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

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 22 and 23. The heats and semifinals took place on May 22, the final on May 23.[1]

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
DatesMay 22, 2012 (heats and semifinals)
May 23, 2012 (final)
Competitors48 from 24 nations
Winning time1:46.27
Medalists
    Germany
    France
    Hungary

Records

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

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record
European record
Paul Biedermann Germany1:42.00RomeJuly 28, 2009
Championship recordPieter van den Hoogenband Netherlands1:44.89BerlinAugust 2, 2002

Results

Heats

48 swimmers participated in 7 heats.[2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
174Paul Biedermann Germany1:47.39Q
237Dominik Kozma Hungary1:47.52Q
363Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or Israel1:48.93Q
455Tim Wallburger Germany1:49.04Q
551Riccardo Maestri Italy1:49.13Q
656Alex di Giorgio Italy1:49.21Q
753Viacheslav Andrusenko Russia1:49.24Q
862Marco Belotti Italy1:49.30
966Gianluca Maglia Italy1:49.32
1072Pieter Timmers Belgium1:49.52Q
1175Robert Renwick Great Britain1:49.55Q
1268Dorde Marković Serbia1:49.57Q
1357Norbert Trandafir Romania1:49.69Q
1476Dimitri Colupaev Germany1:49.78
1577Glenn Surgeloose Belgium1:49.88Q
1652Pavel Medvetskiy Russia1:50.19Q
1754Dominik Meichtry  Switzerland1:50.20Q
1873Clemens Rapp Germany1:50.29
1945Radovan Siljevski Serbia1:50.34Q
2064Amaury Leveaux France1:50.38Q
2143Kemal Arda Gural Turkey1:50.40=NR
2267Lorys Bourelly France1:50.45
2361Tiago Andre Venancio Portugal1:50.56
2478Christian Scherübl Austria1:50.83
2565Jérémy Stravius France1:50.91
2631Gard Kvale Norway1:51.15
2733Radoslaw Bor Poland1:51.30
2848Jean-Baptiste Febo  Switzerland1:51.34
2944Pholien Systermans Belgium1:51.49
3047Balázs Zámbó Hungary1:51.62
3138Stefan Šorak Serbia1:51.63
3242Alexander Selin Russia1:51.66
3341Uvis Kalnins Latvia1:51.68
3434Filip Bujoczek Poland1:51.71
3524Danas Rapšys Lithuania1:51.92
3635Simonas Bilis Lithuania1:52.03
3736Květoslav Svoboda Czech Republic1:52.10
3846Luis Emanuel Vaz Portugal1:52.17
3971Pawel Werner Poland1:52.19
4015Evgheni Coroliuc Moldova1:52.61
4122Jean-François Schneiders Luxembourg1:53.71
4258Mario Alexandre Pereira Portugal1:53.88
4323Marco Aldabe-Bomstad Norway1:54.34
4426Ole-Martin Ree Norway1:55.03
4514David Gamburg Israel1:55.17
4632Irakli Revishvili Georgia1:55.37
4727Aleksandar Nikolov Bulgaria1:57.36
4813Hedin Olsen Faroe Islands2:04.26
25Michal Szuba PolandDNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Dominik Kozma Hungary1:47.59Q
25Tim Wallburger Germany1:47.90Q
31Dominik Meichtry  Switzerland1:48.35Q
48Amaury Leveaux France1:48.38Q
56Pieter Timmers Belgium1:49.25
63Alex di Giorgio Italy1:49.32Q
72Dorde Marković Serbia1:49.69
87Glenn Surgeloose Belgium1:49.79

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Paul Biedermann Germany1:47.92Q
22Robert Renwick Great Britain1:48.89Q
36Viacheslav Andrusenko Russia1:49.03Q
47Norbert Trandafir Romania1:49.57
55Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or Israel1:49.69
68Radovan Siljevski Serbia1:50.11
73Riccardo Maestri Italy1:50.49
81Pavel Medvetskiy Russia1:51.20

Final

The final was held at 17:47.[4]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
3Paul Biedermann Germany1:46.27
2Amaury Leveaux France1:47.69
4Dominik Kozma Hungary1:47.72
45Tim Wallburger Germany1:47.75
56Dominik Meichtry  Switzerland1:48.53
61Viacheslav Andrusenko Russia1:49.34
78Alex di Giorgio Italy1:49.45
87Robert Renwick Great Britain1:49.57

References

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