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

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 May 2016.^[1][2]

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	18 May
Competitors	45 from 28 nations
Winning time	2:08.33
Medalists
Ross Murdoch    Great Britain   Marco Koch    Germany   Luca Pizzini    Italy
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Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Akihiro Yamaguchi	Japan	2:07.01	Gifu	15 September 2012
European record	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:07.23	Barcelona	2 August 2013
Championship record	Marco Koch	Germany	2:07.47	Berlin	21 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 18 May at 10:29.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Marco Koch	Germany	2:11.29	Q
2	4	5	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:11.78	Q
3	3	4	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:11.87	Q
4	5	3	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:12.21	Q
5	3	5	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:12.25	Q
6	4	3	Mikhail Dorinov	Russia	2:12.76	Q
7	5	5	Craig Benson	Great Britain	2:12.79	Q
8	4	4	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:12.88
9	3	3	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:12.92	Q
10	5	2	Dmytro Oseledets	Ukraine	2:13.33	Q
11	4	2	Max Pilger	Germany	2:13.64	Q
12	5	7	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:13.69	Q
13	4	0	Ronen Faor	Israel	2:13.72	Q
14	5	8	Johannes Dietrich	Austria	2:13.76	Q
15	5	6	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	2:13.82	Q
16	3	8	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	2:13.91	Q
17	4	6	Dimitrios Koulouris	Greece	2:14.19	Q
18	3	7	Luke Davies	Great Britain	2:14.30
19	4	9	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	2:14.57
19	3	2	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:14.57
21	4	7	Jonas Coreelman	Belgium	2:14.81
22	2	4	Iliy Gladishev	Israel	2:14.91
23	2	3	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	2:14.97
24	3	6	Nicholas Quinn	Ireland	2:15.04
25	3	0	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:15.12
26	4	8	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	2:15.16
27	1	6	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	2:16.19
28	3	1	Patrik Schwarzenbach	Switzerland	2:16.34
29	2	0	Luchezar Shumkov	Bulgaria	2:16.50
30	2	9	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	2:17.24
31	2	8	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	2:17.26
32	2	6	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	2:17.29
33	2	7	Marko Blaževski	Macedonia	2:17.33
34	5	9	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:17.53
34	3	9	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	2:17.53
36	2	2	Berkay Şendikici	Turkey	2:17.59
37	2	5	Eitan Yudashkin	Israel	2:17.92
38	5	0	Luca Pfyffer	Switzerland	2:18.20
39	2	1	Demir Atasoy	Turkey	2:18.28
40	4	1	Sverre Næss	Norway	2:19.24
41	1	3	Tomás Veloso	Portugal	2:19.59
42	5	1	Dan Sweeney	Ireland	2:21.16
43	1	5	Silver Hein	Estonia	2:22.49
44	1	7	Deni Baholli	Albania	2:27.60
	1	2	Jørgen Braathen	Norway	DSQ
	1	4	Gal Nevo	Israel	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 18:22.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Matti Mattson	Finland	2:10.10	Q
2	5	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:11.13	Q
3	1	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	2:11.22	Q
4	3	Mikhail Dorinov	Russia	2:11.25	Q
5	6	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:11.54	Q
6	8	Dimitrios Koulouris	Greece	2:12.09
7	2	Max Pilger	Germany	2:13.82
8	7	Ronen Faor	Israel	2:14.84

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:09.72	Q
2	4	Marco Koch	Germany	2:09.82	Q
3	3	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:10.91	Q
4	6	Craig Benson	Great Britain	2:11.93
5	2	Dmytro Oseledets	Ukraine	2:11.97
6	8	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	2:12.34
7	1	Johannes Dietrich	Austria	2:14.13
8	7	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:15.11

Final

The final was held on 19 May at 18:46.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.33
	5	Marco Koch	Germany	2:08.40
	8	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:10.39
4	2	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.50
5	3	Matti Mattson	Finland	2:10.69
6	7	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	2:11.15
7	1	Mikhail Dorinov	Russia	2:11.42
8	6	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:11.73

References

1. Entry list
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Semifinals results
5. Final results