# Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20–21 August.

## 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 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:08.60 | Debrecen | 24 May 2012 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:01.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:09.11 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:09.91 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Ilya Khomenko | Russia | 2:10.78 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:11.15 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:11.83 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 7 | Kirill Prigoda | Russia | 2:11.92 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 3 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:12.34 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Adam Peaty | Great Britain | 2:12.40 | |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:12.44 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 6 | Grigory Falko | Russia | 2:12.47 | |
| 11 | 3 | 7 | Mikolaj Machnik | Poland | 2:12.56 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 4 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:12.75 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 3 | Alexander Palatov | Russia | 2:13.14 | |
| 14 | 2 | 7 | Dmytro Oseledets | Ukraine | 2:13.35 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | Thomas Dahlia | France | 2:13.59 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 0 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:13.87 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 2 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:13.90 | Q |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Melquíades Álvarez | Spain | 2:14.10 | Q |
| 19 | 3 | 2 | Quentin Coton | France | 2:14.21 | Q |
| 20 | 4 | 8 | Igor Kozlovskij | Lithuania | 2:14.36 | |
| 21 | 2 | 9 | Jeremy Desplanches | Switzerland | 2:14.47 | |
| 22 | 4 | 0 | Nicholas Quinn | Ireland | 2:14.82 | |
| 23 | 1 | 3 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:14.97 | |
| 24 | 3 | 8 | Valeriy Dymo | Ukraine | 2:15.79 | |
| 25 | 1 | 7 | Sverre Næss | Norway | 2:15.82 | |
| 26 | 1 | 1 | Bogdan Knežević | Serbia | 2:16.03 | NR |
| 27 | 3 | 1 | Carlos Almeida | Portugal | 2:16.10 | |
| 28 | 1 | 8 | Martin Allikvee | Estonia | 2:16.22 | |
| 29 | 3 | 9 | Patrik Schwarzenbach | Switzerland | 2:16.38 | |
| 30 | 1 | 5 | Martti Aljand | Estonia | 2:16.71 | |
| 31 | 1 | 6 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:16.84 | |
| 32 | 4 | 9 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 2:16.89 | |
| 33 | 4 | 6 | Tomáš Klobučník | Slovakia | 2:17.25 | |
| 34 | 2 | 0 | Antonin Svěcený | Czech Republic | 2:17.59 | |
| 35 | 1 | 4 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:18.35 | |
| 36 | 1 | 2 | Alpkan Örnek | Turkey | 2:18.55 | |
| 37 | 2 | 8 | Maksym Shemberev | Ukraine | 2:19.40 | |
| — | 2 | 1 | Dan Sweeney | Ireland | | DSQ |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:25.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:08.65 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:08.93 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:10.90 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Kirill Prigoda | Russia | 2:11.26 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:12.93 | |
| 6 | 1 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:13.09 | |
| 7 | 7 | Thomas Dahlia | France | 2:13.29 | |
| 8 | 8 | Quentin Coton | France | 2:13.61 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:08.83 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Ilya Khomenko | Russia | 2:10.00 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:10.05 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:11.89 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Dmytro Oseledets | Ukraine | 2:12.27 | |
| 6 | 2 | Mikolaj Machnik | Poland | 2:12.98 | |
| 7 | 8 | Melquíades Álvarez | Spain | 2:14.62 | |
| 8 | 1 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:14.67 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:46.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:07.47 | CR |
| | 4 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:07.77 | |
| | 2 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:08.93 | |
| 4 | 3 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:09.19 | |
| 5 | 6 | Ilya Khomenko | Russia | 2:10.36 | |
| 6 | 7 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:10.93 | |
| 7 | 8 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:12.50 | |
| 8 | 1 | Kirill Prigoda | Russia | 2:12.96 | |