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

Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	16 August (heats and semifinals); 17 August (final)
Competitors	27 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:57.72
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 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	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:54.00	Shanghai	24 July 2011
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.18	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.66	Debrecen	23 May 2012

The heats were started on 16 August at 09:54.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:58.94	Q
2	2	6	Carles Coll	Spain	2:00.56	Q
3	1	6	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:00.60	Q
4	1	4	Hubert Kós	Hungary	2:00.65	Q
5	1	5	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	2:01.03	Q
6	2	5	Ron Polonsky	Israel	2:01.05	Q
7	1	3	Enzo Tesic	France	2:01.28	Q
8	3	4	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	2:01.47	Q
9	2	2	Eitan Ben Shitrit	Israel	2:01.55	Q
10	1	2	Daniil Giourtzidis	Greece	2:01.69	Q
11	1	1	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:01.98	Q
12	3	5	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	2:02.16	Q
13	3	6	Pier Andrea Matteazzi	Italy	2:02.66	Q
14	3	2	Émilien Mattenet	France	2:04.24	Q
15	3	7	William Lulek	Sweden	2:04.29	Q
16	2	7	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	2:04.51	Q
17	1	7	Emil Hassling	Sweden	2:05.71
18	3	1	Eoin Corby	Ireland	2:05.78
19	2	1	Luka Mladenovic	Austria	2:06.00
20	2	8	Marius Toscan	Switzerland	2:06.03
21	1	8	Ronens Kermans	Latvia	2:06.63
22	3	0	Liam Custer	Ireland	2:06.66
23	2	0	Mihai Gergely	Romania	2:06.73
24	3	9	Zhulian Lavdaniti	Albania	2:09.05
25	1	0	Thomas Wareing	Malta	2:09.40
26	3	8	Jan Zubik	Poland	2:09.85
27	2	9	Endi Kola	Albania	2:19.69
	2	3	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	Did not start
	2	4	Thomas Dean	Great Britain	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 16 August at 19:36.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:58.77	Q
2	1	5	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:59.38	Q
3	1	3	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:59.52	Q
3	1	7	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:59.52	Q
5	1	6	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:59.53	q
6	1	4	Carles Coll	Spain	1:59.66	q
7	2	3	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:59.77	Q
8	2	5	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:00.48	q, NR
9	2	1	Pier Andrea Matteazzi	Italy	2:00.73
10	2	2	Eitan Ben Shitrit	Israel	2:01.00
11	1	2	Daniil Giourtzidis	Greece	2:01.13
12	2	6	Enzo Tesic	France	2:01.83
13	1	1	Émilien Mattenet	France	2:02.00
14	2	7	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:03.07
15	2	8	William Lulek	Sweden	2:03.21
16	1	8	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	2:04.19

The final was held on 17 August at 18:37.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.72
	3	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:57.82
	4	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:58.34
4	2	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:58.89
5	6	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:59.24
6	1	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:59.55
7	7	Carles Coll	Spain	1:59.96
8	8	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:01.61