Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	16–17 May
Competitors:	34
Nations:	24
Win Value:	2:07.01
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Daryna Zevina
Silvernoc:	UKR
Bronze:	Matea Samardžić
Bronzenoc:	CRO
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 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	Missy Franklin	2:04.06	London	28 July 2012
European record	Anastasia Zuyeva	2:04.94	Rome	1 August 2009
Championship record	Krisztina Egerszegi	2:06.62	Athens	22 August 1991

The heats were held on 16 May at 11:28.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	2:08.44	Q
2	2	5	2:09.90	Q
3	3	8	2:11.21	Q
4	3	5	2:11.25	Q
5	3	4	2:11.30	Q
6	4	5	2:11.45	Q
7	2	3	2:11.53	Q
8	4	6	2:11.92	Q
9	3	6	2:12.24
10	3	3	2:12.87
11	2	2	2:12.99	Q
12	4	3	2:13.03	Q
13	4	7	2:13.24	Q
14	4	2	2:13.35	Q
14	3	7	2:13.35	Q
16	2	6	2:13.57	Q
17	2	4	2:13.77	Q
18	2	1	2:15.26
19	1	5	2:15.40
20	3	2	2:15.90
21	2	7	2:15.97
22	3	0	2:16.26
23	4	9	2:16.58
24	2	8	2:16.67
25	4	0	2:16.75
26	4	1	2:17.59
27	2	0	2:19.31
28	3	1	2:20.33
29	4	8	2:20.61
30	1	4	2:21.55
31	1	3	2:21.58
32	3	9	2:22.67
33	1	6	2:23.65
34	2	9	2:25.11

The semifinals were held on 16 May at 18:52.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:08.66	Q
2	5	2:09.87	Q
3	6	2:10.83	Q
4	2	2:11.71	Q
5	3	2:11.80
6	7	2:11.81
7	8	2:12.05
8	1	2:13.15

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:09.98	Q
2	3	2:10.87	Q
3	6	2:11.26	Q
4	2	2:11.63	Q
5	7	2:11.96
6	5	2:12.11
7	8	2:12.55
8	1	2:13.25

The final was held on 17 May at 19:09.^[5]