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

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	19 May 2021 (heats and semifinals); 20 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	47 from 26 nations
Winning time	2:06.99
Medalists
	← 2018 2022 →

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 May 2021.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.12	Gwangju	26 July 2019
Championship record	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.80	Glasgow	6 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 19 May at 11:07.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:07.39	Q
2	4	3	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:08.43	Q, NR
3	4	5	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:09.21	Q
4	5	4	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:09.44	Q
5	3	5	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:09.60	Q
6	5	7	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:09.74	Q
7	5	3	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:09.77	Q
8	3	4	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:09.96	Q
9	3	2	Aleksandr Zhigalov	Russia	2:10.07
10	4	7	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:10.12	Q, NR
11	5	5	Marco Koch	Germany	2:10.40	Q
12	5	1	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:11.13	Q
13	3	3	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:11.19	Q
14	5	2	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	2:11.78	Q
15	3	0	Valentin Bayer	Austria	2:11.99	Q
16	2	6	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	2:12.02	Q
17	5	6	Edoardo Giorgetti	Italy	2:12.23	Q
18	4	6	Berkay Ömer Öğretir	Turkey	2:12.32
18	2	2	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	2:12.32	NR
20	4	1	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	2:12.68
21	3	6	Max Pilger	Germany	2:12.71
22	3	7	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	2:12.80
23	3	1	Andrea Castello	Italy	2:12.82
23	5	8	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:12.82
25	2	4	Filip Chrápavý	Czech Republic	2:13.22
26	2	1	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	2:13.29
27	3	8	Demirkan Demir	Turkey	2:13.35
28	4	8	Léon Marchand	France	2:13.40
29	4	9	Danil Semyaninov	Russia	2:13.90
30	2	5	Savvas Thomoglou	Greece	2:14.19
31	1	3	Francisco Quintas	Portugal	2:14.26
32	5	0	Máté Kutasi	Hungary	2:14.52
33	2	3	Jolann Bovey	Switzerland	2:14.56
34	4	0	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	2:14.67
35	2	9	Christoffer Tofte Haarsaker	Norway	2:14.93
36	5	9	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:15.13
37	1	4	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:15.20
38	1	6	Aleksas Savickas	Lithuania	2:15.35
39	2	8	Dominik Márk Török	Hungary	2:15.95
40	3	9	Joan Ballester	Spain	2:16.14
41	2	0	Luka Mladenovic	Austria	2:16.87
42	1	5	Volodymyr Lisovets	Ukraine	2:18.77
43	2	7	Rostyslav Kryzhanivskyy	Ukraine	2:20.03
44	1	2	Joonas Niine	Estonia	2:20.94
45	1	1	Giacomo Casadei	San Marino	2:24.28
46	1	7	André Klippenberg Grindheim	Norway	2:26.74
47	1	8	Even Qarri	Albania	2:35.06
	4	2	Darragh Greene	Ireland	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 19 May at 18:54.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:07.94	Q
2	4	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:08.26	Q, NR
3	6	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:09.90	q
4	7	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:09.97	q
5	2	Marco Koch	Germany	2:10.03
6	3	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:10.08
7	8	Edoardo Giorgetti	Italy	2:10.50
8	1	Valentin Bayer	Austria	2:11.57

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:07.85	Q, =NR
2	4	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:08.31	Q
3	3	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.83	q
4	5	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:08.84	q
5	7	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:10.91
6	2	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:11.19
7	8	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	2:12.00
8	1	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	2:12.97

Final

The final was held on 20 May at 19:09.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:06.99
	6	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:07.35
	4	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:07.66	NR
4	3	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:08.48
5	2	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:08.58
6	7	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	2:09.23
7	8	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:09.73
8	1	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:10.34