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

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	19–20 August
Competitors	36 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:58.10
Medalists
László Cseh    Hungary   Philip Heintz    Germany   Roberto Pavoni    Great Britain

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:54.00	Shanghai	24 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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:07.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:59.17	Q
2	3	4	Markus Deibler	Germany	1:59.60	Q
3	3	5	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	1:59.89	Q
4	4	5	Eduardo Solaeche	Spain	2:00.16	Q
5	4	3	Philip Heintz	Germany	2:00.18	Q
6	2	6	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	2:00.32	Q
7	4	2	Alexis Santos	Portugal	2:00.54	Q
8	4	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	2:00.83	Q
9	2	4	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	2:01.08	Q
10	2	7	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	2:01.17	Q
11	2	3	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	2:01.23	Q
12	2	5	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:01.34	Q
13	3	6	Federico Turrini	Italy	2:01.61	Q
13	3	2	Albert Puig	Spain	2:01.61	Q
15	3	1	Marcin Cieślak	Poland	2:01.86	Q
16	4	7	Alexander Tikhonov	Russia	2:01.88	Q
17	3	7	Damiano Lestingi	Italy	2:01.97
18	3	8	Jakub Maly	Austria	2:02.19
19	4	0	Jeremy Desplanches	Switzerland	2:02.53
20	1	7	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	2:02.61
21	4	8	Daniel Skaaning	Denmark	2:02.74
22	3	3	Ivan Trofimov	Russia	2:02.96
23	2	0	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	2:03.29
24	2	1	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2:03.47
25	1	4	Ensar Hajder	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:03.68
26	2	2	Dmitry Gorbunov	Russia	2:03.75
27	1	2	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	2:03.85
28	2	9	Bogdan Knežević	Serbia	2:04.43
29	1	3	Etay Gurevich	Israel	2:04.74
30	1	5	Alpkan Örnek	Turkey	2:04.97
31	3	0	Theo Fuchs	France	2:05.24
32	4	9	Eric Ress	France	2:05.72
33	2	8	Igor Kozlovskij	Lithuania	2:06.07
34	3	9	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	2:06.24
35	1	6	Heiko Gigler	Austria	2:08.21
—	4	1	Matteo Pelizzari	Italy		DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:46.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Markus Deibler	Germany	1:59.43	Q
2	5	Eduardo Solaeche	Spain	1:59.64	Q
3	1	Federico Turrini	Italy	1:59.80	Q
4	2	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	2:00.45
5	3	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	2:00.90
6	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	2:01.03
7	8	Alexander Tikhonov	Russia	2:01.23
8	7	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:01.52

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:58.00	Q
2	3	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:58.17	Q
3	5	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	1:59.54	Q
4	6	Alexis Santos	Portugal	2:00.12	Q
5	8	Marcin Cieślak	Poland	2:00.32	Q
6	7	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	2:00.43
7	1	Albert Puig	Spain	2:01.13
8	2	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	2:02.83

Final

The final was held at 19:22.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:58.10
02 !	5	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:58.17
03 !	6	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	1:58.22
4	3	Markus Deibler	Germany	1:58.29
5	2	Eduardo Solaeche	Spain	1:59.11
6	7	Federico Turrini	Italy	2:00.44
7	8	Marcin Cieślak	Poland	2:00.65
8	1	Alexis Santos	Portugal	2:01.41

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