Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre individual medley ; at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	5 August (heats and semifinals); 6 August (final)
Competitors	32 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:57.04
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:54.00	Shanghai	28 July 2011
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.18	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.66	Debrecen	23 May 2012

The heats were started on 5 August at 09:30.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3	Mark Szaranek	Great Britain	1:58.07	Q
2	3	4	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	1:58.12	Q
3	4	5	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:58.57
4	2	5	Hugo González	Spain	1:58.99	Q
5	3	5	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:59.40	Q
6	2	4	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:59.88	Q
7	2	6	Semen Makovich	Russia	2:00.06	Q
8	4	6	Alexis Santos	Portugal	2:00.24	Q
9	2	3	Thomas Dean	Great Britain	2:00.32
10	4	4	Philip Heintz	Germany	2:00.34	Q
11	3	1	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	2:00.65	Q
12	2	7	Maxim Stupin	Russia	2:00.72	Q
13	2	2	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:00.84	Q
13	2	1	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	2:00.84	Q
15	3	6	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	2:00.94	Q
16	3	2	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	2:01.42
17	4	3	Andrey Zhilkin	Russia	2:01.54
18	4	8	Dawid Szwedzki	Poland	2:02.03	Q
19	4	7	Etay Gurevich	Israel	2:02.05	Q
20	4	1	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2:02.34	Q
20	3	9	Metin Aydın	Turkey	2:02.34
22	3	7	Georgios Spanoudakis	Greece	2:02.56
23	4	2	Federico Turrini	Italy	2:03.19
24	2	0	Povilas Strazdas	Lithuania	2:03.63
25	2	8	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	2:03.86
26	4	0	Apostolos Papastamos	Greece	2:04.55
27	4	9	Samet Alkan	Turkey	2:04.81
28	3	8	Teemu Vuorela	Finland	2:04.85
29	3	0	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	2:05.39
30	1	3	Batuhan Hakan	Turkey	2:07.08
31	1	4	Alvi Hjelm	Faroe Islands	2:07.88
32	1	5	Cevin Siim	Estonia	2:08.45

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 18:26.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:57.56	Q
2	4	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	1:57.62	Q
3	5	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:58.48	Q
4	3	Semen Makovich	Russia	2:00.00	Q
5	7	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:00.51
6	2	Maxim Stupin	Russia	2:01.15
7	8	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2:01.99
8	1	Dawid Szwedzki	Poland	2:03.64

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:57.99	Q
2	4	Mark Szaranek	Great Britain	1:58.22	Q
3	5	Hugo González	Spain	1:59.28	Q
4	6	Alexis Santos	Portugal	1:59.89	Q
5	2	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	2:00.45
6	7	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	2:00.87
7	1	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	2:00.90
8	8	Etay Gurevich	Israel	2:02.77

The final was started on 6 August at 18:15.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	3	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:57.04
	4	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:57.83
	5	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	1:57.96
4	7	Hugo González	Spain	1:58.77
5	6	Mark Szaranek	Great Britain	1:58.88
5	2	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:58.88
7	1	Alexis Santos	Portugal	1:59.99
8	8	Semen Makovich	Russia	2:00.07