The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2024 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 June 2024.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nationality Time Location Date World record Aaron Peirsol 1:51.92 Rome 31 July 2009 European record Evgeny Rylov 1:53.23 Kazan 8 April 2021 Championship record 1:53.36 Glasgow 8 August 2018

Results Heats The heats were started on 18 June at 10:12.Qualification Rules: The 16 fastest from the heats qualify to the semifinals.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Roman Mityukov 1:57.19 Q 2 1 6 David Gerchik 1:57.48 Q 3 1 4 Oleksandr Zheltyakov 1:58.39 Q 4 2 5 Ksawery Masiuk 1:58.47 Q 5 1 5 Apostolos Siskos 1:58.50 Q 6 3 5 Benedek Kovács 1:58.79 Q 7 2 4 Ádám Telegdy 1:58.80 Q 8 3 3 John Shortt 1:59.15 Q 9 3 6 Inbar Danziger 1:59.84 Q 10 2 3 Cornelius Jahn 2:00.02 Q 11 2 2 Primož Šenica Pavletič 2:00.35 Q 12 3 2 Kaloyan Levterov 2:00.48 Q 13 2 7 Jack Skerry 2:00.68 Q 14 2 6 Radosław Kawęcki 2:00.71 Q 15 3 7 Flavio Bucca 2:01.38 Q 16 1 3 Christian Diener 2:01.63 Q 17 1 7 Anže Ferš Eržen 2:01.76 18 1 2 Matthew Ward 2:01.81 19 1 1 Max Halbeisen 2:02.07 20 2 1 Oleksii Hrabarov 2:02.33 21 3 8 Juraj Barcot 2:04.59 22 1 8 Jaka Pusnik 2:05.79 23 3 1 Adam Maraana 2:07.03 24 2 8 Mackey Nurkic Kacapor 2:07.77

Semifinals The semifinal were started on 18 June at 19:19.Qualification Rules: The first 2 competitors of each semifinal and the remaining fastest (up to a total of 8 qualified competitors) from the semifinals advance to the final.Semifinals results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 3 Apostolos Siskos 1:56.54 Q 2 2 5 Oleksandr Zheltyakov 1:56.90 Q 3 2 4 Roman Mityukov 1:57.00 Q 4 2 6 Ádám Telegdy 1:57.12 Q 5 1 5 Ksawery Masiuk 1:57.62 Q 6 1 3 Benedek Kovács 1:57.99 Q 7 1 4 David Gerchik 1:58.38 Q 8 1 6 John Shortt 1:58.89 Q 9 1 7 Kaloyan Levterov 1:59.40 10 1 2 Cornelius Jahn 1:59.54 11 2 2 Inbar Danziger 1:59.72 12 2 7 Primož Šenica Pavletič 2:00.29 13 2 1 Jack Skerry 2:00.41 14 2 8 Flavio Bucca 2:01.07 15 1 1 Radosław Kawęcki 2:01.80 16 1 8 Christian Diener 2:02.54

Final The final was held on 19 June at 18:40.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Oleksandr Zheltyakov 1:55.39 NR 4 Apostolos Siskos 1:55.42 NR 3 Roman Mityukov 1:55.75 4 7 Benedek Kovács 1:56.13 5 2 Ksawery Masiuk 1:57.50 6 1 David Gerchik 1:57.53 7 8 John Shortt 1:58.48 8 6 Ádám Telegdy 2:01.30

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