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

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	18 May 2021 (heats and semifinals); 19 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	36 from 21 nations
Winning time	1:51.10
Medalists
	← 2018 2022 →

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 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	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:50.73	Gwangju	24 July 2019
Championship record	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:52.79	Glasgow	5 August 2018

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
19 May	Final	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:51.10	CR

The heats were started on 18 May at 10:33.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:54.38	Q
2	3	3	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:54.72	Q, NR
3	2	3	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:55.46	Q
4	2	6	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:55.67	Q
5	2	4	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:55.73	Q
6	4	1	Jakub Majerski	Poland	1:56.27	Q
7	3	6	Léon Marchand	France	1:56.33	Q
8	4	7	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.69	Q
9	3	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:57.02	Q
10	3	0	Damian Chrzanowski	Poland	1:57.18
11	3	5	Alexander Kudashev	Russia	1:57.19	Q
12	4	6	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:57.31	Q
13	4	5	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	1:57.32	Q
14	4	2	Igor Troyanovskyy	Ukraine	1:57.38	Q
15	3	1	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:57.56	Q, NR
16	1	7	Alexei Sancov	Moldova	1:57.78	Q, NR
17	3	2	Ramon Klenz	Germany	1:57.96	Q
18	4	3	Michał Poprawa	Poland	1:58.11
19	4	8	Ondřej Gemov	Czech Republic	1:58.19
20	2	8	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	1:58.52
21	3	8	Adam Hlobeň	Czech Republic	1:58.57
22	2	5	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:58.73
23	4	0	Dominik Márk Török	Hungary	1:58.88
24	2	1	Edward Mildred	Great Britain	1:59.04
25	2	0	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:59.32
26	3	9	Arbidel González	Spain	1:59.64
27	3	7	Xaver Gschwentner	Austria	1:59.66
28	2	2	Maksym Shemberev	Azerbaijan	1:59.76
29	2	7	Sebastian Luňák	Czech Republic	2:00.00
30	1	4	Marius Toscan	Switzerland	2:01.20
31	2	9	Martin Espernberger	Austria	2:01.79
32	1	3	Joao Soares Carneiro	Luxembourg	2:01.92	NR
33	4	9	Ramil Valizada	Azerbaijan	2:04.80
34	1	5	Ievhen Khrypunov	Ukraine	2:05.01
35	1	6	Davor Petrovski	North Macedonia	2:05.75
36	1	2	Emilien Puyo	Monaco	2:11.42

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 18:39.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:55.45	Q
2	5	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:55.81	Q
3	6	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:55.87	q
4	2	Alexander Kudashev	Russia	1:56.43	q
5	1	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:56.63	NR
6	7	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	1:56.99
7	3	Jakub Majerski	Poland	1:57.58
8	8	Ramon Klenz	Germany	1:58.26

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.37	Q
2	4	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:54.72	Q
3	3	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:55.03	q
4	7	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:55.96	q
5	5	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:56.51
6	1	Igor Troyanovskyy	Ukraine	1:56.96
7	6	Léon Marchand	France	1:57.77
8	8	Alexei Sancov	Moldova	1:57.85

The final was held on 19 May at 19:43.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:51.10	CR
	3	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:54.28	NR
	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.43
4	6	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:54.50	NR
5	2	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:55.18
6	1	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:55.69
7	8	Alexander Kudashev	Russia	1:56.33
8	7	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.69