Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	20–21 August
Competitors	38 from 25 nations
Winning time	2:07.47
Medalists

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20–21 August.^[1]

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	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.60	Debrecen	24 May 2012

The heats were held at 10:01.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Marco Koch	Germany	2:09.11	Q
2	4	5	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:09.91	Q
3	2	2	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:10.78	Q
4	4	4	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:11.15	Q
5	2	5	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:11.83	Q
6	4	7	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:11.92	Q
7	2	3	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:12.34	Q
8	3	5	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	2:12.40
9	3	3	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:12.44	Q
10	2	6	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:12.47
11	3	7	Mikolaj Machnik	Poland	2:12.56	Q
12	2	4	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:12.75	Q
13	4	3	Alexander Palatov	Russia	2:13.14
14	2	7	Dmytro Oseledets	Ukraine	2:13.35	Q
15	3	6	Thomas Dahlia	France	2:13.59	Q
16	3	0	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:13.87	Q
17	4	2	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:13.90	Q
18	4	1	Melquíades Álvarez	Spain	2:14.10	Q
19	3	2	Quentin Coton	France	2:14.21	Q
20	4	8	Igor Kozlovskij	Lithuania	2:14.36
21	2	9	Jeremy Desplanches	Switzerland	2:14.47
22	4	0	Nicholas Quinn	Ireland	2:14.82
23	1	3	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	2:14.97
24	3	8	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	2:15.79
25	1	7	Sverre Næss	Norway	2:15.82
26	1	1	Bogdan Knežević	Serbia	2:16.03	NR
27	3	1	Carlos Almeida	Portugal	2:16.10
28	1	8	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	2:16.22
29	3	9	Patrik Schwarzenbach	Switzerland	2:16.38
30	1	5	Martti Aljand	Estonia	2:16.71
31	1	6	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	2:16.84
32	4	9	Gal Nevo	Israel	2:16.89
33	4	6	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	2:17.25
34	2	0	Antonin Svěcený	Czech Republic	2:17.59
35	1	4	Jakub Maly	Austria	2:18.35
36	1	2	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	2:18.55
37	2	8	Maksym Shemberev	Ukraine	2:19.40
—	2	1	Dan Sweeney	Ireland		DSQ

The semifinals were held at 18:25.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.65	Q
2	4	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:08.93	Q
3	6	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:10.90	Q
4	3	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:11.26	Q
5	2	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:12.93
6	1	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:13.09
7	7	Thomas Dahlia	France	2:13.29
8	8	Quentin Coton	France	2:13.61

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Marco Koch	Germany	2:08.83	Q
2	5	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:10.00	Q
3	3	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:10.05	Q
4	6	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:11.89	Q
5	7	Dmytro Oseledets	Ukraine	2:12.27
6	2	Mikolaj Machnik	Poland	2:12.98
7	8	Melquíades Álvarez	Spain	2:14.62
8	1	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:14.67

The final was held at 18:46.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Marco Koch	Germany	2:07.47	CR
	4	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:07.77
	2	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:08.93
4	3	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:09.19
5	6	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:10.36
6	7	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:10.93
7	8	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:12.50
8	1	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:12.96