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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	21 May
Competitors:	27
Nations:	15
Win Value:	2:07.23
Gold:	Franziska Hentke
Goldnoc:	GER
Silver:	Liliána Szilágyi
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Judit Ignacio Sorribes
Bronzenoc:	ESP
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21 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	Liu Zige	align=left		align=left	2:01.81	Jinan	20 October 2009
European record	align=left	Katinka Hosszú	align=left		align=left	2:04.27	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte		2:04.79	Berlin	24 August 2014

The heats were held on 21 May at 09:23.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	4	2:09.70	Q
2	1	4	2:09.89	Q
3	2	6	2:09.95	Q
4	3	4	2:10.13	Q
5	3	6	2:10.20	Q
6	3	5	2:10.21	Q
7	2	3	2:10.29	Q
8	1	8	2:10.34	Q
9	1	5	2:10.37	Q
10	2	5	2:10.83	Q
11	1	3	2:11.32	Q
12	2	2	2:11.85	Q
13	3	3	2:11.94	Q
14	2	7	2:12.03	Q
15	3	1	2:12.96	Q
16	2	1	2:13.25	Q
17	3	2	2:13.31
18	3	7	2:13.41
19	3	8	2:13.44
20	1	6	2:14.06
21	1	1	2:14.50
22	2	8	2:15.62
23	3	0	2:15.64
24	1	7	2:16.69
25	2	0	2:19.24
26	1	0	2:23.47
27	3	9	2:23.70
	1	2	DNS

The semifinals were held on 21 May at 17:25.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:08.63	Q
2	5	2:08.74	Q
3	3	2:08.80	Q
4	2	2:09.14	Q
5	6	2:10.23
6	7	2:11.83
7	8	2:12.45
8	1	2:13.39

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	2:07.49	Q
2	6	2:08.76	Q
3	5	2:09.40	Q
4	3	2:10.11	Q
5	7	2:10.22
6	1	2:10.56
7	4	2:10.78
8	8	2:11.04

The final was held on 22 May at 16:25.^[5]