Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 6 and 7 August 2018.[1][2]

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	6 August (heats and semifinals) 7 August (final)
Competitors	34 from 23 nations
Winning time	2:21.31
Medalists
Yuliya Yefimova    Russia   Jessica Vall    Spain   Molly Renshaw    Great Britain

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	Barcelona	1 August 2013
Championship record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.84	Berlin	22 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 6 August at 09:53.[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	3	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:25.73	Q
2	3	7	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	2:25.98	Q
3	4	5	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:26.01	Q
4	2	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:26.82	Q
5	3	4	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:26.88	Q
6	2	4	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:26.94	Q
7	4	8	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:27.34	Q
8	3	5	Chloé Tutton	Great Britain	2:27.37	Q
9	4	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:27.66	Q
10	3	3	Jessica Steiger	Germany	2:27.71	Q
11	3	6	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:27.77	Q
12	2	8	Anna Wermuth	Denmark	2:27.78
13	2	7	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:27.80	Q
14	2	3	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:28.77	Q
15	3	2	Fanny Deberghes	France	2:29.07	Q
16	4	6	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:29.33	Q
17	2	2	Anna Pirovano	Italy	2:29.46	Q
18	3	1	Stina Colleou	Norway	2:29.58
19	4	9	Weronika Hallmann	Poland	2:29.59
20	2	1	Raquel Pereira	Portugal	2:30.05
21	4	1	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:31.05
22	4	2	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:31.31
23	1	3	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:31.64
24	3	8	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:31.70
25	3	9	Sara Staudinger	Switzerland	2:32.04
26	1	2	Alina Zmushka	Belarus	2:32.13
27	4	7	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:32.28
28	2	0	Jessica Eriksson	Sweden	2:32.41
29	4	0	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	2:33.10
30	3	0	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	2:34.01
31	1	6	Nikoleta Trníková	Slovakia	2:36.01
32	1	5	Elena Guttiman	Austria	2:36.96
33	2	9	Alexandra Schegoleva	Cyprus	2:38.65
34	1	4	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:39.45
	2	6	Fantine Lesaffre	France	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 6 August at 17:30.[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:25.94	Q
2	6	Chloé Tutton	Great Britain	2:26.62	Q
3	2	Jessica Steiger	Germany	2:26.84	Q
4	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:26.89
5	4	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	2:27.29
6	1	Fanny Deberghes	France	2:28.16
7	8	Anna Pirovano	Italy	2:29.21
8	7	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:29.25

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:23.49	Q
2	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:24.39	Q
3	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:24.56	Q
4	5	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:24.67	Q
5	1	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:25.76	Q
6	8	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:27.14
7	6	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:27.19
8	7	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:28.52

Final

The final was started on 7 August at 17:25.[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:21.31
	7	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:23.02
	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:23.43
4	5	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:23.63
5	6	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:24.73
6	2	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:26.01
7	8	Jessica Steiger	Germany	2:27.66
—	1	Chloé Tutton	Great Britain	Disqualified

References

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