Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

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Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
DatesMay 22, 2012 (heats and semifinals)
May 23, 2012 (final)
Competitors39 from 24 nations
Winning time1:56.66
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Austria.svg  Austria

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 22 and 23. The heats and semifinals took place on May 22, the final on May 23. [1]

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Records

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

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record Ryan Lochte Flag of the United States.svg United States1:54.00 Shanghai July 28, 2011
European record László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:55.18RomeJuly 29, 2009
Championship record László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:57.73 Budapest August 11, 2010

Results

Heats

40 swimmers participated in 6 heats. [2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
154 László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:59.15Q
245 Dávid Verrasztó Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:00.35Q
346 Simon Sjödin Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden2:00.38Q
444 Markus Rogan Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:00.42Q
553 Vytautas Janušaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:00.61Q
652 Dinko Jukić Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:00.88
733 Federico Turrini Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:01.33Q
856 Gal Nevo Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 2:01.35Q
943 Diogo Filipe Carvalho Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal2:01.56Q
1057Dmitry GorbunovFlag of Russia.svg Russia2:01.76Q
1135 Jan-David Schepers Flag of Germany.svg Germany2:02.35Q
1142 Luca Angelo Dioli Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:02.35Q
1336 Raphaël Stacchiotti Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 2:02.36Q
1434 James Goddard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain2:02.40Q
1521 Lukasz Wojt Flag of Poland.svg Poland2:02.41Q
1651 Martin Liivamägi Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 2:02.42Q
1724 Jakub Maly Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:02.61
1847 Eduardo Solaeche Gomez Flag of Spain.svg Spain2:02.62Q
1955 Markus Deibler Flag of Germany.svg Germany2:02.66
2032 Ivan Trofimov Flag of Russia.svg Russia2:02.74
2138 Tom Kremer Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 2:03.42
2241 Andreas Vazaios Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 2:03.67
2326 Yury Suvorau Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 2:03.94
2431 David Karasek Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland2:04.00
2527 Nikša Roki Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 2:04.03
2628 Tomáš Fučík Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:04.04
2748 Denys Dubrov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:04.39
2822 Dominik Dür Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:04.46
2958 Maxym Shemberyev Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:04.54
3016 Irakli Bolkvadze Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 2:05.57
3113 Pavol Jelenak Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 2:05.59 NR
3223 Tal Hanani Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 2:05.65
3325 Jakub Jasinski Flag of Poland.svg Poland2:06.14
3414 Saša Imprić Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 2:07.44
3511 Peter Gutyan Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 2:09.02
3615 Rok Resman Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 2:09.15
3717 Pavels Vilcans Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:09.64
3812 Adam Strieborny Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 2:10.65
3918 Pavel Naroshkin Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 2:11.10
37 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin Flag of Israel.svg  Israel DNS

Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final. [3]

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15 Markus Rogan Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:00.58Q
24 Dávid Verrasztó Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:00.75Q
33 Federico Turrini Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:01.17Q
46 Diogo Filipe Carvalho Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal2:01.64
52 Jan-David Schepers Flag of Germany.svg Germany2:01.71
68 Eduardo Solaeche Gomez Flag of Spain.svg Spain2:01.91
71 Lukasz Wojt Flag of Poland.svg Poland2:02.40
87 Raphaël Stacchiotti Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 2:03.50

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:57.80Q
25 Simon Sjödin Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden1:59.44Q, NR
36 Gal Nevo Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 1:59.62Q
41 James Goddard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain2:00.66Q
53 Vytautas Janušaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:00.75Q
68 Martin Liivamägi Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 2:02.01
77 Luca Angelo Dioli Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:02.04
82Dmitry GorbunovFlag of Russia.svg Russia2:02.94

Final

The final was held at 18:17. [4]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:56.66 CR
Silver medal icon.svg2 James Goddard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain1:57.84
Bronze medal icon.svg6 Markus Rogan Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:59.39
43 Gal Nevo Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 1:59.74
55 Simon Sjödin Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden2:00.70
67 Dávid Verrasztó Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:01.70
71 Vytautas Janušaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:02.08
88 Federico Turrini Flag of Italy.svg Italy2:02.50

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