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

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19–20 August.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:42.00 | Rome | 28 July 2009 |
| European record | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:42.00 | Rome | 28 July 2009 |
| Championship record | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 1:44.89 | Berlin | 2 August 2002 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:46.62 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | Artem Lobuzov | Russia | 1:47.51 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 1:47.52 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 6 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 1:47.99 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:48.02 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 2 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 1:48.06 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 3 | Clemens Rapp | Germany | 1:48.08 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 5 | Andrea D'Arrigo | Italy | 1:48.24 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 4 | Yannick Agnel | France | 1:48.27 | Q |
| 10 | 7 | 7 | Robin Backhaus | Germany | 1:48.28 | |
| 11 | 5 | 3 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 1:48.45 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 6 | Dion Dreesens | Netherlands | 1:48.59 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Yannick Lebherz | Germany | 1:48.70 | |
| 14 | 6 | 9 | Matias Koski | Finland | 1:48.73 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 0 | Anders Lie | Denmark | 1:48.83 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 9 | David Brandl | Austria | 1:48.87 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 3 | Alexandr Sukhorukov | Russia | 1:48.88 | Q |
| 18 | 7 | 2 | Viacheslav Andrusenko | Russia | 1:48.96 | |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 1:49.11 | Q |
| 20 | 7 | 9 | Lorys Bourelly | France | 1:49.17 | |
| 21 | 7 | 0 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:49.25 | |
| 22 | 7 | 1 | Jan Świtkowski | Poland | 1:49.41 | |
| 23 | 5 | 8 | Tom Kremer | Israel | 1:49.46 | |
| 24 | 6 | 8 | Clement Mignon | France | 1:49.49 | |
| 25 | 5 | 4 | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 1:49.55 | |
| 26 | 6 | 7 | Ferry Weertman | Netherlands | 1:49.58 | |
| 27 | 5 | 0 | Miguel Durán | Spain | 1:49.66 | |
| 28 | 3 | 2 | Christian Scherübl | Austria | 1:49.79 | |
| 29 | 5 | 7 | Grégory Mallet | France | 1:49.85 | |
| 30 | 4 | 7 | Joost Reijns | Netherlands | 1:49.89 | |
| 31 | 6 | 1 | Emmanuel Vanluchene | Belgium | 1:49.93 | |
| 32 | 7 | 8 | Victor Martin | Spain | 1:50.03 | |
| 33 | 4 | 2 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:50.18 | |
| 34 | 4 | 0 | Alexi Konovalov | Israel | 1:50.21 | |
| 35 | 4 | 6 | Christos Katranzis | Greece | 1:50.29 | |
| 35 | 3 | 4 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 1:50.29 | |
| 35 | 3 | 3 | Jean-Baptiste Febo | Switzerland | 1:50.29 | |
| 38 | 3 | 1 | Doğa Çelik | Turkey | 1:50.60 | |
| 39 | 4 | 4 | Mattias Carlsson | Sweden | 1:50.82 | |
| 40 | 4 | 9 | Pawel Werner | Poland | 1:50.93 | |
| 41 | 3 | 5 | Oscar Ekström | Sweden | 1:51.10 | |
| 42 | 3 | 9 | Stefan Šorak | Serbia | 1:51.19 | |
| 43 | 2 | 6 | David Kunčar | Czech Republic | 1:51.33 | |
| 43 | 3 | 6 | Martin Bau | Slovenia | 1:51.33 | |
| 45 | 4 | 1 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:51.38 | |
| 46 | 4 | 3 | David Karasek | Switzerland | 1:51.41 | |
| 47 | 3 | 0 | Adam Paulsson | Sweden | 1:51.42 | |
| 48 | 4 | 5 | Dawid Zieliński | Poland | 1:51.46 | |
| 49 | 3 | 7 | Alexandre Haldemann | Switzerland | 1:51.60 | |
| 50 | 2 | 2 | Pit Brandenburger | Luxembourg | 1:52.26 | |
| 51 | 2 | 7 | Anton Goncharov | Ukraine | 1:52.59 | |
| 52 | 1 | 5 | Sergiy Varvaruk | Ukraine | 1:52.78 | |
| 53 | 2 | 3 | Gustav Aberg | Sweden | 1:53.02 | |
| 54 | 2 | 4 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 1:53.04 | |
| 55 | 1 | 4 | Nezir Karap | Turkey | 1:53.22 | |
| 56 | 4 | 8 | Tomas Havránek | Czech Republic | 1:53.71 | |
| 57 | 2 | 1 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 1:53.96 | |
| 58 | 1 | 3 | Davit Sikharulidze | Georgia | 1:54.22 | |
| 59 | 2 | 8 | Uladzimir Zhyharau | Belarus | 1:54.80 | |
| 60 | 2 | 5 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 1:55.83 | |
| — | 3 | 8 | Kemal Arda Gürdal | Turkey | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:15.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 1:46.89 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Artem Lobuzov | Russia | 1:47.43 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 1:47.76 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 1:47.93 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Andrea D'Arrigo | Italy | 1:47.94 | |
| 6 | 7 | Matias Koski | Finland | 1:48.06 | |
| 7 | 8 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 1:48.97 | |
| 8 | 1 | David Brandl | Austria | 1:49.19 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:46.69 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:46.79 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 5 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 1:47.88 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Yannick Agnel | France | 1:47.90 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Clemens Rapp | Germany | 1:48.07 | |
| 6 | 8 | Alexandr Sukhorukov | Russia | 1:48.29 | |
| 7 | 7 | Dion Dreesens | Netherlands | 1:48.40 | |
| 8 | 1 | Anders Lie | Denmark | 1:48.94 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18.52.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:45.78 | NR |
| | 4 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:45.80 | |
| | 1 | Yannick Agnel | France | 1:46.65 | |
| 4 | 3 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 1:46.78 | |
| 5 | 2 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 1:47.01 | |
| 6 | 7 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 1:47.16 | |
| 7 | 6 | Artem Lobuzov | Russia | 1:47.27 | |
| 8 | 8 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 1:47.42 | |