en Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships %E2%80%93 Women%27s 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	6 August (heats and semifinals); 7 August (final)
Competitors	34 from 23 nations
Winning time	2:21.31
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 6 and 7 August 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	Barcelona	1 August 2013
Championship record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.84	Berlin	22 August 2014

The heats were started on 6 August at 09:53.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	3	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:25.73	Q
2	3	7	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	2:25.98	Q
3	4	5	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:26.01	Q
4	2	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:26.82	Q
5	3	4	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:26.88	Q
6	2	4	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:26.94	Q
7	4	8	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:27.34	Q
8	3	5	Chloé Tutton	Great Britain	2:27.37	Q
9	4	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:27.66	Q
10	3	3	Jessica Steiger	Germany	2:27.71	Q
11	3	6	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:27.77	Q
12	2	8	Anna Wermuth	Denmark	2:27.78
13	2	7	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:27.80	Q
14	2	3	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:28.77	Q
15	3	2	Fanny Deberghes	France	2:29.07	Q
16	4	6	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:29.33	Q
17	2	2	Anna Pirovano	Italy	2:29.46	Q
18	3	1	Stina Colleou	Norway	2:29.58
19	4	9	Weronika Hallmann	Poland	2:29.59
20	2	1	Raquel Pereira	Portugal	2:30.05
21	4	1	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:31.05
22	4	2	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:31.31
23	1	3	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:31.64
24	3	8	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	2:31.70
25	3	9	Sara Staudinger	Switzerland	2:32.04
26	1	2	Alina Zmushka	Belarus	2:32.13
27	4	7	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:32.28
28	2	0	Jessica Eriksson	Sweden	2:32.41
29	4	0	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	2:33.10
30	3	0	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	2:34.01
31	1	6	Nikoleta Trníková	Slovakia	2:36.01
32	1	5	Elena Guttiman	Austria	2:36.96
33	2	9	Alexandra Schegoleva	Cyprus	2:38.65
34	1	4	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:39.45
	2	6	Fantine Lesaffre	France	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 6 August at 17:30.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:25.94	Q
2	6	Chloé Tutton	Great Britain	2:26.62	Q
3	2	Jessica Steiger	Germany	2:26.84	Q
4	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:26.89
5	4	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	2:27.29
6	1	Fanny Deberghes	France	2:28.16
7	8	Anna Pirovano	Italy	2:29.21
8	7	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:29.25

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:23.49	Q
2	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:24.39	Q
3	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:24.56	Q
4	5	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:24.67	Q
5	1	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:25.76	Q
6	8	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	2:27.14
7	6	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:27.19
8	7	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:28.52

The final was started on 7 August at 17:25.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:21.31
	7	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:23.02
	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:23.43
4	5	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:23.63
5	6	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:24.73
6	2	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:26.01
7	8	Jessica Steiger	Germany	2:27.66
—	1	Chloé Tutton	Great Britain	Disqualified