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

The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 5 and 6 August 2018.^[1][2]

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	5 August (heats and semifinals) 6 August (final)
Competitors	24 from 16 nations
Winning time	2:07.13
Medalists
Boglárka Kapás    Hungary   Svetlana Chimrova    Russia   Alys Thomas    Great Britain
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Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Liu Zige	China	2:01.81	Jinan	21 October 2009
European record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:04.27	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:04.79	Berlin	24 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 4 August at 09:44.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:07.86	Q
2	3	4	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:08.93	Q
3	3	5	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:09.02	Q
4	2	5	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:09.29	Q
5	1	6	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:09.46
6	1	4	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:10.08	Q
6	2	3	Alessia Polieri	Italy	2:10.08	Q
6	3	3	Ana Catarina Monteiro	Portugal	2:10.08	Q
9	2	6	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:10.34	Q
10	3	6	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	2:10.43
11	3	2	Nida Eliz Üstündağ	Turkey	2:10.69	Q
12	1	5	Emily Large	Great Britain	2:11.07	Q
13	1	3	Charlotte Atkinson	Great Britain	2:11.28
14	1	1	Helena Bach	Denmark	2:12.32	Q
15	1	2	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:12.61	Q
16	3	7	Zehra-Duru Bilgin	Turkey	2:14.18	Q
17	2	1	Anja Crevar	Serbia	2:14.40	Q
18	3	1	Emilie Løvberg	Norway	2:14.54	Q
19	1	7	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	2:14.67	Q
20	2	8	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:14.85	NR
21	2	7	İmge Erdemli	Turkey	2:16.45
22	1	8	Alsu Bayramova	Azerbaijan	2:19.14
23	3	8	Gerda Pak	Estonia	2:21.10
24	3	0	Beatrice Felici	San Marino	2:27.90
—	2	2	Claudia Hufnagl	Austria	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 5 August at 17:39.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:07.55	Q
2	5	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:07.75	Q
3	6	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:08.84	Q
4	3	Ana Catarina Monteiro	Portugal	2:08.96	Q
5	2	Emily Large	Great Britain	2:11.25
6	7	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:11.65
7	1	Anja Crevar	Serbia	2:13.50
8	8	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	2:16.79

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:07.64	Q
2	6	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:08.57	Q
3	5	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:08.70	Q
4	3	Alessia Polieri	Italy	2:08.77	Q
5	2	Nida Eliz Üstündağ	Turkey	2:09.69
6	7	Helena Bach	Denmark	2:13.14
7	8	Emilie Løvberg	Norway	2:15.50
8	1	Zehra-Duru Bilgin	Turkey	2:17.96

Final

The final was started on 6 August at 17:00.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:07.13
	6	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:07.33	NR
	5	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:07.42
4	4	Franziska Hentke	Germany	2:07.75
5	8	Ana Catarina Monteiro	Portugal	2:08.03
6	2	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	2:08.69
7	1	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:08.91
8	7	Alessia Polieri	Italy	2:09.25