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

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Danube Arena
Dates:	21 May 2021 (heats and semifinals) 22 May 2021 (final)
Competitors:	45
Nations:	21
Win Value:	1:54.46
Gold:	Evgeny Rylov
Gold Nation:	RUS
Silver:	Luke Greenbank
Silver Nation:	GBR
Bronze:	Roman Mityukov
Bronze Nation:	SUI
Prev:	2018
Next:	2022

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

Records

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

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	1:54.67	Q, NR
2	5	4	1:55.74	Q
3	3	1	1:56.42	Q
4	4	2	1:56.66	Q, NR
5	4	5	1:57.22	Q
6	3	2	1:57.41	Q
7	3	4	1:57.70	Q
8	3	5	1:57.79	Q
9	5	7	1:58.15	Q
10	5	6	1:58.48	Q
11	3	0	1:58.58	Q
12	3	6	1:58.64	Q
13	4	8	1:58.84	Q
14	5	9	1:59.07
15	5	2	1:59.10	Q,
15	5	8	1:59.10	Q
17	5	1	1:59.23	Q
18	5	3	1:59.45
18	5	5	1:59.45
20	4	7	1:59.54
21	3	3	1:59.59
22	2	1	1:59.74
23	4	1	1:59.79
24	4	6	2:00.18
25	1	2	2:00.20
26	4	3	2:00.38
27	3	7	2:00.63
28	3	9	2:00.80
29	4	9	2:00.85
30	2	3	2:00.92
31	2	4	2:01.52
31	2	2	2:01.52
33	2	8	2:02.05
34	4	0	2:02.20
35	2	5	2:02.52
36	1	6	2:02.54
37	2	6	2:02.62
38	5	0	2:02.74
39	2	0	2:03.68
40	2	9	2:03.69
41	1	5	2:04.10
42	1	3	2:04.19
43	1	4	2:05.20
44	1	7	2:06.51
45	2	7	2:06.93
	3	9	Did not start

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			1:59.24	Q
2	5			1:59.27

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

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:55.11	Q
2	7	1:56.37	Q
3	6	1:57.10	q
4	5	1:57.43
5	3	1:57.68
6	1	1:58.03	NR
7	2	1:58.13
8	8	2:02.52

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:54.43	Q, NR
2	3	1:56.17	Q
3	5	1:56.63	q
4	6	1:57.06	q
5	2	1:57.08	q
6	1	1:58.20
7	7	1:58.72
8	8	1:59.38

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