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

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	13 August (heats and semifinals) 14 August (final)
Competitors:	30
Nations:	20
Win Value:	2:08.96
Gold Nation:	GBR
Silver Nation:	FIN
Bronze Nation:	ITA
Prev:	2020
Next:	2024

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 13 and 14 August 2022.^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record			2:05.95		19 May 2022
European record			2:06.12		26 July 2019
Championship record			2:06.80		6 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 13 August at 09:42.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	6			2:11.16	Q
2	3	4			2:11.51	Q
3	4	5			2:11.82	Q
4	3	8			2:11.92	Q, NR
5	3	5			2:12.47	Q
6	3	3			2:12.50	Q
7	4	2			2:12.53	Q
8	4	3			2:12.56	Q
9	3	1			2:12.69	Q
10	2	3			2:12.72	Q
11	2	4			2:12.87	Q
12	2	2			2:13.08	Q
13	2	5			2:13.35	Q
14	4	9			2:13.81	Q
15	2	6			2:13.88	Q
16	4	8			2:13.93	Q
17	4	7			2:14.48
18	3	2			2:14.75
19	2	8			2:14.95
20	3	0			2:14.96
21	2	0			2:15.40
22	2	1	Aleksas Savickas		2:15.63
23	4	1			2:15.98
24	4	0			2:16.42
25	2	9			2:17.89
26	1	4			2:18.46
27	3	9			2:18.51
28	1	3			2:34.53
	3	6			Disqualified
	3	7
	1	5			Did not start
	2	7
	4	4

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 13 August at 19:04.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4			2:09.88	Q
2	1	2			2:10.48	Q
3	2	3			2:10.59	Q
4	1	3			2:10.60	q
5	2	1			2:11.14	Q
6	2	5			2:11.47	q
7	2	4			2:11.48	q
8	2	7			2:11.73	Q
9	1	6			2:12.08
10	1	5			2:12.37
11	2	2			2:12.62
12	1	1			2:12.64
13	2	6			2:12.73
14	1	7			2:13.21
15	1	8			2:13.47
16	2	8			2:13.57

Final

The final was started on 14 August at 19:08.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8			2:08.96
	4			2:09.40
	5			2:09.97
4	6			2:10.27
5	3			2:10.45
6	7			2:10.96
7	2			2:11.14
8	1			2:12.27

Notes and References

1. https://www.roma2022.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Timing-SWIMMING-elite-1.4.pdf Schedule
2. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM200MBR------------HEAT--------_51A1%201.0.pdf?x=10:31:09 Start list
3. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM200MBR------------HEAT--------_74A%201.0.pdf Heats results
4. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM200MBR------------SFNL--------_74A%201.0.pdf Semifinals results
5. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMM200MBR------------FNL---------_73A2%201.0.pdf Final results