Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships

Venue

Dates

16 August (heats and semifinals)
17 August (final)

Competitors

27 from 19 nations

Winning time

1:57.72

Medalists

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2022 European Aquatics Championships

Artistic swimming
Solo
Technical	men	women
Free	men	women
Duet
Technical		women
Technical	mixed
Free		women
Free	mixed
Team
Technical		women
Free		women
Combination		women
Highlights		women
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
3 m & 10 m	mixed team
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
	mixed
10 m	men	women
	mixed
High diving
20 m		women
27 m	men
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Team	team
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
	mixed
4×200 m	men	women
	mixed
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
	mixed
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The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 August 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:54.00	Shanghai	24 July 2011
European record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.18	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.66	Debrecen	23 May 2012

The heats were started on 16 August at 09:54.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:58.94	Q
2	2	6	Carles Coll	Spain	2:00.56	Q
3	1	6	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:00.60	Q
4	1	4	Hubert Kós	Hungary	2:00.65	Q
5	1	5	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	2:01.03	Q
6	2	5	Ron Polonsky	Israel	2:01.05	Q
7	1	3	Enzo Tesic	France	2:01.28	Q
8	3	4	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	2:01.47	Q
9	2	2	Eitan Ben Shitrit	Israel	2:01.55	Q
10	1	2	Daniil Giourtzidis	Greece	2:01.69	Q
11	1	1	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:01.98	Q
12	3	5	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	2:02.16	Q
13	3	6	Pier Andrea Matteazzi	Italy	2:02.66	Q
14	3	2	Émilien Mattenet	France	2:04.24	Q
15	3	7	William Lulek	Sweden	2:04.29	Q
16	2	7	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	2:04.51	Q
17	1	7	Emil Hassling	Sweden	2:05.71
18	3	1	Eoin Corby	Ireland	2:05.78
19	2	1	Luka Mladenovic	Austria	2:06.00
20	2	8	Marius Toscan	Switzerland	2:06.03
21	1	8	Ronens Kermans	Latvia	2:06.63
22	3	0	Liam Custer	Ireland	2:06.66
23	2	0	Mihai Gergely	Romania	2:06.73
24	3	9	Zhulian Lavdaniti	Albania	2:09.05
25	1	0	Thomas Wareing	Malta	2:09.40
26	3	8	Jan Zubik	Poland	2:09.85
27	2	9	Endi Kola	Albania	2:19.69
	2	3	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	Did not start
	2	4	Thomas Dean	Great Britain	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 16 August at 19:36.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:58.77	Q
2	1	5	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:59.38	Q
3	1	3	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:59.52	Q
3	1	7	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:59.52	Q
5	1	6	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:59.53	q
6	1	4	Carles Coll	Spain	1:59.66	q
7	2	3	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:59.77	Q
8	2	5	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:00.48	q, NR
9	2	1	Pier Andrea Matteazzi	Italy	2:00.73
10	2	2	Eitan Ben Shitrit	Israel	2:01.00
11	1	2	Daniil Giourtzidis	Greece	2:01.13
12	2	6	Enzo Tesic	France	2:01.83
13	1	1	Émilien Mattenet	France	2:02.00
14	2	7	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:03.07
15	2	8	William Lulek	Sweden	2:03.21
16	1	8	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	2:04.19

The final was held on 17 August at 18:37.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.72
	3	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:57.82
	4	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:58.34
4	2	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:58.89
5	6	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:59.24
6	1	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:59.55
7	7	Carles Coll	Spain	1:59.96
8	8	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:01.61