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

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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	20 May 2021 (heats and semifinals) 21 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	44 from 25 nations
Winning time	2:21.34
Medalists
Molly Renshaw   Great Britain   Lisa Mamie   Switzerland   Yuliya Yefimova   Russia

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	2:19.11	Barcelona	1 August 2013
Championship record			2:19.84	Berlin	22 August 2014

Results

The heats were started on 20 May at 10:25.

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Evgeniia Chikunova	Russia	2:23.92	Q
2	5	5	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:24.16	Q
3	3	3	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:24.47	Q
4	4	4	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:24.52	Q
5	5	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:24.75	Q
6	4	5	Maria Temnikova	Russia	2:24.95
7	4	3	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:25.00	Q
8	5	3	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:24.99	Q
9	3	5	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:25.17	Q
10	3	2	Martina Carraro	Italy	2:25.36	Q
11	4	2	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:25.90	Q
12	5	0	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:26.08	Q
13	2	4	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:27.06	Q
14	2	5	Anastasia Basisto	Moldova	2:27.07	Q, NR
15	3	0	Petra Halmai	Hungary	2:27.20	Q
16	2	7	Raquel Pereira	Portugal	2:27.25	Q
17	4	6	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:27.41	Q
18	3	6	Kim Herkle	Germany	2:27.54
19	1	3	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	2:27.77	NR
20	5	6	Lisa Angiolini	Italy	2:27.78
21	3	1	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	2:28.17
22	2	0	Emelie Fast	Sweden	2:28.38
23	3	8	Clara Rybak-Andersen	Denmark	2:28.41
24	5	1	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	2:28.64
25	5	2	Eszter Békési	Hungary	2:28.81
26	3	9	Martta Ruuska	Finland	2:28.96
27	5	8	Stina Kajsa Colleou	Norway	2:29.00
28	5	7	Bente Fischer	Germany	2:29.79
29	4	8	Thea Blomsterberg	Denmark	2:29.98
30	5	9	Nikoleta Trníková	Slovakia	2:30.01
31	3	7	Tatiana Belonogoff	Russia	2:30.06
32	2	9	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	2:30.27
33	2	2	Hannah Brunzell	Sweden	2:30.59
34	2	8	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	2:30.96
35	4	9	Eva Kummen	Norway	2:30.97
36	4	7	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	2:31.43
37	1	4	Hazal Özkan	Turkey	2:31.65
38	4	0	Josephine Dumont	Belgium	2:32.01
39	2	6	Alíz Kalmár	Hungary	2:32.41
40	2	1	Ana Blažević	Croatia	2:32.85
41	1	5	Nina Vadovičová	Slovakia	2:33.83
42	1	7	Lea Polonsky	Israel	2:35.94
43	1	2	Nàdia Tudó	Andorra	2:37.55
44	1	6	Alina Tkachenko	Ukraine	2:40.49
	2	3	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	Did not start
	4	1	Laura Lahtinen	Finland

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 20 May at 18:30.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:21.55	Q
2	4	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:21.86	Q
3	3	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:24.25	q
4	6	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:24.50	q
5	7	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	2:25.98
6	1	Petra Halmai	Hungary	2:26.10
7	8	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	2:26.11
8	2	Victoria Kaminskaya	Portugal	2:26.17

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:23.15	Q
2	4	Evgeniia Chikunova	Russia	2:23.33	Q
3	3	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:23.56	q
4	6	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:24.56	q
5	7	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	2:24.79
6	2	Martina Carraro	Italy	2:25.07
7	1	Anastasia Basisto	Moldova	2:26.39	NR
8	8	Raquel Pereira	Portugal	2:26.62

Final

The final was held on 21 May at 19:19.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	2:21.34
	3	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	2:22.05
	2	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:22.16
4	6	Evgeniia Chikunova	Russia	2:22.17
5	5	Abbie Wood	Great Britain	2:22.78
6	8	Francesca Fangio	Italy	2:24.26
7	7	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	2:25.76
8	1	Jessica Vall	Spain	2:25.84