Swimming at the 2015 European Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke
# Swimming at the 2015 European Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2015 European Games in Baku took place on 25 and 26 June at the Aquatic Palace.

## Results

### Heats

The heats were started on 25 June at 10:11.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Luke Greenbank | Great Britain | 1:59.06 | Q, GR |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Roman Larin | Russia | 2:01.00 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 5 | Jacopo Bietti | Italy | 2:01.03 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 4 | Joe Hulme | Great Britain | 2:01.11 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | Jakub Skierka | Poland | 2:01.13 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | Tomáš Franta | Czech Republic | 2:01.64 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 3 | Petter Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:02.08 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Bence Szucsik | Hungary | 2:02.27 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 4 | Mikita Tsmyh | Belarus | 2:02.69 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | Luigi Paciolla | Italy | 2:02.79 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 3 | Nikolaos Sofianidis | Greece | 2:03.18 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 8 | Oskar Ericsson | Sweden | 2:03.67 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 7 | Joe Litchfield | Great Britain | 2:03.71 | |
| 14 | 2 | 5 | Kirill Titov | Russia | 2:04.03 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | Christoffer Fredrikson | Finland | 2:04.19 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 7 | Franz Müller | Germany | 2:04.36 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 0 | Lorenzo Mora | Italy | 2:04.49 | |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Dominik Varga | Hungary | 2:04.85 | Q |
| 19 | 3 | 8 | João Vital | Portugal | 2:05.28 | |
| 20 | 4 | 9 | Ole Braunschweig | Germany | 2:05.40 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Rory McEvoy | Ireland | 2:05.49 | |
| 22 | 3 | 2 | Moritz Walaschewski | Germany | 2:05.72 | |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | Vito Vodenik | Slovenia | 2:05.83 | |
| 24 | 3 | 0 | Daniel Kaplan | Israel | 2:06.27 | |
| 25 | 1 | 2 | Andrei Gussev | Estonia | 2:07.06 | |
| 26 | 4 | 0 | Berk Özkul | Turkey | 2:07.08 | |
| 27 | 2 | 1 | Tomer Drori | Israel | 2:07.27 | |
| 28 | 1 | 4 | Max Mannes | Luxembourg | 2:07.58 | |
| 29 | 2 | 6 | Robert Glință | Romania | 2:07.98 | |
| 30 | 1 | 5 | Alexander Světlík | Slovakia | 2:09.43 | |
| 31 | 1 | 7 | Qriqoriy Kalminskiy | Azerbaijan | 2:09.69 | |
| 32 | 3 | 9 | Rasim Oğulcan Gör | Turkey | 2:09.78 | |
| 33 | 1 | 8 | Bragi Snær Hallsson | Iceland | 2:10.31 | |
| 34 | 1 | 6 | Timothy Schlatter | Switzerland | 2:10.65 | |
| 35 | 1 | 3 | Alan Corby | Ireland | 2:10.94 | |
| 36 | 4 | 7 | Lorenzo Glessi | Italy | 2:11.91 | |
| 37 | 2 | 9 | Denys Martyniuk | Ukraine | 2:14.19 | |
| 38 | 1 | 0 | Adrian Negru | Moldova | 2:16.08 | |
| 39 | 1 | 1 | Tarik Hoch | Liechtenstein | 2:20.24 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 25 June at 18:00.

**Semifinal 1**

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 5 | Joe Hulme | Great Britain | 2:00.23 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Roman Larin | Russia | 2:01.24 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Bence Szucsik | Hungary | 2:01.31 | q |
| 4 | 3 | Tomáš Franta | Czech Republic | 2:02.36 | |
| 5 | 2 | Luigi Paciolla | Italy | 2:03.05 | |
| 6 | 1 | Christoffer Fredrikson | Finland | 2:03.27 | |
| 7 | 7 | Oskar Ericsson | Sweden | 2:03.34 | |
| 8 | 8 | Dominik Varga | Hungary | 2:05.05 | |

**Semifinal 2**

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | Luke Greenbank | Great Britain | 1:57.53 | Q, GR |
| 2 | 3 | Jakub Skierka | Poland | 1:59.95 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Mikita Tsmyh | Belarus | 2:00.90 | q |
| 4 | 6 | Petter Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:01.51 | q |
| 5 | 5 | Jacopo Bietti | Italy | 2:01.96 | q |
| 6 | 7 | Nikolaos Sofianidis | Greece | 2:02.54 | |
| 7 | 1 | Kirill Titov | Russia | 2:03.43 | |
| 8 | 8 | Franz Müller | Germany | 2:04.64 | |

### Final

The final was held on 26 June at 18:29.

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | Luke Greenbank | Great Britain | 1:56.89 | GR, WJ |
| | 6 | Mikita Tsmyh | Belarus | 1:59.46 | |
| | 2 | Roman Larin | Russia | 1:59.60 | |
| 4 | 5 | Jakub Skierka | Poland | 1:59.78 | |
| 5 | 3 | Joe Hulme | Great Britain | 2:00.16 | |
| 6 | 1 | Petter Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:01.20 | |
| 7 | 8 | Jacopo Bietti | Italy | 2:01.33 | |
| 8 | 7 | Bence Szucsik | Hungary | 2:01.62 | |
