Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

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Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue Foro Italico
Dates13 August (heats and semifinals)
14 August (final)
Competitors30 from 20 nations
Winning time2:08.96
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
  2020
2024  

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 13 and 14 August 2022. [1] [2]

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Records

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

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record Zac Stubblety-Cook Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 2:05.95 Adelaide 19 May 2022
European record Anton Chupkov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:06.12 Gwangju 26 July 2019
Championship record 2:06.80 Glasgow 6 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 13 August at 09:42. [3]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
146 Matěj Zábojník Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:11.16Q
234 Matti Mattsson Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:11.51Q
345 Anton Sveinn McKee Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 2:11.82Q
438 Gabriel Lopes Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 2:11.92Q, NR
535 Andrius Šidlauskas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:12.47Q
633 Dawid Wiekiera Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:12.50Q
742 Darragh Greene Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 2:12.53Q
843 Lyubomir Epitropov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 2:12.56Q
931 Maksym Ovchinnikov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:12.69Q
1023 Luca Pizzini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:12.72Q
1124 James Wilby Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:12.87Q
1222 Greg Butler Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:13.08Q
1325 Antoine Viquerat Flag of France.svg  France 2:13.35Q
1449 David Verrasztó Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:13.81Q
1526 Andrea Castello Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:13.88Q
1648 Gábor Zombori Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:13.93Q
1747 Daniel Raisanen Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:14.48
1832 Eoin Corby Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 2:14.75
1928 Christoffer Haarsaker Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2:14.95
2030 Daniils Bobrovs Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:14.96
2120 David Kyzymenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:15.40
2221Aleksas SavickasFlag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:15.63
2341 Luka Mladenovic Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:15.98
2440 Maksym Tkachuk Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:16.42
2529 William Lulek Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:17.89
2614 Denis Svet Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 2:18.46
2739 Constantin Malachi Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2:18.51
2813 Even Qarri Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 2:34.53
36 Christopher Rothbauer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Disqualified
37 Savvas Thomoglou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
15 Giacomo Casadei Flag of San Marino.svg  San Marino Did not start
27 Carles Coll Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
44 Arno Kamminga Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 13 August at 19:04. [4]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
114 Matti Mattsson Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:09.88Q
212 Luca Pizzini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:10.48Q
323 Andrius Šidlauskas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:10.59Q
413 Dawid Wiekiera Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:10.60q
521 Antoine Viquerat Flag of France.svg  France 2:11.14Q
625 Anton Sveinn McKee Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 2:11.47q
724 Matěj Zábojník Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:11.48q
827 James Wilby Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:11.73Q
916 Lyubomir Epitropov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 2:12.08
1015 Gabriel Lopes Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 2:12.37
1122 Maksym Ovchinnikov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:12.62
1211 David Verrasztó Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:12.64
1326 Darragh Greene Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 2:12.73
1417 Greg Butler Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:13.21
1518 Gábor Zombori Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:13.47
1628 Andrea Castello Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:13.57

Final

The final was started on 14 August at 19:08. [5]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg8 James Wilby Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:08.96
Silver medal icon.svg4 Matti Mattsson Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:09.40
Bronze medal icon.svg5 Luca Pizzini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:09.97
46 Dawid Wiekiera Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:10.27
53 Andrius Šidlauskas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:10.45
67 Anton Sveinn McKee Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 2:10.96
72 Antoine Viquerat Flag of France.svg  France 2:11.14
81 Matěj Zábojník Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:12.27

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