By Annika Johnson on SwimSwam
2021 LEN EUROPEAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Swimming: Monday, May 17th – Sunday, May 23rd, 2021
- Budapest, Hungary
- Prelims at 10:00 am local/Finals at 6:00 pm local
- Event Site
- Entry List
- Live Results
- Live Stream
20-year-old Roman Mityukov crushed the Swiss National Record during the men’s 200 back semifinal on Friday, going 1:56.37 to snag the 2nd spot going into tomorrow’s final. He beat his own National Record, which he set in January, by a full second.
2020-2021 LCM Men 200 Back
Rylov
1:53.23
| 2 | Mitch Larkin | AUS | 1:54.38 | 04/16 |
| 3 | Xu Jiayu | CHN | 1:55.26 | 09/27 |
| 4 | Luke Greenbank | GBR | 1:55.34 | 03/12 |
| 5 | Ryosuke Irie | JPN | 1:55.52 | 04/08 |
| 6 | Kosuke Hagino | JPN | 1:55.84 | 03/04 |
| 7 | Ryan Murphy | USA | 1:56.06 | 03/05 |
| 8 | Yohann Ndoye Brouard | FRA | 1:56.10 | 03/20 |
| 9 | Keita Sunama | JPN | 1:56.11 | 11/07 |
| 10 | Adam Telegdy | HUN | 1:56.34 | 12/10 |
| 11 | Roman Mityukov | SUI | 1:56.37 | 05/21 |
| 12 | Tristan Hollard | AUS | 1:56.40 | 04/17 |
He finished 14th in the this event at the 2019 World Championships, in a tie with Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys.
Mityukov is on a roll at the European Championships, as he set the 100 back National Swiss Record yesterday during prelims.
In the same heat, Portugal’s Francisco Santos downed his own National Record from March by about .20. 22-year-old Santos finished in 6th place with a time of 1:58.03.
He took out the race .54 faster than his previous record-setting swim, but came back about one-third of a second slower. The results do not currently show splits for Mityukov, besides the fact he had the fastest reaction time of .52, but Santos split his race:
| Santos | Prev Record | |
| 50 | 56.78 | 57.32 |
| 100 | 1:01.25 | 1:00.90 |
| 1:58.03 | 1:58.22 |
The record Santos beat in March was set by Pedro Diogo Oliveira at 1:58.83 and it had stood since the London 2012 Olympics.
Read the full story on SwimSwam: Mityukov and Santos Crack National Records in 200 Back Semifinal