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

The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 26 and 27. The heats and semifinals took place on May 26, the final on May 27.^[1]

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 26, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 27, 2012 (final)
Competitors	18 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:07.28
Medalists
Katinka Hosszú    Hungary   Zsuzsanna Jakabos    Hungary   Martina Granström    Sweden

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Liu Zige	China	2:01.81	Ji Nan	October 21, 2009
European record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:04.27	Rome	July 29, 2009
Championship record	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:05.78	Berlin	August 4, 2002

Results

Heats

19 swimmers participated in 3 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.79	Q
2	2	4	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:09.17	Q
3	2	5	Martina Granström	Sweden	2:10.35	Q
4	3	4	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	2:11.10	Q
5	3	2	Denisa Smolenová	Slovakia	2:12.14	Q
6	1	6	Sara Freitas Oliveira	Portugal	2:12.23	Q
7	1	3	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:12.65	Q
8	2	6	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:12.84
9	2	2	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	2:13.09	Q, NR
10	3	3	Alessia Polieri	Italy	2:13.57	Q
11	2	3	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:13.81	Q
12	1	2	Maria Novikova	Russia	2:15.23	Q
13	3	6	Emilia Pikkarainen	Finland	2:15.56	Q
14	3	5	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2:15.61	Q
15	3	7	Jasmin Rosenberger	Turkey	2:17.01	Q
16	2	7	Simona Muccioli	San Marino	2:19.85	Q
17	1	7	Vaiva Gimbutytė	Lithuania	2:21.59	Q
18	3	1	Emilie Loevberg	Norway	2:29.22
	1	5	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	DNS

Semifinals

The eight fastert swimmers advanced to the final.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:09.09	Q
2	5	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	2:09.14	Q
3	2	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:11.31	Q
4	6	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	2:11.47	NR
5	3	Sara Freitas Oliveira	Portugal	2:11.98
6	7	Emilia Pikkarainen	Finland	2:14.75
7	1	Jasmin Rosenberger	Turkey	2:16.44
8	8	Vaiva Gimbutytė	Lithuania	2:24.83

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.03	Q
2	5	Martina Granström	Sweden	2:08.65	Q
3	6	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:09.40	Q
4	1	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2:10.47	Q
5	3	Denisa Smolenová	Slovakia	2:11.08	Q, NR
6	2	Alessia Polieri	Italy	2:11.46
7	7	Maria Novikova	Russia	2:16.42
8	8	Simona Muccioli	San Marino	2:19.70

Final

The final was held at 17:20.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.28
	3	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:07.86
	5	Martina Granström	Sweden	2:08.22
4	6	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	2:08.91
5	2	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:09.01
6	7	Judit Ignacio Sorribes	Spain	2:09.14
7	1	Denisa Smolenová	Slovakia	2:10.70	NR
8	8	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:11.69

References

1. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-26.
2. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-26.
3. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-26.
4. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre butterfly Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-27.