Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	18 May
Competitors:	45
Nations:	28
Win Value:	2:08.33
Gold:	Ross Murdoch
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Marco Koch
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Luca Pizzini
Bronzenoc:	ITA
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 May 2016.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Akihiro Yamaguchi	2:07.01	Gifu	15 September 2012
European record	Dániel Gyurta	2:07.23	Barcelona	2 August 2013
Championship record	Marco Koch	2:07.47	Berlin	21 August 2014

The heats were held on 18 May at 10:29.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	4	2:11.29	Q
2	4	5	2:11.78	Q
3	3	4	2:11.87	Q
4	5	3	2:12.21	Q
5	3	5	2:12.25	Q
6	4	3	2:12.76	Q
7	5	5	2:12.79	Q
8	4	4	2:12.88
9	3	3	2:12.92	Q
10	5	2	2:13.33	Q
11	4	2	2:13.64	Q
12	5	7	2:13.69	Q
13	4	0	2:13.72	Q
14	5	8	2:13.76	Q
15	5	6	2:13.82	Q
16	3	8	2:13.91	Q
17	4	6	2:14.19	Q
18	3	7	2:14.30
19	4	9	2:14.57
19	3	2	2:14.57
21	4	7	2:14.81
22	2	4	2:14.91
23	2	3	2:14.97
24	3	6	2:15.04
25	3	0	2:15.12
26	4	8	2:15.16
27	1	6	2:16.19
28	3	1	2:16.34
29	2	0	2:16.50
30	2	9	2:17.24
31	2	8	2:17.26
32	2	6	2:17.29
33	2	7	2:17.33
34	5	9	2:17.53
34	3	9	2:17.53
36	2	2	2:17.59
37	2	5	2:17.92
38	5	0	2:18.20
39	2	1	2:18.28
40	4	1	2:19.24
41	1	3	2:19.59
42	5	1	2:21.16
43	1	5	2:22.49
44	1	7	2:27.60
	1	2	DSQ
	1	4	DNS

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 18:22.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:10.10	Q
2	5	2:11.13	Q
3	1	2:11.22	Q
4	3	2:11.25	Q
5	6	2:11.54	Q
6	8	2:12.09
7	2	2:13.82
8	7	2:14.84

The final was held on 19 May at 18:46.^[5]