Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

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Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates9 April
Competitors20 from 20 nations
Winning time1:56.10
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
  2014
2022  

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 9 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

World record Flag of the United States.svg  Aaron Peirsol  (USA)1:51.92 Rome, Italy 31 July 2009
Commonwealth record Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Mitch Larkin  (AUS)1:53.17 Dubai, United Arab Emirates 7 November 2015
Games record Flag of England.svg  James Goddard  (ENG)1:55.58 Delhi, India 6 October 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:31. [1]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
125 Martin Binedell Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1:57.92Q
234 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:57.99Q
314 Bradley Woodward Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:58.41Q
435 Luke Greenbank Flag of England.svg  England 1:58.54Q
524 Josh Beaver Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:58.73Q
636 Markus Thormeyer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:59.68Q
733 Xavier Castelli Flag of Wales 2.svg  Wales 2:00.08Q
826 Craig McNally Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 2:00.26Q
923 Conor Ferguson Ulster banner.svg  Northern Ireland 2:00.77
1037 Lewis Clareburt Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:01.54
1115 Corey Main Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:01.73
1216 Josiah Binnema Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:02.06
1313 Jarryd Baxter Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 2:02.17
1427 Bradlee Ashby Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:02.32
1517 Jason Arthur Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana 2:03.91
1632 Stephen Milne Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 2:04.45
1722 Srihari Nataraj Flag of India.svg  India 2:04.75
1812 Luan Grobbelaar Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 2:06.10
1921 Harry Shalamon Flag of Jersey.svg  Jersey 2:06.29
2031 Akalanka Peiris Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 2:11.56

Final

The heats was held at 19:37. [2]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg5 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:56.10
Silver medal icon.svg3 Bradley Woodward Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:56.57
Bronze medal icon.svg2 Josh Beaver Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:57.04
46 Luke Greenbank Flag of England.svg  England 1:57.43
57 Markus Thormeyer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:57.82
64 Martin Binedell Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1:57.87
78 Craig McNally Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 1:58.32
81 Xavier Castelli Flag of Wales 2.svg  Wales 1:59.27

References

  1. "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-11. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  2. "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2018-04-11.