List of European swimming records over 200 meters butterfly

The European swimming records for the 200 m butterfly are the best times swum by Europeans in the 200 m butterfly swimming discipline . They are recognized by the European swimming federation LEN . European records are held separately for long courses (50 m) and short courses (25 m) and separately for men and women. The following shows the development of the European record since the first recognized European record.

Long course European records men

Men's European records over 200 m butterfly (50 m track)

No.	athlete	nation	time	date	place
1	György Tumpek	Hungary	02: 21.7	June 19, 1956	Munich
Rule change
2	Hans Zierold	GDR	02: 21.4	September 14, 1957	Leipzig
3	Fritz Dennerlein	Italy	02: 19.5	July 14, 1959	Paris
4th	Ian Black	Society. King	02: 18.7	April 9, 1960	Cardiff
5	Fritz Dennerlein	Italy	02: 18.0	April 24, 1960	Rome
6th	Fritz Dennerlein	Italy	02: 16.0	2nd September 1960	Rome
7th	Gerhard Hetz	BR Germany	02: 15.5	July 22, 1962	Sanremo
8th	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	02: 11.2	May 18, 1964	Berlin
9	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	02: 10.4	August 22, 1965	Budapest
10	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	02: 10.2	August 25, 1966	Utrecht
11	Ingvar Eriksson	Sweden	02: 09.4	August 1, 1967	Landskrona
12	Peter Feil	Sweden	02: 08.1	July 24, 1968	Båstad
13	Peter Feil	Sweden	02: 08.0	July 30, 1968	Jonkoping
14th	Martyn Woodroffe	Society. King	02: 07.6	July 13, 1969	Santa Clara
15th	Hans Fassnacht	BR Germany	02: 06.9	22nd August 1970	los Angeles
16	Hans Fassnacht	BR Germany	02: 06.5	July 10, 1971	Santa Clara
17th	Hans Fassnacht	BR Germany	02: 06.1	July 10, 1971	Santa Clara
18th	Hans Fassnacht	BR Germany	02: 06.0	7th August 1971	Santa Clara
19th	Hans Fassnacht	BR Germany	02: 04.5	August 29, 1971	Uppsala
20th	Hans Fassnacht	BR Germany	02: 03.3	August 31, 1971	Landskrona
21st	Roger Pyttel	GDR	02: 01.82	March 15, 1975	Dresden
22nd	Roger Pyttel	GDR	02: 01.70	March 13, 1976	Tallinn
23	Roger Pyttel	GDR	02: 00.21	3rd June 1976	Berlin
24	Roger Pyttel	GDR	01: 59.63	3rd June 1976	Berlin
25th	Serhiy Fessenko	Soviet Union	01: 59.34	August 12, 1979	London
26th	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 59.19	September 11, 1981	Split
27	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 59.00	3rd July 1982	Darmstadt
28	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 58.85	August 6, 1982	Guayaquil
29	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 58.37	June 24, 1983	Hanover
30th	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 58.22	June 25, 1983	Hanover
31	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 57.05	August 26, 1983	Rome
32	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 57.01	June 29, 1985	Wuppertal
33	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 56.65	August 10, 1985	Sofia
34	Michael Gross	BR Germany	01: 56.24	June 28, 1986	Hanover
35	Denis Pankratow	Russia	01: 55.22	June 14, 1995	Canet
36	Franck Esposito	France	01: 55.03	July 23, 2001	Fukuoka
37	Franck Esposito	France	01: 54.62	April 18, 2002	Chalon-sur-Saône
38	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	01: 54.38	March 21, 2008	Eindhoven
39	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	01: 54.31	August 12, 2008	Beijing
40	László Cseh	Hungary	01: 52.70	August 13, 2008	Beijing

(This list is not yet complete)

Long course European records for women

European records for women over 200 m butterfly (50 m track)

