Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 22 and 23. The heats and semifinals took place on May 22, the final on May 23.[1]

Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
DatesMay 22, 2012 (heats and semifinals)
May 23, 2012 (final)
Competitors39 from 24 nations
Winning time1:56.66
Medalists
gold medal    Hungary
silver medal    Great Britain
bronze medal    Austria

Records

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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 July 28, 2011
European record László Cseh   Hungary 1:55.18 Rome July 29, 2009
Championship record László Cseh   Hungary 1:57.73 Budapest August 11, 2010

Results

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Heats

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40 swimmers participated in 6 heats.[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 4 László Cseh   Hungary 1:59.15 Q
2 4 5 Dávid Verrasztó   Hungary 2:00.35 Q
3 4 6 Simon Sjödin   Sweden 2:00.38 Q
4 4 4 Markus Rogan   Austria 2:00.42 Q
5 5 3 Vytautas Janušaitis   Lithuania 2:00.61 Q
6 5 2 Dinko Jukić   Austria 2:00.88
7 3 3 Federico Turrini   Italy 2:01.33 Q
8 5 6 Gal Nevo   Israel 2:01.35 Q
9 4 3 Diogo Filipe Carvalho   Portugal 2:01.56 Q
10 5 7 Dmitry Gorbunov   Russia 2:01.76 Q
11 3 5 Jan-David Schepers   Germany 2:02.35 Q
11 4 2 Luca Angelo Dioli   Italy 2:02.35 Q
13 3 6 Raphaël Stacchiotti   Luxembourg 2:02.36 Q
14 3 4 James Goddard   Great Britain 2:02.40 Q
15 2 1 Lukasz Wojt   Poland 2:02.41 Q
16 5 1 Martin Liivamägi   Estonia 2:02.42 Q
17 2 4 Jakub Maly   Austria 2:02.61
18 4 7 Eduardo Solaeche Gomez   Spain 2:02.62 Q
19 5 5 Markus Deibler   Germany 2:02.66
20 3 2 Ivan Trofimov   Russia 2:02.74
21 3 8 Tom Kremer   Israel 2:03.42
22 4 1 Andreas Vazaios   Greece 2:03.67
23 2 6 Yury Suvorau   Belarus 2:03.94
24 3 1 David Karasek    Switzerland 2:04.00
25 2 7 Nikša Roki   Croatia 2:04.03
26 2 8 Tomáš Fučík   Czech Republic 2:04.04
27 4 8 Denys Dubrov   Ukraine 2:04.39
28 2 2 Dominik Dür   Austria 2:04.46
29 5 8 Maxym Shemberyev   Ukraine 2:04.54
30 1 6 Irakli Bolkvadze   Georgia 2:05.57
31 1 3 Pavol Jelenak   Slovakia 2:05.59 NR
32 2 3 Tal Hanani   Israel 2:05.65
33 2 5 Jakub Jasinski   Poland 2:06.14
34 1 4 Saša Imprić   Croatia 2:07.44
35 1 1 Peter Gutyan   Slovakia 2:09.02
36 1 5 Rok Resman   Slovenia 2:09.15
37 1 7 Pavels Vilcans   Latvia 2:09.64
38 1 2 Adam Strieborny   Slovakia 2:10.65
39 1 8 Pavel Naroshkin   Estonia 2:11.10
3 7 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin   Israel DNS

Semifinals

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The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.[3]

Semifinal 1

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Markus Rogan   Austria 2:00.58 Q
2 4 Dávid Verrasztó   Hungary 2:00.75 Q
3 3 Federico Turrini   Italy 2:01.17 Q
4 6 Diogo Filipe Carvalho   Portugal 2:01.64
5 2 Jan-David Schepers   Germany 2:01.71
6 8 Eduardo Solaeche Gomez   Spain 2:01.91
7 1 Lukasz Wojt   Poland 2:02.40
8 7 Raphaël Stacchiotti   Luxembourg 2:03.50

Semifinal 2

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 László Cseh   Hungary 1:57.80 Q
2 5 Simon Sjödin   Sweden 1:59.44 Q, NR
3 6 Gal Nevo   Israel 1:59.62 Q
4 1 James Goddard   Great Britain 2:00.66 Q
5 3 Vytautas Janušaitis   Lithuania 2:00.75 Q
6 8 Martin Liivamägi   Estonia 2:02.01
7 7 Luca Angelo Dioli   Italy 2:02.04
8 2 Dmitry Gorbunov   Russia 2:02.94

Final

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The final was held at 18:17.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  4 László Cseh   Hungary 1:56.66 CR
  2 James Goddard   Great Britain 1:57.84
  6 Markus Rogan   Austria 1:59.39
4 3 Gal Nevo   Israel 1:59.74
5 5 Simon Sjödin   Sweden 2:00.70
6 7 Dávid Verrasztó   Hungary 2:01.70
7 1 Vytautas Janušaitis   Lithuania 2:02.08
8 8 Federico Turrini   Italy 2:02.50

References

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