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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Dates	20 May 2021 (heats and semifinals) 21 May 2021 (final)
Competitors	76 from 34 nations
Winning time	1:44.79
Medalists
Martin Malyutin   Russia   Duncan Scott   Great Britain   Thomas Dean   Great Britain

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

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:42.00	Rome	28 July 2009
European record
Championship record	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:44.89	Berlin	2 August 2002

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
21 May	Final	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:44.79	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 20 May at 10:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	5	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:46.30	Q
2	8	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:46.85	Q
3	6	4	Thomas Dean	Great Britain	1:46.88	Q
4	7	6	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:47.27	Q
5	7	2	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:47.28	Q
6	8	7	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:47.31	Q
7	6	5	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:47.35	Q
8	7	8	Jordan Pothain	France	1:47.44	Q
9	7	4	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:47.45	Q
10	8	2	Stefano Ballo	Italy	1:47.66	Q
11	7	5	Ivan Girev	Russia	1:47.69	Q
12	8	1	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:47.78	Q
13	7	7	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.83	Q
14	8	0	Jonathan Atsu	France	1:47.84	Q
15	6	6	Marco De Tullio	Italy	1:48.05
16	7	3	Aleksandr Shchegolev	Russia	1:48.12
17	7	1	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:48.13	Q
18	6	3	Aleksandr Krasnykh	Russia	1:48.32
19	8	9	César Castro	Spain	1:48.37	Q
20	5	1	David Popovici	Romania	1:48.38	NR
21	5	6	Alexei Sancov	Moldova	1:48.42
22	6	1	Baturalp Ünlü	Turkey	1:48.44
23	5	4	Enzo Tesic	France	1:48.47
24	7	9	Sebastien De Meulemeester	Belgium	1:48.48
25	6	0	Gábor Zombori	Hungary	1:48.84
26	5	2	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:48.97
27	3	4	Andreas Hansen	Denmark	1:48.99
28	8	8	Kacper Majchrzak	Poland	1:49.14
29	6	9	Luc Kroon	Netherlands	1:49.16
30	5	5	Alexandre Marcourt	Belgium	1:49.29
31	4	6	Jan Hołub	Poland	1:49.39
32	3	5	Bartosz Piszczorowicz	Poland	1:49.43
33	5	9	Mikkel Gadgaard	Denmark	1:49.53
34	4	0	Adam Hlobeň	Czech Republic	1:49.66
35	4	2	Moritz Berg	Spain	1:49.76
36	6	8	Stefano Di Cola	Italy	1:49.81
37	5	8	Gal Cohen Groumi	Israel	1:49.91
38	8	3	Matthew Richards	Great Britain	1:50.17
39	5	0	Daniel Namir	Israel	1:50.24
40	4	5	Thomas Thijs	Belgium	1:50.26
41	5	7	Roman Fuchs	France	1:50.41
42	3	2	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	1:50.59
43	4	3	Mario Mollà	Spain	1:50.68
44	4	8	Daniil Pancerevas	Lithuania	1:50.78
45	2	4	Christoffer Andersen	Denmark	1:50.88
46	4	4	Miguel Durán	Spain	1:50.91
47	3	9	Tomás Veloso	Portugal	1:51.10
48	4	7	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:51.27
49	2	1	Sašo Boškan	Slovenia	1:51.44
50	3	3	Jakub Štemberk	Czech Republic	1:51.65
51	4	1	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	1:51.89
52	3	6	Markus Lie	Norway	1:51.98
52	3	0	Max Mannes	Luxembourg	1:51.98
54	3	8	Efe Turan	Turkey	1:52.02
55	3	7	Pit Brandenburger	Luxembourg	1:52.14
56	4	9	Lorenz Weiremans	Belgium	1:52.15
57	2	6	Marcus Holmquist	Sweden	1:52.26
58	2	3	Doğa Çelik	Turkey	1:52.34
59	5	3	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:52.45
60	2	9	Nikolas Antoniou	Cyprus	1:52.55	NR
61	2	7	Melikşah Düğen	Turkey	1:52.66
62	2	5	Tomas Navikonis	Lithuania	1:52.76
63	3	1	Aleksa Bobar	Serbia	1:53.11
64	2	2	Jakub Poliačik	Slovakia	1:53.41
65	1	4	Ralph Daleiden	Luxembourg	1:53.71
66	2	8	Jon Jøntvedt	Norway	1:53.76
67	2	0	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	1:54.38
68	1	7	David Abesadze	Georgia	1:55.20
69	1	2	Filip Derkoski	North Macedonia	1:55.67
70	1	9	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia	1:56.01
71	1	6	Ado Gargović	Montenegro	1:56.45
72	1	3	Dylan Cachia	Malta	1:56.81
73	1	5	Arti Krasniqi	Kosovo	1:58.03
74	1	0	Eduard Tshagharyan	Armenia	1:59.21
75	1	1	Olt Kondirolli	Kosovo	2:00.45
76	1	8	Paolo Priska	Albania	2:05.14
	6	2	Nándor Németh	Hungary	Did not start
	6	7	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland
	7	0	Balázs Holló	Hungary
	8	6	James Guy	Great Britain

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:46.19	Q
2	3	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:46.50	Q, NR
3	5	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:46.77	q
4	2	Stefano Ballo	Italy	1:47.10
5	7	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:47.16
6	8	César Castro	Spain	1:47.18
7	6	Jordan Pothain	France	1:47.60
8	1	Jonathan Atsu	France	1:48.07

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:45.60	Q
2	2	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:46.15	Q
3	5	Thomas Dean	Great Britain	1:46.17	q
4	3	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:46.26	q
5	1	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.08	q
6	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:47.16
7	6	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:47.74
8	7	Ivan Girev	Russia	1:47.95

Final

The final was held on 21 May at 19:28.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:44.79	CR
	5	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:45.19
	3	Thomas Dean	Great Britain	1:45.34
4	6	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.72
5	1	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:45.74
6	2	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:46.10
7	7	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:47.34
8	8	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.66