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

Event:	Men's 200 metre freestyle
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	17–18 May
Competitors:	67
Nations:	30
Win Value:	1:46.02
Gold:	Sebastiaan Verschuren
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Velimir Stjepanović
Silvernoc:	SRB
Bronze:	James Guy
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 and 18 May 2016.^[1] ^[2]

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	Paul Biedermann	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	1:42.00	Rome	28 July 2009
European record							Rome	28 July 2009
Championship record	Pieter van den Hoogenband		1:44.89	Berlin	2 August 2002

The heats were held on 17 May at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	8	2		1:46.93	Q
2	6	4		1:47.03	Q
3	8	4		1:47.11	Q
4	6	5		1:47.35	Q
5	6	2		1:47.48	Q
6	8	8		1:47.59	Q
7	6	8		1:47.61	Q
8	7	4		1:47.69	Q
9	8	3		1:48.05
10	7	6		1:48.09	Q
11	6	7		1:48.16	Q
12	6	6		1:48.29
13	8	7		1:48.45	Q
14	5	6		1:48.73	Q
15	7	5		1:48.79	Q
16	8	6		1:48.80	Q
17	5	4		1:48.81	Q
18	7	1	Kyle Stolk	1:48.83
19	7	2		1:48.89	Q
20	8	5		1:48.95
21	6	9		1:48.98
22	5	2		1:49.01
23	4	2		1:49.15
24	8	9		1:49.36
25	3	1		1:49.39
26	4	1		1:49.53
27	5	7		1:49.57
28	4	7		1:49.63
29	7	0		1:49.72
30	7	3		1:49.77
31	6	1		1:49.80
32	5	0		1:49.82
33	4	6		1:49.97
34	8	0		1:50.00
35	3	5		1:50.12
36	5	5		1:50.17
37	4	8		1:50.21
38	4	4		1:50.30
39	5	9		1:50.53
40	5	1		1:50.62
40	7	8		1:50.62
42	6	0		1:50.64
43	3	7		1:50.67
44	3	2		1:50.70
45	7	9		1:50.93
46	3	4		1:50.99
46	2	4		1:50.99
48	3	3		1:51.00
49	3	8		1:51.24
50	2	2		1:51.26
51	3	6		1:51.33
52	2	5		1:51.55
52	5	3		1:51.55
54	4	3		1:51.60
55	4	9		1:51.84
56	4	0		1:52.16
57	2	3		1:52.60
58	3	9		1:52.88
59	7	7		1:53.03
60	2	6		1:53.19
61	2	0		1:53.26
62	2	8		1:53.43
63	2	7		1:53.86
64	1	3		1:54.33
65	2	1		1:57.85
66	1	4		1:59.12
67	1	5		1:59.78
	3	0		DNS
	4	5		DNS
	5	8		DNS
	6	3		DNS
	8	1		DNS

The semifinals were held on 17 May at 19:23.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	1:45.87	Q
2	4	1:46.04	Q
3	3	1:46.95	Q
4	5	1:47.62	Q
5	1	1:48.22
6	2	1:48.71
7	8	1:48.85
8	7	1:49.29

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	1:46.59	Q
2	4	1:46.91	Q
3	6	1:47.56	Q
4	3	1:47.58	Q
5	2	1:47.73
6	7	1:47.85
7	1	1:48.35
8	8	1:48.66

The final was held on 18 May at 18:51.^[5]