# Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 4 and 5 August 2018.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world 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 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:52.91 | London | 19 May 2016 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 5 August | Final | Kristóf Milák | Hungary | 1:52.79 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 4 August at 10:03.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Kristóf Milák | Hungary | 1:54.17 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:54.91 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 3 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:55.86 | |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:55.90 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:55.91 | |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | James Guy | Great Britain | 1:56.13 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 5 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1:56.33 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 6 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:57.11 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 6 | Federico Burdisso | Italy | 1:57.39 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 1:57.55 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 3 | Jan Świtkowski | Poland | 1:57.65 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Maksym Shemberev | Azerbaijan | 1:57.84 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 5 | Ramon Klenz | Germany | 1:57.91 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 8 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 1:58.23 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 2 | Filippo Berlincioni | Italy | 1:58.66 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 7 | Patrick Staber | Austria | 1:58.96 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 7 | Nils Liess | Switzerland | 1:59.17 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | Joan Lluís Pons | Spain | 1:59.33 | Q |
| 19 | 3 | 8 | Xaver Gschwentner | Austria | 1:59.36 | |
| 20 | 4 | 0 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | 1:59.41 | |
| 21 | 2 | 1 | Etay Gurevich | Israel | 1:59.62 | |
| 22 | 2 | 8 | Filip Zelić | Croatia | 2:00.04 | |
| 23 | 1 | 4 | Richard Nagy | Slovakia | 2:00.22 | |
| 24 | 4 | 2 | Jacob Peters | Great Britain | 2:00.40 | |
| 25 | 3 | 9 | Petr Novák | Czech Republic | 2:00.84 | |
| 26 | 2 | 9 | Kregor Zirk | Estonia | 2:01.14 | |
| 26 | 4 | 9 | Samet Alkan | Turkey | 2:01.14 | |
| 28 | 3 | 0 | Deividas Margevičius | Lithuania | 2:01.62 | |
| 29 | 2 | 0 | Paul Espernberger | Austria | 2:03.12 | |
| 30 | 1 | 5 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 2:04.84 | |
| 31 | 1 | 6 | Rasim Gör | Turkey | 2:06.32 | |
| 32 | 1 | 3 | Joshua Gold | Estonia | 2:06.45 | |
| 33 | 1 | 2 | Ergecan Gezmiş | Turkey | 2:06.75 | |
| 34 | 1 | 7 | Cevin Siim | Estonia | 2:07.19 | |
| 35 | 1 | 8 | Armin Lelle | Estonia | 2:09.86 | |
| 36 | 1 | 1 | Sergey Kuznetsov | Finland | 2:10.82 | |
| — | 4 | 1 | Nans Roch | France | Disqualified | Disqualified |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 4 August at 17:40.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:55.26 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | James Guy | Great Britain | 1:56.16 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Maksym Shemberev | Azerbaijan | 1:56.21 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 3 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:56.58 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 1:57.38 | NR |
| 6 | 7 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 1:58.26 | |
| 7 | 8 | Joan Lluís Pons | Spain | 1:58.28 | |
| 8 | 1 | Patrick Staber | Austria | 1:59.46 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Kristóf Milák | Hungary | 1:55.48 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:55.83 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1:56.68 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Jan Świtkowski | Poland | 1:56.87 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Federico Burdisso | Italy | 1:57.20 | |
| 6 | 7 | Ramon Klenz | Germany | 1:57.47 | |
| 7 | 8 | Nils Liess | Switzerland | 1:57.91 | |
| 8 | 1 | Filippo Berlincioni | Italy | 1:58.09 | |

### Final

The final was started on 5 August at 18:45.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Kristóf Milák | Hungary | 1:52.79 | CR |
| | 4 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:54.36 | |
| | 8 | Federico Burdisso | Italy | 1:55.97 | |
| 4 | 3 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:56.33 | |
| 4 | 2 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:56.33 | |
| 6 | 1 | Jan Świtkowski | Poland | 1:56.53 | |
| 7 | 6 | Maksym Shemberev | Azerbaijan | 1:56.73 | |
| 8 | 7 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1:57.88 | |