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

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	18–19 May
Competitors:	40
Nations:	21
Win Value:	2:07.30
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Hannah Miley
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 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	Katinka Hosszú	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	2:06.12	Kazan	3 August 2015
European record							Kazan	3 August 2015
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú		2:08.11	Berlin	21 August 2014

The heats were held on 18 May at 10:14.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	2:11.55	Q
2	2	4	2:12.43	Q
3	3	4	2:12.76	Q
4	2	6	2:13.01	Q
5	2	5	2:13.13	Q
6	4	5	2:13.29
7	4	6	2:13.34	Q
8	3	5	2:14.23	Q
9	3	3	2:14.42
10	4	2	2:14.46	Q
11	3	6	2:14.70
12	4	8	2:14.99	Q
13	4	0	2:15.15	Q
14	4	3	2:15.23	Q
15	4	9	2:15.64	Q
16	2	7	2:15.82	Q
17	4	7	2:15.92	Q
18	2	1	2:16.19	Q
19	3	7	2:16.35	Q
20	3	2	2:16.40
21	2	2	2:16.66
22	1	4	2:16.69
23	3	0	2:16.87
24	3	9	2:16.90
25	2	8	2:16.91
26	3	8	2:17.04
27	4	1	2:17.35
28	1	5	2:17.52
29	1	7	2:17.67
30	2	3	2:17.69
31	1	2	2:17.76
32	2	0	2:17.95
33	3	1	2:18.06
34	2	9	2:18.07
35	1	6	2:18.85
36	1	1	2:19.03
37	1	3	2:19.14
38	1	8	2:21.76
39	1	0	2:22.02
40	1	9	2:29.66

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 18:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:12.39	Q
2	3	2:12.95	Q
3	5	2:13.92	Q
4	6	2:14.18	Q
5	1	2:14.42
6	2	2:15.31
7	7	2:16.00
8	8	2:16.42

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:08.60	Q
2	5	2:10.17	Q
3	3	2:12.93	Q
4	2	2:13.34	Q
5	6	2:14.39
6	7	2:14.62
7	1	2:15.96
8	8	2:17.10

The final was held on 19 May at 18:15.^[5]