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.European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre individual entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-20.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordRyan Lochte1:54.00ShanghaiJuly 28, 2011European recordLászló Cseh1:55.18RomeJuly 29, 2009Championship recordLászló Cseh1:57.73BudapestAugust 11, 2010

Results

Heats 40 swimmers participated in 6 heats.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre individual medley Heats results , from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.

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

Semifinals The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre individual medley Semifinals results , from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.

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

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

Final The final was held at 18:17.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre individual medley Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

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

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