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

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	21–22 August
Competitors:	33
Nations:	25
Win Value:	2:19.84
Gold:	Rikke Møller Pedersen
Goldnoc:	DEN
Silver:	Molly Renshaw
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Jessica Vall
Bronzenoc:	ESP

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21–22 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	Rikke Møller Pedersen	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	2:19.11	Barcelona	28 July 2013
European record							Barcelona	28 July 2013
Championship record	Anastasia Chaun		2:23.50	Budapest	13 August 2010

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	5	2:25.46	Q
2	3	4	2:25.69	Q
3	2	4	2:26.80	Q
4	3	3	2:26.88	Q
5	2	6	2:27.38	Q
6	4	4	2:27.42	Q
7	3	5	2:27.49	Q
8	2	3	2:27.56	Q
9	4	6	2:27.95	Q
10	3	2	2:28.07	Q
11	2	2	2:28.37	Q
12	4	3	2:28.59	Q
13	4	1	2:29.12	Q
14	3	0	2:30.29	Q
15	4	2	2:30.74	Q
16	4	8	2:30.77	Q
17	3	8	2:31.11
18	1	5	2:31.52
19	2	7	2:31.62
20	1	4	2:31.67
21	2	1	2:31.81
22	4	9	2:32.05
23	3	7	2:32.23
24	2	0	2:32.59
25	3	1	2:33.03
26	2	8	2:33.40
27	2	9	2:34.67
28	3	9	2:34.79
29	1	3	2:34.89
30	4	7	2:35.78
31	4	0	2:37.79
32	1	6	2:39.89
33	1	2	2:41.04
—	3	6		DNS
—	4	5		DNS

The semifinals were held at 19:14.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:23.35	Q
2	5	2:24.78	Q
3	6	2:25.55	Q
4	2	2:26.14	Q
5	3	2:26.26	Q
6	7	2:27.75
7	1	2:29.11
8	8	2:31.29

The final was held at 18:43.^[4]