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

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre freestyle ; at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Sports Centre Milan Gale Muškatirović
Dates	20 June (heats and semifinals); 21 June (final)
Competitors	59 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:43.13
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 June 2024.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:42.00	Rome	28 July 2009
European record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:42.00	Rome	28 July 2009
Championship record	David Popovici	Romania	1:42.97	Rome	15 August 2022

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 20 June at 09:30.
Qualification Rules: The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to the semifinals.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:45.44	Q
2	5	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.18	Q
3	6	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:47.27	Q
4	5	4	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:47.61	Q
5	6	7	Niko Janković	Croatia	1:47.69	Q
6	7	2	Tomas Navikonis	Lithuania	1:47.73	Q
7	6	3	Kamil Sieradzki	Poland	1:47.80	Q
8	5	3	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	1:47.88	Q
9	6	2	Tomas Koski	Finland	1:47.97	Q
10	7	3	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:48.05	Q
11	6	9	Tomas Lukminas	Lithuania	1:48.22
12	6	8	Konstantinos Englezakis	Greece	1:48.25	Q
13	7	7	Romano Yoav	Israel	1:48.27	Q
14	4	3	Oliver Søgaard-Andersen	Denmark	1:48.36	Q
15	6	0	Philipp Peschke	Germany	1:48.67	Q
16	7	5	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	1:48.72	Q
17	6	6	Sašo Boškan	Slovenia	1:48.74	Q
18	5	2	Illia Linnyk	Ukraine	1:48.88
19	5	1	Danny Schmidt	Germany	1:49.02
20	6	5	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:49.06
21	7	1	Evan Bailey	Ireland	1:49.07
22	5	7	Richárd Márton	Hungary	1:49.11
22	6	1	Jovan Lekic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:49.11
24	4	4	Kristupas Trepocka	Lithuania	1:49.13
25	7	6	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:49.24
26	5	6	Eitan Ben Shitrit	Israel	1:49.25
27	4	5	Alexander Painter	Great Britain	1:49.51
28	3	4	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	1:49.54
29	4	6	František Jablčník	Slovakia	1:49.55
30	7	8	Attila Kovács	Hungary	1:49.71
31	3	5	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	1:49.83
32	5	0	Jarno Baschnitt	Germany	1:49.96
33	4	0	Kenan Dracic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:50.42
34	4	1	Cormac Rynn	Ireland	1:50.57
35	4	8	Tiago Behar	Switzerland	1:51.03
36	5	9	Alexander Trampitsch	Austria	1:51.07
37	7	0	Finn McGeever	Ireland	1:51.39
38	2	1	Gian-Luca Gartmann	Switzerland	1:51.50
39	2	3	Marius Toscan	Switzerland	1:51.77
40	3	2	Luka Kukhalashvili	Georgia	1:52.07
41	3	8	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	1:52.15	NR
42	3	7	Pavel Alovatki	Moldova	1:52.43
43	2	4	Egor Covaliov	Moldova	1:52.50
44	3	6	Ognjen Pilipović	Serbia	1:52.79
45	2	5	Nikola Simic	Serbia	1:53.03
46	2	7	Primož Senica Pavletic	Slovenia	1:53.10
47	2	2	Mihailo Gasic	Serbia	1:53.22
48	3	1	Reds Rullis	Latvia	1:53.24
48	3	9	Arne Furlan Štular	Slovenia	1:53.24
50	3	0	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia	1:53.47
51	2	6	Jaka Pušnik	Slovenia	1:53.49
52	4	7	Lars Kuljus	Estonia	1:53.96
53	1	5	Mackey Nurkic Kacapor	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:54.13
54	2	8	Filip Kuruzovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:54.13
55	5	8	Marius Zobel	Germany	1:54.58
56	2	9	Alaa Maso	ERT	1:55.47
57	2	0	Nikola Ǵuretanoviḱ	North Macedonia	1:55.55
58	3	3	Mihai Gergely	Romania	1:57.40
59	1	4	Bernat Lomero	Andorra	2:16.34
	1	3	Deniel Nankov	Bulgaria	DNS
	4	2	Andreas Vazaios	Greece
	7	9	Alexey Glivinskiy	Israel

Semifinals

The semifinal were started on 20 June at 18:41.
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.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:46.15	Q
2	2	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:46.44	Q
3	2	8	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	1:46.46	Q, NR
4	2	6	Kamil Sieradzki	Poland	1:46.63	Q
5	1	4	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.12	Q
6	1	5	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:47.31	Q
7	2	7	Konstantinos Englezakis	Greece	1:47.34	Q
8	2	3	Niko Janković	Croatia	1:47.36	Q
9	1	3	Tomas Navikonis	Lithuania	1:47.62
10	1	2	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:48.08
11	2	2	Tomas Koski	Finland	1:48.15
12	1	6	Bar Soloveychik	Israel	1:48.17
13	2	1	Oliver Søgaard-Andersen	Denmark	1:48.18
14	1	8	Sašo Boškan	Slovenia	1:48.22
15	1	1	Philipp Peschke	Germany	1:48.24
16	1	7	Romano Yoav	Israel	1:48.45

Final

The final was held on 21 June at 18:36.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:43.13
	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.65
	7	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:46.32
4	8	Niko Janković	Croatia	1:46.48
5	1	Konstantinos Englezakis	Greece	1:46.78
6	3	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	1:46.89
7	6	Kamil Sieradzki	Poland	1:47.00
8	2	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.64

References

[1] Schedule

[2] Start list

[3] Heats results

[4] Semifinals results

[5] Final results

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