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

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 May 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Aaron Peirsol | United States | 1:51.92 | Rome | 31 July 2009 |
| European record | Evgeny Rylov | Russia | 1:54.21 | Moscow | 21 April 2016 |
| Championship record | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 1:55.28 | Debrecen | 26 May 2012 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 20 May at 10:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 6 | Dávid Földházi | Hungary | 1:57.69 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 1:58.41 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:58.44 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Gábor Balog | Hungary | 1:58.70 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | Luke Greenbank | Great Britain | 1:58.81 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 4 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:58.95 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Christopher Ciccarese | Italy | 1:59.08 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Ádám Telegdy | Hungary | 1:59.10 | |
| 9 | 4 | 5 | Luca Mencarini | Italy | 1:59.19 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | Balázs Zámbó | Hungary | 1:59.34 | |
| 11 | 3 | 6 | Benjamin Stasiulis | France | 2:00.17 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 7 | Roman Dmitriyev | Czech Republic | 2:00.42 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 5 | Grigory Tarasevich | Russia | 2:00.45 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 8 | Petter Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:00.91 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 8 | Kristian Kron | Sweden | 2:01.01 | Q |
| 16 | 2 | 9 | Robert Glință | Romania | 2:01.09 | Q |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 2:01.14 | Q |
| 18 | 4 | 2 | Mattias Carlsson | Sweden | 2:01.24 | |
| 19 | 4 | 1 | Anton Loncar | Croatia | 2:01.47 | Q |
| 20 | 1 | 3 | Pavel Janeček | Czech Republic | 2:01.64 | |
| 21 | 2 | 5 | Teo Kolonić | Croatia | 2:01.73 | |
| 22 | 3 | 0 | Daniel Martin | Romania | 2:01.82 | |
| 23 | 4 | 0 | Tomáš Franta | Czech Republic | 2:01.96 | |
| 24 | 5 | 1 | Nils Van Audekerke | Belgium | 2:02.07 | |
| 25 | 2 | 1 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 2:02.29 | |
| 26 | 5 | 9 | Marko Krce Rabar | Croatia | 2:02.33 | |
| 27 | 5 | 0 | Yuval Safra | Israel | 2:02.39 | |
| 28 | 4 | 9 | Arthur Polyak | Israel | 2:02.59 | |
| 29 | 2 | 2 | Ege Başer | Turkey | 2:02.95 | |
| 30 | 3 | 9 | Boris Kirillov | Azerbaijan | 2:03.32 | |
| 31 | 4 | 7 | Lander Hendrickx | Belgium | 2:03.47 | |
| 32 | 5 | 7 | David Gamburg | Israel | 2:03.71 | |
| 33 | 2 | 7 | Ģirts Feldbergs | Latvia | 2:03.94 | |
| 34 | 3 | 1 | Axel Pettersson | Sweden | 2:03.96 | |
| 35 | 2 | 4 | Joan Lluís Pons | Spain | 2:04.29 | |
| 36 | 2 | 6 | Gabriel Lopes | Portugal | 2:04.33 | |
| 37 | 2 | 8 | Gytis Stankevičius | Lithuania | 2:04.84 | |
| 38 | 1 | 6 | Marcin Tarczyński | Poland | 2:04.89 | |
| 39 | 1 | 4 | Ergecan Gezmiş | Turkey | 2:05.55 | |
| 40 | 2 | 0 | Michail Kontizas | Greece | 2:06.31 | |
| 41 | 1 | 5 | Andrei Gussev | Estonia | 2:10.49 | |
| | 2 | 2 | Carl-Louis Schwarz | Germany | DNS | DNS |
| | 3 | 2 | Joseph Hulme | Great Britain | DNS | DNS |
| | 5 | 8 | Nils Liess | Switzerland | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 20 May at 19:08.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:57.35 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 1:57.39 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Gábor Balog | Hungary | 1:59.04 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Luca Mencarini | Italy | 1:59.05 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Roman Dmitriyev | Czech Republic | 1:59.53 | |
| 6 | 1 | Robert Glință | Romania | 2:00.91 | |
| 7 | 8 | Anton Loncar | Croatia | 2:01.80 | |
| 8 | 7 | Petter Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:02.13 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 1:57.41 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:57.95 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Christopher Ciccarese | Italy | 1:58.50 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Grigory Tarasevich | Russia | 1:58.55 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Luke Greenbank | Great Britain | 1:59.21 | |
| 6 | 4 | Dávid Földházi | Hungary | 1:59.48 | |
| 7 | 2 | Benjamin Stasiulis | France | 2:00.45 | |
| 8 | 1 | Kristian Kron | Sweden | 2:00.90 | |

### Final

The final was on 21 May at 17:18.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 1:55.98 |
| | 6 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:56.97 |
| | 4 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:57.22 |
| 4 | 1 | Gábor Balog | Hungary | 1:58.66 |
| 5 | 3 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 1:58.87 |
| 6 | 7 | Grigory Tarasevich | Russia | 1:59.31 |
| 7 | 2 | Christopher Ciccarese | Italy | 1:59.45 |
| 8 | 8 | Luca Mencarini | Italy | 2:02.04 |