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

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 22 and 23. The heats and semifinals took place on May 22, the final on May 23.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:54.00 | Shanghai | July 28, 2011 |
| European record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:55.18 | Rome | July 29, 2009 |
| Championship record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:57.73 | Budapest | August 11, 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

40 swimmers participated in 6 heats.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:59.15 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:00.35 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 6 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 2:00.38 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Markus Rogan | Austria | 2:00.42 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 3 | Vytautas Janušaitis | Lithuania | 2:00.61 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 2 | Dinko Jukić | Austria | 2:00.88 | |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:01.33 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 6 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 2:01.35 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Diogo Filipe Carvalho | Portugal | 2:01.56 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 7 | Dmitry Gorbunov | Russia | 2:01.76 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 5 | Jan-David Schepers | Germany | 2:02.35 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | Luca Angelo Dioli | Italy | 2:02.35 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 6 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:02.36 | Q |
| 14 | 3 | 4 | James Goddard | Great Britain | 2:02.40 | Q |
| 15 | 2 | 1 | Lukasz Wojt | Poland | 2:02.41 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 1 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 2:02.42 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 4 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:02.61 | |
| 18 | 4 | 7 | Eduardo Solaeche Gomez | Spain | 2:02.62 | Q |
| 19 | 5 | 5 | Markus Deibler | Germany | 2:02.66 | |
| 20 | 3 | 2 | Ivan Trofimov | Russia | 2:02.74 | |
| 21 | 3 | 8 | Tom Kremer | Israel | 2:03.42 | |
| 22 | 4 | 1 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 2:03.67 | |
| 23 | 2 | 6 | Yury Suvorau | Belarus | 2:03.94 | |
| 24 | 3 | 1 | David Karasek | Switzerland | 2:04.00 | |
| 25 | 2 | 7 | Nikša Roki | Croatia | 2:04.03 | |
| 26 | 2 | 8 | Tomáš Fučík | Czech Republic | 2:04.04 | |
| 27 | 4 | 8 | Denys Dubrov | Ukraine | 2:04.39 | |
| 28 | 2 | 2 | Dominik Dür | Austria | 2:04.46 | |
| 29 | 5 | 8 | Maxym Shemberyev | Ukraine | 2:04.54 | |
| 30 | 1 | 6 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:05.57 | |
| 31 | 1 | 3 | Pavol Jelenak | Slovakia | 2:05.59 | NR |
| 32 | 2 | 3 | Tal Hanani | Israel | 2:05.65 | |
| 33 | 2 | 5 | Jakub Jasinski | Poland | 2:06.14 | |
| 34 | 1 | 4 | Saša Imprić | Croatia | 2:07.44 | |
| 35 | 1 | 1 | Peter Gutyan | Slovakia | 2:09.02 | |
| 36 | 1 | 5 | Rok Resman | Slovenia | 2:09.15 | |
| 37 | 1 | 7 | Pavels Vilcans | Latvia | 2:09.64 | |
| 38 | 1 | 2 | Adam Strieborny | Slovakia | 2:10.65 | |
| 39 | 1 | 8 | Pavel Naroshkin | Estonia | 2:11.10 | |
| | 3 | 7 | Yakov-Yan Toumarkin | Israel | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Markus Rogan | Austria | 2:00.58 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:00.75 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:01.17 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Diogo Filipe Carvalho | Portugal | 2:01.64 | |
| 5 | 2 | Jan-David Schepers | Germany | 2:01.71 | |
| 6 | 8 | Eduardo Solaeche Gomez | Spain | 2:01.91 | |
| 7 | 1 | Lukasz Wojt | Poland | 2:02.40 | |
| 8 | 7 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:03.50 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:57.80 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:59.44 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 6 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 1:59.62 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | James Goddard | Great Britain | 2:00.66 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Vytautas Janušaitis | Lithuania | 2:00.75 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 2:02.01 | |
| 7 | 7 | Luca Angelo Dioli | Italy | 2:02.04 | |
| 8 | 2 | Dmitry Gorbunov | Russia | 2:02.94 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:17.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:56.66 | CR |
| | 2 | James Goddard | Great Britain | 1:57.84 | |
| | 6 | Markus Rogan | Austria | 1:59.39 | |
| 4 | 3 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 1:59.74 | |
| 5 | 5 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 2:00.70 | |
| 6 | 7 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:01.70 | |
| 7 | 1 | Vytautas Janušaitis | Lithuania | 2:02.08 | |
| 8 | 8 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:02.50 | |