Swimming at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2024 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22 and 23 June 2024.

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Sports Centre Milan Gale Muškatirović
Dates	22 June (heats and semifinals) 23 June (final)
Competitors	33 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:57.21
Medalists
Hubert Kós   Hungary   Ron Polonsky   Israel   Berke Saka   Turkey

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	Leon Marchand	France	1:54.82	Fukuoka	27 July 2023
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.66	Debrecen	23 May 2012

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 22 June at 10:15.
Qualification Rules: The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:58.75	Q
2	4	3	Dominik Török	Hungary	1:59.11	Q
3	4	4	Gábor Zombori	Hungary	1:59.52
4	4	5	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:59.57	Q
5	3	3	Balázs Holló	Hungary	1:59.76
6	3	6	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:00.97	Q
7	2	2	Daniil Giourtzidis	Greece	2:01.01	Q
8	2	4	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	2:01.32	Q
9	2	6	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	2:01.33	Q
10	4	6	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	2:01.39	Q
11	2	3	Eitan Ben Shitrit	Israel	2:01.41
12	3	5	Berke Saka	Turkey	2:01.50	Q
13	2	5	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	2:01.51	Q
14	4	7	Gian-Luca Gartmann	Switzerland	2:01.58	Q
15	3	7	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:01.95	Q
16	4	1	Sebastian Lunak	Czech Republic	2:02.26	Q
17	3	2	Marius Zobel	Germany	2:03.17	Q
18	4	2	Finn Wendland	Germany	2:03.24	Q
19	3	8	Juraj Barcot	Croatia	2:03.39	Q
20	3	1	Samuel Tornqvist	Sweden	2:03.80
21	3	9	Max Halbeisen	Austria	2:04.39
22	1	4	Marius Toscan	Switzerland	2:04.44
23	2	0	Ronny Brännkärr	Finland	2:04.54
24	2	9	Oleksii Hrabarov	Ukraine	2:04.88
25	2	8	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	2:04.89
26	4	9	Kristaps Miķelsons	Latvia	2:05.21
27	1	5	Ronens Kermans	Latvia	2:05.85
28	4	0	Finn Murray Moses Kemp	Luxembourg	2:06.22
29	1	6	Moritz Baumgartner	Austria	2:07.00
30	2	7	Alexey Glivinskiy	Israel	2:07.90
31	1	3	Matija Rađenović	Serbia	2:11.09
	2	1	Jakub Bursa	Czech Republic	DSQ
	3	0	František Jablčník	Slovakia
	4	0	Danny Schmidt	Germany	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 22 June at 19:57.
Qualification Rules: The first 2 competitors of each semifinal and the remaining fastest (up to a total of 8 qualified competitors) from the semifinals advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:57.01	Q, NR
2	2	4	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:58.12	Q
3	2	2	Berke Saka	Turkey	1:58.56	Q
4	1	4	Dominik Török	Hungary	1:59.07	Q
5	1	3	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:59.27	Q
6	1	5	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	1:59.33	Q, NR
7	1	2	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:59.63	Q
8	2	3	Daniil Giourtzidis	Greece	1:59.71	Q
9	2	7	Gian-Luca Gartmann	Switzerland	2:00.39
10	1	6	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	2:00.53
11	2	8	Finn Wendland	Germany	2:01.03
12	2	6	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	2:01.33
13	1	7	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:01.78
14	2	1	Sebastian Lunak	Czech Republic	2:02.29
15	1	8	Juraj Barcot	Croatia	2:02.45
16	1	1	Marius Zobel	Germany	2:02.94

Final

The final was held on 23 June at 19:07.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.21
	4	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:57.36
	3	Berke Saka	Turkey	1:58.62
4	6	Dominik Török	Hungary	1:58.89
5	2	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:59.04
6	1	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:59.89
7	7	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:00.47
8	8	Daniil Giourtzidis	Greece	2:01.31