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

Women's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Women's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	19 May 2021 (heats and semifinals); 20 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	28 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:06.50
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 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	Liu Zige	China	2:01.81	Jinan	20 October 2009
European record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:04.27	Rome	29 July 2009
Championship record	Mireia Belmonte	Spain	2:04.79	Berlin	24 August 2014

The heats were started on 19 May at 10:18.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:07.61	Q
2	3	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.36	Q
3	2	5	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:09.15	Q
4	3	5	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	2:09.35
5	3	6	Helena Rosendahl Bach	Denmark	2:09.42	Q
6	1	5	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:09.48	Q
7	1	3	Keanna MacInnes	Great Britain	2:09.82	Q
8	2	6	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:10.18	Q
9	2	3	Ana Monteiro	Portugal	2:10.73	Q
10	2	7	Dóra Hatházi	Hungary	2:10.75
11	1	2	Kathrin Demler	Germany	2:10.84	Q
12	1	7	Nida Eliz Üstündağ	Turkey	2:11.02	Q
13	3	3	Emily Large	Great Britain	2:11.08
14	1	4	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	2:11.51
15	2	2	Antonella Crispino	Italy	2:11.85	Q
16	3	1	Klaudia Naziębło	Poland	2:12.82	Q
17	3	2	Claudia Hufnagl	Austria	2:12.87	Q
18	1	8	Carlota Torrontegui	Spain	2:13.33	Q
19	2	1	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	2:14.69	Q, WD
20	3	8	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:14.98	Q
21	2	0	Fanny Borer	Switzerland	2:15.83	Q
22	2	8	Aleksandra Knop	Poland	2:16.09
22	3	7	Laura Lahtinen	Finland	2:16.09
24	1	0	Iva Hrsto	Croatia	2:17.04
25	3	0	Tamara Schaad	Switzerland	2:17.48
26	1	1	Viktoriya Kostromina	Ukraine	2:19.20
27	3	9	Iman Avdić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:23.73
28	2	9	Katie Rock	Albania	2:30.07
	1	6	Defne Taçyıldız	Turkey	Did not start

The semifinals were held on 19 May at 18:44.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.75	Q
2	5	Helena Rosendahl Bach	Denmark	2:08.95	Q
3	3	Keanna MacInnes	Great Britain	2:09.76	q
4	6	Ana Monteiro	Portugal	2:10.07
5	2	Nida Eliz Üstündağ	Turkey	2:10.11
6	7	Klaudia Naziębło	Poland	2:12.57
7	1	Carlota Torrontegui	Spain	2:14.53
8	8	Fanny Borer	Switzerland	2:15.79

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:07.25	Q
2	3	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:09.08	Q
3	6	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:09.32	q
4	5	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:09.39	q
5	2	Kathrin Demler	Germany	2:09.59	q
6	7	Antonella Crispino	Italy	2:10.74
7	1	Claudia Hufnagl	Austria	2:12.32
8	8	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:15.52

The final was held on 20 May at 18:00.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Boglárka Kapás	Hungary	2:06.50
	5	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	2:08.14
	6	Svetlana Chimrova	Russia	2:08.55
4	3	Helena Rosendahl Bach	Denmark	2:08.89
5	2	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	2:08.91
6	7	Laura Stephens	Great Britain	2:09.42
7	1	Kathrin Demler	Germany	2:09.94
8	8	Keanna MacInnes	Great Britain	2:10.25