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

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:54.00 | Shanghai | 28 July 2011 |
| European record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:55.18 | Rome | 29 July 2009 |
| Championship record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:56.66 | Debrecen | 23 May 2012 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 5 August at 09:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | Mark Szaranek | Great Britain | 1:58.07 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:58.12 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:58.57 | |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | Hugo González | Spain | 1:58.99 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:59.40 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 4 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:59.88 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Semen Makovich | Russia | 2:00.06 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 2:00.24 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 3 | Thomas Dean | Great Britain | 2:00.32 | |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 2:00.34 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 1 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 2:00.65 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 7 | Maxim Stupin | Russia | 2:00.72 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 2:00.84 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:00.84 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:00.94 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 2 | Gabriel Lópes | Portugal | 2:01.42 | |
| 17 | 4 | 3 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 2:01.54 | |
| 18 | 4 | 8 | Dawid Szwedzki | Poland | 2:02.03 | Q |
| 19 | 4 | 7 | Etay Gurevich | Israel | 2:02.05 | Q |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:02.34 | Q |
| 20 | 3 | 9 | Metin Aydın | Turkey | 2:02.34 | |
| 22 | 3 | 7 | Georgios Spanoudakis | Greece | 2:02.56 | |
| 23 | 4 | 2 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:03.19 | |
| 24 | 2 | 0 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 2:03.63 | |
| 25 | 2 | 8 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:03.86 | |
| 26 | 4 | 0 | Apostolos Papastamos | Greece | 2:04.55 | |
| 27 | 4 | 9 | Samet Alkan | Turkey | 2:04.81 | |
| 28 | 3 | 8 | Teemu Vuorela | Finland | 2:04.85 | |
| 29 | 3 | 0 | Alpkan Örnek | Turkey | 2:05.39 | |
| 30 | 1 | 3 | Batuhan Hakan | Turkey | 2:07.08 | |
| 31 | 1 | 4 | Alvi Hjelm | Faroe Islands | 2:07.88 | |
| 32 | 1 | 5 | Cevin Siim | Estonia | 2:08.45 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 18:26.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:57.56 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:57.62 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:58.48 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Semen Makovich | Russia | 2:00.00 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 2:00.51 | |
| 6 | 2 | Maxim Stupin | Russia | 2:01.15 | |
| 7 | 8 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:01.99 | |
| 8 | 1 | Dawid Szwedzki | Poland | 2:03.64 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:57.99 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Mark Szaranek | Great Britain | 1:58.22 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Hugo González | Spain | 1:59.28 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.89 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 2:00.45 | |
| 6 | 7 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:00.87 | |
| 7 | 1 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:00.90 | |
| 8 | 8 | Etay Gurevich | Israel | 2:02.77 | |

### Final

The final was started on 6 August at 18:15.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 3 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:57.04 |
| | 4 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:57.83 |
| | 5 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:57.96 |
| 4 | 7 | Hugo González | Spain | 1:58.77 |
| 5 | 6 | Mark Szaranek | Great Britain | 1:58.88 |
| 5 | 2 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:58.88 |
| 7 | 1 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.99 |
| 8 | 8 | Semen Makovich | Russia | 2:00.07 |