| Men 200m Breaststroke XVII Swimming European Championship 1985 Sofia, Bulgaria - Friday, 9th August - Gold Medal: Dmitriy Volkov, Soviet Union | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L |  | Final |   | time |   | gap | L |  | 1. Dmitriy Volkov |   Soviet Union | 2:19.53 |   |   | 3 |  | 2. Alexandre Yokochi |   Portugal | 2:19.63 |   | +0.10s | 2 |  | 3. Etienne Dagon |   Switzerland | 2:19.69 |   | +0.16s | 1 |  | 4. Ralf Buttgereit |   East Germany | 2:19.85 |   | +0.32s | 4 |  | 5. Ingo Grzywotz |   East Germany | 2:20.61 |   | +1.08s | 5 |  | 6. Murray Buswell |   Great Britain | 2:21.39 |   | +1.86s | 6 |  | 7. Detlef Stockigt |   West Germany | 2:22.40 |   | +2.87s | 8 |  | 8. Enrique Romero |   Spain | 2:22.44 |   | +2.91s | 7 |   
| Final B |   | time |   | gap | L |  | Final |   | time |   | gap | L |  | 9. Adrian Moorhouse |   Great Britain | 2:19.40 |   |   | 4 |  | 10.Peter Szabo |   Hungary | 2:21.41 |   | +2.01s | 6 |  | 11.Thomas Bohm |   Austria | 2:22.47 |   | +3.07s | 3 |  | 12.Marco Del Prete |   Italy | 2:22.64 |   | +3.24s | 2 |  | 13.Thierry Pata |   France | 2:24.17 |   | +4.77s | 5 |  | 14.Bert Gobel |   West Germany | 2:24.21 |   | +4.81s | 2 |  | 15.Artur Niemczycki |   Poland | 2:24.62 |   | +5.22s | 8 |  | 16.Peter Berggren |   Sweden | 2:25.64 |   | +6.24s | 1 |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time |   | Rk |  | 4. Murray Buswell |   Great Britain | 2:21.88 |   | 1. |  | 5. Alexandre Yokochi |   Portugal | 2:21.98 |   | 1. |  | 6. Enrique Romero |   Spain | 2:22.15 |   | 2. |  | 12.Alban Vermes |   Hungary | 2:23.37 |   | 3. |  | 13.Peter Szabo |   Hungary | 2:23.56 |   | 4. |  | 18.Christophe Deneuville |   France | 2:24.57 |   | 5. |  | 19.Martti Jarventaus |   Finland | 2:26.62 |   | 6. |  | 26.James Louis Corbeau |   Netherlands | 2:29.54 |   | 7. |  | 27.Panko Karadzhov |   Bulgaria | 2:29.63 |   | 8. |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   | Rk |  | 1. Ralf Buttgereit |   East Germany | 2:21.07 |   | 1. |  | 7. Etienne Dagon |   Switzerland | 2:22.37 |   | 2. |  | 9. Adrian Moorhouse |   Great Britain | 2:22.78 |   | 3. |  | 16.Peter Berggren |   Sweden | 2:24.12 |   | 4. |  | 17.Artur Niemczycki |   Poland | 2:24.17 |   | 5. |  | 20.Andreas Vold |   Norway | 2:27.00 |   | 6. |  | 21.PJan Stensson |   Sweden | 2:27.27 |   | 7. |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | Rk |  | 10.Thierry Pata |   France | 2:22.84 |   | 2. |  | 15.Bert Gobel |   West Germany | 2:23.95 |   | 3. |  | 22.Miroslav Mily |   Czechoslovakia | 2:27.55 |   | 4. |  | 24.Ron Dekker |   Netherlands | 2:28.44 |   | 5. |  | -. Dmitry Kuzmin |   Soviet Union | DQ |   |   |  | -. Lorenzo Carbonari |   Italy | DNS |   |   |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | Rk  |  | 2. Ingo Grzywotz |   East Germany | 2:21.09 |   | 1. |  | 3. Dmitriy Volkov |   Soviet Union | 2:21.67 |   | 2. |  | 8. Detlef Stockigt |   West Germany | 2:22.77 |   | 3. |  | 11.Thomas Bohm |   Austria | 2:23.35 |   | 4. |  | 14.Marco Del Prete |   Italy | 2:23.91 |   | 5. |  | 23.Ioannis Milidakis |   Greece | 2:28.17 |   | 6. |  | 25.Lyubomir Bogomilov |   Bulgaria | 2:29.08 |   | 7. |   
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