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

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18-19 May 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:51.51 | Rome | 29 July 2009 |
| European record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:52.70 | Beijing | 13 August 2008 |
| Championship record | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:54.38 | Eindhoven | 21 March 2008 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 18 May at 10:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:54.51 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:54.79 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:56.67 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 1:57.30 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:57.60 | |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1:57.76 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:57.99 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | Carlos Peralta | Spain | 1:58.28 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 1:58.36 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | 4 | Jan Świtkowski | Poland | 1:58.51 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Nils Liess | Switzerland | 1:58.52 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 7 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | 1:58.57 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 2 | Nuno Quintanilha | Portugal | 1:58.74 | Q |
| 14 | 2 | 6 | Markus Gierke | Germany | 1:58.75 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 7 | Benjamin Grátz | Hungary | 1:58.87 | |
| 16 | 4 | 9 | Sindri Jakobsson | Norway | 1:58.93 | Q |
| 17 | 3 | 5 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:59.03 | Q |
| 18 | 2 | 1 | Jesper Björk | Sweden | 1:59.08 | Q |
| 19 | 3 | 6 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:59.09 | |
| 20 | 4 | 6 | Alexander Kunert | Germany | 1:59.10 | |
| 21 | 3 | 2 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 1:59.30 | |
| 22 | 4 | 0 | Etay Gurevich | Israel | 1:59.60 | |
| 23 | 1 | 4 | Kaan Özcan | Turkey | 1:59.87 | |
| 24 | 3 | 8 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 1:59.94 | |
| 25 | 3 | 0 | Tomáš Havránek | Czech Republic | 2:00.14 | |
| 26 | 3 | 9 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 2:00.21 | |
| 27 | 4 | 1 | Alexandru Coci | Romania | 2:00.49 | |
| 28 | 4 | 7 | Paul Lemaire | France | 2:00.63 | |
| 29 | 1 | 6 | Richárd Nagy | Slovakia | 2:00.69 | |
| 30 | 2 | 9 | Filip Milcevic | Austria | 2:00.95 | |
| 31 | 1 | 7 | Osvald Nitski | Estonia | 2:01.46 | |
| 32 | 1 | 5 | Petr Novák | Czech Republic | 2:01.52 | |
| 33 | 2 | 8 | Yonatan Batsha | Israel | 2:01.61 | |
| 34 | 1 | 3 | Tim Slanschek | Switzerland | 2:01.66 | |
| 35 | 1 | 2 | Nico van Duijn | Switzerland | 2:01.96 | |
| 36 | 1 | 1 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:03.11 | |
| 37 | 1 | 8 | Arkadi Kalinovski | Estonia | 2:06.66 | |
| | 4 | 8 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 19:03.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:56.02 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 1:56.81 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:57.44 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 1:58.39 | |
| 5 | 8 | Jesper Björk | Sweden | 1:58.49 | |
| 6 | 2 | Nils Liess | Switzerland | 1:58.83 | |
| 7 | 7 | Nuno Quintanilha | Portugal | 1:59.10 | |
| 8 | 1 | Sindri Jakobsson | Norway | 1:59.12 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:54.29 | Q, CR |
| 2 | 5 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:55.28 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Jan Świtkowski | Poland | 1:56.67 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Carlos Peralta | Spain | 1:56.92 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:57.56 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1:57.90 | |
| 7 | 1 | Markus Gierke | Germany | 1:58.13 | |
| 8 | 7 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | 1:58.79 | |

### Final

The final was held on 19 May at 19:06.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:52.91 | CR |
| | 5 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:55.35 | |
| | 3 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:55.39 | |
| 4 | 6 | Jan Świtkowski | Poland | 1:56.22 | |
| 5 | 7 | Carlos Peralta | Spain | 1:56.42 | |
| 6 | 8 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:56.65 | |
| 7 | 2 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 1:56.81 | |
| 8 | 1 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:57.02 | |