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

Women's 200 metre individual medley at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	May 23, 2012 (heats and semifinals) May 24, 2012 (final)
Competitors	24 from 16 nations
Winning time	2:10.84
Medalists
Katinka Hosszú    Hungary   Sophie Allen    Great Britain   Evelyn Verrasztó    Hungary

2012 European Aquatics Championships
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
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
Synchronised swimming
Individual	Solo	Duet
Team	Team	Combination

The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships took place May 23 and 24. The heats and semifinals took place on May 23, the final on May 24.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ariana Kukors	United States	2:06.15	Rome	July 27, 2009
European record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:07.46	Rome	July 27, 2009
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:10.09	Budapest	August 12, 2010

Results

Heats

26 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.10	Q
2	3	5	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:12.92	Q
3	2	4	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:13.20
4	2	7	Amit Ivri	Israel	2:14.69	Q, NR
5	4	3	Theresa Michalak	Germany	2:14.95	Q
6	3	7	Ganna Dzerkaľ	Ukraine	2:15.21	Q
7	3	4	Sophie Allen	Great Britain	2:15.24	Q
8	3	3	Stina Gardell	Sweden	2:15.43	Q
9	4	5	Beatriz Gomez Cortes	Spain	2:15.54	Q
10	4	2	Sophie de Ronchi	France	2:16.02	Q
11	4	7	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	2:17.00	Q
12	3	2	Alexandra Wenk	Germany	2:17.05	Q
13	1	5	Noora Laukkanen	Finland	2:17.06	Q
14	2	1	Kim Daniela Pavlin	Croatia	2:17.13	Q
15	4	6	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	2:17.19	Q
16	2	3	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:17.23	Q
17	2	5	Lara Grangeon	France	2:17.26	Q
18	3	8	Katarina Listopadová	Slovakia	2:17.66
19	2	6	Kristina Kochetkova	Russia	2:18.02
20	2	2	Joerdis Steinegger	Austria	2:18.43
21	3	1	Sára Joó	Hungary	2:18.57
22	4	8	Kristina Krasyukova	Russia	2:19.57
23	1	3	Johanna Gerda Gustafsdottir	Iceland	2:21.88
	3	6	Alessia Polieri	Italy	DNF
	1	4	Sara Nordenstam	Norway	DNS
	4	1	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	DNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:12.67	Q
2	5	Theresa Michalak	Germany	2:12.76	Q
3	3	Sophie Allen	Great Britain	2:13.29	Q
4	6	Beatriz Gomez Cortes	Spain	2:14.21	Q
5	1	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	2:14.90
6	8	Lara Grangeon	France	2:15.79
7	2	Stefania Pirozzi	Italy	2:16.56
8	7	Noora Laukkanen	Finland	2:17.30

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:11.89	Q
2	6	Stina Gardell	Sweden	2:12.29	Q, NR
3	5	Amit Ivri	Israel	2:13.77	NR
4	3	Ganna Dzerkaľ	Ukraine	2:14.25	Q
5	7	Alexandra Wenk	Germany	2:14.44	Q
6	2	Sophie de Ronchi	France	2:16.05
7	8	Barbora Závadová	Czech Republic	2:16.09
8	1	Kim Daniela Pavlin	Croatia	2:16.35	NR

Final

The final was held at 17:13.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:10.84
	2	Sophie Allen	Great Britain	2:11.49
	3	Evelyn Verrasztó	Hungary	2:11.63
4	6	Theresa Michalak	Germany	2:12.26
5	5	Stina Gardell	Sweden	2:12.29	=NR
6	1	Ganna Dzerkaľ	Ukraine	2:12.33
7	8	Alexandra Wenk	Germany	2:12.95
	7	Beatriz Gomez Cortes	Spain		DSQ

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