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

Event:	Women's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	11 August (heats and semifinals) 12 August (final)
Competitors:	25
Nations:	18
Win Value:	2:07.13
Gold:	Margherita Panziera
Gold Nation:	ITA
Silver:	Katie Shanahan
Silver Nation:	GBR
Bronze:	Dóra Molnár
Bronze Nation:	HUN
Prev:	2020
Next:	2024

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 11 and 12 August 2022.^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record			2:03.35		26 July 2019
European record			2:04.94		1 August 2009
Championship record			2:06.08		23 May 2021

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 11 August at 09:44.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4			2:09.27	Q
2	1	4			2:09.53	Q
3	3	5			2:10.17	Q
4	3	3			2:10.93	Q
5	3	2			2:11.36	Q
6	1	3			2:12.10	Q
7	1	5			2:12.22	Q
8	2	6			2:12.42
9	1	2			2:12.44	Q
10	3	8			2:12.46	Q
11	1	6			2:12.94	Q
12	3	6			2:12.95	Q
13	2	4			2:13.00	Q
14	2	5			2:13.13	Q
15	1	1			2:13.18	Q
16	2	3			2:13.30	Q
17	2	2			2:13.89	Q
18	1	7			2:13.91
19	2	1			2:14.65
20	3	1			2:15.19
21	3	7			2:15.40
22	2	8			2:15.60
23	1	8			2:15.70
24	2	7			2:15.74
25	3	0			2:17.84

Semifinals

The semifinals were started at 18:25.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4			2:08.18	Q
2	2	5			2:09.80	Q
3	1	5			2:09.82	Q
4	1	4			2:09.88	Q
5	2	8			2:10.15	q
6	1	7			2:10.78	q
7	1	3			2:11.05	q
8	2	6			2:11.07	q
9	1	8			2:11.16
10	2	3			2:11.38
11	1	2			2:11.46
12	1	6			2:11.78
13	2	7			2:11.84
14	2	2			2:12.54
15	1	1			2:13.97
16	2	1			2:15.74

Final

The final was held at 18:00.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			2:07.13
	3			2:09.26
	6			2:09.73
4	5			2:10.23
5	1			2:11.03
6	8			2:11.11
7	2			2:11.14
8	7			2:11.23

Notes and References

1. https://www.roma2022.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Timing-SWIMMING-elite-1.5.pdf Schedule
2. https://roma2022-s3.microplustimingservices.com/ROMA2022/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBA------------HEAT--------_51A1%201.0.pdf Start list
3. https://roma2022-s3.microplustimingservices.com/ROMA2022/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBA------------HEAT--------_74A%201.0.pdf Heats results
4. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBA------------SFNL--------_74A%201.0.pdf Semifinals results
5. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBA------------FNL---------_73A2%201.0.pdf Final results