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

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22–23 August.[1]

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates22–23 August
Competitors33 from 19 nations
Winning time1:56.02
Medalists
gold medal    Poland
silver medal    Germany
bronze medal    Hungary
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Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record Aaron Peirsol   United States 1:51.92 Rome 31 July 2009
European record Radosław Kawęcki   Poland 1:54.24 Barcelona 2 August 2013
Championship record Radosław Kawęcki   Poland 1:55.28 Debrecen 26 May 2012

Results

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Heats

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

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 4 Péter Bernek   Hungary 1:58.45 Q
2 3 3 Christian Diener   Germany 1:58.74 Q
3 3 5 Jan-Philip Glania   Germany 1:58.91 Q
4 2 3 Luca Mencarini   Italy 1:59.47 Q
5 4 6 Yakov Toumarkin   Israel 1:59.94 Q
6 4 4 Radosław Kawęcki   Poland 1:59.94 Q
7 3 2 Mattias Carlsson   Sweden 2:00.00 Q
8 4 2 Benjamin Stasiulis   France 2:00.06 Q
9 2 5 Gábor Balog   Hungary 2:00.14 Q
10 2 6 Eric Ress   France 2:00.36 Q
11 1 6 Ivan Trofimov   Russia 2:00.38 Q
12 4 3 Danas Rapšys   Lithuania 2:00.95 Q
13 4 5 Christopher Ciccarese   Italy 2:00.96 Q
14 2 1 Dávid Verrasztó   Hungary 2:00.97
15 3 7 Roman Dmytriyev   Czech Republic 2:01.13 Q
16 4 1 Axel Pettersson   Sweden 2:01.20 Q
17 2 4 Andrey Shabasov   Russia 2:01.48 Q
18 4 7 Pedro Oliveira   Portugal 2:02.02
19 2 7 Sergiy Varvaruk   Ukraine 2:02.12
20 2 0 Dmitry Gorbunov   Russia 2:02.98
21 3 9 David Gamburg   Israel 2:03.50
22 4 0 Teo Kolonić   Croatia 2:03.54
23 4 8 Nils van Audekerke   Belgium 2:03.70
24 3 1 Lander Hendrickx   Belgium 2:03.87
25 4 9 Boris Kirillov   Azerbaijan 2:03.90
26 2 9 David Kunčar   Czech Republic 2:03.96
27 1 3 Martin Zhelev   Bulgaria 2:03.97
28 3 8 Elijah Stolz   Switzerland 2:04.04
29 3 0 Jean-François Schneiders   Luxembourg 2:04.32
30 2 8 Marko Krce-Rabar   Croatia 2:04.42
31 1 4 Gytis Stankevičius   Lithuania 2:04.62
32 2 2 Nikita Ulyanov   Russia 2:06.19
33 1 2 Doruk Tekin   Turkey 2:07.14
1 5 Max Litchfield   Great Britain DNS
3 6 Federico Turrini   Italy DNS

Semifinals

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The semifinals were held at 19:05.[3]

Semifinal 1

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Luca Mencarini   Italy 1:58.16 Q
2 7 Danas Rapšys   Lithuania 1:58.21 Q
3 4 Christian Diener   Germany 1:58.37 Q
4 6 Benjamin Stasiulis   France 1:58.46 Q
5 3 Yakov Toumarkin   Israel 1:58.83
6 2 Eric Ress   France 1:59.14
7 8 Andrey Shabasov   Russia 2:00.05
8 1 Roman Dmytriyev   Czech Republic 2:01.45

Semifinal 2

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Radosław Kawęcki   Poland 1:57.35 Q
2 4 Péter Bernek   Hungary 1:57.41 Q
3 2 Gábor Balog   Hungary 1:57.97 Q
4 5 Jan-Philip Glania   Germany 1:58.21 Q
5 6 Mattias Carlsson   Sweden 2:00.19
6 1 Christopher Ciccarese   Italy 2:00.20
7 7 Ivan Trofimov   Russia 2:01.93
8 8 Axel Pettersson   Sweden 2:01.98

Final

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The final was held at 17:06.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  4 Radosław Kawęcki   Poland 1:56.02
  1 Christian Diener   Germany 1:57.16
  3 Gábor Balog   Hungary 1:57.42
4 5 Péter Bernek   Hungary 1:57.47
5 2 Danas Rapšys   Lithuania 1:57.68
6 8 Benjamin Stasiulis   France 1:58.30
7 7 Jan-Philip Glania   Germany 1:58.84
8 6 Luca Mencarini   Italy 1:58.92

References

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