Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates:	5 August (heats and semifinals) 6 August (final)
Competitors:	32
Nations:	20
Win Value:	1:57.04
Gold:	Jérémy Desplanches
Gold Nation:	SUI
Silver:	Philip Heintz
Silver Nation:	GER
Bronze:	Max Litchfield
Bronze Nation:	GBR
Prev:	2016
Next:	2020

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Lochte	1:54.00	Shanghai	28 July 2011
European record	László Cseh	1:55.18	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	László Cseh	1:56.66	Debrecen	23 May 2012

The heats were started on 5 August at 09:30.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	3		1:58.07	Q
2	3	4		1:58.12	Q
3	4	5		1:58.57
4	2	5		1:58.99	Q
5	3	5		1:59.40	Q
6	2	4		1:59.88	Q
7	2	6		2:00.06	Q
8	4	6		2:00.24	Q
9	2	3		2:00.32
10	4	4		2:00.34	Q
11	3	1		2:00.65	Q
12	2	7		2:00.72	Q
13	2	2		2:00.84	Q
13	2	1		2:00.84	Q
15	3	6		2:00.94	Q
16	3	2		2:01.42
17	4	3		2:01.54
18	4	8		2:02.03	Q
19	4	7		2:02.05	Q
20	4	1		2:02.34	Q
20	3	9		2:02.34
22	3	7	Georgios Spanoudakis	2:02.56
23	4	2		2:03.19
24	2	0		2:03.63
25	2	8		2:03.86
26	4	0		2:04.55
27	4	9		2:04.81
28	3	8		2:04.85
29	3	0		2:05.39
30	1	3		2:07.08
31	1	4		2:07.88
32	1	5		2:08.45

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 18:26.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	1:57.56	Q
2	4	1:57.62	Q
3	5	1:58.48	Q
4	3	2:00.00	Q
5	7	2:00.51
6	2	2:01.15
7	8	2:01.99
8	1	2:03.64

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	1:57.99	Q
2	4	1:58.22	Q
3	5	1:59.28	Q
4	6	1:59.89	Q
5	2	2:00.45
6	7	2:00.87
7	1	2:00.90
8	8	2:02.77

The final was started on 6 August at 18:15.^[5]