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

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 25, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 26, 2012 (final)
Competitors	41 from 25 nations
Winning time	1:56.76
Medalists
Federica Pellegrini   Italy   Silke Lippok   Germany   Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne   France

The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 25 and 26. The heats and semifinals took place on May 25, the final on May 26.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:52.98	Rome	July 29, 2009
Championship record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:55.45	Budapest	August 14, 2010

Results

Heats

47 swimmers participated in 6 heats.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:59.07	Q
2	5	4	Silke Lippok	Germany	1:59.96	Q
3	5	3	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	France	2:00.05	Q
4	5	5	Sara Isaković	Slovenia	2:00.12	Q
5	4	3	Alice Mizzau	Italy	2:00.31	Q
6	6	7	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	2:00.48	Q
7	6	3	Patricia Castro Ortega	Spain	2:00.61	Q
8	4	5	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:00.85	Q
9	4	4	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	2:00.88	Q
10	4	6	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	2:01.04	Q
11	5	7	Lydia Morant Varo	Spain	2:01.19	Q
12	6	8	Katarina Filová	Slovakia	2:01.32	Q
13	6	6	Mylène Lazare	France	2:01.46	Q
14	4	1	Camelia Potec	Romania	2:01.58	Q
15	6	2	Diletta Carli	Italy	2:01.61
16	4	2	Alice Nesti	Italy	2:01.74
17	5	1	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	2:01.94	Q
18	5	2	Lisa Vitting	Germany	2:02.09	Q
19	6	1	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	2:02.17
20	3	5	Urša Bežan	Slovenia	2:02.31
21	4	7	Melanie Nocher	Ireland	2:03.21
22	2	4	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	2:03.31	NR
23	2	5	Nastja Govejšek	Slovenia	2:03.36
24	4	8	Karolina Szczepaniak	Poland	2:03.49
25	3	4	Danielle Carmen Villars	Switzerland	2:03.57
26	2	2	Eva Hannesdóttir	Iceland	2:03.58
27	3	2	Bethany Carson	Ireland	2:03.63
28	6	5	Gabriella Fagundez	Sweden	2:03.68
29	3	6	Sára Joó	Hungary	2:03.98
30	1	7	Kristina Krasyukova	Russia	2:04.07
31	2	6	Jūratė Ščerbinskaitė	Lithuania	2:04.24
32	3	8	Aksana Dziamidava	Belarus	2:04.28
33	5	8	Eva Chavez-Diaz	Austria	2:04.81
34	1	2	Kristina Kochetkova	Russia	2:05.15
35	2	1	Veronica Orheim Bjørlykke	Norway	2:05.28
36	3	7	Valeriya Podlesna	Ukraine	2:06.59
37	1	1	Alona Ribakova	Latvia	2:06.64
38	1	3	Anastasia Bogdanovski	Macedonia	2:09.40
39	2	8	Susann Bjoernsen	Norway	2:09.55
40	1	5	Emilie Loevberg	Norway	2:09.89
41	1	6	Cecilia Eysturdal	Faroe Islands	2:15.41
	1	4	Johanna Gerda Gustafsdottir	Iceland	DNS
	2	3	Nuala Murphy	Ireland	DNS
	2	7	Burcu Dolunay	Turkey	DNS
	3	1	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	DNS
	3	3	Stina Gardell	Sweden	DNS
	5	6	Daniela Schreiber	Germany	DNS

Semifinals

The eight fasters swimmers advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Silke Lippok	Germany	1:59.07	Q
2	5	Sara Isaković	Slovenia	1:59.55	Q
3	6	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	1:59.72	Q
4	1	Camelia Potec	Romania	2:00.23
5	3	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	2:00.26
6	2	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	2:00.47
7	7	Katarina Filová	Slovakia	2:01.31
8	8	Lisa Vitting	Germany	2:01.82

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:57.81	Q
2	3	Alice Mizzau	Italy	1:58.55	Q
3	6	Patricia Castro Ortega	Spain	1:58.95	Q
4	5	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	France	1:59.66	Q
5	2	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	2:00.15	Q
6	1	Mylène Lazare	France	2:00.21
7	7	Lydia Morant Varo	Spain	2:00.41
8	8	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	2:01.53

Final

The final was held at 17:31.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:56.76
	6	Silke Lippok	Germany	1:58.19
	7	Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne	France	1:58.23
4	5	Alice Mizzau	Italy	1:58.39
5	2	Sara Isaković	Slovenia	1:58.90
6	3	Patricia Castro Ortega	Spain	1:59.39
7	8	Ágnes Mutina	Hungary	1:59.87
8	1	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:00.06