Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 Metre Butterfly at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	20–21 August
Competitors	34 from 23 nations
Winning time	1:55.29
Medalists
Viktor Bromer    Denmark   Bence Biczó    Hungary   Paweł Korzeniowski    Poland

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20–21 August.^[1]

Records

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	29 July 2009
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:52.70	Beijing	13 August 2008
Championship record	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:54.38	Eindhoven	21 March 2008

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.43	Q
2	4	6	Evgeny Koptelov	Russia	1:56.37	Q
3	3	4	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:56.63	Q
4	3	5	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.66	Q
5	3	2	Francesco Pavone	Italy	1:57.15	Q
6	2	6	Matteo Pelizzari	Italy	1:57.67	Q
7	3	3	Aleksandr Kudashev	Russia	1:57.70	Q
8	2	3	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:57.77	Q
9	2	7	Carlos Peralta	Spain	1:57.78	Q
10	2	5	Cameron Brodie	Great Britain	1:57.81	Q
11	4	5	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:57.93
12	4	1	Egon van der Straeten	Belgium	1:58.11	Q
13	3	7	Alexandru Coci	Romania	1:58.15	Q
14	4	4	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:58.29	Q
15	3	6	Jordan Coelho	France	1:58.36	Q
16	4	0	Konstantinos Markozis	Greece	1:58.48	Q
17	2	0	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1:58.55	Q
18	4	3	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:58.60
19	1	4	Nico van Duijn	Switzerland	1:59.04
20	4	7	Bence Pulai	Hungary	1:59.66
21	1	6	Sindri Jakobsson	Norway	1:59.80
22	1	5	Jesper Bjoerk	Sweden	2:00.01
23	2	8	Paul Lemaire	France	2:00.09
24	2	1	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	2:00.09
24	4	8	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	2:00.09
26	3	0	Nuno Quintanilha	Portugal	2:00.83
27	2	2	Tom Kremer	Israel	2:01.07
28	4	9	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	2:01.60
29	3	8	Thomas Vilaceca	France	2:01.69
30	2	9	Filip Milcevic	Austria	2:02.67
31	1	3	Tomas Havránek	Czech Republic	2:02.82
32	1	2	Etay Gurevich	Israel	2:03.10
33	1	1	Teimuraz Kobakhidze	Georgia	2:03.77
34	1	7	Nikola Dimitrov	Bulgaria	2:05.49
—	3	1	Simon Sjödin	Sweden		DNS
—	3	9	Jay Lelliott	Great Britain		DNS
—	4	2	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:01.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.46	Q
2	4	Evgeni Koptelov	Russia	1:56.74	Q
3	3	Matteo Pelizzari	Italy	1:56.78	Q
4	6	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:57.03	Q
5	1	Jordan Coelho	France	1:57.52
6	8	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1:57.64
7	2	Cameron Brodie	Great Britain	1:58.31
8	7	Alexandru Coci	Romania	1:58.42

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.55	Q
2	1	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:56.43	Q
3	5	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:56.44	Q
4	2	Carlos Peralta	Spain	1:57.23	Q
5	3	Francesco Pavone	Italy	1:57.35
6	6	Aleksandr Kudashev	Russia	1:57.41
7	7	Egon van der Straeten	Belgium	1:58.19
8	8	Konstantinos Markozis	Greece	1:58.89

Final

The final was held at 19:02.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.29
02 !	3	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:55.62
03 !	5	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:55.74
4	6	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.06
5	7	Matteo Pelizzari	Italy	1:56.72
6	8	Carlos Peralta	Spain	1:57.01
7	1	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:57.10
8	2	Evgeni Koptelov	Russia	1:57.14

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