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

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

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

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
	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:58.10
	5	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:58.17
	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

References

1. Start list
2. Heats Results
3. Semifinals Results
4. Final Results