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

The men's 200 metre butterfly 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 | 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 at 09:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:55.43 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 6 | Evgeny Koptelov | Russia | 1:56.37 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:56.63 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 5 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:56.66 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Francesco Pavone | Italy | 1:57.15 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Matteo Pelizzari | Italy | 1:57.67 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Aleksandr Kudashev | Russia | 1:57.70 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:57.77 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 7 | Carlos Peralta | Spain | 1:57.78 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 5 | Cameron Brodie | Great Britain | 1:57.81 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 5 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:57.93 | |
| 12 | 4 | 1 | Egon van der Straeten | Belgium | 1:58.11 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 7 | Alexandru Coci | Romania | 1:58.15 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 4 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:58.29 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | Jordan Coelho | France | 1:58.36 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 0 | Konstantinos Markozis | Greece | 1:58.48 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 0 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 1:58.55 | Q |
| 18 | 4 | 3 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:58.60 | |
| 19 | 1 | 4 | Nico van Duijn | Switzerland | 1:59.04 | |
| 20 | 4 | 7 | Bence Pulai | Hungary | 1:59.66 | |
| 21 | 1 | 6 | Sindri Jakobsson | Norway | 1:59.80 | |
| 22 | 1 | 5 | Jesper Björk | Sweden | 2:00.01 | |
| 23 | 2 | 8 | Paul Lemaire | France | 2:00.09 | |
| 24 | 2 | 1 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 2:00.09 | |
| 24 | 4 | 8 | Pedro Oliveira | Portugal | 2:00.09 | |
| 26 | 3 | 0 | Nuno Quintanilha | Portugal | 2:00.83 | |
| 27 | 2 | 2 | Tom Kremer | Israel | 2:01.07 | |
| 28 | 4 | 9 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 2:01.60 | |
| 29 | 3 | 8 | Thomas Vilaceca | France | 2:01.69 | |
| 30 | 2 | 9 | Filip Milcevic | Austria | 2:02.67 | |
| 31 | 1 | 3 | Tomas Havránek | Czech Republic | 2:02.82 | |
| 32 | 1 | 2 | Etay Gurevich | Israel | 2:03.10 | |
| 33 | 1 | 1 | Teimuraz Kobakhidze | Georgia | 2:03.77 | |
| 34 | 1 | 7 | Nikola Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 2:05.49 | |
| — | 3 | 1 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | | DNS |
| — | 3 | 9 | Jay Lelliott | Great Britain | | DNS |
| — | 4 | 2 | Roberto Pavoni | Great Britain | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:01.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:56.46 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Evgeni Koptelov | Russia | 1:56.74 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Matteo Pelizzari | Italy | 1:56.78 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:57.03 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Jordan Coelho | France | 1:57.52 | |
| 6 | 8 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 1:57.64 | |
| 7 | 2 | Cameron Brodie | Great Britain | 1:58.31 | |
| 8 | 7 | Alexandru Coci | Romania | 1:58.42 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:55.55 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:56.43 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:56.44 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Carlos Peralta | Spain | 1:57.23 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Francesco Pavone | Italy | 1:57.35 | |
| 6 | 6 | Aleksandr Kudashev | Russia | 1:57.41 | |
| 7 | 7 | Egon van der Straeten | Belgium | 1:58.19 | |
| 8 | 8 | Konstantinos Markozis | Greece | 1:58.89 | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:02.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:55.29 |
| | 3 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:55.62 |
| | 5 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:55.74 |
| 4 | 6 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:56.06 |
| 5 | 7 | Matteo Pelizzari | Italy | 1:56.72 |
| 6 | 8 | Carlos Peralta | Spain | 1:57.01 |
| 7 | 1 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:57.10 |
| 8 | 2 | Evgeni Koptelov | Russia | 1:57.14 |