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

Event:	Women's 200 Metre Butterfly
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	23–24 August
Competitors:	25
Nations:	16
Win Value:	2:04.79
Gold:	Mireia Belmonte
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silver:	Judit Ignacio Sorribes
Silvernoc:	ESP
Bronze:	Katinka Hosszú
Bronzenoc:	HUN

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 23–24 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	Liu Zige	align=left		align=left	2:01.81	Jinan	20 October 2009
European record	align=left	Katinka Hosszú	align=left		align=left	2:04.27	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	Otylia Jędrzejczak		2:05.78	Berlin	4 August 2002

The heats were held at 09:51.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	2:08.41	Q
2	1	4	2:08.73	Q
3	1	6	2:08.81	Q
4	2	4	2:08.91	Q
5	3	5	2:09.21	Q
6	2	5	2:10.60	Q
7	2	7	2:10.63	Q
8	2	3	2:10.97
9	3	3	2:11.56	Q (DNS)
10	1	2	2:11.64	Q
11	3	6	2:11.77	Q
12	1	3	2:11.86	Q
13	1	7	2:12.19	Q
14	1	5	2:12.36	Q
15	3	7	2:12.68	Q
16	3	2	2:12.70	Q
17	2	2	2:13.66	Q
18	3	1	2:13.71	Q (Sub)
19	3	0	2:13.75
20	2	6	2:14.10
21	2	1	2:16.56
22	2	8	2:17.80
23	3	8	2:18.57
24	1	8	2:19.35
25	1	1	2:21.08

The semifinals were held at 17:13.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	2:08.83	Q
2	3	2:09.03	Q
3	4	2:09.19	Q
4	2	2:10.31	Q
5	8	2:10.70
6	1	2:12.35
7	6	2:13.10
8	7	2:14.74

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:06.53	Q
2	3	2:07.44	Q
3	5	2:08.45	Q
4	1	2:08.96	Q
5	7	2:10.49
6	6	2:10.76
7	2	2:12.86
8	8	2:13.44

The final was held at 16:20.^[4]