Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	12 August (heats and semifinals) 13 August (final)
Competitors:	30
Nations:	16
Win Value:	1:55.62
Gold:	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard
Gold Nation:	FRA
Silver Nation:	HUN
Bronze:	Luke Greenbank
Bronze Nation:	GBR
Prev:	2020
Next:	2024

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 August 2022.^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record			1:51.92		31 July 2009
European record			1:53.23		8 April 2021
Championship record			1:53.36		8 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 12 August at 09:42.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3			1:56.70	Q
2	1	6			1:56.81	Q
3	1	5			1:57.51	Q
4	3	4			1:57.81	Q
5	2	2			1:58.15	Q
6	2	3			1:58.22
7	1	2			1:58.68	Q
8	2	4			1:58.88
9	3	7			1:58.99	Q
10	1	7			1:59.13	Q
11	3	2			1:59.18	Q
12	2	5			1:59.46	Q
13	1	3			1:59.62	Q
14	3	1			1:59.76	Q
15	1	4			1:59.89	Q
16	3	5			2:00.29	Q
17	3	6			2:00.86	Q
18	2	6			2:00.88	Q
19	1	8			2:01.06
20	2	7			2:01.16
21	3	8			2:01.55
22	2	8			2:01.99
23	1	1			2:02.06
24	2	0			2:02.78
25	3	0			2:03.48
26	2	1			2:03.52
27	3	9			2:08.30
28	1	0			2:08.88
29	1	9			2:24.87
	6	0

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 12 August at 18:49.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	1			1:56.22	Q, NR
2	2	4			1:56.39	Q
3	1	5			1:57.07	Q
4	2	2			1:57.62	Q
5	2	3			1:57.68	q
6	1	4			1:57.83	q
7	2	7			1:58.20	q
8	2	5			1:58.24	q
9	2	6			1:58.66
10	1	2			1:58.68
11	1	3			1:58.96
12	1	7			1:59.66
13	2	1			1:59.69
14	1	6			2:00.26
15	2	8			2:00.29
16	1	8			2:00.73

Final

The final was held on 13 August at 18:10.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			1:55.62	NR
	7			1:56.03
	3			1:56.15
4	4			1:56.45
5	1			1:57.30
6	6			1:57.43
7	8			1:57.71
8	2			1:57.84

Notes and References

1. https://www.roma2022.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Timing-SWIMMING-elite-1.5.pdf Schedule
2. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM200MBA------------HEAT--------_51A1%201.0.pdf Start list
3. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM200MBA------------HEAT--------_74A%201.0.pdf Heats results
4. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM200MBA------------SFNL--------_74A%201.0.pdf Semifinals results
5. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM200MBA------------FNL---------_73A2%201.0.pdf Final results