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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	17–18 May
Competitors	67 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:46.02
Medalists
Sebastiaan Verschuren    Netherlands   Velimir Stjepanović    Serbia   James Guy    Great Britain
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The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 and 18 May 2016. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:42.00	Rome	28 July 2009
European record
Championship record	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:44.89	Berlin	2 August 2002

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 17 May at 10:00. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	2	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	1:46.93	Q
2	6	4	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.03	Q
3	8	4	James Guy	Great Britain	1:47.11	Q
4	6	5	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	1:47.35	Q
5	6	2	Matias Koski	Finland	1:47.48	Q
6	8	8	Kacper Majchrzak	Poland	1:47.59	Q
7	6	8	Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo	Italy	1:47.61	Q
8	7	4	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	1:47.69	Q
9	8	3	Dion Dreesens	Netherlands	1:48.05
10	7	6	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	1:48.09	Q
11	6	7	Lorys Bourelly	France	1:48.16	Q
12	6	6	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:48.29
13	8	7	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	1:48.45	Q
14	5	6	Albert Puig	Spain	1:48.73	Q
15	7	5	Jordan Pothain	France	1:48.79	Q
16	8	6	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:48.80	Q
17	5	4	Víctor Martín	Spain	1:48.81	Q
18	7	1	Kyle Stolk	Netherlands	1:48.83
19	7	2	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:48.89	Q
20	8	5	Robert Renwick	Great Britain	1:48.95
21	6	9	Dieter Dekoninck	Belgium	1:48.98
22	5	2	Jordan Sloan	Ireland	1:49.01
23	4	2	Doğa Çelik	Turkey	1:49.15
24	8	9	Tom Kremer	Israel	1:49.36
25	3	1	Marius Radu	Romania	1:49.39
26	4	1	Isak Eliasson	Sweden	1:49.53
27	5	7	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	1:49.57
28	4	7	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:49.63
29	7	0	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:49.72
30	7	3	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:49.77
31	6	1	Alexandre Haldemann	Switzerland	1:49.80
32	5	0	Dimitrios Dimitriou	Greece	1:49.82
33	4	6	Kacper Klich	Poland	1:49.97
34	8	0	Illya Teslenko	Ukraine	1:50.00
35	3	5	Henning Mühlleitner	Germany	1:50.12
36	5	5	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	1:50.17
37	4	8	Christoffer Carlsen	Sweden	1:50.21
38	4	4	Anže Tavčar	Slovenia	1:50.30
39	5	9	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:50.53
40	5	1	Ido Haber	Israel	1:50.62
40	7	8	Miguel Durán	Spain	1:50.62
42	6	0	Alexi Konovalov	Israel	1:50.64
43	3	7	Aleksi Schmid	Switzerland	1:50.67
44	3	2	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:50.70
45	7	9	David Brandl	Austria	1:50.93
46	3	4	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:50.99
46	2	4	Uroš Nikolić	Serbia	1:50.99
48	3	3	Kaan Özcan	Turkey	1:51.00
49	3	8	Gustaf Dahlman	Sweden	1:51.24
50	2	2	Kemal Arda Gürdal	Turkey	1:51.26
51	3	6	Ergecan Gezmiş	Turkey	1:51.33
52	2	5	Pit Brandenburger	Luxembourg	1:51.55
52	5	3	Alexei Sancov	Moldova	1:51.55
54	4	3	Markus Lie	Norway	1:51.60
55	4	9	Stefan Šorak	Serbia	1:51.84
56	4	0	Petr Novák	Czech Republic	1:52.16
57	2	3	Pavol Jelenák	Slovakia	1:52.60
58	3	9	Thomas Liess	Switzerland	1:52.88
59	7	7	Cameron Kurle	Great Britain	1:53.03
60	2	6	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	1:53.19
61	2	0	Daniel Martin	Romania	1:53.26
62	2	8	Andri Aedma	Estonia	1:53.43
63	2	7	Karl Luht	Estonia	1:53.86
64	1	3	Yonatan Batsha	Israel	1:54.33
65	2	1	Davide Bernardi	San Marino	1:57.85
66	1	4	Cristian Santi	San Marino	1:59.12
67	1	5	Gianluca Pasolini	San Marino	1:59.78
	3	0	Truls Wigdel	Norway	DNS
	4	5	Eduardo Solaeche	Spain	DNS
	5	8	Christos Katrantzis	Greece	DNS
	6	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	DNS
	8	1	Clément Mignon	France	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 17 May at 19:23. ^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	1:45.87	Q
2	4	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:46.04	Q
3	3	Kacper Majchrzak	Poland	1:46.95	Q
4	5	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	1:47.62	Q
5	1	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:48.22
6	2	Lorys Bourelly	France	1:48.71
7	8	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:48.85
8	7	Albert Puig	Spain	1:49.29

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	James Guy	Great Britain	1:46.59	Q
2	4	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	1:46.91	Q
3	6	Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo	Italy	1:47.56	Q
4	3	Matias Koski	Finland	1:47.58	Q
5	2	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	1:47.73
6	7	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	1:47.85
7	1	Jordan Pothain	France	1:48.35
8	8	Víctor Martín	Spain	1:48.66

Final

The final was held on 18 May at 18:51. ^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	1:46.02
	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:46.26
	3	James Guy	Great Britain	1:46.42
4	1	Matias Koski	Finland	1:46.98	NR
5	6	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	1:47.05
6	2	Kacper Majchrzak	Poland	1:47.45
7	8	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	1:47.85
8	7	Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo	Italy	1:48.05

References

1. Entry list
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Semifinals results
5. Final results