Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	18-19 May
Competitors	37 from 25 nations
Winning time	1:52.91
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18-19 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records edit

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	1:51.51	Rome	29 July 2009
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:52.70	Beijing	13 August 2008
Championship record	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:54.38	Eindhoven	21 March 2008

The heats were held on 18 May at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:54.51	Q
2	4	5	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.79	Q
3	2	4	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:56.67	Q
4	2	3	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:57.30	Q
5	2	5	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:57.60
6	2	0	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:57.76	Q
7	4	3	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:57.99	Q
8	3	3	Carlos Peralta	Spain	1:58.28	Q
9	3	1	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1:58.36	Q
10	3	4	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:58.51	Q
11	2	2	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:58.52	Q
12	2	7	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1:58.57	Q
13	4	2	Nuno Quintanilha	Portugal	1:58.74	Q
14	2	6	Markus Gierke	Germany	1:58.75	Q
15	3	7	Benjamin Grátz	Hungary	1:58.87
16	4	9	Sindri Jakobsson	Norway	1:58.93	Q
17	3	5	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:59.03	Q
18	2	1	Jesper Björk	Sweden	1:59.08	Q
19	3	6	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:59.09
20	4	6	Alexander Kunert	Germany	1:59.10
21	3	2	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	1:59.30
22	4	0	Etay Gurevich	Israel	1:59.60
23	1	4	Kaan Özcan	Turkey	1:59.87
24	3	8	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:59.94
25	3	0	Tomáš Havránek	Czech Republic	2:00.14
26	3	9	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	2:00.21
27	4	1	Alexandru Coci	Romania	2:00.49
28	4	7	Paul Lemaire	France	2:00.63
29	1	6	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	2:00.69
30	2	9	Filip Milcevic	Austria	2:00.95
31	1	7	Osvald Nitski	Estonia	2:01.46
32	1	5	Petr Novák	Czech Republic	2:01.52
33	2	8	Yonatan Batsha	Israel	2:01.61
34	1	3	Tim Slanschek	Switzerland	2:01.66
35	1	2	Nico van Duijn	Switzerland	2:01.96
36	1	1	Jakub Maly	Austria	2:03.11
37	1	8	Arkadi Kalinovski	Estonia	2:06.66
	4	8	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	DNS

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 19:03.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:56.02	Q
2	5	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.81	Q
3	3	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:57.44	Q
4	6	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1:58.39
5	8	Jesper Björk	Sweden	1:58.49
6	2	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:58.83
7	7	Nuno Quintanilha	Portugal	1:59.10
8	1	Sindri Jakobsson	Norway	1:59.12

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:54.29	Q, CR
2	5	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.28	Q
3	2	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:56.67	Q
4	6	Carlos Peralta	Spain	1:56.92	Q
5	8	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:57.56	Q
6	3	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:57.90
7	1	Markus Gierke	Germany	1:58.13
8	7	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1:58.79

The final was held on 19 May at 19:06.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:52.91	CR
	5	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.35
	3	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:55.39
4	6	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:56.22
5	7	Carlos Peralta	Spain	1:56.42
6	8	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.65
7	2	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.81
8	1	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:57.02