| Final 18:80 | time |   | L |  | 1. Anton Chupkov |  Russia | 2:06.80 | CR, ER | 4 |  | 2. James Wilby |  Great Britain | 2:08.39 |   | 2 |  | 3. Luca Pizzini |  Italy | 2:08.54 |   | 5 |  | 4. Ross Murdoch |  Great Britain | 2:08.55 |   | 3 |  | 5. Kirill Prigoda |  Russia | 2:08.77 |   | 6 |  | 6. Andrius Šidlauskas |  Lithuania | 2:09.71 |   | 8 |  | 7. Arno Kamminga |  Netherlands | 2:09.87 |   | 1 |  | 8. Erik Persson |  Sweden | 2:10.25 |   | 7 |   
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| Venue: Tollcross International Swimming Centre |  | Qualification time:  |   
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| World record: Ippei Watanabe, Japan | 2:06.67 | Tokyo (JPN) 29 January 2017 |  | European record: Anton Chupkov, Russia | 2:06.96 | Budapest (HUN) 28 July 2017 |  | Championship record: Marco Koch, Germany | 2:07.47 | Berlin (GER) 21 August 2014 |   
          
| Semi 1 | time |   | L | Rk. |  | 1. Ross Murdoch |  Great Britain | 2:08.57 | Q | 5 | 3. |  | 2. Kirill Prigoda |  Russia | 2:08.63 | Q | 4 | 4. |  | 3. Arno Kamminga |  Netherlands | 2:10.00 | q | 3 | 7. |  | 4. Andrius Šidlauskas |  Lithuania | 2:10.12 | q | 2 | 8. |  | 5. Matti Mattsson |  Finland | 2:10.19 |   | 6 | 9. |  | 6. Dávid Horváth |  Hungary | 2:10.70 |   | 7 | 11. |  | 7. Bartłomiej Roguski |  Poland | 2:11.32 |   | 8 | 12. |  | 8. Jacques Laeuffer |  Switzerland | 2:12.44 |   | 1 | 15. |  | Semi 2 | time |   | L | Rk. |  | 1. Anton Chupkov |  Russia | 2:07.95 | Q | 4 | 1. |  | 2. Luca Pizzini |  Italy | 2:08.52 | Q | 5 | 2. |  | 3. James Wilby |  Great Britain | 2:09.59 | q | 3 | 5. |  | 4. Erik Persson |  Sweden | 2:09.84 | q | 1 | 6. |  | 5. Mykyta Koptyelov |  Ukraine | 2:10.41 |   | 2 | 10. |  | 6. Darragh Greene |  Ireland | 2:11.36 |   | 6 | 13. |  | 7. Valentin Bayer |  Austria | 2:12.33 |   | 7 | 14. |  | 8. Christopher Rothbauer |  Austria | 2:12.44 |   | 8 | 15. |   
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| Ranking | time |   | Ht | L |  | 1. Anton Chupkov |  Russia | 2:07.70 | Q | 4 | 4 |  | 2. Kirill Prigoda |  Russia | 2:08.91 | Q | 4 | 5 |  | 3. Ilya Khomenko |  Russia | 2:09.63 |   | 3 | 5 |  | 4. Luca Pizzini |  Italy | 2:10.18 | Q | 4 | 3 |  | 5. Ross Murdoch |  Great Britain | 2:10.30 | Q | 3 | 4 |  | 6. James Wilby |  Great Britain | 2:10.81 | Q | 2 | 4 |  | 7. Arno Kamminga |  Netherlands | 2:10.82 | Q | 2 | 5 |  | 8. Darragh Greene |  Ireland | 2:11.22 | Q | 3 | 2 |  | 9. Mikhail Dorinov |  Russia | 2:11.29 |   | 3 | 3 |  | 10.Matti Mattsson |  Finland | 2:11.44 | Q | 4 | 2 |  | 11.Mykyta Koptyelov |  Ukraine | 2:11.50 | Q | 2 | 0 |  | 12.Andrius Šidlauskas |  Lithuania | 2:11.52 | Q | 4 | 1 |  | 13.Valentin Bayer |  Austria | 2:11.73 | Q | 3 | 1 |  | 14.Dávid Horváth |  Hungary | 2:11.85 | Q | 2 | 2 |  | 15.Erik Persson |  Sweden | 2:12.43 | Q | 2 | 3 |  | 16.Jacques Laeuffer |  Switzerland | 2:12.57 | Q | 2 | 1 |  | 17.Christopher Rothbauer |  Austria | 2:12.61 | Q | 2 | 7 |  | 18.Bartłomiej Roguski |  Poland | 2:12.69 | Q | 3 | 7 |  |  eliminated in Heats. |  | 19.Max Pilger |  Germany | 2:12.84 |   | 2 | 6 |  | 20.Giedrius Titenis |  Lithuania | 2:13.16 |   | 4 | 6 |  | 21.Yannick Käser |  Switzerland | 2:13.66 |   | 3 | 6 |  | 22.Ilya Shymanovich |  Belarus | 2:13.85 |   | 4 | 7 |  | 23.Martin Allikvee |  Estonia | 2:13.93 |   | 4 | 0 |  | 24.Ivan Strilets |  Ukraine | 2:13.94 |   | 2 | 9 |  | 25.Filip Chrápavý |  Czechia | 2:13.99 |   | 4 | 8 |  | 26.Tomáš Klobučník |  Slovakia | 2:14.04 |   | 3 | 9 |  | 27.Lyubomir Epitropov |  Bulgaria | 2:14.20 |   | 3 | 0 |  | 28.Johannes Dietrich |  Austria | 2:14.30 |   | 2 | 8 |  | 29.Daniils Bobrovs |  Latvia | 2:14.69 |   | 3 | 8 |  | 30.Tomas Veloso |  Portugal | 2:15.95 |   | 1 | 4 |  | 31.Lachezar Shumkov |  Bulgaria | 2:17.22 |   | 1 | 3 |  | 32.Jozef Beňo |  Slovakia | 2:18.33 |   | 1 | 2 |  | -. Berkay Öğretir |  Turkey | DNS |   | 1 | 5 |  | -. Teemu Vuorela |  Finland |   |   | 9 | 4 |   
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