Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	12 August (heats and semifinals); 13 August (final)
Competitors	30 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:55.62
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 August 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:51.92	Rome	31 July 2009
European record	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.23	Kazan	8 April 2021
Championship record	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.36	Glasgow	8 August 2018

The heats were started on 12 August at 09:42.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:56.70	Q
2	1	6	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:56.81	Q
3	1	5	Mewen Tomac	France	1:57.51	Q
4	3	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:57.81	Q
5	2	2	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:58.15	Q
6	2	3	Antoine Herlem	France	1:58.22
7	1	2	João Costa	Portugal	1:58.68	Q
8	2	4	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:58.88
9	3	7	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:58.99	Q
10	1	7	David Gerchik	Israel	1:59.13	Q
11	3	2	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:59.18	Q
12	2	5	Nicolás García	Spain	1:59.46	Q
13	1	3	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:59.62	Q
14	3	1	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	1:59.76	Q
15	1	4	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:59.89	Q
16	3	5	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	2:00.29	Q
17	3	6	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	2:00.86	Q
18	2	6	Francisco Santos	Portugal	2:00.88	Q
19	1	8	Diego Mira	Spain	2:01.06
20	2	7	Kaloyan Levterov	Bulgaria	2:01.16
21	3	8	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:01.55
22	2	8	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:01.99
23	1	1	Erikas Grigaitis	Lithuania	2:02.06
24	2	0	Jonathon Marshall	Great Britain	2:02.78
25	3	0	Inbar Danziger	Israel	2:03.48
26	2	1	Émilien Mattenet	France	2:03.52
27	3	9	Zhulian Lavdaniti	Albania	2:08.30
28	1	0	Adam Maraana	Israel	2:08.88
29	1	9	Kevin Shkurti	Albania	2:24.87
	6	0	Michał Chmielewski	Poland	Disqualified

The semifinals were started on 12 August at 18:49.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	1	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:56.22	Q, NR
2	2	4	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:56.39	Q
3	1	5	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:57.07	Q
4	2	2	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:57.62	Q
5	2	3	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.68	q
6	1	4	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:57.83	q
7	2	7	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:58.20	q
8	2	5	Mewen Tomac	France	1:58.24	q
9	2	6	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:58.66
10	1	2	Nicolás García	Spain	1:58.68
11	1	3	João Costa	Portugal	1:58.96
12	1	7	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	1:59.66
13	2	1	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:59.69
14	1	6	David Gerchik	Israel	2:00.26
15	2	8	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	2:00.29
16	1	8	Francisco Santos	Portugal	2:00.73

The final was held on 13 August at 18:10.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:55.62	NR
	7	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:56.03
	3	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:56.15
4	4	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:56.45
5	1	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:57.30
6	6	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:57.43
7	8	Mewen Tomac	France	1:57.71
8	2	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.84