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

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates18-19 May
Competitors37 from 25 nations
Winning time1:52.91
Medalists
gold medal    Hungary
silver medal    Denmark
bronze medal    Hungary
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The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18-19 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 Michael Phelps  United States 1:51.51 Rome 29 July 2009
European record László Cseh  Hungary 1:52.70 Beijing 13 August 2008
Championship record Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland 1:54.38 Eindhoven 21 March 2008

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 18 May at 10:00.[3]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 László Cseh  Hungary 1:54.51 Q
2 4 5 Tamás Kenderesi  Hungary 1:54.79 Q
3 2 4 Viktor Bromer  Denmark 1:56.67 Q
4 2 3 Giacomo Carini  Italy 1:57.30 Q
5 2 5 Bence Biczó  Hungary 1:57.60
6 2 0 Antani Ivanov  Bulgaria 1:57.76 Q
7 4 3 Stefanos Dimitriadis  Greece 1:57.99 Q
8 3 3 Carlos Peralta  Spain 1:58.28 Q
9 3 1 Robert Žbogar  Slovenia 1:58.36 Q
10 3 4 Jan Świtkowski  Poland 1:58.51 Q
11 2 2 Nils Liess  Switzerland 1:58.52 Q
12 2 7 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:58.57 Q
13 4 2 Nuno Quintanilha  Portugal 1:58.74 Q
14 2 6 Markus Gierke  Germany 1:58.75 Q
15 3 7 Benjamin Grátz  Hungary 1:58.87
16 4 9 Sindri Jakobsson  Norway 1:58.93 Q
17 3 5 Louis Croenen  Belgium 1:59.03 Q
18 2 1 Jesper Björk  Sweden 1:59.08 Q
19 3 6 Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia 1:59.09
20 4 6 Alexander Kunert  Germany 1:59.10
21 3 2 Jan Šefl  Czech Republic 1:59.30
22 4 0 Etay Gurevich  Israel 1:59.60
23 1 4 Kaan Özcan  Turkey 1:59.87
24 3 8 Miguel Nascimento  Portugal 1:59.94
25 3 0 Tomáš Havránek  Czech Republic 2:00.14
26 3 9 Brendan Hyland  Ireland 2:00.21
27 4 1 Alexandru Coci  Romania 2:00.49
28 4 7 Paul Lemaire  France 2:00.63
29 1 6 Richárd Nagy  Slovakia 2:00.69
30 2 9 Filip Milcevic  Austria 2:00.95
31 1 7 Osvald Nitski  Estonia 2:01.46
32 1 5 Petr Novák  Czech Republic 2:01.52
33 2 8 Yonatan Batsha  Israel 2:01.61
34 1 3 Tim Slanschek  Switzerland 2:01.66
35 1 2 Nico van Duijn  Switzerland 2:01.96
36 1 1 Jakub Maly  Austria 2:03.11
37 1 8 Arkadi Kalinovski  Estonia 2:06.66
4 8 Diogo Carvalho  Portugal DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 19:03.[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Tamás Kenderesi  Hungary 1:56.02 Q
2 5 Giacomo Carini  Italy 1:56.81 Q
3 3 Stefanos Dimitriadis  Greece 1:57.44 Q
4 6 Robert Žbogar  Slovenia 1:58.39
5 8 Jesper Björk  Sweden 1:58.49
6 2 Nils Liess  Switzerland 1:58.83
7 7 Nuno Quintanilha  Portugal 1:59.10
8 1 Sindri Jakobsson  Norway 1:59.12

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 László Cseh  Hungary 1:54.29 Q, CR
2 5 Viktor Bromer  Denmark 1:55.28 Q
3 2 Jan Świtkowski  Poland 1:56.67 Q
4 6 Carlos Peralta  Spain 1:56.92 Q
5 8 Louis Croenen  Belgium 1:57.56 Q
6 3 Antani Ivanov  Bulgaria 1:57.90
7 1 Markus Gierke  Germany 1:58.13
8 7 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:58.79

Final

The final was held on 19 May at 19:06.[5]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 László Cseh  Hungary 1:52.91 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Viktor Bromer  Denmark 1:55.35
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Tamás Kenderesi  Hungary 1:55.39
4 6 Jan Świtkowski  Poland 1:56.22
5 7 Carlos Peralta  Spain 1:56.42
6 8 Louis Croenen  Belgium 1:56.65
7 2 Giacomo Carini  Italy 1:56.81
8 1 Stefanos Dimitriadis  Greece 1:57.02

References