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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	21–22 August
Competitors	33 from 25 nations
Winning time	2:19.84
Medalists
Rikke Møller Pedersen    Denmark   Molly Renshaw    Great Britain   Jessica Vall    Spain

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21–22 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	Barcelona	28 July 2013
European record
Championship record	Anastasia Chaun	Russia	2:23.50	Budapest	13 August 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:25.46	Q
2	3	4	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:25.69	Q
3	2	4	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:26.80	Q
4	3	3	Giulia De Ascentis	Italy	2:26.88	Q
5	2	6	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:27.38	Q
6	4	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:27.42	Q
7	3	5	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:27.49	Q
8	2	3	Vanessa Grimberg	Germany	2:27.56	Q
9	4	6	Maria Astashkina	Russia	2:27.95	Q
10	3	2	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:28.07	Q
11	2	2	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:28.37	Q
12	4	3	Elisa Celli	Italy	2:28.59	Q
13	4	1	Coralie Dobral	France	2:29.12	Q
14	3	0	Tanja Šmid	Slovenia	2:30.29	Q
15	4	2	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:30.74	Q
16	4	8	Olga Tovstogan	Ukraine	2:30.77	Q
17	3	8	Jessica Eriksson	Sweden	2:31.11
18	1	5	Alona Ribakova	Latvia	2:31.52
19	2	7	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	2:31.62
20	1	4	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:31.67
21	2	1	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	2:31.81
22	4	9	Anastasia Korotkov	Israel	2:32.05
23	3	7	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	2:32.23
24	2	0	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	2:32.59
25	3	1	Stina Colleou	Norway	2:33.03
26	2	8	Ana Radič	Croatia	2:33.40
27	2	9	Vilma Ekström	Sweden	2:34.67
28	3	9	Fantine Lesaffre	France	2:34.79
29	1	3	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:34.89
30	4	7	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	2:35.78
31	4	0	Jovana Bogdanović	Serbia	2:37.79
32	1	6	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	2:39.89
33	1	2	Alina Bulmag	Moldova	2:41.04
—	3	6	Joline Höstman	Sweden		DNS
—	4	5	Sophie Taylor	Great Britain		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:14.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:22.32	Q, CR
2	4	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:24.87	Q
3	5	Giulia De Ascentis	Italy	2:26.34	Q
4	7	Elisa Celli	Italy	2:26.87
5	6	Vanessa Grimberg	Germany	2:27.01
6	2	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	2:28.72
7	8	Olga Tovstogan	Ukraine	2:30.55
8	1	Tanja Šmid	Slovenia	2:31.15

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:23.35	Q
2	5	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:24.78	Q
3	6	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:25.55	Q
4	2	Maria Astashkina	Russia	2:26.14	Q
5	3	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:26.26	Q
6	7	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	2:27.75
7	1	Coralie Dobral	France	2:29.11
8	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	2:31.29

Final

The final was held at 18:43.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.84	CR
02 !	2	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:23.82
03 !	3	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:24.08
4	5	Vitalina Simonova	Russia	2:24.87
5	6	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:24.96
6	7	Maria Astashkina	Russia	2:25.07
7	8	Giulia De Ascentis	Italy	2:26.71
8	1	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	2:28.38

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