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

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Sports Centre Milan Gale Muškatirović
Dates	17 June (heats); 18 June (final)
Competitors	16 from 13 nations
Winning time	2:08.95
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2024 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 and 18 June 2024.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	2:03.14	Sydney	10 March 2023
European record	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	2:04.94	Rome	1 August 2009
Championship record	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.08	Budapest	23 May 2021

The heats were started on 17 June at 10:07.
Qualification Rules: The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to semifinals.^[3]

The heats were started on 17 June at 18:55.
Qualification Rules: The 8 fastest from the heats qualify to the final.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	1	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:09.67	Q
2	2	4	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:10.21	Q
3	1	2	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:10.26	Q
4	2	5	Holly McGill	Great Britain	2:10.59	Q
5	2	3	Camila Rebelo	Portugal	2:10.73	Q
6	1	3	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:11.38	Q
7	1	4	Aissia-Claudia Prisesariu	Romania	2:11.63	Q
8	1	5	Nika Sharafutdinova	Ukraine	2:11.88	Q
9	2	6	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:12.56
10	2	2	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova	2:12.73
11	2	7	Laura Bernat	Poland	2:13.40
12	1	6	Justine Murdock	Lithuania	2:14.75
13	1	7	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:15.29
14	2	1	Lottie Cullen	Ireland	2:15.57
15	1	8	Karoline Sørensen	Denmark	2:17.02
16	2	8	Tom Mienis	Israel	2:17.39

The final was held on 18 June at 18:30.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Camila Rebelo	Portugal	2:08.95	NR
	4	Dóra Molnár	Hungary	2:09.02
	5	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.21
4	6	Holly McGill	Great Britain	2:09.74
5	7	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:10.06
6	3	Adela Piskorska	Poland	2:10.85
7	1	Aissia-Claudia Prisesariu	Romania	2:11.00
8	8	Nika Sharafutdinova	Ukraine	2:13.76