Swimming at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2024 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 June 2024.

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Sports Centre Milan Gale Muškatirović
Dates	18 June (heats and semifinals) 19 June (final)
Competitors	24 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:55.39
Medalists
Oleksandr Zheltyakov   Ukraine   Apostolos Siskos   Greece   Roman Mityukov   Switzerland

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:51.92	Rome	31 July 2009
European record	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.23	Kazan	8 April 2021
Championship record			1:53.36	Glasgow	8 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 18 June at 10:12.
Qualification Rules: The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:57.19	Q
2	1	6	David Gerchik	Israel	1:57.48	Q
3	1	4	Oleksandr Zheltyakov	Ukraine	1:58.39	Q
4	2	5	Ksawery Masiuk	Poland	1:58.47	Q
5	1	5	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:58.50	Q
6	3	5	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:58.79	Q
7	2	4	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:58.80	Q
8	3	3	John Shortt	Ireland	1:59.15	Q
9	3	6	Inbar Danziger	Israel	1:59.84	Q
10	2	3	Cornelius Jahn	Germany	2:00.02	Q
11	2	2	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	2:00.35	Q
12	3	2	Kaloyan Levterov	Bulgaria	2:00.48	Q
13	2	7	Jack Skerry	Great Britain	2:00.68	Q
14	2	6	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	2:00.71	Q
15	3	7	Flavio Bucca	Switzerland	2:01.38	Q
16	1	3	Christian Diener	Germany	2:01.63	Q
17	1	7	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:01.76
18	1	2	Matthew Ward	Great Britain	2:01.81
19	1	1	Max Halbeisen	Austria	2:02.07
20	2	1	Oleksii Hrabarov	Ukraine	2:02.33
21	3	8	Juraj Barcot	Croatia	2:04.59
22	1	8	Jaka Pusnik	Slovenia	2:05.79
23	3	1	Adam Maraana	Israel	2:07.03
24	2	8	Mackey Nurkic Kacapor	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:07.77

Semifinals

The semifinal were started on 18 June at 19:19.
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.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:56.54	Q
2	2	5	Oleksandr Zheltyakov	Ukraine	1:56.90	Q
3	2	4	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:57.00	Q
4	2	6	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:57.12	Q
5	1	5	Ksawery Masiuk	Poland	1:57.62	Q
6	1	3	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:57.99	Q
7	1	4	David Gerchik	Israel	1:58.38	Q
8	1	6	John Shortt	Ireland	1:58.89	Q
9	1	7	Kaloyan Levterov	Bulgaria	1:59.40
10	1	2	Cornelius Jahn	Germany	1:59.54
11	2	2	Inbar Danziger	Israel	1:59.72
12	2	7	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	2:00.29
13	2	1	Jack Skerry	Great Britain	2:00.41
14	2	8	Flavio Bucca	Switzerland	2:01.07
15	1	1	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	2:01.80
16	1	8	Christian Diener	Germany	2:02.54

Final

The final was held on 19 June at 18:40.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Oleksandr Zheltyakov	Ukraine	1:55.39	NR
	4	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:55.42	NR
	3	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:55.75
4	7	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:56.13
5	2	Ksawery Masiuk	Poland	1:57.50
6	1	David Gerchik	Israel	1:57.53
7	8	John Shortt	Ireland	1:58.48
8	6	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	2:01.30