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

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	8 August (heats and semifinals) 9 August (final)
Competitors	29 from 20 nations
Winning time	2:06.18
Medalists
Margherita Panziera   Italy   Daria Ustinova   Russia   Katalin Burián   Hungary

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 8 and 9 August 2018.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Missy Franklin	United States	2:04.06	London	3 August 2012
European record	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	2:04.94	Rome	1 August 2009
Championship record	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	2:06.62	Athens	25 August 1991

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
9 August	Final	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.18	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 8 August at 09:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:08.89	Q
2	1	5	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:10.22	Q
3	1	3	Anastasiia Avdeeva	Russia	2:10.31	Q
4	1	4	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:10.32	Q
5	2	3	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:11.23	Q
6	2	6	Cristina García	Spain	2:12.59	Q
7	2	5	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:12.90	Q
8	2	0	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:13.11	Q
9	2	1	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:13.40	Q
10	3	2	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:13.45	Q
11	3	3	Polina Egorova	Russia	2:13.68
12	2	7	Tessa Vermeulen	Netherlands	2:13.70	Q
13	2	2	Kathryn Greenslade	Great Britain	2:13.75	Q
14	3	5	Lisa Graf	Germany	2:13.77	Q
15	3	6	África Zamorano	Spain	2:14.30	Q
16	1	8	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:15.30	Q
17	3	9	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:15.46	Q
18	3	7	Shahar Menahem	Israel	2:15.58
19	1	0	Signhild Joensen	Faroe Islands	2:15.84
20	1	6	Carlotta Toni	Italy	2:16.53
21	3	1	Weronika Górecka	Poland	2:16.60
22	2	9	Victoria Bierre	Denmark	2:16.75
23	2	8	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:16.89
24	3	8	Karolina Hájková	Slovakia	2:17.20
25	3	0	Vilma Ruotsalainen	Finland	2:18.58
26	1	1	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:18.95
27	1	2	Maryna Kolesnykova	Ukraine	2:19.22
28	1	7	Agata Naskręt	Poland	2:20.19
29	1	9	Fjorda Šabani	Kosovo	2:27.71
	3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 8 August at 16:53.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:07.27	Q
2	4	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:07.65	Q
3	1	África Zamorano	Spain	2:11.69	Q
4	2	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:12.02
5	3	Cristina García	Spain	2:12.67
6	6	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:13.19
7	7	Kathryn Greenslade	Great Britain	2:13.96
8	8	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:15.41

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:08.19	Q
2	3	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:08.92	Q
3	1	Lisa Graf	Germany	2:09.32	Q
4	5	Anastasiia Avdeeva	Russia	2:09.54	Q
5	6	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:11.17	Q
6	7	Tessa Vermeulen	Netherlands	2:13.32
7	2	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:14.13
8	8	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:15.08

Final

The final was started on 9 August at 17:20.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.18	CR
	3	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:07.12
	5	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:07.43
4	2	Lisa Graf	Germany	2:08.58
5	7	Anastasiia Avdeeva	Russia	2:10.03
6	6	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:10.77
7	1	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:10.89
8	8	África Zamorano	Spain	2:11.55