Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	7 August (heats and semifinals) 8 August (final)
Competitors	39 from 22 nations
Winning time	1:53.36
Medalists
Evgeny Rylov   Russia   Radosław Kawęcki   Poland   Matteo Restivo   Italy

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 7 and 8 August 2018.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:51.92	Rome	31 July 2009
European record	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.61	Budapest	28 July 2017
Championship record	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:55.28	Debrecen	26 May 2012

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
8 August	Final	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.36	CR, ER

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 7 August at 09:41.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:56.67	Q
2	4	2	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:57.07	Q
3	4	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	1:57.31
4	5	3	Christian Diener	Germany	1:57.89	Q
5	3	7	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:58.62	Q
6	3	4	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:58.70	Q
7	4	5	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:58.96	Q
8	5	2	Luca Mencarini	Italy	1:59.09	Q
9	3	6	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:59.21	Q
9	4	3	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:59.21	Q
11	5	1	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:59.30	Q
12	4	6	Jakub Skierka	Poland	1:59.44	Q
13	3	2	Craig McNally	Great Britain	1:59.58
14	4	1	Maxim Stupin	Russia	1:59.60
15	3	5	Hugo González	Spain	1:59.73	Q
16	3	3	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	1:59.83	Q
17	5	6	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	2:00.08	Q
18	5	0	Anton Lončar	Croatia	2:00.11	Q
19	2	2	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	2:00.35	Q
20	4	7	Maxence Orange	France	2:00.72
21	3	0	João Vital	Portugal	2:00.98
22	5	9	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	2:01.51
23	2	7	Ivan Gajšek	Croatia	2:02.05
24	3	9	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	2:02.48
25	5	7	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:02.50
26	4	9	Roman Dmytrijev	Czech Republic	2:02.97
27	2	8	Ege Başer	Turkey	2:03.08
28	4	8	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	2:03.21
29	2	4	Georgios Spanoudakis	Greece	2:03.69
30	3	8	David Gamburg	Israel	2:03.82
31	2	5	Rokas Juozelskis	Lithuania	2:03.84
32	2	9	Armin Lelle	Estonia	2:04.26
33	5	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	2:04.53
34	2	1	Girts Feldbergs	Latvia	2:04.59
35	3	1	Paul Bedel	France	2:05.51
35	2	0	Patrick Staber	Austria	2:05.51
37	1	5	Berk Özkul	Turkey	2:05.99
38	2	6	Adam Černek	Slovakia	2:06.39
39	1	3	Thomas Wareing	Malta	2:08.70
	1	4	Metin Aydın	Turkey	Did not start
	4	0	Gustav Höfkelt	Sweden
	5	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 7 August at 17:01.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:57.62	Q
2	2	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:58.14	Q
3	7	Hugo González	Spain	1:58.43	Q
4	5	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:58.66
5	6	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:58.84
6	3	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:59.05
7	1	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	2:00.67
8	8	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	2:00.85

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:55.50	Q
2	3	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:57.56	Q
3	2	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:57.80	Q
4	6	Luca Mencarini	Italy	1:57.83	Q
5	5	Christian Diener	Germany	1:57.92	Q
6	1	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	1:58.65
7	8	Anton Lončar	Croatia	1:59.86
7	7	Jakub Skierka	Poland	1:59.86

Final

The final was started on 8 August at 17:32.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.36	ER, CR
	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:56.07
	6	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:56.29
4	7	Christian Diener	Germany	1:57.05
5	1	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:57.09
6	3	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:57.37
7	2	Luca Mencarini	Italy	1:57.71
8	8	Hugo González	Spain	1:59.06