Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	18–19 August
Competitors	25 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:09.37
Medalists
Duane Da Rocha    Spain   Elizabeth Simmonds    Great Britain   Daria Ustinova    Russia

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18–19 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Missy Franklin	United States	2:04.06	London	28 July 2012
European record	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	2:04.94	Rome	1 August 2009
Championship record	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	2:06.62	Athens	22 August 1991

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:02.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:10.33	Q
2	2	6	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	2:10.34	Q
3	2	3	Lisa Graf	Germany	2:10.75	Q
4	3	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.09	Q
5	1	6	Melani Costa	Spain	2:11.63	Q
6	1	3	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	2:11.74	Q
7	1	5	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:11.88	Q
8	1	4	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:12.32	Q
9	3	6	Sonnele Öztürk	Germany	2:13.15
10	3	4	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:13.93	Q
11	3	3	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	2:14.51	Q
12	2	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:14.79	Q
13	3	2	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	2:15.14	Q
14	2	2	Klaudia Nazieblo	Poland	2:15.69	Q
15	1	7	Matea Samardžić	Croatia	2:15.80	Q
16	2	7	Ida Lindborg	Sweden	2:16.23	Q
17	1	2	Ekaterina Tomashevskaya	Russia	2:16.30	Q
18	3	7	Sarah Bro	Denmark	2:16.76
19	2	8	Věra Kopřivová	Czech Republic	2:17.67
20	2	1	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	2:17.90
21	3	1	Justine Ress	France	2:17.91
22	1	1	Camille Gheorghiu	France	2:18.78
23	3	8	Karin Tomecková	Slovakia	2:19.04
24	3	0	Aliaksandra Kavaleva	Belarus	2:22.75
25	1	8	Andrea Basaraba	Serbia	2:23.13

Semifinals

The semifinals were held 18:52.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	2:09.13	Q
2	6	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:09.71	Q
3	3	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	2:12.06	Q
4	2	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	2:13.29
5	8	Ekaterina Tomashevskaya	Russia	2:14.27
6	7	Jördis Steinegger	Austria	2:16.10
7	1	Matea Samardžić	Croatia	2:16.26
8	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:20.04

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:10.22	Q
2	4	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:10.26	Q
3	5	Lisa Graf	Germany	2:10.29	Q
4	3	Melani Costa	Spain	2:10.83	Q
5	2	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:11.40	Q
6	7	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:13.58
7	8	Ida Lindborg	Sweden	2:15.03
8	1	Klaudia Nazieblo	Poland	2:15.98

Final

The final was held at 19:03.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	2:09.37
02 !	5	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	2:09.66
03 !	1	Daria Ustinova	Russia	2:09.79
4	2	Lisa Graf	Germany	2:10.64
5	3	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	2:10.99
6	7	Melani Costa	Spain	2:11.15
7	6	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:11.77
8	8	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	2:13.49

References