Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	5 August (heats and semifinals) 6 August (final)
Competitors	53 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:54.95
Medalists
Charlotte Bonnet   France   Femke Heemskerk   Netherlands   Anastasia Guzhenkova   Russia

The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:52.98	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	1:55.30	London	19 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 August	Final	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:54.95	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 5 August at 10:11.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:58.14	Q
2	6	4	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:58.30	Q
3	4	6	Anastasia Guzhenkova	Russia	1:58.81	Q
4	4	5	Holly Hibbott	Great Britain	1:58.92	Q
5	4	7	Melani Costa	Spain	1:59.01	Q
6	5	2	Reva Foos	Germany	1:59.03	Q
7	4	4	Ellie Faulkner	Great Britain	1:59.19	Q
8	6	6	Kathryn Greenslade	Great Britain	1:59.26
9	5	3	Isabel Gose	Germany	1:59.27	Q
10	5	6	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:59.30	Q
11	6	3	Margaux Fabre	France	1:59.32	Q
12	5	7	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	1:59.37	Q
13	4	3	Valeriya Salamatina	Russia	1:59.47	Q
14	5	5	Viktoriya Andreyeva	Russia	1:59.80
15	2	2	Daniela Georges	Poland	1:59.87	Q
16	6	7	Robin Neumann	Netherlands	1:59.91	Q
17	6	2	Irina Krivonogova	Russia	2:00.12
18	4	2	Annika Bruhn	Germany	2:00.22
19	3	7	Lotte Goris	Belgium	2:00.34	Q
20	6	1	Marie Pietruschka	Germany	2:00.50
21	3	6	Noémi Girardet	Switzerland	2:00.64	QSO
21	3	2	Janja Šegel	Slovenia	2:00.64	QSO
23	4	1	Signe Bro	Denmark	2:00.97
24	6	0	Marjolein Delno	Netherlands	2:01.12
24	5	9	Laura Jensen	Denmark	2:01.12
26	5	1	Lucy Hope	Great Britain	2:01.54
27	3	4	África Zamorano	Spain	2:01.64
28	4	9	Hanna Eriksson	Sweden	2:01.66
29	2	5	Aleksandra Polańska	Poland	2:01.92
30	6	8	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	2:01.95
31	2	3	Marlene Kahler	Austria	2:02.02
32	1	4	Lena Kreundl	Austria	2:02.10
33	3	0	Dominika Kossakowska	Poland	2:02.69
34	2	7	Emily Gantriis	Denmark	2:02.78
35	2	4	Monique Olivier	Luxembourg	2:02.95
36	1	6	Laura Benková	Slovakia	2:02.96
37	4	8	Aleksandra Knop	Poland	2:02.99
38	4	0	Loulou Vos	Netherlands	2:03.05
39	5	0	Esther Morillo	Spain	2:03.09
40	1	2	Kertu Alnek	Estonia	2:03.10
41	3	1	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	2:03.11
41	3	8	Diana Duares	Portugal	2:03.11
43	2	1	Maria Grandt	Denmark	2:03.59
43	3	3	Katja Fain	Slovenia	2:03.59
45	3	5	Neža Klančar	Slovenia	2:03.67
46	2	0	Ieva Maļuka	Latvia	2:03.71
47	2	9	Lena Opatril	Austria	2:03.72
48	2	8	Leoni Richter	Switzerland	2:03.83
49	2	6	Selen Özbilen	Turkey	2:07.18
50	1	5	Fatima Alkaramova	Azerbaijan	2:07.93
51	1	3	Sara Lettoli	San Marino	2:08.12
52	1	7	Elisa Bernardi	San Marino	2:10.82
53	1	1	Nikol Merizaj	Albania	2:12.28
—	3	9	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	Did not start
	6	9	Louise Hansson	Sweden

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 5 August at 11:09.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Janja Šegel	Slovenia	2:00.18	Q
2	5	Noémi Girardet	Switzerland	2:01.27

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 18:36.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:58.12	Q
2	7	Valeriya Salamatina	Russia	1:58.37	Q
3	5	Holly Hibbott	Great Britain	1:58.46	Q
4	6	Isabel Gose	Germany	1:58.76	Q
5	3	Reva Foos	Germany	1:59.04
6	2	Margaux Fabre	France	1:59.66
7	1	Robin Neumann	Netherlands	2:00.39
8	8	Janja Šegel	Slovenia	2:00.98

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:57.64	Q
2	5	Anastasia Guzhenkova	Russia	1:58.18	Q
3	3	Melani Costa	Spain	1:58.53	Q
4	6	Ellie Faulkner	Great Britain	1:58.71	Q
5	2	Valentine Dumont	Belgium	1:58.89
6	7	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	1:59.43
7	1	Daniela Georges	Poland	2:00.43
8	8	Lotte Goris	Belgium	2:00.69

Final

The final was started on 6 August at 18:02.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Charlotte Bonnet	France	1:54.95	CR
	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	1:56.72
	3	Anastasia Guzhenkova	Russia	1:56.77
4	1	Ellie Faulkner	Great Britain	1:58.26
5	8	Isabel Gose	Germany	1:58.42
6	6	Valeriya Salamatina	Russia	1:58.63
7	2	Holly Hibbott	Great Britain	1:58.64
8	7	Melani Costa	Spain	1:58.84