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

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 May 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Akihiro Yamaguchi | Japan | 2:07.01 | Gifu | 15 September 2012 |
| European record | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:07.23 | Barcelona | 2 August 2013 |
| Championship record | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:07.47 | Berlin | 21 August 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 18 May at 10:29.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:11.29 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:11.78 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:11.87 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:12.21 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | Anton Sveinn McKee | Iceland | 2:12.25 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Mikhail Dorinov | Russia | 2:12.76 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | Craig Benson | Great Britain | 2:12.79 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:12.88 | |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:12.92 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Dmytro Oseledets | Ukraine | 2:13.33 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | Max Pilger | Germany | 2:13.64 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 7 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:13.69 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 0 | Ronen Faor | Israel | 2:13.72 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 8 | Johannes Dietrich | Austria | 2:13.76 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 6 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 2:13.82 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 8 | Dávid Horváth | Hungary | 2:13.91 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 6 | Dimitrios Koulouris | Greece | 2:14.19 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | Luke Davies | Great Britain | 2:14.30 | |
| 19 | 4 | 9 | Christopher Rothbauer | Austria | 2:14.57 | |
| 19 | 3 | 2 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:14.57 | |
| 21 | 4 | 7 | Jonas Coreelman | Belgium | 2:14.81 | |
| 22 | 2 | 4 | Iliy Gladishev | Israel | 2:14.91 | |
| 23 | 2 | 3 | Martin Allikvee | Estonia | 2:14.97 | |
| 24 | 3 | 6 | Nicholas Quinn | Ireland | 2:15.04 | |
| 25 | 3 | 0 | Daniils Bobrovs | Latvia | 2:15.12 | |
| 26 | 4 | 8 | Valeriy Dymo | Ukraine | 2:15.16 | |
| 27 | 1 | 6 | Maksym Shemberev | Azerbaijan | 2:16.19 | |
| 28 | 3 | 1 | Patrik Schwarzenbach | Switzerland | 2:16.34 | |
| 29 | 2 | 0 | Luchezar Shumkov | Bulgaria | 2:16.50 | |
| 30 | 2 | 9 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:17.24 | |
| 31 | 2 | 8 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 2:17.26 | |
| 32 | 2 | 6 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:17.29 | |
| 33 | 2 | 7 | Marko Blaževski | Macedonia | 2:17.33 | |
| 34 | 5 | 9 | Andrius Šidlauskas | Lithuania | 2:17.53 | |
| 34 | 3 | 9 | Alpkan Örnek | Turkey | 2:17.53 | |
| 36 | 2 | 2 | Berkay Şendikici | Turkey | 2:17.59 | |
| 37 | 2 | 5 | Eitan Yudashkin | Israel | 2:17.92 | |
| 38 | 5 | 0 | Luca Pfyffer | Switzerland | 2:18.20 | |
| 39 | 2 | 1 | Demir Atasoy | Turkey | 2:18.28 | |
| 40 | 4 | 1 | Sverre Næss | Norway | 2:19.24 | |
| 41 | 1 | 3 | Tomás Veloso | Portugal | 2:19.59 | |
| 42 | 5 | 1 | Dan Sweeney | Ireland | 2:21.16 | |
| 43 | 1 | 5 | Silver Hein | Estonia | 2:22.49 | |
| 44 | 1 | 7 | Deni Baholli | Albania | 2:27.60 | |
| | 1 | 2 | Jørgen Braathen | Norway | DSQ | DSQ |
| | 1 | 4 | Gal Nevo | Israel | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 18:22.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Matti Mattson | Finland | 2:10.10 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:11.13 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 2:11.22 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Mikhail Dorinov | Russia | 2:11.25 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:11.54 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | Dimitrios Koulouris | Greece | 2:12.09 | |
| 7 | 2 | Max Pilger | Germany | 2:13.82 | |
| 8 | 7 | Ronen Faor | Israel | 2:14.84 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:09.72 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:09.82 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Anton Sveinn McKee | Iceland | 2:10.91 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Craig Benson | Great Britain | 2:11.93 | |
| 5 | 2 | Dmytro Oseledets | Ukraine | 2:11.97 | |
| 6 | 8 | Dávid Horváth | Hungary | 2:12.34 | |
| 7 | 1 | Johannes Dietrich | Austria | 2:14.13 | |
| 8 | 7 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:15.11 | |

### Final

The final was held on 19 May at 18:46.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:08.33 |
| | 5 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:08.40 |
| | 8 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:10.39 |
| 4 | 2 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:10.50 |
| 5 | 3 | Matti Mattson | Finland | 2:10.69 |
| 6 | 7 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 2:11.15 |
| 7 | 1 | Mikhail Dorinov | Russia | 2:11.42 |
| 8 | 6 | Anton Sveinn McKee | Iceland | 2:11.73 |