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

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	22–23 August
Competitors:	33
Nations:	19
Win Value:	1:56.02
Gold:	Radosław Kawęcki
Goldnoc:	POL
Silver:	Christian Diener
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Gábor Balog
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

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

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	4		1:58.45	Q
2	3	3		1:58.74	Q
3	3	5		1:58.91	Q
4	2	3		1:59.47	Q
5	4	6		1:59.94	Q
6	4	4		1:59.94	Q
7	3	2		2:00.00	Q
8	4	2		2:00.06	Q
9	2	5		2:00.14	Q
10	2	6		2:00.36	Q
11	1	6		2:00.38	Q
12	4	3		2:00.95	Q
13	4	5		2:00.96	Q
14	2	1		2:00.97
15	3	7		2:01.13	Q
16	4	1		2:01.20	Q
17	2	4		2:01.48	Q
18	4	7		2:02.02
19	2	7		2:02.12
20	2	0	Dmitry Gorbunov	2:02.98
21	3	9		2:03.50
22	4	0		2:03.54
23	4	8		2:03.70
24	3	1		2:03.87
25	4	9		2:03.90
26	2	9		2:03.96
27	1	3		2:03.97
28	3	8		2:04.04
29	3	0		2:04.32
30	2	8		2:04.42
31	1	4		2:04.62
32	2	2		2:06.19
33	1	2		2:07.14
—	1	5			DNS
—	3	6			DNS

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

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	1:58.16	Q
2	7	1:58.21	Q
3	4	1:58.37	Q
4	6	1:58.46	Q
5	3	1:58.83
6	2	1:59.14
7	8	2:00.05
8	1	2:01.45

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	1:57.35	Q
2	4	1:57.41	Q
3	2	1:57.97	Q
4	5	1:58.21	Q
5	6	2:00.19
6	1	2:00.20
7	7	2:01.93
8	8	2:01.98

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