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

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	22–23 August
Competitors	33 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:56.02
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22–23 August.^[1]

Records

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	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