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

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	4 August (heats and semifinals) 5 August (final)
Competitors	27 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:52.79
Medalists
Kristóf Milák   Hungary   Tamás Kenderesi   Hungary   Federico Burdisso   Italy

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 4 and 5 August 2018.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Michael Phelps	United States	1:51.51	Rome	29 July 2009
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:52.70	Beijing	13 August 2008
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:52.91	London	19 May 2016

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
5 August	Final	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:52.79	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 4 August at 10:03.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:54.17	Q
2	2	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.91	Q
3	2	3	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:55.86
4	4	5	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.90	Q
5	3	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.91
6	3	3	James Guy	Great Britain	1:56.13	Q
7	3	5	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:56.33	Q
8	3	6	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:57.11	Q
9	4	6	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:57.39	Q
10	2	2	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	1:57.55	Q
11	4	3	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:57.65	Q
12	3	1	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	1:57.84	Q
13	2	5	Ramon Klenz	Germany	1:57.91	Q
14	4	8	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:58.23	Q
15	3	2	Filippo Berlincioni	Italy	1:58.66	Q
16	4	7	Patrick Staber	Austria	1:58.96	Q
17	2	7	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:59.17	Q
18	3	7	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	1:59.33	Q
19	3	8	Xaver Gschwentner	Austria	1:59.36
20	4	0	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:59.41
21	2	1	Etay Gurevich	Israel	1:59.62
22	2	8	Filip Zelić	Croatia	2:00.04
23	1	4	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	2:00.22
24	4	2	Jacob Peters	Great Britain	2:00.40
25	3	9	Petr Novák	Czech Republic	2:00.84
26	2	9	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	2:01.14
26	4	9	Samet Alkan	Turkey	2:01.14
28	3	0	Deividas Margevičius	Lithuania	2:01.62
29	2	0	Paul Espernberger	Austria	2:03.12
30	1	5	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	2:04.84
31	1	6	Rasim Gör	Turkey	2:06.32
32	1	3	Joshua Gold	Estonia	2:06.45
33	1	2	Ergecan Gezmiş	Turkey	2:06.75
34	1	7	Cevin Siim	Estonia	2:07.19
35	1	8	Armin Lelle	Estonia	2:09.86
36	1	1	Sergey Kuznetsov	Finland	2:10.82
—	4	1	Nans Roch	France	Disqualified

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 4 August at 17:40.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:55.26	Q
2	5	James Guy	Great Britain	1:56.16	Q
3	2	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	1:56.21	Q, NR
4	3	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.58	Q
5	6	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	1:57.38	NR
6	7	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:58.26
7	8	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	1:58.28
8	1	Patrick Staber	Austria	1:59.46

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:55.48	Q
2	5	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.83	Q
3	3	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:56.68	Q
4	2	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:56.87	Q
5	6	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:57.20
6	7	Ramon Klenz	Germany	1:57.47
7	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:57.91
8	1	Filippo Berlincioni	Italy	1:58.09

Final

The final was started on 5 August at 18:45.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:52.79	CR
	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.36
	8	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:55.97
4	3	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:56.33
4	2	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.33
6	1	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:56.53
7	6	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	1:56.73
8	7	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:57.88