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

2012 LEN European Championships Eindhoven, Netherlands Debrecen, Hungary
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Team	team
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Synchronised swimming
Individual	Solo	Duet
Team	Team	Combination

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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 Isakovič	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	Mylene 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	Ursa Bezan	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 Govejsek	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
42	1	4	Johanna Gerda Gustafsdottir	Iceland	DNS
42	2	3	Nuala Murphy	Ireland	DNS
42	2	7	Burcu Dolunay	Turkey	DNS
42	3	1	Julia Hassler	Liechtenstein	DNS
42	3	3	Stina Gardell	Sweden	DNS
42	5	6	Daniela Schreiber	Germany	DNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Silke Lippok	Germany	1:59.07	Q
2	5	Sara Isakovič	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	Mylene 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.^[4]

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 Isakovič	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

References

1. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre freestyle entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-23.
2. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre freestyle Heats results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-25.
3. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre freestyle Semifinals results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-25.
4. 2012 European Aquatics Championships: Women's 200 metre freestyle Final results, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2012-05-26.