# Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 May 2021.

## Records

Before the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nationality | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:54.00 | Shanghai | 24 July 2011 |
| European record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:55.18 | Rome | 29 July 2009 |
| Championship record | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:56.66 | Debrecen | 23 May 2012 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 19 May at 10:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:58.10 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 6 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:58.12 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:58.14 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:58.46 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | Joe Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:58.79 | |
| 6 | 4 | 5 | Hubert Kós | Hungary | 1:58.87 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:58.90 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 6 | Hugo González | Spain | 1:58.99 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 1:59.31 | Q, WD |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | James McFadzen | Great Britain | 1:59.34 | |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Maxim Stupin | Russia | 1:59.84 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 2 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:59.85 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 2:00.01 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 7 | Bernhard Reitshammer | Austria | 2:00.14 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 3 | Ilya Borodin | Russia | 2:00.23 | |
| 16 | 5 | 6 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 2:00.26 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 1 | Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas | Norway | 2:00.32 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | 8 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:00.35 | Q |
| 19 | 4 | 8 | Dániel Sós | Hungary | 2:00.54 | |
| 20 | 2 | 3 | Samuel Törnqvist | Sweden | 2:00.68 | Q |
| 21 | 4 | 2 | Ron Polonsky | Israel | 2:01.54 | Q |
| 22 | 2 | 7 | Berke Saka | Turkey | 2:01.58 | |
| 23 | 3 | 0 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 2:01.80 | |
| 24 | 4 | 9 | Joan Lluís Pons | Spain | 2:02.14 | |
| 25 | 5 | 8 | Clément Bidard | France | 2:02.29 | |
| 26 | 5 | 1 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 2:02.30 | |
| 27 | 4 | 7 | Apostolos Papastamos | Greece | 2:02.49 | |
| 28 | 2 | 5 | Dawid Szwedzki | Poland | 2:03.22 | |
| 29 | 2 | 9 | Richard Nagy | Slovakia | 2:03.35 | |
| 30 | 5 | 9 | Metin Aydın | Turkey | 2:03.45 | |
| 31 | 2 | 4 | Daniil Giourtzidis | Greece | 2:03.65 | |
| 32 | 3 | 9 | Danny Schmidt | Germany | 2:04.63 | |
| 33 | 2 | 6 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:04.84 | |
| 34 | 2 | 2 | Maksym Holubnychyi | Ukraine | 2:05.15 | |
| 35 | 3 | 7 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:05.60 | |
| 36 | 2 | 0 | Marius Toscan | Switzerland | 2:06.59 | |
| 37 | 1 | 5 | Arti Krasniqi | Kosovo | 2:07.29 | NR |
| 38 | 1 | 4 | Joao Soares Carneiro | Luxembourg | 2:07.84 | |
| 39 | 2 | 8 | Alex Kušík | Slovakia | 2:08.16 | |
| 40 | 1 | 3 | Thomas Wareing | Malta | 2:08.34 | |
| 41 | 2 | 1 | Ievhen Khrypunov | Ukraine | 2:09.44 | |
| 42 | 1 | 6 | Paolo Priska | Albania | 2:19.93 | |
| | 4 | 0 | Gal Cohen Groumi | Israel | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 1 | Balázs Holló | Hungary | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 19 May at 19:24.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:57.39 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:58.42 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:58.45 | q |
| 4 | 7 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:58.62 | q |
| 5 | 6 | Maxim Stupin | Russia | 1:58.99 | |
| 6 | 2 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.13 | |
| 7 | 1 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:00.46 | |
| | 8 | Ron Polonsky | Israel | 2:01.11 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Hubert Kós | Hungary | 1:56.99 | Q, WJ |
| 2 | 4 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:57.42 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:57.48 | q |
| 4 | 6 | Hugo González | Spain | 1:58.08 | q |
| 5 | 2 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 2:00.60 | |
| 6 | 8 | Samuel Törnqvist | Sweden | 2:01.24 | |
| 7 | 7 | Bernhard Reitshammer | Austria | 2:01.40 | |
| 8 | 1 | Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas | Norway | 2:03.68 | |

### Final

The final was held on 20 May at 19:16.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Hugo González | Spain | 1:56.76 | NR |
| | 3 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:56.95 | |
| | 5 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:57.25 | |
| 4 | 1 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:58.04 | |
| 5 | 4 | Hubert Kós | Hungary | 1:58.12 | |
| 6 | 6 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:58.18 | |
| 7 | 8 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:58.35 | |
| 8 | 7 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:58.52 | |