Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre freestyle ; at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	22–23 August
Competitors	33 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:56.01
Medalists

The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22–23 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:52.98	Rome	29 July 2009
European record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:52.98	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:55.45	Budapest	14 August 2010

The heats were held at 09:45.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:57.05	Q
2	4	5	Melani Costa	Spain	1:58.60	Q
3	2	4	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:58.66	Q
4	3	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:59.14	Q
5	4	3	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:59.55	Q
6	2	5	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:59.77	Q
7	3	8	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	2:00.26	Q
7	4	6	Viktoriya Andreeva	Russia	2:00.26	Q
9	4	2	Louise Hansson	Sweden	2:00.29	Q
10	2	7	Chiara Masini	Italy	2:00.63	Q
11	4	1	Shauna Lee	Great Britain	2:00.72	Q
12	3	2	Esmee Vermeulen	Netherlands	2:00.74	Q
13	2	8	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	2:00.87	Q
14	3	7	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	2:00.92	Q
14	1	4	Katarina Simonović	Serbia	2:00.92	Q
16	3	1	Victoria Malyutina	Russia	2:01.28
17	4	8	Wendy van der Zanden	Netherlands	2:01.38
18	2	2	Diletta Carli	Italy	2:01.56
19	3	3	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	2:01.75	Q
20	3	0	Danielle Villars	Switzerland	2:02.21
21	2	6	Maria Baklakova	Russia	2:02.31
22	4	9	Noemi Girardet	Switzerland	2:02.60
23	4	0	Isabelle Mabboux	France	2:02.83
24	1	3	Annick van Westendorp	Switzerland	2:03.20
25	2	9	Gizem Bozkurt	Turkey	2:03.38
26	1	1	Alyona Kyselyova	Ukraine	2:03.77
27	3	9	Julie Lauridsen	Denmark	2:03.81
28	2	1	Cloe Hache	France	2:03.93
29	1	7	Lisa Stamm	Switzerland	2:04.16
30	2	0	Stina Gardell	Sweden	2:04.69
31	1	6	Katharina Egger	Austria	2:05.73
32	1	5	Anna Kolárová	Czech Republic	2:07.07
33	1	8	Monika Vasilyan	Armenia	2:12.14
—	1	2	Věra Kopřivová	Czech Republic		DNS
—	2	3	Jazmin Carlin	Great Britain		DNS
—	3	6	Alice Mizzau	Italy		DNS
—	4	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden		DNS
—	4	7	Rebecca Turner	Great Britain		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:18.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.69	Q
2	3	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:57.15	Q
3	8	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	1:57.18	Q
4	4	Melani Costa	Spain	1:57.24	Q
5	6	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	1:59.06	Q
6	7	Esmee Vermeulen	Netherlands	1:59.89
7	2	Chiara Masini	Italy	2:00.25
8	1	Katarina Simonović	Serbia	2:00.77

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:56.84	Q
2	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:56.96	Q
3	3	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:58.05	Q
4	2	Louise Hansson	Sweden	1:59.80
5	8	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	1:59.97
6	7	Shauna Lee	Great Britain	2:00.09
7	6	Viktoriya Andreeva	Russia	2:01.06
8	1	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	2:01.32

The final was held at 16:31.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.01
	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	1:56.69
	6	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:56.81
4	7	Melani Costa	Spain	1:56.92
5	5	Veronika Popova	Russia	1:57.20
6	2	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	1:57.65
7	1	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:58.22
8	8	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	1:58.56