Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates:	5 August (heats and semifinals) 6 August (final)
Competitors:	24
Nations:	16
Win Value:	2:07.13
Gold:	Boglárka Kapás
Gold Nation:	HUN
Silver:	Svetlana Chimrova
Silver Nation:	RUS
Bronze:	Alys Thomas
Bronze Nation:	GBR
Prev:	2016
Next:	2020

The Women's 200 metre butterfly 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	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Liu Zige		2:01.81	Jinan	21 October 2009
European record	Katinka Hosszú		2:04.27	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte		2:04.79	Berlin	24 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 4 August at 09:44.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4			2:07.86	Q
2	3	4			2:08.93	Q
3	3	5			2:09.02	Q
4	2	5			2:09.29	Q
5	1	6			2:09.46
6	1	4			2:10.08	Q
6	2	3			2:10.08	Q
6	3	3			2:10.08	Q
9	2	6			2:10.34	Q
10	3	6			2:10.43
11	3	2			2:10.69	Q
12	1	5			2:11.07	Q
13	1	3			2:11.28
14	1	1			2:12.32	Q
15	1	2			2:12.61	Q
16	3	7			2:14.18	Q
17	2	1			2:14.40	Q
18	3	1			2:14.54	Q
19	1	7			2:14.67	Q
20	2	8			2:14.85	NR
21	2	7			2:16.45
22	1	8			2:19.14
23	3	8			2:21.10
24	3	0			2:27.90
—	2	2			Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:39.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			2:07.55	Q
2	5			2:07.75	Q
3	6			2:08.84	Q
4	3			2:08.96	Q
5	2			2:11.25
6	7			2:11.65
7	1			2:13.50
8	8			2:16.79

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			2:07.64	Q
2	6			2:08.57	Q
3	5			2:08.70	Q
4	3			2:08.77	Q
5	2			2:09.69
6	7			2:13.14
7	8			2:15.50
8	1			2:17.96

Final

The final was started on 6 August at 17:00.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3			2:07.13
	6			2:07.33	NR
	5			2:07.42
4	4			2:07.75
5	8			2:08.03
6	2			2:08.69
7	1			2:08.91
8	7			2:09.25

Notes and References

1. https://www.europeanchampionships.com/sites/default/files/ec_2018_schedule.pdf Schedule
2. http://glasgow2018.microplustiming.com/export/NU_GLASGOW2018/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBF------------HEAT--------_51A1%201.0.pdf Start list
3. http://glasgow2018.microplustiming.com/export/NU_GLASGOW2018/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBF------------HEAT--------_74A%201.0.pdf Heats results
4. http://glasgow2018.microplustiming.com/export/NU_GLASGOW2018/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBF------------SFNL--------_74A%201.0.pdf Semifinals results
5. http://glasgow2018.microplustiming.com/export/NU_GLASGOW2018/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBF------------FNL-000100--_73A1%201.0.pdf Final results