Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	2020 European Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Danube Arena
Dates:	21 May 2021 (heats and semifinals) 22 May 2021 (final)
Competitors:	40
Nations:	25
Win Value:	2:09.99
Gold:	Anastasia Gorbenko
Gold Nation:	ISR
Silver:	Abbie Wood
Silver Nation:	GBR
Bronze:	Katinka Hosszú
Bronze Nation:	HUN
Prev:	2018
Next:	2022

The Women's 200 metre individual medley (50 m) competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 21 and 22 May 2021.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record European record			2:06.12		3 August 2015
Championship record			2:07.30		19 May 2016

The heats were started on 21 May 2021 at 10:27.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	2:11.07	Q
2	5	4	2:11.57	Q
3	4	5	2:11.78	Q
4	5	6	2:11.87	Q
5	5	5	2:12.09	Q
6	3	2	2:12.35	Q
7	5	3	2:12.61	Q
8	5	2	2:12.68	Q
9	4	7	2:12.85	Q
10	4	6	2:12.93	Q
11	3	5	2:13.24	Q
12	4	0	2:13.35	Q, NR
13	3	3	2:13.38	Q
14	3	7	2:13.58
15	3	4	2:13.63
16	4	1	2:13.77
17	4	3	2:14.23	Q
18	4	8	2:14.29	Q
19	4	2	2:14.63	Q
20	5	8	2:14.75
21	3	6	2:14.99
22	3	8	2:15.31
23	5	7	2:15.36
24	5	0	2:15.67
25	5	9	2:16.30
26	4	9	2:16.34
27	2	4	2:16.64
28	3	1	2:16.72
29	5	1	2:16.95
30	2	6	2:17.16
31	2	1	2:17.78	NR
32	2	5	2:18.09
33	2	3	2:19.94
34	2	7	2:20.93
35	2	2	2:21.68
36	2	8	2:22.87
37	3	0	2:23.78
38	1	5	2:24.23
39	1	4	2:24.32
40	1	3	2:34.37
	3	9	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 21 May 2021 at 19:37.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	2:10.66	Q
2	3	2:12.12	Q
3	5	2:12.34	q
4	7	2:12.38	NR
5	6	2:12.42
6	2	2:12.79
7	1	2:14.39
8	8	2:16.04

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	2:10.35	Q, NR
2	7	2:10.72	Q
3	3	2:10.76	q
4	4	2:10.81	q
5	5	2:11.41	q
6	2	2:12.80
7	1	2:13.49
8	8	2:14.84

The final was held on 22 May at 19:24.^[5]