Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21 and 22 May 2021.^[1][2]

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	21 May 2021 (heats and semifinals) 22 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	45 from 21 nations
Winning time	1:54.46
Medalists
Evgeny Rylov    Russia   Luke Greenbank    Great Britain   Roman Mityukov     Switzerland
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Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:51.92	Rome	31 July 2009
European record	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.23	Kazan	8 April 2021
Championship record			1:53.36	Glasgow	8 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 21 May 2021 at 10:47.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:54.67	Q, NR
2	5	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:55.74	Q
3	3	1	Antoine Herlem	France	1:56.42	Q
4	4	2	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	1:56.66	Q, NR
5	4	5	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:57.22	Q
6	3	2	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:57.41	Q
7	3	4	Yohann Ndoye Brouard	France	1:57.70	Q
8	3	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:57.79	Q
9	5	7	Jakub Skierka	Poland	1:58.15	Q
10	5	6	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:58.48	Q
11	3	0	João Costa	Portugal	1:58.58	Q
12	3	6	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:58.64	Q
13	4	8	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:58.84	Q
14	5	9	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:59.07
15	5	2	Hugo González	Spain	1:59.10	Q, WD
15	5	8	Francisco Santos	Portugal	1:59.10	Q
17	5	1	Manuel Martos	Spain	1:59.23	Q
18	5	3	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:59.45	QSO
18	5	5	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:59.45	QSO
20	4	7	Elliot Clogg	Great Britain	1:59.54
21	3	3	Nicolás García	Spain	1:59.59
22	2	1	Robert Glință	Romania	1:59.74
23	4	1	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:59.79
24	4	6	Berke Saka	Turkey	2:00.18
25	1	2	Maxim Stupin	Russia	2:00.20
26	4	3	Kaloyan Levterov	Bulgaria	2:00.38
27	3	7	Mewen Tomac	France	2:00.63
28	3	9	Ksawery Masiuk	Poland	2:00.80
29	4	9	James McFadzen	Great Britain	2:00.85
30	2	3	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	2:00.92
31	2	4	David Gerchik	Israel	2:01.52
31	2	2	Erikas Grigaitis	Lithuania	2:01.52
33	2	8	Samuel Törnqvist	Sweden	2:02.05
34	4	0	Ádám Jászó	Hungary	2:02.20
35	2	5	Tomáš Ludvík	Czech Republic	2:02.52
36	1	6	Gustav Hökfelt	Sweden	2:02.54
37	2	6	Melikşah Düğen	Turkey	2:02.62
38	5	0	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:02.74
39	2	0	Armin Evert Lelle	Estonia	2:03.68
40	2	9	Saša Boškan	Slovenia	2:03.69
41	1	5	Ron Polonsky	Israel	2:04.10
42	1	3	Max Mannes	Luxembourg	2:04.19
43	1	4	Metin Aydın	Turkey	2:05.20
44	1	7	Alexander Kudashev	Russia	2:06.51
45	2	7	Adam Maraana	Israel	2:06.93
	3	9	Evangelos Makrygiannis	Greece	Did not start

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 21 May at 12:15.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:59.24	Q
2	5	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:59.27

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 21 May at 18:30.^[5]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:55.11	Q
2	7	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:56.37	Q
3	6	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:57.10	q
4	5	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	1:57.43
5	3	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:57.68
6	1	Francisco Santos	Portugal	1:58.03	NR
7	2	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:58.13
8	8	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	2:02.52

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:54.43	Q, NR
2	3	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:56.17	Q
3	5	Antoine Herlem	France	1:56.63	q
4	6	Yohann Ndoye Brouard	France	1:57.06	q
5	2	Jakub Skierka	Poland	1:57.08	q
6	1	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:58.20
7	7	João Costa	Portugal	1:58.72
8	8	Manuel Martos	Spain	1:59.38

Final

The final was held on 22 May at 19:17.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:54.46
	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:54.62
	6	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:56.33
4	7	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:56.37
5	3	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:56.67
6	8	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:57.05
7	1	Jakub Skierka	Poland	1:58.56
8	2	Antoine Herlem	France	1:58.64