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

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	22 May 2021 (heats and semifinals); 23 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	36 from 26 nations
Winning time	2:06.08
Medalists
	← 2018 2022 →

The Women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 22 and 23 May 2021.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Regan Smith	United States	2:03.35	Gwangju	26 July 2019
European record	Anastasia Fesikova	Russia	2:04.94	Rome	1 August 2009
Championship record	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.18	Glasgow	9 August 2018

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
23 May	Final	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.08	CR

The heats were started on 22 May at 10:00.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:08.52	Q
2	4	3	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:09.12	Q, NR
3	3	4	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:09.54	Q
4	3	5	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.72	Q
5	2	2	Réka Nyirádi	Hungary	2:10.44
6	3	7	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:10.74	Q
7	2	1	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:11.60	Q
8	4	5	África Zamorano	Spain	2:11.98	Q
9	2	6	Cassie Wild	Great Britain	2:12.04	Q
10	3	1	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:12.13	Q
11	2	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:12.32	Q
12	3	3	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:13.08	Q
13	4	1	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:13.26	Q
14	4	7	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:13.37	Q
15	2	3	Sonnele Öztürk	Germany	2:13.82	Q
16	2	7	Zuzanna Herasimowicz	Poland	2:13.96	Q
17	4	8	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:14.11	Q
18	4	6	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Belarus	2:14.29
19	3	2	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	2:14.32
20	3	6	Gerda Szilágyi	Hungary	2:14.36
21	2	9	Ioanna Sacha	Greece	2:14.83
22	4	0	Sudem Denizli	Turkey	2:15.22
23	4	2	Nadine Lämmler	Germany	2:15.38
24	2	8	Fanny Borer	Switzerland	2:15.74
25	1	6	Tamara Potocká	Slovakia	2:16.13
26	3	0	Ingeborg Løyning	Norway	2:16.45
27	4	9	Karoline Sørensen	Denmark	2:17.12
28	1	1	Lisa Nystrand	Sweden	2:17.50
29	3	9	Marion Gregoire	Belgium	2:17.60
30	1	4	Jade Smits	Belgium	2:18.34
31	1	3	Janja Segel	Slovenia	2:18.43
32	1	5	Signhild Joensen	Faroe Islands	2:18.50
33	1	7	Emma Marušáková	Slovakia	2:20.80
34	1	2	Mia Krstevska	North Macedonia	2:23.40
35	1	8	Jona Beqiri	Kosovo	2:30.61
	2	5	Laura Bernat	Poland	Disqualified
	2	0	Nina Kost	Switzerland	Did not start
	3	8	Paulina Peda	Poland	Did not start

The semifinals were held on 22 May at 18:23.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:08.60	Q, NR
2	6	Cassie Wild	Great Britain	2:09.31	Q
3	5	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:09.97	q
4	2	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:11.73	q
5	1	Sonnele Öztürk	Germany	2:14.26
6	3	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	2:14.63
7	7	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	2:14.70
8	8	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	2:15.17

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:07.61	Q
2	5	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:08.89	Q
3	6	África Zamorano	Spain	2:09.89	q
4	3	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:10.84	q
5	2	Jenny Mensing	Germany	2:12.17
6	8	Zuzanna Herasimowicz	Poland	2:12.55
7	1	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	2:12.96
8	7	Tatiana Salcuțan	Moldova	2:13.10

The final was held on 23 May at 18:35.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Margherita Panziera	Italy	2:06.08	CR
	6	Cassie Wild	Great Britain	2:07.74
	3	Katalin Burián	Hungary	2:07.87
4	5	Lena Grabowski	Austria	2:08.19	NR
5	2	África Zamorano	Spain	2:09.76
6	1	Katie Shanahan	Great Britain	2:09.90
7	7	Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy	Hungary	2:10.19
8	8	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	2:13.06