Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	18–19 August
Competitors:	25
Nations:	18
Win Value:	2:09.37
Gold:	Duane Da Rocha
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silver:	Elizabeth Simmonds
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Daria Ustinova
Bronzenoc:	RUS

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18–19 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Missy Franklin	2:04.06	London	28 July 2012
European record	Anastasia Zuyeva	2:04.94	Rome	1 August 2009
Championship record	Krisztina Egerszegi	2:06.62	Athens	22 August 1991

The heats were held at 11:02.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	5	2:10.33	Q
2	2	6	2:10.34	Q
3	2	3	2:10.75	Q
4	3	5	2:11.09	Q
5	1	6	2:11.63	Q
6	1	3	2:11.74	Q
7	1	5	2:11.88	Q
8	1	4	2:12.32	Q
9	3	6	2:13.15
10	3	4	2:13.93	Q
11	3	3	2:14.51	Q
12	2	4	2:14.79	Q
13	3	2	2:15.14	Q
14	2	2	2:15.69	Q
15	1	7	2:15.80	Q
16	2	7	2:16.23	Q
17	1	2	2:16.30	Q
18	3	7	2:16.76
19	2	8	2:17.67
20	2	1	2:17.90
21	3	1	2:17.91
22	1	1	2:18.78
23	3	8	2:19.04
24	3	0	2:22.75
25	1	8	2:23.13

The semifinals were held 18:52.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	2:10.22	Q
2	4	2:10.26	Q
3	5	2:10.29	Q
4	3	2:10.83	Q
5	2	2:11.40	Q
6	7	2:13.58
7	8	2:15.03
8	1	2:15.98

The final was held at 19:03.^[4]