The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place on May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, with the final held on May 24.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre breaststroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-22.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordChristian Sprenger2:07.31RomeJuly 30, 2009European recordDániel Gyurta2:07.64BeijingJuly 31, 2009Championship recordDániel Gyurta2:08.95BudapestAugust 12, 2010

Results

Heats 40 swimmers participated in 5 heats.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre breaststroke Heats results , from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 6 Panagiotis Samilidis 2:10.61 Q, NR 2 5 4 Dániel Gyurta 2:11.54 Q 3 4 3 Marco Koch 2:12.48 Q 4 5 3 Igor Borysik 2:12.60 Q 5 4 5 Ákos Molnár 2:12.71 Q 6 3 6 Flavio Bizzarri 2:13.00 Q 6 5 5 Michael Jamieson 2:13.00 Q 8 4 2 Matti Mattsson 2:13.26 Q 9 3 4 Laurent Carnol 2:13.36 Q 10 4 4 Christian vom Lehn 2:13.42 Q 11 4 1 Sławomir Kuczko 2:13.86 Q 12 3 5 Anton Lobanov 2:13.87 Q 13 2 3 Tomáš Klobučník 2:14.06 Q, NR 14 3 2 Yannick Kaeser 2:14.11 Q 15 5 7 Oleg Kostin 2:14.13 Q 16 4 7 Olexiy Rozhkov 2:14.37 Q 17 4 6 Maxym Shemberyev 2:14.38 18 5 1 Jonas Coreelman 2:14.52 19 3 7 Hunor Mate 2:14.79 20 3 3 Hugues Duboscq 2:15.02 21 1 5 Martin Liivamägi 2:15.21 NR 22 2 5 Carlos Esteves Almeida 2:15.64 23 2 2 Imri Ganiel 2:15.76 24 2 1 Irakli Bolkvadze 2:16.35 25 2 6 Jowan Qupty 2:16.72 25 3 1 Maxim Podoprigora 2:16.72 27 3 8 Danila Artiomov 2:17.77 28 4 8 Mattia Petce 2:17.80 29 1 2 Vadim Romanov 2:18.40 30 2 4 Eetu Karvonen 2:19.39 31 1 4 Sverre Naess 2:20.02 32 1 3 Robert Vovk 2:20.25 33 2 8 Rok Resman 2:20.63 34 1 7 Lachezar Shumkov 2:21.51 35 1 6 Marius Mikalauskas 2:21.61 36 1 1 Tal Hanani 2:23.73 5 2 Valeriy Dymo DSQ 5 8 Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson DSQ 1 8 Aleksander Hetland DNF 2 7 Gal Nevo DNS

Semifinals The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre breaststroke Semifinals results , from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Dániel Gyurta 2:10.06 Q 2 5 Igor Borysik 2:11.91 Q 3 3 Flavio Bizzarri 2:12.03 Q 4 1 Yannick Kaeser 2:12.09 Q, NR 5 2 Christian vom Lehn 2:12.16 Q 6 7 Anton Lobanov 2:12.54 7 6 Matti Mattsson 2:13.49 8 8 Olexiy Rozhkov 2:13.91

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Marco Koch 2:10.92 Q 2 4 Panagiotis Samilidis 2:11.53 Q 3 3 Ákos Molnár 2:12.23 Q 4 2 Laurent Carnol 2:12.29 5 8 Oleg Kostin 2:12.39 6 6 Michael Jamieson 2:12.58 7 1 Tomáš Klobučník 2:13.10 NR 8 7 Sławomir Kuczko 2:13.14

Final The final was held at 17:41.2012 European Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre breaststroke Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-24.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Dániel Gyurta 2:08.60 CR 5 Marco Koch 2:09.26 3 Panagiotis Samilidis 2:09.72 NR 4 1 Christian vom Lehn 2:10.61 5 2 Flavio Bizzarri 2.12.47 6 6 Igor Borysik 2:12.51 7 7 Yannick Kaeser 2:13.23 8 8 Ákos Molnár 2:13.33

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