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

The men's 200 metre butterfly 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 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:51.51 | Rome | July 29, 2009 |
| European record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:52.70 | Beijing | August 13, 2008 |
| Championship record | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:54.38 | Eindhoven | March 21, 2008 |

## Results
### Heats

31 swimmers participated in 4 heats.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:57.47 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Dinko Jukić | Austria | 1:57.69 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:58.08 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | 1:58.16 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Francesco Pavone | Italy | 1:58.23 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:58.32 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 7 | Alexandru Coci | Romania | 1:58.42 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 2 | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or | Israel | 1:58.97 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 5 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:58.97 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | Jordan Coelho | France | 1:59.32 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | 3 | Konstantinos Markozis | Greece | 1:59.48 | |
| 12 | 4 | 2 | Tom Kremer | Israel | 1:59.50 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 6 | Egon van der Straeten | Belgium | 1:59.70 | Q |
| 14 | 3 | 6 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 1:59.80 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 7 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 2:00.05 | |
| 16 | 2 | 2 | Alexandre Liess | Switzerland | 2:00.18 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 1 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 2:00.21 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | 1 | Michal Poprawa | Poland | 2:00.23 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | 2 | Pedro Diogo Oliveira | Portugal | 2:00.23 | |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Diogo Filipe Carvalho | Portugal | 2:00.52 | |
| 21 | 4 | 7 | Duarte Rafael Mourao | Portugal | 2:00.63 | |
| 22 | 1 | 4 | Sindri Thor Jakobsson | Norway | 2:00.96 | NR |
| 23 | 4 | 8 | Bernhard Wolf | Austria | 2:01.69 | |
| 24 | 1 | 5 | Niksa Roki | Croatia | 2:01.82 | |
| 25 | 1 | 6 | Nico van Duijn | Switzerland | 2:02.02 | |
| 25 | 3 | 8 | Alon Mandel | Israel | 2:02.02 | |
| 27 | 2 | 8 | Avi Cohen | Israel | 2:02.35 | |
| 28 | 1 | 3 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:03.03 | |
| 29 | 1 | 1 | Pavel Naroshkin | Estonia | 2:04.15 | NR |
| 30 | 1 | 7 | Edgaras Štura | Lithuania | 2:08.18 | |
| | 4 | 6 | Matteo Pelizzari | Italy | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:56.84 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Dinko Jukić | Austria | 1:57.02 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | 1:57.33 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Jordan Coelho | France | 1:57.59 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Alexandre Liess | Switzerland | 1:58.13 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 6 | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or | Israel | 1:59.09 | |
| 7 | 7 | Egon van der Straeten | Belgium | 1:59.25 | |
| 8 | 8 | Michal Poprawa | Poland | 2:00.56 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:55.77 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Francesco Pavone | Italy | 1:57.05 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:57.44 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:58.51 | |
| 5 | 1 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 1:58.75 | |
| 6 | 6 | Alexandru Coci | Romania | 1:59.49 | |
| 7 | 7 | Tom Kremer | Israel | 1:59.51 | |
| 8 | 8 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 1:59.87 | |

### Final

The final was held at 17:57.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 7 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:54.95 |
| | 4 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:55.85 |
| | 2 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | 1:56.48 |
| 4 | 3 | Dinko Jukić | Austria | 1:56.53 |
| 5 | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:57.06 |
| 6 | 6 | Francesco Pavone | Italy | 1:57.07 |
| 7 | 1 | Jordan Coelho | France | 1:58.24 |
| 8 | 8 | Alexandre Liess | Switzerland | 1:59.13 |