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

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
Kristóf Milák   Hungary   Federico Burdisso   Italy   Tamás Kenderesi   Hungary

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 May 2021.

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			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

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 18 May at 10:33.

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

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 18 May at 18:39.

Semifinal 1

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

Semifinal 2

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

Final

The final was held on 19 May at 19:43.

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