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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	16 August (heats and semifinals) 17 August (final)
Competitors:	19
Nations:	12
Win Value:	2:06.81
Gold:	Lana Pudar
Gold Nation:	BIH
Silver:	Helena Rosendahl Bach
Silver Nation:	DEN
Bronze:	Ilaria Cusinato
Bronze Nation:	ITA
Longnames:	yes
Prev:	2020
Next:	2024

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 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			2:01.81		20 October 2009
European record			2:04.27		29 July 2009
Championship record			2:04.79		24 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 16 August at 09:17.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4			2:08.66	Q
2	1	3			2:09.72	Q
3	1	5			2:09.75	Q
4	3	4			2:10.30	Q
5	2	4			2:10.82	Q
6	2	5			2:11.02	Q
7	2	6			2:11.15	Q
8	2	3			2:11.40	Q
9	3	6			2:11.41
10	1	2			2:12.44	Q
11	3	5			2:13.59	Q
12	2	7			2:13.73	Q
13	2	1			2:14.00	Q
14	3	8			2:14.10	Q, NR
15	3	7			2:16.75	Q
16	1	7			2:16.91	Q
17	2	2			2:17.74	Q,
18	1	1			2:18.91	Q
19	3	1			2:19.00
	1	6
	3	2
	3	3

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 16 August at 19:26.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4			2:08.48	Q
2	1	4			2:08.90	Q
3	1	5			2:09.25	Q
4	2	5			2:09.30	Q
5	2	3			2:10.11	q
6	1	3			2:10.77	q
7	2	6			2:10.82	q
8	1	6			2:10.85	q
9	2	2			2:11.41
10	2	7			2:12.49
11	1	1			2:14.01
12	2	1			2:14.40
13	1	2			2:14.54
14	1	7			2:14.59
15	2	8			2:14.90
16	1	8			2:16.92

Final

The final was held on 17 August at 18:16.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2			2:06.81	NR
	4			2:07.30	NR
	6			2:07.77
4	3			2:08.47
5	7			2:09.03
6	5			2:09.59
7	8			2:10.79
8	1			2:10.97

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/SWMW200MBF------------HEAT--------_51A1%201.0.pdf Start list
3. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBF------------HEAT--------_74A%201.0.pdf Heats results
4. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBF------------SFNL--------_74A%201.0.pdf Semifinals results
5. https://roma2022.microplustimingservices.com/export/NU_ROMA2022/NU/pdf/SWMW200MBF------------FNL---------_73A2%201.0.pdf Final results