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Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	13 August (heats and semifinals); 14 August (final)
Competitors	30 from 20 nations
Winning time	2:08.96
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 13 and 14 August 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:05.95	Adelaide	19 May 2022
European record	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.12	Gwangju	26 July 2019
Championship record	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.80	Glasgow	6 August 2018

The heats were started on 13 August at 09:42.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	6	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	2:11.16	Q
2	3	4	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:11.51	Q
3	4	5	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:11.82	Q
4	3	8	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	2:11.92	Q, NR
5	3	5	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:12.47	Q
6	3	3	Dawid Wiekiera	Poland	2:12.50	Q
7	4	2	Darragh Greene	Ireland	2:12.53	Q
8	4	3	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:12.56	Q
9	3	1	Maksym Ovchinnikov	Ukraine	2:12.69	Q
10	2	3	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:12.72	Q
11	2	4	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:12.87	Q
12	2	2	Greg Butler	Great Britain	2:13.08	Q
13	2	5	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:13.35	Q
14	4	9	David Verrasztó	Hungary	2:13.81	Q
15	2	6	Andrea Castello	Italy	2:13.88	Q
16	4	8	Gábor Zombori	Hungary	2:13.93	Q
17	4	7	Daniel Raisanen	Sweden	2:14.48
18	3	2	Eoin Corby	Ireland	2:14.75
19	2	8	Christoffer Haarsaker	Norway	2:14.95
20	3	0	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:14.96
21	2	0	David Kyzymenko	Ukraine	2:15.40
22	2	1	Aleksas Savickas	Lithuania	2:15.63
23	4	1	Luka Mladenovic	Austria	2:15.98
24	4	0	Maksym Tkachuk	Ukraine	2:16.42
25	2	9	William Lulek	Sweden	2:17.89
26	1	4	Denis Svet	Moldova	2:18.46
27	3	9	Constantin Malachi	Romania	2:18.51
28	1	3	Even Qarri	Albania	2:34.53
	3	6	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	Disqualified
	3	7	Savvas Thomoglou	Greece	Disqualified
	1	5	Giacomo Casadei	San Marino	Did not start
	2	7	Carles Coll	Spain
	4	4	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands

The semifinals were started on 13 August at 19:04.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:09.88	Q
2	1	2	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:10.48	Q
3	2	3	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:10.59	Q
4	1	3	Dawid Wiekiera	Poland	2:10.60	q
5	2	1	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:11.14	Q
6	2	5	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:11.47	q
7	2	4	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	2:11.48	q
8	2	7	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:11.73	Q
9	1	6	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:12.08
10	1	5	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	2:12.37
11	2	2	Maksym Ovchinnikov	Ukraine	2:12.62
12	1	1	David Verrasztó	Hungary	2:12.64
13	2	6	Darragh Greene	Ireland	2:12.73
14	1	7	Greg Butler	Great Britain	2:13.21
15	1	8	Gábor Zombori	Hungary	2:13.47
16	2	8	Andrea Castello	Italy	2:13.57

The final was started on 14 August at 19:08.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	8	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:08.96
	4	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:09.40
	5	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:09.97
4	6	Dawid Wiekiera	Poland	2:10.27
5	3	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:10.45
6	7	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:10.96
7	2	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:11.14
8	1	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	2:12.27