Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	20 May
Competitors:	41
Nations:	20
Win Value:	1:55.98
Gold:	Radosław Kawęcki
Goldnoc:	POL
Silver:	Yakov Toumarkin
Silvernoc:	ISR
Bronze:	Danas Rapšys
Bronzenoc:	LTU
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 May 2016.^[1] ^[2]

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	Evgeny Rylov	1:54.21	Moscow	21 April 2016
Championship record	Radosław Kawęcki	1:55.28	Debrecen	26 May 2012

The heats were held on 20 May at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	6	1:57.69	Q
2	5	4	1:58.41	Q
3	4	4	1:58.44	Q
4	5	3	1:58.70	Q
5	5	5	1:58.81	Q
6	3	4	1:58.95	Q
7	4	3	1:59.08	Q
8	5	2	1:59.10
9	4	5	1:59.19	Q
10	4	6	1:59.34
11	3	6	2:00.17	Q
12	3	7	2:00.42	Q
13	3	5	2:00.45	Q
14	4	8	2:00.91	Q
15	3	8	2:01.01	Q
16	2	9	2:01.09	Q
17	3	3	2:01.14	Q
18	4	2	2:01.24
19	4	1	2:01.47	Q
20	1	3	2:01.64
21	2	5	2:01.73
22	3	0	2:01.82
23	4	0	2:01.96
24	5	1	2:02.07
25	2	1	2:02.29
26	5	9	2:02.33
27	5	0	2:02.39
28	4	9	2:02.59
29	2	2	2:02.95
30	3	9	2:03.32
31	4	7	2:03.47
32	5	7	2:03.71
33	2	7	2:03.94
34	3	1	2:03.96
35	2	4	2:04.29
36	2	6	2:04.33
37	2	8	2:04.84
38	1	6	2:04.89
39	1	4	2:05.55
40	2	0	2:06.31
41	1	5	2:10.49
	2	2
	3	2
	5	8

The semifinals were held on 20 May at 19:08.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	1:57.35	Q
2	4	1:57.39	Q
3	5	1:59.04	Q
4	6	1:59.05	Q
5	2	1:59.53
6	1	2:00.91
7	8	2:01.80
8	7	2:02.13

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	8	1:57.41	Q
2	5	1:57.95	Q
3	6	1:58.50	Q
4	7	1:58.55	Q
5	3	1:59.21
6	4	1:59.48
7	2	2:00.45
8	1	2:00.90

The final was on 21 May at 17:18.^[5]