No.	athlete	nation	time	date	place
1	Tineke Lagerberg	Netherlands	02: 42.3	December 12, 1956	Naarden
2	Tineke Lagerberg	Netherlands	02: 38.1	March 19, 1957	Naarden
Rule change
3	Tineke Lagerberg	Netherlands	02: 38.9	September 13, 1958	Naarden
4th	Marianne Heemskerk	Netherlands	02: 34.4	June 12, 1960	Leipzig
5	Ute Noack	GDR	02: 33.5	September 24, 1964	Berlin
6th	Ada Kok	Netherlands	02: 25.8	August 21, 1965	Suffer
7th	Ada Kok	Netherlands	02: 25.3	September 12, 1965	Groningen
8th	Ada Kok	Netherlands	02: 22.5	2nd August 1967	Groningen
9	Ada Kok	Netherlands	02: 21.0	August 25, 1967	Blackpool
10	Helga Lindner	GDR	02: 20.2	1970
11	Rosemarie Kother	GDR	02: 19.5	July 11, 1972	Leipzig
12	Rosemarie Kother	GDR	02: 18.32	4th September 1972	Munich
13	Rosemarie Kother	GDR	02: 17.11	4th September 1972	Munich
14th	Rosemarie Kother	GDR	02: 16.03	July 13, 1973	East Berlin
15th	Rosemarie Kother	GDR	02: 15.45	September 8, 1973	Belgrade
16	Rosemarie Kother	GDR	02: 13.76	September 9, 1973	Belgrade
17th	Rosemarie Gabriel	GDR	02: 13.60	March 14, 1976	Tallinn
18th	Rosemarie Gabriel	GDR	02: 12.84	4th June 1976	East Berlin
19th	Rosemarie Gabriel	GDR	02: 11.22	5th June 1976	East Berlin
20th	Andrea Pollack	GDR	02: 11.20	April 9, 1978	Leningrad
21st	Andrea Pollack	GDR	02: 09.87	4th July 1978	West Berlin
22nd	Ines Geissler	GDR	02: 08.97	July 1, 1981	East Berlin
23	Ines Geissler	GDR	02: 08.50	September 8, 1981	Split
24	Ines Geissler	GDR	02: 08.03	June 19, 1983	Gera
25th	Cornelia Polit	GDR	02: 07.82	August 27, 1983	Rome
26th	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	02: 07.81	September 19, 2000	Sydney
27	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	02: 06.97	July 23, 2001	Fukuoka
28	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	02: 05.78	August 4, 2002	Berlin
27	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	02: 05.61	July 28, 2005	Montreal
28	Ellen Gandy	United Kingdom	02: 04.83	March 19, 2009	Sheffield
29	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	02: 04.27	July 29, 2009	Rome

(This list is not yet complete)

Short course European records for men

Men's European records over 200 m butterfly (25 m track)

No.	athlete	nation	time	date	place
1	Franck Esposito	France	01: 54.67	February 1, 1992	Paris
2	Denis Pankratow	Russia	01: 54.46	February 13, 1993	Gelsenkirchen
3	Franck Esposito	France	01: 53.05	March 26, 1994	Paris
4th	Denis Pankratow	Russia	01: 52.64	February 2, 1997	Gelsenkirchen
5	James Hickman	Society. King	01: 51.76	March 28, 1998	Paris
6th	Franck Esposito	France	01: 51.58	January 14, 2001	Antibes
7th	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	01: 51.21	December 1, 2001	Rostock
8th	Franck Esposito	France	01: 50.73	December 8, 2002	Antibes
9	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	01: 50.60	December 13, 2008	Rijeka
10	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	01: 50.53	February 11, 2009	St. Petersburg
11	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	01: 49.46	December 12, 2009	Istanbul
12	László Cseh	Hungary	01: 49.00	December 6, 2015	Netanya

(This list is not yet complete)

European short course records women

European records for women over 200 m butterfly (25 m track)

No.	athlete	nation	time	date	place
1	Inge de Bruijn	Netherlands	02: 07.04	5th August 1997	Cork
2	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	02: 06.78	March 18, 1998	Malmo
3	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	02: 06.52	April 1, 1999	Hong Kong
4th	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	02: 06.50	June 3, 2000	Esbjerg
5	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	02: 05.77	December 14, 2000	Valencia
6th	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	02: 04.94	December 7, 2006	Helsinki
7th	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	02: 03.53	December 16, 2007	Debrecen
8th	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	02: 03.01	November 26, 2009	Castellon
9	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	02: 02.20	December 12, 2012	Istanbul
9	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	02: 01.52	December 12th 2013	Herning
10	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	01: 59.61	3rd December 2014	Doha

(This list is not yet complete)

See also

• List of European swimming records
• List of swimming world records
• List of swimming world records over 200 meters butterfly
• Butterfly swimming

Web links

• Official list of the European swimming records on the long course (LEN) (PDF file; 22 kB)
• Official list of European swimming records on the short course (LEN) (PDF file; 22 kB)
• Official rankings of the LEN and other national associations in Europe
• Historical development of the European swimming records, www.agendadiana.com (Italian)
• Historical development of the European swimming records, www.zwemkroniek.com (Dutch)

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Die Chronik II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 462 ff .: Due to the time advantages when turning, the majority of the previous records came from competitions in a 25-meter Pool. On the one under 1956 Olympics conducted FINA -Congress was finally determined that records from May 1, 1957 found only on the long course (50 meters or 55 yards) official recognition. Also with effect from May 1, 1957, underwater swimming was banned, which was practiced by many butterfly swimmers for reasons of lower water resistance. From now on, no underwater arm pull was allowed after the start or after each turn.