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

Event:	Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Danube Arena
Dates:	20 May 2021 (heats and semifinals) 21 May 2021 (final)
Competitors:	44
Nations:	25
Win Value:	2:21.34
Gold:	Molly Renshaw
Gold Nation:	GBR
Silver:	Lisa Mamie
Silver Nation:	SUI
Bronze:	Yuliya Yefimova
Bronze Nation:	RUS
Prev:	2018
Next:	2022

The Women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 May 2021.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record European record			2:19.11		1 August 2013
Championship record			2:19.84		22 August 2014

The heats were started on 20 May at 10:25.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	4	2:23.92	Q
2	5	5	2:24.16	Q
3	3	3	2:24.47	Q
4	4	4	2:24.52	Q
5	5	4	2:24.75	Q
6	4	5	2:24.95
7	4	3	2:25.00	Q
8	5	3	2:24.99	Q
9	3	5	2:25.17	Q
10	3	2	2:25.36	Q
11	4	2	2:25.90	Q
12	5	0	2:26.08	Q
13	2	4	2:27.06	Q
14	2	5	2:27.07	Q, NR
15	3	0	2:27.20	Q
16	2	7	2:27.25	Q
17	4	6	2:27.41	Q
18	3	6	2:27.54
19	1	3	2:27.77	NR
20	5	6	2:27.78
21	3	1	2:28.17
22	2	0	2:28.38
23	3	8	2:28.41
24	5	1	2:28.64
25	5	2	2:28.81
26	3	9	2:28.96
27	5	8	2:29.00
28	5	7	2:29.79
29	4	8	2:29.98
30	5	9	2:30.01
31	3	7	2:30.06
32	2	9	2:30.27
33	2	2	2:30.59
34	2	8	2:30.96
35	4	9	2:30.97
36	4	7	2:31.43
37	1	4	2:31.65
38	4	0	2:32.01
39	2	6	2:32.41
40	2	1	2:32.85
41	1	5	2:33.83
42	1	7	2:35.94
43	1	2	2:37.55
44	1	6	2:40.49
	2	3	Did not start
	4	1

The semifinals were started on 20 May at 18:30.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	2:21.55	Q
2	4	2:21.86	Q
3	3	2:24.25	q
4	6	2:24.50	q
5	7	2:25.98
6	1	2:26.10
7	8	2:26.11
8	2	2:26.17

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	2:23.15	Q
2	4	2:23.33	Q
3	3	2:23.56	q
4	6	2:24.56	q
5	7	2:24.79
6	2	2:25.07
7	1	2:26.39	NR
8	8	2:26.62

The final was held on 21 May at 19:19.^[5]