The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2026 European Aquatics Championships will be held on 11 and 12 August 2026.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows: Name Nation Time Location Date World record Aaron Peirsol 1:51.92 Rome 31 July 2009 European record Hubert Kós 1:53.19 Singapore 1 August 2025 Championship record Evgeny Rylov 1:53.36 Glasgow 8 August 2018
Results Heats The heats were held on 11 August at 10:28.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 4 7 Nathan Muratory 1:54.87 Q, WJ 2 3 2 Mewen Tomac 1:55.14 Q 3 4 4 Hubert Kós 1:55.37 Q 4 3 4 Apostolos Siskos 1:55.64 Q 5 2 4 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 1:55.91 5 4 5 Roman Mityukov 1:56.91 Q 7 3 5 Luke Greenbank 1:56.03 Q 8 2 5 Jan Čejka 1:56.11 Q 9 4 3 John Shortt 1:56.50 Q 10 3 7 Flavio Bucca 1:56.63 Q 11 2 3 Aleksei Tkachev Neutral Athletes B 1:56.86 Q 12 3 6 Georgii Smirnov Neutral Athletes B 1:56.90 Q 13 2 6 Antoine Herlem 1:56.99 13 3 3 Thomas Ceccon 1:56.99 Q 15 2 1 Miroslav Knedla 1:57.15 Q 16 4 2 Cornelius Jahn 1:58.04 Q 17 4 6 Hugo González 1:58.11 Q 18 4 1 Zsombor Rácz 1:58.21 Q 19 2 7 Aukan Goldin 1:58.26 20 4 8 Diego Mira 1:58.29 21 2 0 Eitan Ben Shitrit 1:58.40 22 3 9 Filip Kosinski 1:58.49 23 2 2 Daniele Del Signore 1:58.71 24 1 4 Dominik Grudinskij 1:58.76 25 4 0 Daren Kirilov 1:58.87 27 2 8 Alexandru Constantinescu 1:59.62 28 2 9 Primož Senica 1:59.64 26 3 0 Ricardo Santos 1:59.29 29 3 1 Inbar Ono Danziger 1:59.83 30 1 3 Ajjuub Ezzat 2:00.32 31 4 9 Hendrik van der Leest 2:00.33 32 1 6 Nikolass Deičmans 2:00.54 33 1 2 Guðmundur Leo Rafnsson 2:01.42 34 1 7 Michal Judickij 2:01.55 35 3 8 Cedric Büssing 2:01.94 36 1 8 Dmitri Sillaste 2:02.17 37 1 5 Uladzimir Mamekin Neutral Athletes A 2:02.27 38 1 1 Tudor Iordache 2:02.90 39 1 0 Zhulian Lavdaniti 2:09.67
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 11 August at 19:03.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 5 Hubert Kós 1:52.30 Q, ER, CR 2 1 5 Apostolos Siskos 1:54.06 Q 3 2 6 Jan Čejka 1:54.40 Q, NR 4 2 3 Roman Mityukov 1:54.85 Q 5 1 6 John Shortt 1:55.31 Q, NR 6 2 2 Flavio Bucca 1:55.73 Q 7 2 8 Hugo González 1:55.75 Q 8 1 7 Thomas Ceccon 1:55.86 Q 9 2 4 Nathan Muratory 1:55.94 10 1 4 Mewen Tomac 1:55.95 11 1 1 Cornelius Jahn 1:56.26 11 2 1 Miroslav Knedla 1:56.26 13 2 7 Georgii Smirnov Neutral Athletes B 1:56.33 14 1 2 Aleksei Tkachev Neutral Athletes B 1:56.37 15 1 3 Luke Greenbank 1:56.69 16 1 8 Zsombor Rácz 1:58.31
Final Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 Hubert Kós 1:53.08 5 Apostolos Siskos 1:53.91 8 Thomas Ceccon 1:53.96 NR 4 6 Roman Mityukov 1:54.07 NR 5 3 Jan Čejka 1:54.44 6 1 Hugo González 1:54.75 7 2 John Shortt 1:55.86 8 7 Flavio Bucca 1:56.20
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