# Swimming at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, the final on May 24.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 2:07.31 | Rome | July 30, 2009 |
| European record | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:07.64 | Beijing | July 31, 2009 |
| Championship record | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:08.95 | Budapest | August 12, 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

40 swimmers participated in 5 heats.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 6 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 2:10.61 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:11.54 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 3 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:12.48 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | 2:12.60 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | Ákos Molnár | Hungary | 2:12.71 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 6 | Flavio Bizzarri | Italy | 2:13.00 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:13.00 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:13.26 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 4 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:13.36 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 2:13.42 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Sławomir Kuczko | Poland | 2:13.86 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 5 | Anton Lobanov | Russia | 2:13.87 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 3 | Tomáš Klobučník | Slovakia | 2:14.06 | Q, NR |
| 14 | 3 | 2 | Yannick Kaeser | Switzerland | 2:14.11 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 7 | Oleg Kostin | Russia | 2:14.13 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 7 | Olexiy Rozhkov | Ukraine | 2:14.37 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 6 | Maxym Shemberyev | Ukraine | 2:14.38 | |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Jonas Coreelman | Belgium | 2:14.52 | |
| 19 | 3 | 7 | Hunor Mate | Austria | 2:14.79 | |
| 20 | 3 | 3 | Hugues Duboscq | France | 2:15.02 | |
| 21 | 1 | 5 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 2:15.21 | NR |
| 22 | 2 | 5 | Carlos Esteves Almeida | Portugal | 2:15.64 | |
| 23 | 2 | 2 | Imri Ganiel | Israel | 2:15.76 | |
| 24 | 2 | 1 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:16.35 | |
| 25 | 2 | 6 | Jowan Qupty | Israel | 2:16.72 | |
| 25 | 3 | 1 | Maxim Podoprigora | Austria | 2:16.72 | |
| 27 | 3 | 8 | Danila Artiomov | Moldova | 2:17.77 | |
| 28 | 4 | 8 | Mattia Petce | Italy | 2:17.80 | |
| 29 | 1 | 2 | Vadim Romanov | Estonia | 2:18.40 | |
| 30 | 2 | 4 | Eetu Karvonen | Finland | 2:19.39 | |
| 31 | 1 | 4 | Sverre Naess | Norway | 2:20.02 | |
| 32 | 1 | 3 | Robert Vovk | Slovenia | 2:20.25 | |
| 33 | 2 | 8 | Rok Resman | Slovenia | 2:20.63 | |
| 34 | 1 | 7 | Lachezar Shumkov | Bulgaria | 2:21.51 | |
| 35 | 1 | 6 | Marius Mikalauskas | Lithuania | 2:21.61 | |
| 36 | 1 | 1 | Tal Hanani | Israel | 2:23.73 | |
| | 5 | 2 | Valeriy Dymo | Ukraine | DSQ | |
| | 5 | 8 | Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson | Iceland | DSQ | |
| | 1 | 8 | Aleksander Hetland | Norway | DNF | |
| | 2 | 7 | Gal Nevo | Israel | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:10.06 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | 2:11.91 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Flavio Bizzarri | Italy | 2:12.03 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Yannick Kaeser | Switzerland | 2:12.09 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 2 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 2:12.16 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Anton Lobanov | Russia | 2:12.54 | |
| 7 | 6 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:13.49 | |
| 8 | 8 | Olexiy Rozhkov | Ukraine | 2:13.91 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:10.92 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 2:11.53 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Ákos Molnár | Hungary | 2:12.23 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:12.29 | |
| 5 | 8 | Oleg Kostin | Russia | 2:12.39 | |
| 6 | 6 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:12.58 | |
| 7 | 1 | Tomáš Klobučník | Slovakia | 2:13.10 | NR |
| 8 | 7 | Sławomir Kuczko | Poland | 2:13.14 | |

### Final

The final was held at 17:41.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:08.60 | CR |
| | 5 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:09.26 | |
| | 3 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 2:09.72 | NR |
| 4 | 1 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 2:10.61 | |
| 5 | 2 | Flavio Bizzarri | Italy | 2.12.47 | |
| 6 | 6 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | 2:12.51 | |
| 7 | 7 | Yannick Kaeser | Switzerland | 2:13.23 | |
| 8 | 8 | Ákos Molnár | Hungary | 2:13.33 | |