Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	20 May
Competitors	41 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:55.98
Medalists
Radosław Kawęcki    Poland   Yakov Toumarkin    Israel   Danas Rapšys    Lithuania

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 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	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:51.92	Rome	31 July 2009
European record	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:54.21	Moscow	21 April 2016
Championship record	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:55.28	Debrecen	26 May 2012

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 20 May at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	6	David Foldhazi	Hungary	1:57.69	Q
2	5	4	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:58.41	Q
3	4	4	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:58.44	Q
4	5	3	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1:58.70	Q
5	5	5	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:58.81	Q
6	3	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:58.95	Q
7	4	3	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	1:59.08	Q
8	5	2	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:59.10
9	4	5	Luca Mencarini	Italy	1:59.19	Q
10	4	6	Balázs Zámbó	Hungary	1:59.34
11	3	6	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	2:00.17	Q
12	3	7	Roman Dmitriyev	Czech Republic	2:00.42	Q
13	3	5	Grigory Tarasevich	Russia	2:00.45	Q
14	4	8	Petter Fredriksson	Sweden	2:00.91	Q
15	3	8	Kristian Kron	Sweden	2:01.01	Q
16	2	9	Robert Glință	Romania	2:01.09	Q
17	3	3	Apostolos Christou	Greece	2:01.14	Q
18	4	2	Mattias Carlsson	Sweden	2:01.24
19	4	1	Anton Loncar	Croatia	2:01.47	Q
20	1	3	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	2:01.64
21	2	5	Teo Kolonić	Croatia	2:01.73
22	3	0	Daniel Martin	Romania	2:01.82
23	4	0	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	2:01.96
24	5	1	Nils Van Audekerke	Belgium	2:02.07
25	2	1	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	2:02.29
26	5	9	Marko Krce Rabar	Croatia	2:02.33
27	5	0	Yuval Safra	Israel	2:02.39
28	4	9	Arthur Polyak	Israel	2:02.59
29	2	2	Ege Başer	Turkey	2:02.95
30	3	9	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	2:03.32
31	4	7	Lander Hendrickx	Belgium	2:03.47
32	5	7	David Gamburg	Israel	2:03.71
33	2	7	Ģirts Feldbergs	Latvia	2:03.94
34	3	1	Axel Pettersson	Sweden	2:03.96
35	2	4	Joan Pons	Spain	2:04.29
36	2	6	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	2:04.33
37	2	8	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	2:04.84
38	1	6	Marcin Tarczyński	Poland	2:04.89
39	1	4	Ergecan Gezmiş	Turkey	2:05.55
40	2	0	Michail Kontizas	Greece	2:06.31
41	1	5	Andrei Gussev	Estonia	2:10.49
42	2	2	Carl-Louis Schwarz	Germany	99.99 !DNS
42	3	2	Joseph Hulme	Great Britain	99.99 !DNS
42	5	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	99.99 !DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 20 May at 19:08.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:57.35	Q
2	4	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:57.39	Q
3	5	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1:59.04	Q
4	6	Luca Mencarini	Italy	1:59.05	Q
5	2	Roman Dmitriyev	Czech Republic	1:59.53
6	1	Robert Glință	Romania	2:00.91
7	8	Anton Loncar	Croatia	2:01.80
8	7	Petter Fredriksson	Sweden	2:02.13

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:57.41	Q
2	5	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:57.95	Q
3	6	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	1:58.50	Q
4	7	Grigory Tarasevich	Russia	1:58.55	Q
5	3	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:59.21
6	4	David Foldhazi	Hungary	1:59.48
7	2	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	2:00.45
8	1	Kristian Kron	Sweden	2:00.90

Final

The final was on 21 May at 17:18.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:55.98
02 !	6	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:56.97
03 !	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:57.22
4	1	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1:58.66
5	3	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:58.87
6	7	Grigory Tarasevich	Russia	1:59.31
7	2	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	1:59.45
8	8	Luca Mencarini	Italy	2:02.04

References