The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2026 European Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 August 2026.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nationality Time Location Date World record Qin Haiyang 2:05.48 Fukuoka 28 July 2023 European record Leon Marchand 2:05.85 Paris 31 August 2024 Championship record Anton Chupkov 2:06.80 Glasgow 6 August 2018

Results Heats The heats were started on 12 August at 10:10.Heat results Qualification Rules: The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to the semifinals.

Ranks Heats Lane Swimmer Country Time Notes 1 3 4 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 2:09.33 Q 2 5 4 Filip Nowacki 2:09.47 Q 3 4 4 Caspar Corbeau 2:09.66 Q 4 5 5 Aleksandr Zhigalov Neutral Athletes B 2:09.84 Q 5 5 6 Jack Kelly 2:10.14 Q 6 4 3 Daniil Pisetskii Neutral Athletes B 2:10.29 7 5 3 Gregory Butler 2:10.44 Q 8 4 6 Luka Mladenovic 2:10.53 Q 9 4 5 Christian Mantegazza 2:10.69 Q 10 5 7 Eoin Corby 2:10.85 Q 11 4 0 Matti Mattsson 2:11.10 Q 12 3 5 Doruk Yoğurtcuoğlu 2:11.20 Q 13 3 2 Aleksas Savickas 2:11.21 Q 14 3 7 Lucas Matzerath 2:11.22 Q 15 5 2 Jan Kałusowski 2:11.39 Q 16 4 7 Dawid Wiekiera 2:11.40 Q 17 5 8 Filip Mujan 2:11.45 Q 18 2 5 Charlie Egeland 2:11.67 19 4 1 Maksym Ovchinnikov 2:11.74 20 3 3 Mikhail Dorinov Neutral Athletes B 2:11.99 21 4 9 Matei State 2:12.04 22 3 8 Mathis Schonung 2:12.27 23 3 1 Nil Cadevall 2:12.34 24 3 6 Noah De Schryver 2:12.35 25 5 0 Darius Coman 2:12.61 26 5 9 Jan Malte Grafe 2:12.98 27 2 4 Sam Bengtsson Nimander 2:13.69 28 5 1 Evangelos Ntoumas 2:13.74 29 3 0 Daniel Rumenov Marinov 2:13.92 30 4 2 Kerem İlyem 2:14.30 31 2 2 Oliver Munn 2:15.15 32 2 7 Einar Margeir Ágústsson 2:15.16 33 3 9 Finn Kemp 2:15.51 34 4 8 Marios Zafeiropoulos 2:15.75 35 2 1 Jami Ihalainen 2:16.06 36 2 9 Christopher Palvadre 2:16.54 37 2 6 Gian-Luca Gartmann 2:17.07 38 2 8 Noah Zemansky 2:17.16 39 1 6 Laurin Korber-Perner 2:18.43 40 1 3 Joao Soares Carneiro 2:20.14 41 1 4 Ralf Roose 2:20.29 42 1 2 Elias Marius Elsgaard 2:20.68 43 2 3 Constantin Malachi 2:20.98 44 1 5 Strahinja Maslo 2:21.23 45 2 0 Denis Svet 2:23.76

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 12 August at 19:04. Qualification Rules: The fastest 8 qualified competitors from the semi-finals advance to the final.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 1 4 Filip Nowacki 2:08.60 Q 2 2 6 Luka Mladenovic 2:08.85 Q, NR 3 2 5 Caspar Corbeau 2:09.00 Q 4 2 4 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 2:09.17 Q 5 2 3 Jack Kelly 2:09.23 Q, NR 6 1 3 Gregory Butler 2:09.37 Q 7 1 6 Christian Mantegazza 2:09.87 Q 8 2 1 Lucas Matzerath 2:10.07 Q 9 1 2 Matti Mattsson 2:10.12 10 1 5 Aleksandr Zhigalov Neutral Athletes B 2:10.19 11 2 2 Eoin Corby 2:10.27 12 2 7 Doruk Yoğurtcuoğlu 2:10.37 13 1 7 Aleksas Savickas 2:10.90 14 2 8 Dawid Wiekiera 2:10.97 15 1 8 Filip Mujan 2:11.71 16 1 1 Jan Kałusowski 2:12.32

Final The final was held on 13 August at 19:29.

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 Filip Nowacki 2:07.70 3 Caspar Corbeau 2:07.78 5 Luka Mladenovic 2:08.91 4 6 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 2:09.14 5 7 Gregory Butler 2:09.45 6 1 Christian Mantegazza 2:09.83 7 2 Jack Kelly 2:10.58 8 8 Lucas Matzerath 2:10.67

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