		2:01.61	Q
13	3	2		2:01.61	Q
15	3	1		2:01.86	Q
16	4	7		2:01.88	Q
17	3	7		2:01.97
18	3	8		2:02.19
19	4	0		2:02.53
20	1	7		2:02.61
21	4	8		2:02.74
22	3	3		2:02.96
23	2	0		2:03.29
24	2	1		2:03.47
25	1	4		2:03.68
26	2	2	Dmitry Gorbunov	2:03.75
27	1	2		2:03.85
28	2	9		2:04.43
29	1	3		2:04.74
30	1	5		2:04.97
31	3	0		2:05.24
32	4	9		2:05.72
33	2	8		2:06.07
34	3	9		2:06.24
35	1	6		2:08.21
—	4	1			DSQ

The semifinals were held at 18:46.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:58.00	Q
2	3	1:58.17	Q
3	5	1:59.54	Q
4	6	2:00.12	Q
5	8	2:00.32	Q
6	7	2:00.43
7	1	2:01.13
8	2	2:02.83

The final was held at 19:22.^[4]