Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	19 May
Competitors	40 from 28 nations
Winning time	2:21.69
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 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	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	Barcelona	28 July 2013
European record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	Barcelona	28 July 2013
Championship record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.84	Berlin	22 August 2014

The heats were held on 19 May at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:24.70	Q
2	3	4	Chloe Tutton	Great Britain	2:25.79	Q
3	4	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:25.90	Q
4	4	5	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:25.99	Q
5	5	5	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:26.29	Q
6	5	4	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:26.54	Q
7	4	3	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:26.78	Q
8	3	2	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:27.24	Q
9	5	6	Georgia Coates	Great Britain	2:27.79
10	4	6	Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary	2:27.92	Q
11	3	3	Ilaria Scarcella	Italy	2:28.67	Q
12	4	7	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	2:29.07	Q
13	5	8	Jessica Eriksson	Sweden	2:29.68	Q
14	5	7	Jessica Steiger	Germany	2:29.96	Q
15	4	2	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:30.08	Q
16	5	3	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:30.16	Q
17	5	0	Stina Colleou	Norway	2:30.30	Q
18	3	0	Vilma Ekström	Sweden	2:30.35
19	3	6	Katie Matts	Great Britain	2:30.45
20	5	2	Lisa Fissneider	Italy	2:30.65
21	3	9	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	2:30.67
22	3	8	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:30.82
23	5	9	Monika Štěpánová	Czech Republic	2:31.04
24	2	3	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:31.55
24	5	8	Weronika Paluszek	Poland	2:31.59
26	2	4	Mona McSharry	Ireland	2:31.77
27	4	1	Natalia Ivaneeva	Russia	2:31.86
28	2	8	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	2:32.45
29	1	3	Patricia Aschan	Finland	2:32.61
30	4	0	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:33.34
31	2	7	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:33.56
32	51	1	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	2:33.86
33	2	5	Raminta Dvarishkyte	Lithuania	2:34.90
34	2	1	Aļona Ribakova	Latvia	2:35.18
35	2	6	Ariel Braathen	Norway	2:35.78
36	4	9	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	2:36.47
37	1	5	Emina Pašukan	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:38.27
38	1	4	Alina Bulmag	Moldova	2:39.52
39	2	2	Ana Rodrigues	Portugal	2:39.79
	3	1	Ana Radić	Croatia	DSQ
	3	7	Fanny Deberghes	France	DNS

The semifinals were held on 19 May at 19:21.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Chloe Tutton	Great Britain	2:23.76	Q
2	3	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:23.94	Q
3	5	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:24.11	Q
4	6	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:25.78	Q
5	2	Ilaria Scarcella	Italy	2:28.09
6	1	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:28.42
7	8	Stina Colleou	Norway	2:29.03
8	7	Jessica Eriksson	Sweden	2:29.22

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:24.10	Q
2	3	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:24.56	Q
3	4	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:24.85	Q
4	6	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:25.47	Q
5	8	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:25.92
6	2	Dalma Sebestyén	Hungary	2:26.53
7	7	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	2:28.75
8	1	Jessica Steiger	Germany	2:29.62

The final was held on 20 May at 18:40.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	3	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:21.69
	2	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:22.56
	6	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:22.96
4	7	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:23.18
5	5	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:23.40
6	4	Chloe Tutton	Great Britain	2:24.07
7	1	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:25.97
8	8	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:29.42