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

Event:	Women's 200 metre freestyle
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	22–23 August
Competitors:	33
Nations:	18
Win Value:	1:56.01
Gold:	Federica Pellegrini
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Katinka Hosszú
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Femke Heemskerk
Bronzenoc:	NED

The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22–23 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 rowspan=2	Federica Pellegrini	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	1:52.98	Rome	29 July 2009
European record							Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	Federica Pellegrini		1:55.45	Budapest	14 August 2010

The heats were held at 09:45.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	5	1:57.05	Q
2	4	5	1:58.60	Q
3	2	4	1:58.66	Q
4	3	4	1:59.14	Q
5	4	3	1:59.55	Q
6	2	5	1:59.77	Q
7	3	8	2:00.26	Q
7	4	6	2:00.26	Q
9	4	2	2:00.29	Q
10	2	7	2:00.63	Q
11	4	1	2:00.72	Q
12	3	2	2:00.74	Q
13	2	8	2:00.87	Q
14	3	7	2:00.92	Q
14	1	4	2:00.92	Q
16	3	1	2:01.28
17	4	8	2:01.38
18	2	2	2:01.56
19	3	3	2:01.75	Q
20	3	0	2:02.21
21	2	6	2:02.31
22	4	9	2:02.60
23	4	0	2:02.83
24	1	3	2:03.20
25	2	9	2:03.38
26	1	1	2:03.77
27	3	9	2:03.81
28	2	1	2:03.93
29	1	7	2:04.16
30	2	0	2:04.69
31	1	6	2:05.73
32	1	5	2:07.07
33	1	8	2:12.14
—	1	2		DNS
—	2	3		DNS
—	3	6		DNS
—	4	4		DNS
—	4	7		DNS

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

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	1:56.69	Q
2	3	1:57.15	Q
3	8	1:57.18	Q
4	4	1:57.24	Q
5	6	1:59.06	Q
6	7	1:59.89
7	2	2:00.25
8	1	2:00.77

The final was held at 16:31.^[4]