The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 7 and 8 August 2018.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordAaron Peirsol1:51.92Rome31 July 2009European recordEvgeny Rylov1:53.61Budapest28 July 2017Championship recordRadosław Kawęcki1:55.28Debrecen26 May 2012

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 8 August Final Evgeny Rylov 1:53.36 CR, ER

Results Heats The heats were started on 7 August at 09:41.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Evgeny Rylov 1:56.67 Q 2 4 2 Grigoriy Tarasevich 1:57.07 Q 3 4 4 Kliment Kolesnikov 1:57.31 4 5 3 Christian Diener 1:57.89 Q 5 3 7 Brodie Williams 1:58.62 Q 6 3 4 Radosław Kawęcki 1:58.70 Q 7 4 5 Ádám Telegdy 1:58.96 Q 8 5 2 Luca Mencarini 1:59.09 Q 9 3 6 Luke Greenbank 1:59.21 Q 9 4 3 Matteo Restivo 1:59.21 Q 11 5 1 Apostolos Christou 1:59.30 Q 12 4 6 Jakub Skierka 1:59.44 Q 13 3 2 Craig McNally 1:59.58 14 4 1 Maxim Stupin 1:59.60 15 3 5 Hugo González 1:59.73 Q 16 3 3 Geoffroy Mathieu 1:59.83 Q 17 5 6 Yakov Toumarkin 2:00.08 Q 18 5 0 Anton Lončar 2:00.11 Q 19 2 2 Gabriel Lópes 2:00.35 Q 20 4 7 Maxence Orange 2:00.72 21 3 0 João Vital 2:00.98 22 5 9 Tomáš Franta 2:01.51 23 2 7 Ivan Gajšek 2:02.05 24 3 9 Gytis Stankevičius 2:02.48 25 5 7 Mikita Tsmyh 2:02.50 26 4 9 Roman Dmytrijev 2:02.97 27 2 8 Ege Başer 2:03.08 28 4 8 Nikolaos Sofianidis 2:03.21 29 2 4 Georgios Spanoudakis 2:03.69 30 3 8 David Gamburg 2:03.82 31 2 5 Rokas Juozelskis 2:03.84 32 2 9 Armin Lelle 2:04.26 33 5 8 Nils Liess 2:04.53 34 2 1 Girts Feldbergs 2:04.59 35 3 1 Paul Bedel 2:05.51 35 2 0 Patrick Staber 2:05.51 37 1 5 Berk Özkul 2:05.99 38 2 6 Adam Černek 2:06.39 39 1 3 Thomas Wareing 2:08.70 1 4 Metin Aydın 4 0 Gustav Höfkelt 5 5 Danas Rapšys

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 7 August at 17:01.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Grigoriy Tarasevich 1:57.62 Q 2 2 Apostolos Christou 1:58.14 Q 3 7 Hugo González 1:58.43 Q 4 5 Brodie Williams 1:58.66 5 6 Luke Greenbank 1:58.84 6 3 Ádám Telegdy 1:59.05 7 1 Yakov Toumarkin 2:00.67 8 8 Gabriel Lópes 2:00.85

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Evgeny Rylov 1:55.50 Q 2 3 Radosław Kawęcki 1:57.56 Q 3 2 Matteo Restivo 1:57.80 Q 4 6 Luca Mencarini 1:57.83 Q 5 5 Christian Diener 1:57.92 Q 6 1 Geoffroy Mathieu 1:58.65 7 8 Anton Lončar 1:59.86 7 7 Jakub Skierka 1:59.86

Final The final was started on 8 August at 17:32.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Evgeny Rylov 1:53.36 ER, CR 5 Radosław Kawęcki 1:56.07 6 Matteo Restivo 1:56.29 4 7 Christian Diener 1:57.05 5 1 Apostolos Christou 1:57.09 6 3 Grigoriy Tarasevich 1:57.37 7 2 Luca Mencarini 1:57.71 8 8 Hugo González 1:59.06

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