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

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, the final on May 24.[1]

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
DatesMay 23, 2012 (heats and semifinals)
May 24, 2012 (final)
Competitors30 from 18 nations
Winning time1:54.95
Medalists
gold medal    Hungary
silver medal    Hungary
bronze medal    Greece
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Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record Michael Phelps   United States 1:51.51 Rome July 29, 2009
European record László Cseh   Hungary 1:52.70 Beijing August 13, 2008
Championship record Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland 1:54.38 Eindhoven March 21, 2008

Results

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Heats

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31 swimmers participated in 4 heats.[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Bence Biczó   Hungary 1:57.47 Q
2 3 4 Dinko Jukić   Austria 1:57.69 Q
3 2 4 László Cseh   Hungary 1:58.08 Q
4 2 5 Ioannis Drymonakos   Greece 1:58.16 Q
5 4 3 Francesco Pavone   Italy 1:58.23 Q
6 4 5 Velimir Stjepanović   Serbia 1:58.32 Q
7 2 7 Alexandru Coci   Romania 1:58.42 Q
8 1 2 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or   Israel 1:58.97 Q
9 3 5 Stefanos Dimitriadis   Greece 1:58.97 Q
10 3 3 Jordan Coelho   France 1:59.32 Q
11 2 3 Konstantinos Markozis   Greece 1:59.48
12 4 2 Tom Kremer   Israel 1:59.50 Q
13 2 6 Egon van der Straeten   Belgium 1:59.70 Q
14 3 6 Robert Žbogar   Slovenia 1:59.80 Q
15 3 7 Andreas Vazaios   Greece 2:00.05
16 2 2 Alexandre Liess    Switzerland 2:00.18 Q
17 2 1 Jan Šefl   Czech Republic 2:00.21 Q
18 3 1 Michal Poprawa   Poland 2:00.23 Q
18 3 2 Pedro Diogo Oliveira   Portugal 2:00.23
20 4 1 Diogo Filipe Carvalho   Portugal 2:00.52
21 4 7 Duarte Rafael Mourao   Portugal 2:00.63
22 1 4 Sindri Thor Jakobsson   Norway 2:00.96 NR
23 4 8 Bernhard Wolf   Austria 2:01.69
24 1 5 Niksa Roki   Croatia 2:01.82
25 1 6 Nico van Duijn    Switzerland 2:02.02
25 3 8 Alon Mandel   Israel 2:02.02
27 2 8 Avi Cohen   Israel 2:02.35
28 1 3 Jakub Maly   Austria 2:03.03
29 1 1 Pavel Naroshkin   Estonia 2:04.15 NR
30 1 7 Edgaras Štura   Lithuania 2:08.18
4 6 Matteo Pelizzari   Italy DNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Velimir Stjepanović   Serbia 1:56.84 Q
2 4 Dinko Jukić   Austria 1:57.02 Q
3 5 Ioannis Drymonakos   Greece 1:57.33 Q
4 2 Jordan Coelho   France 1:57.59 Q
5 1 Alexandre Liess    Switzerland 1:58.13 Q, NR
6 6 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or   Israel 1:59.09
7 7 Egon van der Straeten   Belgium 1:59.25
8 8 Michal Poprawa   Poland 2:00.56

Semifinal 2

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Bence Biczó   Hungary 1:55.77 Q
2 3 Francesco Pavone   Italy 1:57.05 Q
3 5 László Cseh   Hungary 1:57.44 Q
4 2 Stefanos Dimitriadis   Greece 1:58.51
5 1 Robert Žbogar   Slovenia 1:58.75
6 6 Alexandru Coci   Romania 1:59.49
7 7 Tom Kremer   Israel 1:59.51
8 8 Jan Šefl   Czech Republic 1:59.87

Final

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The final was held at 17:57.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  7 László Cseh   Hungary 1:54.95
  4 Bence Biczó   Hungary 1:55.85
  2 Ioannis Drymonakos   Greece 1:56.48
4 3 Dinko Jukić   Austria 1:56.53
5 5 Velimir Stjepanović   Serbia 1:57.06
6 6 Francesco Pavone   Italy 1:57.07
7 1 Jordan Coelho   France 1:58.24
8 8 Alexandre Liess    Switzerland 1:59.13

References

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