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

Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	17 May
Competitors	44 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:58.18
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:54.00	Shanghai	24 July 2011
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.18	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.66	Debrecen	23 May 2012

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 17 May at 10:39.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:58.17
2	4	2	Alexis Santos	Portugal	1:59.90	Q
3	3	5	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	2:00.00	Q
4	3	2	Gal Nevo	Israel	2:00.24	Q
5	5	7	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2:00.66	Q
6	3	3	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:00.68	Q
7	5	6	Federico Turrini	Italy	2:00.85	Q
8	2	3	Phillipp Forster	Germany	2:00.89	Q
9	3	6	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	2:01.13	Q
10	5	4	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	2:01.28	Q
11	4	7	Alexander Osipenko	Russia	2:01.49	Q
11	5	5	Eduardo Solaeche	Spain	2:01.49	Q
13	3	0	Benjámin Grátz	Hungary	2:01.51	Q
14	3	8	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	2:01.72	Q, NR
14	4	3	Ieuan Lloyd	Great Britain	2:01.72
16	2	9	Petter Fredriksson	Sweden	2:01.84	Q
17	4	8	Jakub Maly	Austria	2:01.97	Q
18	2	6	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	2:01.99	Q
19	4	4	Marcin Tarczyński	Poland	2:02.09
20	3	7	Ganesh Pedurand	France	2:02.12
20	5	0	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	2:02.12
22	5	2	Semen Makovich	Russia	2:02.20
23	5	3	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	2:02.43
24	3	1	Etay Gurevich	Israel	2:02.51
25	4	1	Sebastian Steffan	Austria	2:02.89
26	4	9	Heiko Gigler	Austria	2:02.92
27	5	1	Kevin Wedel	Germany	2:03.00
28	2	2	Marcin Tarczyński	Poland	2:03.06
29	2	5	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	2:03.07
30	5	8	Andrey Zhilkin	Russia	2:03.32
31	4	0	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	2:03.37
32	2	1	Marko Blaževski	Macedonia	2:03.66
33	2	7	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	2:03.95
34	3	9	Sindri Jakobsson	Norway	2:04.07
35	5	9	Povilas Strazdas	Lithuania	2:04.11
36	2	8	Tomas Veloso	Portugal	2:05.74
37	1	5	Nikola Dimitrov	Bulgaria	2:05.95
38	2	0	Pavol Jelenák	Slovakia	2:06.03
39	2	4	Ergecan Gezmiş	Turkey	2:06.18
40	1	3	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	2:06.55
41	1	4	Luca Pfyffer	Switzerland	2:06.69
42	1	7	Osvald Nitski	Estonia	2:06.71
43	1	2	Silver Hein	Estonia	2:08.64
44	1	6	Alvi Hjelm	Faroe Islands	2:10.32
	4	5	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	DNS
	4	6	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 17 May at 18:50.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:58.47	Q
2	3	Federico Turrini	Italy	2:00.57	Q
3	5	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2:00.72	Q
4	6	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	2:00.86	Q
5	7	Benjámin Grátz	Hungary	2:00.90
6	2	Eduardo Solaeche	Spain	2:01.74
7	1	Petter Fredriksson	Sweden	2:02.37
8	8	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	2:02.74

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Alexis Santos	Portugal	1:59.93	Q
2	3	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:00.07	Q
3	5	Gal Nevo	Israel	2:00.32	Q
4	2	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	2:00.74	Q
5	7	Alexander Osipenko	Russia	2:01.13
6	6	Phillipp Forster	Germany	2:01.17
7	1	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	2:02.37
8	8	Jakub Maly	Austria	2:02.55

Final

The final was held on 18 May at 19:26.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:58.18
	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:59.69
	5	Alexis Santos	Portugal	1:59.76
4	2	Federico Turrini	Italy	2:00.28
5	3	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:00.29
6	7	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2:00.56
7	8	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	2:00.71
8	1	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	2:00.92