| Event: | Men's 200 metre breaststroke |
| Competition: | 2024 European Aquatics Championships |
| Venue: | Sports Centre Milan Gale Muškatirović |
| Dates: | 19 June (heats and semifinals) 20 June (final) |
| Competitors: | 28 |
| Nations: | 21 |
| Win Value: | 2:09.45 |
| Gold: | Lyubomir Epitropov |
| Gold Nation: | BUL |
| Gold2 Nation: | SWE |
| Bronze: | Jan Kałusowski |
| Bronze Nation: | POL |
| Prev: | 2022 |
| Next: | 2026 |
The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2024 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 June 2024.[1] [2]
Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nationality | Time | Location | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | 2:05.48 | 28 July 2023 | |||
| European record | 2:06.12 | 26 July 2019 | |||
| Championship record | 2:06.80 | 6 August 2018 |
The heats were started on 19 June at 10:10.
Qualification Rules: The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to the semifinals.[3]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 2:11.96 | Q | |||
| 2 | 2 | 6 | 2:12.32 | Q | |||
| 3 | 2 | 5 | 2:12.34 | Q | |||
| 4 | 2 | 4 | 2:12.62 | Q | |||
| 5 | 1 | 3 | 2:12.87 | Q | |||
| 1 | 4 | Q | |||||
| 3 | 5 | Q | |||||
| 8 | 2 | 3 | 2:13.21 | Q | |||
| 9 | 3 | 2 | 2:13.34 | Q | |||
| 10 | 1 | 5 | 2:13.74 | Q | |||
| 11 | 3 | 3 | 2:14.00 | Q | |||
| 12 | 1 | 6 | 2:14.17 | Q | |||
| 13 | 2 | 1 | 2:15.13 | Q | |||
| 14 | 1 | 2 | 2:15.46 | Q | |||
| 15 | 2 | 2 | 2:15.81 | Q | |||
| 2 | 7 | Q | |||||
| 17 | 3 | 6 | 2:16.15 | ||||
| 18 | 1 | 7 | 2:16.67 | ||||
| 19 | 3 | 8 | 2:16.97 | ||||
| 20 | 3 | 7 | 2:17.95 | ||||
| 21 | 3 | 1 | 2:19.26 | ||||
| 22 | 1 | 1 | 2:19.41 | ||||
| 23 | 3 | 0 | 2:20.45 | ||||
| 24 | 1 | 0 | 2:21.84 | ||||
| 25 | 1 | 8 | 2:22.38 | ||||
| 26 | 3 | 9 | 2:22.84 | ||||
| 27 | 2 | 8 | 2:24.91 | ||||
| 28 | 2 | 0 | 2:26.14 |
The semifinal were started on 19 June at 19:34.
Qualification Rules: The first 2 competitors of each semifinal and the remaining fastest (up to a total of 8 qualified competitors) from the semifinals advance to the final.[4]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 2:10.14 | Q | |||
| 2 | 1 | 4 | 2:10.35 | Q | |||
| 3 | 2 | 3 | 2:10.38 | Q | |||
| 4 | 2 | 5 | 2:10.72 | Q | |||
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 2:11.62 | Q | |||
| 6 | 1 | 3 | 2:12.00 | Q | |||
| 7 | 2 | 6 | 2:12.79 | Q | |||
| 8 | 1 | 2 | 2:13.23 | Q | |||
| 9 | 2 | 7 | 2:13.41 | ||||
| 10 | 1 | 5 | 2:13.42 | ||||
| 11 | 1 | 6 | 2:13.53 | ||||
| 12 | 2 | 1 | 2:14.85 | ||||
| 13 | 1 | 7 | 2:15.23 | ||||
| 14 | 1 | 8 | 2:15.45 | ||||
| 15 | 2 | 8 | 2:16.62 | ||||
| 16 | 1 | 1 | 2:18.74 |
The final was held on 20 June at 19:31.[5]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2:09.45 | NR | ||||
| 6 | ||||||
| 5 | 2:10.20 | |||||
| 4 | 4 | 2:10.28 | ||||
| 5 | 7 | 2:11.84 | ||||
| 6 | 8 | 2:12.36 | ||||
| 7 | 2 | 2:12.71 | ||||
| 8 | 1 | 2:13.07 |