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

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:42.00	Rome	28 July 2009
European record
Championship record	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:44.89	Berlin	2 August 2002

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:46.62	Q
2	5	6	Artem Lobuzov	Russia	1:47.51	Q
3	5	5	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	1:47.52	Q
4	7	6	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	1:47.99	Q
5	7	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:48.02	Q
6	6	2	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	1:48.06	Q
7	6	3	Clemens Rapp	Germany	1:48.08	Q
8	6	5	Andrea D'Arrigo	Italy	1:48.24	Q
9	7	4	Yannick Agnel	France	1:48.27	Q
10	7	7	Robin Backhaus	Germany	1:48.28
11	5	3	Filippo Magnini	Italy	1:48.45	Q
12	6	6	Dion Dreesens	Netherlands	1:48.59	Q
13	5	2	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1:48.70
14	6	9	Matias Koski	Finland	1:48.73	Q
15	6	0	Anders Lie	Denmark	1:48.83	Q
16	5	9	David Brandl	Austria	1:48.87	Q
17	7	3	Alexandr Sukhorukov	Russia	1:48.88	Q
18	7	2	Viacheslav Andrusenko	Russia	1:48.96
19	5	1	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	1:49.11	Q
20	7	9	Lorys Bourelly	France	1:49.17
21	7	0	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:49.25
22	7	1	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:49.41
23	5	8	Tom Kremer	Israel	1:49.46
24	6	8	Clement Mignon	France	1:49.49
25	5	4	Nikita Lobintsev	Russia	1:49.55
26	6	7	Ferry Weertman	Netherlands	1:49.58
27	5	0	Miguel Durán	Spain	1:49.66
28	3	2	Christian Scherübl	Austria	1:49.79
29	5	7	Grégory Mallet	France	1:49.85
30	4	7	Joost Reijns	Netherlands	1:49.89
31	6	1	Emmanuel Vanluchene	Belgium	1:49.93
32	7	8	Victor Martin	Spain	1:50.03
33	4	2	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:50.18
34	4	0	Alexi Konovalov	Israel	1:50.21
35	4	6	Christos Katranzis	Greece	1:50.29
35	3	4	Simonas Bilis	Lithuania	1:50.29
35	3	3	Jean-Baptiste Febo	Switzerland	1:50.29
38	3	1	Doğa Çelik	Turkey	1:50.60
39	4	4	Mattias Carlsson	Sweden	1:50.82
40	4	9	Pawel Werner	Poland	1:50.93
41	3	5	Oscar Ekström	Sweden	1:51.10
42	3	9	Stefan Šorak	Serbia	1:51.19
43	2	6	David Kunčar	Czech Republic	1:51.33
43	3	6	Martin Bau	Slovenia	1:51.33
45	4	1	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	1:51.38
46	4	3	David Karasek	Switzerland	1:51.41
47	3	0	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	1:51.42
48	4	5	Dawid Zieliński	Poland	1:51.46
49	3	7	Alexandre Haldemann	Switzerland	1:51.60
50	2	2	Pit Brandenburger	Luxembourg	1:52.26
51	2	7	Anton Goncharov	Ukraine	1:52.59
52	1	5	Sergiy Varvaruk	Ukraine	1:52.78
53	2	3	Gustav Aberg	Sweden	1:53.02
54	2	4	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	1:53.04
55	1	4	Nezir Karap	Turkey	1:53.22
56	4	8	Tomas Havránek	Czech Republic	1:53.71
57	2	1	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	1:53.96
58	1	3	Davit Sikharulidze	Georgia	1:54.22
59	2	8	Uladzimir Zhyharau	Belarus	1:54.80
60	2	5	Julien Henx	Luxembourg	1:55.83
—	3	8	Kemal Arda Gürdal	Turkey		DNS

The semifinals were held at 19:15.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	1:46.89	Q
2	4	Artem Lobuzov	Russia	1:47.43	Q
3	3	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	1:47.76	Q
4	2	Filippo Magnini	Italy	1:47.93	Q
5	6	Andrea D'Arrigo	Italy	1:47.94
6	7	Matias Koski	Finland	1:48.06
7	8	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	1:48.97
8	1	David Brandl	Austria	1:49.19

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:46.69	Q
2	3	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:46.79	Q, NR
3	5	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	1:47.88	Q
4	2	Yannick Agnel	France	1:47.90	Q
5	6	Clemens Rapp	Germany	1:48.07
6	8	Alexandr Sukhorukov	Russia	1:48.29
7	7	Dion Dreesens	Netherlands	1:48.40
8	1	Anders Lie	Denmark	1:48.94

The final was held at 18.52.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:45.78	NR
	4	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:45.80
	1	Yannick Agnel	France	1:46.65
4	3	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	1:46.78
5	2	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	1:47.01
6	7	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	1:47.16
7	6	Artem Lobuzov	Russia	1:47.27
8	8	Filippo Magnini	Italy	1:47.42