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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	6 August (heats and semifinals) 7 August (final)
Competitors	62 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:45.34
Medalists
Duncan Scott    Great Britain   Danas Rapšys    Lithuania   Mikhail Dovgalyuk    Russia

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 6 and 7 August 2018.^[1][2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:42.00	Rome	28 July 2009
Championship record	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:44.89	Berlin	2 August 2002

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 6 August at 09:30.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:46.55	Q
2	7	3	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	1:46.67	Q
3	5	4	James Guy	Great Britain	1:47.67	Q
4	7	2	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:48.09	Q
5	5	3	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:48.15	Q
6	6	6	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:48.22	Q
7	6	5	Mikhail Dovgalyuk	Russia	1:48.24	Q
8	6	2	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	1:48.34	Q
9	5	2	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:48.37	Q
10	7	1	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:48.42	Q
11	6	4	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:48.53	Q
12	6	7	Jonathan Atsu	France	1:48.62	Q
13	6	9	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	1:48.72	Q
14	7	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:49.00	Q
15	6	3	Calum Jarvis	Great Britain	1:49.19
16	5	6	Viacheslav Andrusenko	Russia	1:49.21
17	5	5	Kacper Majchrzak	Poland	1:49.23	Q
18	7	7	Kyle Stolk	Netherlands	1:49.34	Q
19	7	6	Nándor Németh	Hungary	1:49.41
19	7	9	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:49.41
21	7	0	Alexandre Marcourt	Belgium	1:49.46
22	5	9	Matteo Ciampi	Italy	1:49.47
23	3	5	Álex Rámos	Spain	1:49.50
24	3	4	Jan Hołub	Poland	1:49.55
25	5	8	Roman Fuchs	France	1:49.61
26	5	1	Jordan Pothain	France	1:49.62
27	6	0	César Castro Valle	Spain	1:49.63
28	4	1	Thomas Thijs	Belgium	1:49.69
29	4	5	Mattia Zuin	Italy	1:49.72
30	3	8	Erge Can Gezmiş	Turkey	1:49.88
31	3	1	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:49.90
32	6	1	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:49.97
33	4	2	Stan Pijnenburg	Netherlands	1:50.02
34	3	0	Alexander Trampitsch	Austria	1:50.06
35	5	7	Cameron Kurle	Great Britain	1:50.08
35	3	6	Daniel Namir	Israel	1:50.08
37	3	2	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:50.21
38	3	3	Marc Sánchez	Spain	1:50.22
39	4	8	Miguel Durán	Spain	1:50.31
40	4	6	Lorenz Weiremans	Belgium	1:50.35
41	4	3	Dion Dreesens	Netherlands	1:50.47
42	4	0	Sebastien De Meulemeester	Belgium	1:50.52
43	4	7	Gustaf Dahlman	Sweden	1:50.53
44	4	9	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	1:50.74
45	6	8	Jordan Sloan	Ireland	1:50.76
46	4	4	Stefano Di Cola	Italy	1:51.06
47	3	7	Markus Lie	Norway	1:51.10
48	2	3	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:51.12
49	2	8	Batuhan Hakan	Turkey	1:51.76
50	2	5	Filip Zelić	Croatia	1:52.18
51	2	4	Tomas Sungaila	Lithuania	1:53.17
52	2	7	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	1:54.58
53	3	9	Yonatan Batsha	Israel	1:54.62
54	2	6	Doğa Çelik	Turkey	1:54.91
55	2	2	Andri Aedma	Estonia	1:55.10
56	2	1	Nikita Tsernosev	Estonia	1:55.11
57	2	9	Cristian Santi	San Marino	1:59.05
58	1	5	Franc Aleksi	Albania	1:59.23
59	1	4	Gianluca Pasolini	San Marino	1:59.36
60	2	0	Matthew Galea	Malta	2:00.65
61	1	6	Dren Ukimeraj	Kosovo	2:03.04
62	1	3	Dijon Kadriju	Kosovo	2:05.00
	7	5	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 6 August at 17:21.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	1:46.70	Q
2	6	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	1:46.83	Q
3	3	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:46.84	Q
4	5	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:47.77
5	2	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:48.48
6	7	Jonathan Atsu	France	1:48.62
7	8	Kyle Stolk	Netherlands	1:48.63
8	1	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:48.76

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.33	Q
2	5	James Guy	Great Britain	1:46.44	Q
3	6	Mikhail Dovgalyuk	Russia	1:46.69	Q
4	3	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:46.70	Q
5	7	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:46.97	Q
6	8	Kacper Majchrzak	Poland	1:47.64
7	2	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:47.81
8	1	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	1:49.33

Final

The final was started on 7 August at 17:18.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:45.34
	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:46.07
	3	Mikhail Dovgalyuk	Russia	1:46.15
4	5	James Guy	Great Britain	1:46.20
5	2	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:46.60
6	6	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	1:46.79
7	1	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.00
8	7	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany	1:47.26

References

1. Schedule
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Semifinals results
5. Final results