# Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 May 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:54.00 | Shanghai | 24 July 2011 |
| European record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:55.18 | Rome | 29 July 2009 |
| Championship record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:56.66 | Debrecen | 23 May 2012 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 17 May at 10:39.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:58.17 | |
| 2 | 4 | 2 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.90 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 5 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 2:00.00 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 2:00.24 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 7 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:00.66 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 2:00.68 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 6 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:00.85 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | Phillipp Forster | Germany | 2:00.89 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 6 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 2:01.13 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 4 | Daniel Wallace | Great Britain | 2:01.28 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Alexander Osipenko | Russia | 2:01.49 | Q |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | Eduardo Solaeche | Spain | 2:01.49 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 0 | Benjámin Grátz | Hungary | 2:01.51 | Q |
| 14 | 3 | 8 | Pavel Janeček | Czech Republic | 2:01.72 | Q, NR |
| 14 | 4 | 3 | Ieuan Lloyd | Great Britain | 2:01.72 | |
| 16 | 2 | 9 | Petter Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:01.84 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 8 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:01.97 | Q |
| 18 | 2 | 6 | Alpkan Örnek | Turkey | 2:01.99 | Q |
| 19 | 4 | 4 | Marcin Tarczyński | Poland | 2:02.09 | |
| 20 | 3 | 7 | Ganesh Pedurand | France | 2:02.12 | |
| 20 | 5 | 0 | Gabriel Lopes | Portugal | 2:02.12 | |
| 22 | 5 | 2 | Semen Makovich | Russia | 2:02.20 | |
| 23 | 5 | 3 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 2:02.43 | |
| 24 | 3 | 1 | Etay Gurevich | Israel | 2:02.51 | |
| 25 | 4 | 1 | Sebastian Steffan | Austria | 2:02.89 | |
| 26 | 4 | 9 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 2:02.92 | |
| 27 | 5 | 1 | Kevin Wedel | Germany | 2:03.00 | |
| 28 | 2 | 2 | Marcin Tarczyński | Poland | 2:03.06 | |
| 29 | 2 | 5 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 2:03.07 | |
| 30 | 5 | 8 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 2:03.32 | |
| 31 | 4 | 0 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 2:03.37 | |
| 32 | 2 | 1 | Marko Blaževski | Macedonia | 2:03.66 | |
| 33 | 2 | 7 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:03.95 | |
| 34 | 3 | 9 | Sindri Jakobsson | Norway | 2:04.07 | |
| 35 | 5 | 9 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 2:04.11 | |
| 36 | 2 | 8 | Tomas Veloso | Portugal | 2:05.74 | |
| 37 | 1 | 5 | Nikola Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 2:05.95 | |
| 38 | 2 | 0 | Pavol Jelenák | Slovakia | 2:06.03 | |
| 39 | 2 | 4 | Ergecan Gezmiş | Turkey | 2:06.18 | |
| 40 | 1 | 3 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:06.55 | |
| 41 | 1 | 4 | Luca Pfyffer | Switzerland | 2:06.69 | |
| 42 | 1 | 7 | Osvald Nitski | Estonia | 2:06.71 | |
| 43 | 1 | 2 | Silver Hein | Estonia | 2:08.64 | |
| 44 | 1 | 6 | Alvi Hjelm | Faroe Islands | 2:10.32 | |
| | 4 | 5 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | DNS | DNS |
| | 4 | 6 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 17 May at 18:50.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:58.47 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:00.57 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:00.72 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 2:00.86 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Benjámin Grátz | Hungary | 2:00.90 | |
| 6 | 2 | Eduardo Solaeche | Spain | 2:01.74 | |
| 7 | 1 | Petter Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:02.37 | |
| 8 | 8 | Alpkan Örnek | Turkey | 2:02.74 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.93 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 2:00.07 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 2:00.32 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Daniel Wallace | Great Britain | 2:00.74 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Alexander Osipenko | Russia | 2:01.13 | |
| 6 | 6 | Phillipp Forster | Germany | 2:01.17 | |
| 7 | 1 | Pavel Janeček | Czech Republic | 2:02.37 | |
| 8 | 8 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:02.55 | |

### Final

The final was held on 18 May at 19:26.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:58.18 |
| | 6 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 1:59.69 |
| | 5 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.76 |
| 4 | 2 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:00.28 |
| 5 | 3 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 2:00.29 |
| 6 | 7 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:00.56 |
| 7 | 8 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 2:00.71 |
| 8 | 1 | Daniel Wallace | Great Britain | 2:00.92 |