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

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 23, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 24, 2012 (final)
Competitors	30 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:54.95
Medalists
László Cseh   Hungary   Bence Biczó   Hungary   Ioannis Drymonakos   Greece

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, the final on May 24.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	1:51.51	Rome	July 29, 2009
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:52.70	Beijing	August 13, 2008
Championship record	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:54.38	Eindhoven	March 21, 2008

Results

Heats

31 swimmers participated in 4 heats.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:57.47	Q
2	3	4	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1:57.69	Q
3	2	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:58.08	Q
4	2	5	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1:58.16	Q
5	4	3	Francesco Pavone	Italy	1:58.23	Q
6	4	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:58.32	Q
7	2	7	Alexandru Coci	Romania	1:58.42	Q
8	1	2	Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or	Israel	1:58.97	Q
9	3	5	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:58.97	Q
10	3	3	Jordan Coelho	France	1:59.32	Q
11	2	3	Konstantinos Markozis	Greece	1:59.48
12	4	2	Tom Kremer	Israel	1:59.50	Q
13	2	6	Egon van der Straeten	Belgium	1:59.70	Q
14	3	6	Robert Zbogar	Slovenia	1:59.80	Q
15	3	7	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	2:00.05
16	2	2	Alexandre Liess	Switzerland	2:00.18	Q
17	2	1	Jan Sefl	Czech Republic	2:00.21	Q
18	3	1	Michal Poprawa	Poland	2:00.23	Q
18	3	2	Pedro Diogo Oliveira	Portugal	2:00.23
20	4	1	Diogo Filipe Carvalho	Portugal	2:00.52
21	4	7	Duarte Rafael Mourao	Portugal	2:00.63
22	1	4	Sindri Thor Jakobsson	Norway	2:00.96	NR
23	4	8	Bernhard Wolf	Austria	2:01.69
24	1	5	Niksa Roki	Croatia	2:01.82
25	1	6	Nico van Duijn	Switzerland	2:02.02
25	3	8	Alon Mandel	Israel	2:02.02
27	2	8	Avi Cohen	Israel	2:02.35
28	1	3	Jakub Maly	Austria	2:03.03
29	1	1	Pavel Naroshkin	Estonia	2:04.15	NR
30	1	7	Edgaras Štura	Lithuania	2:08.18
	4	6	Matteo Pelizzari	Italy	DNS

Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:56.84	Q
2	4	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1:57.02	Q
3	5	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1:57.33	Q
4	2	Jordan Coelho	France	1:57.59	Q
5	1	Alexandre Liess	Switzerland	1:58.13	Q, NR
6	6	Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or	Israel	1:59.09
7	7	Egon van der Straeten	Belgium	1:59.25
8	8	Michal Poprawa	Poland	2:00.56

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:55.77	Q
2	3	Francesco Pavone	Italy	1:57.05	Q
3	5	László Cseh	Hungary	1:57.44	Q
4	2	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:58.51
5	1	Robert Zbogar	Slovenia	1:58.75
6	6	Alexandru Coci	Romania	1:59.49
7	7	Tom Kremer	Israel	1:59.51
8	8	Jan Sefl	Czech Republic	1:59.87

Final

The final was held at 17:57.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	László Cseh	Hungary	1:54.95
	4	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:55.85
	2	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1:56.48
4	3	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1:56.53
5	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:57.06
6	6	Francesco Pavone	Italy	1:57.07
7	1	Jordan Coelho	France	1:58.24
8	8	Alexandre Liess	Switzerland	1:59.13