Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	16–17 May
Competitors	34 from 24 nations
Winning time	2:07.01
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 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	Missy Franklin	United States	2:04.06	London	28 July 2012
European record	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	2:04.94	Rome	1 August 2009
Championship record	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	2:06.62	Athens	22 August 1991

The heats were held on 16 May at 11:28.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.44	Q
2	2	5	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:09.90	Q
3	3	8	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:11.21	Q
4	3	5	Matea Samardžić	Croatia	2:11.25	Q
5	3	4	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	2:11.30	Q
6	4	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:11.45	Q
7	2	3	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:11.53	Q
8	4	6	Kata Burián	Hungary	2:11.92	Q
9	3	6	Réka György	Hungary	2:12.24
10	3	3	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	2:12.87
11	2	2	Zülal Zeren	Turkey	2:12.99	Q
12	4	3	Africa Zamorano	Spain	2:13.03	Q
13	4	7	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	2:13.24	Q
14	4	2	Charlotte Evans	Great Britain	2:13.35	Q
14	3	7	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:13.35	Q
16	2	6	Maxine Wolters	Germany	2:13.57	Q
17	2	4	Irina Prikhodko	Russia	2:13.77	Q
18	2	1	Henriette Stenkvist	Sweden	2:15.26
19	1	5	Věra Kopřivová	Czech Republic	2:15.40
20	3	2	Camille Gheorghiu	France	2:15.90
21	2	7	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:15.97
22	3	0	Karolína Hájková	Slovakia	2:16.26
23	4	9	Alina Kendzior	Estonia	2:16.58
24	2	8	Karin Tomečková	Slovakia	2:16.67
25	4	0	Tereza Grusová	Czech Republic	2:16.75
26	4	1	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova	2:17.59
27	2	0	Francisca Azevedo	Portugal	2:19.31
28	3	1	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	2:20.33
29	4	8	Ludwika Szynal	Poland	2:20.61
30	1	4	Danielle Hill	Ireland	2:21.55
31	1	3	Signhild Joensen	Faroe Islands	2:21.58
32	3	9	Kätlin Sepp	Estonia	2:22.67
33	1	6	Eline van den Bossche	Luxembourg	2:23.65
34	2	9	Tatiana Perstniova	Moldova	2:25.11

The semifinals were held on 16 May at 18:52.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:08.66	Q
2	5	Matea Samardžić	Croatia	2:09.87	Q
3	6	Kata Burián	Hungary	2:10.83	Q
4	2	Zülal Zeren	Turkey	2:11.71	Q
5	3	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:11.80
6	7	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	2:11.81
7	8	Irina Prikhodko	Russia	2:12.05
8	1	Charlotte Evans	Great Britain	2:13.15

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:09.98	Q
2	3	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	2:10.87	Q
3	6	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:11.26	Q
4	2	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	2:11.63	Q
5	7	Africa Zamorano	Spain	2:11.96
6	5	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:12.11
7	8	Maxine Wolters	Germany	2:12.55
8	1	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:13.25

The final was held on 17 May at 19:09.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	3	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.01
	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:07.48
	5	Matea Samardžić	Croatia	2:09.24
4	6	Kata Burián	Hungary	2:10.17
5	7	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:10.57
6	2	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	2:11.03
7	8	Zülal Zeren	Turkey	2:11.91
8	1	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	2:13.48