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Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

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Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
DatesMay 23, 2012 (heats and semifinals)
May 24, 2012 (final)
Competitors30 from 18 nations
Winning time1:54.95
Medalists
gold medal    Hungary
silver medal    Hungary
bronze medal    Greece
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The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, the final on May 24.[1]

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record Michael Phelps  United States 1:51.51 Rome July 29, 2009
European record László Cseh  Hungary 1:52.70 Beijing August 13, 2008
Championship record Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland 1:54.38 Eindhoven March 21, 2008

Results

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Heats

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31 swimmers participated in 4 heats.[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Bence Biczó  Hungary 1:57.47 Q
2 3 4 Dinko Jukić  Austria 1:57.69 Q
3 2 4 László Cseh  Hungary 1:58.08 Q
4 2 5 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:58.16 Q
5 4 3 Francesco Pavone  Italy 1:58.23 Q
6 4 5 Velimir Stjepanović  Serbia 1:58.32 Q
7 2 7 Alexandru Coci  Romania 1:58.42 Q
8 1 2 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or  Israel 1:58.97 Q
9 3 5 Stefanos Dimitriadis  Greece 1:58.97 Q
10 3 3 Jordan Coelho  France 1:59.32 Q
11 2 3 Konstantinos Markozis  Greece 1:59.48
12 4 2 Tom Kremer  Israel 1:59.50 Q
13 2 6 Egon van der Straeten  Belgium 1:59.70 Q
14 3 6 Robert Žbogar  Slovenia 1:59.80 Q
15 3 7 Andreas Vazaios  Greece 2:00.05
16 2 2 Alexandre Liess   Switzerland 2:00.18 Q
17 2 1 Jan Šefl  Czech Republic 2:00.21 Q
18 3 1 Michal Poprawa  Poland 2:00.23 Q
18 3 2 Pedro Diogo Oliveira  Portugal 2:00.23
20 4 1 Diogo Filipe Carvalho  Portugal 2:00.52
21 4 7 Duarte Rafael Mourao  Portugal 2:00.63
22 1 4 Sindri Thor Jakobsson  Norway 2:00.96 NR
23 4 8 Bernhard Wolf  Austria 2:01.69
24 1 5 Niksa Roki  Croatia 2:01.82
25 1 6 Nico van Duijn   Switzerland 2:02.02
25 3 8 Alon Mandel  Israel 2:02.02
27 2 8 Avi Cohen  Israel 2:02.35
28 1 3 Jakub Maly  Austria 2:03.03
29 1 1 Pavel Naroshkin  Estonia 2:04.15 NR
30 1 7 Edgaras Štura  Lithuania 2:08.18
4 6 Matteo Pelizzari  Italy DNS

Semifinals

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The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.[3]

Semifinal 1

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Velimir Stjepanović  Serbia 1:56.84 Q
2 4 Dinko Jukić  Austria 1:57.02 Q
3 5 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:57.33 Q
4 2 Jordan Coelho  France 1:57.59 Q
5 1 Alexandre Liess   Switzerland 1:58.13 Q, NR
6 6 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or  Israel 1:59.09
7 7 Egon van der Straeten  Belgium 1:59.25
8 8 Michal Poprawa  Poland 2:00.56

Semifinal 2

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Bence Biczó  Hungary 1:55.77 Q
2 3 Francesco Pavone  Italy 1:57.05 Q
3 5 László Cseh  Hungary 1:57.44 Q
4 2 Stefanos Dimitriadis  Greece 1:58.51
5 1 Robert Žbogar  Slovenia 1:58.75
6 6 Alexandru Coci  Romania 1:59.49
7 7 Tom Kremer  Israel 1:59.51
8 8 Jan Šefl  Czech Republic 1:59.87

Final

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The final was held at 17:57.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 László Cseh  Hungary 1:54.95
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Bence Biczó  Hungary 1:55.85
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:56.48
4 3 Dinko Jukić  Austria 1:56.53
5 5 Velimir Stjepanović  Serbia 1:57.06
6 6 Francesco Pavone  Italy 1:57.07
7 1 Jordan Coelho  France 1:58.24
8 8 Alexandre Liess   Switzerland 1:59.13

References

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