Swimming at the 2015 European Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2015 European Games in Baku took place on 25 and 26 June at the Aquatic Palace.[1]

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2015 European Games
Venue	Aquatic Palace
Dates	25–26 June
Competitors	39 from 26 nations
Winning time	1:56.89
Medalists
Luke Greenbank    Netherlands   Mikita Tsmyh    Belarus   Roman Larin    Russia

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 25 June at 10:11.[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:59.06	Q, GR
2	4	5	Roman Larin	Russia	2:01.00	Q
3	3	5	Jacopo Bietti	Italy	2:01.03	Q
4	3	4	Joe Hulme	Great Britain	2:01.11	Q
5	3	3	Jakub Skierka	Poland	2:01.13	Q
6	2	2	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	2:01.64	Q
7	2	3	Petter Fredriksson	Sweden	2:02.08	Q
8	4	2	Bence Szucsik	Hungary	2:02.27	Q
9	2	4	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:02.69	Q
10	4	6	Luigi Paciolla	Italy	2:02.79	Q
11	4	3	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	2:03.18	Q
12	2	8	Oskar Ericsson	Sweden	2:03.67	Q
13	2	7	Joe Litchfield	Great Britain	2:03.71
14	2	5	Kirill Titov	Russia	2:04.03	Q
15	3	6	Christoffer Fredrikson	Finland	2:04.19	Q
16	3	7	Franz Müller	Germany	2:04.36	Q
17	2	0	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	2:04.49
18	4	1	Dominik Varga	Hungary	2:04.85	Q
19	3	8	João Vital	Portugal	2:05.28
20	4	9	Ole Braunschweig	Germany	2:05.40
21	4	8	Rory McEvoy	Ireland	2:05.49
22	3	2	Moritz Walaschewski	Germany	2:05.72
23	3	1	Vito Vodenik	Slovenia	2:05.83
24	3	0	Daniel Kaplan	Israel	2:06.27
25	1	2	Andrei Gussev	Estonia	2:07.06
26	4	0	Berk Özkul	Turkey	2:07.08
27	2	1	Tomer Drori	Israel	2:07.27
28	1	4	Max Mannes	Luxembourg	2:07.58
29	2	6	Robert Glință	Romania	2:07.98
30	1	5	Alexander Světlík	Slovakia	2:09.43
31	1	7	Qriqoriy Kalminskiy	Azerbaijan	2:09.69
32	3	9	Rasim Oğulcan Gör	Turkey	2:09.78
33	1	8	Bragi Snær Hallsson	Iceland	2:10.31
34	1	6	Timothy Schlatter	Switzerland	2:10.65
35	1	3	Alan Corby	Ireland	2:10.94
36	4	7	Lorenzo Glessi	Italy	2:11.91
37	2	9	Denys Martyniuk	Ukraine	2:14.19
38	1	0	Adrian Negru	Moldova	2:16.08
39	1	1	Tarik Hoch	Liechtenstein	2:20.24

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 25 June at 18:00.[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Joe Hulme	Great Britain	2:00.23	Q
2	4	Roman Larin	Russia	2:01.24	Q
3	6	Bence Szucsik	Hungary	2:01.31	q
4	3	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	2:02.36
5	2	Luigi Paciolla	Italy	2:03.05
6	1	Christoffer Fredrikson	Finland	2:03.27
7	7	Oskar Ericsson	Sweden	2:03.34
8	8	Dominik Varga	Hungary	2:05.05

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:57.53	Q, GR
2	3	Jakub Skierka	Poland	1:59.95	Q
3	2	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:00.90	q
4	6	Petter Fredriksson	Sweden	2:01.51	q
5	5	Jacopo Bietti	Italy	2:01.96	q
6	7	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	2:02.54
7	1	Kirill Titov	Russia	2:03.43
8	8	Franz Müller	Germany	2:04.64

Final

The final was held on 26 June at 18:29.[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:56.89	GR, WJ
	6	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	1:59.46
	2	Roman Larin	Russia	1:59.60
4	5	Jakub Skierka	Poland	1:59.78
5	3	Joe Hulme	Great Britain	2:00.16
6	1	Petter Fredriksson	Sweden	2:01.20
7	8	Jacopo Bietti	Italy	2:01.33
8	7	Bence Szucsik	Hungary	2:01.62

References

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