Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	24 July 2014 (2014-07-24)
Competitors	22 from 15 nations
Winning time	2:07.30 GR
Medalists
Ross Murdoch    Scotland   Michael Jamieson    Scotland   Andrew Willis    England

Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S8		women
100 m S8	men
200 m	men	women
200 m S14	men
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m SB9		women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
200 m SM8	men
200 m SM8		women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 24 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The medals were presented by Michael Cavanagh, Chairman of Commonwealth Games Scotland and the quaichs were presented by Louise Martin, Honorary Secretary of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Immediate Past Chair of Commonwealth Games Scotland and Vice-Chair of Glasgow 2014.

Records

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

World record	Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN)	2:07.01	Gifu, Japan	15 September 2012	[1][2]
Commonwealth record		'
Games record	Brenton Rickard (AUS)	2:10.89	Delhi, India	9 October 2010	[3]

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
24 July	Heat	Andrew Willis	England	2:10.50	GR
24 July	Heat	Ross Murdoch	Scotland	2:08.78	GR
24 July	Final	Ross Murdoch	Scotland	2:07.30	GR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Ross Murdoch	Scotland	2:08.78	Q, GR
2	3	4	Michael Jamieson	Scotland	2:10.17	Q
3	3	3	Calum Tait	Scotland	2:10.33	Q
4	2	4	Andrew Willis	England	2:10.50	Q, GR
5	2	5	Adam Peaty	England	2:10.80	Q
6	1	3	James Wilby	England	2:11.62	Q
7	1	5	Robert Holderness	Wales	2:11.70	Q
8	1	4	Christian Sprenger	Australia	2:11.96	Q
9	2	3	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:12.16
10	2	6	Richard Funk	Canada	2:12.56
11	1	6	Evan White	Canada	2:15.86
12	3	7	Guy Davies	Isle of Man	2:19.72
13	2	7	Luke Belton	Guernsey	2:21.28
14	1	7	Thomas Hollingsworth	Guernsey	2:22.38
15	2	2	Dustin Tynes	Bahamas	2:22.90
16	1	2	Micah Fernandes	Kenya	2:24.15
17	3	2	Christopher Cheong	Singapore	2:24.41
18	3	1	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	2:35.61
19	2	1	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	2:36.73
20	1	1	Corey Ollivierre	Grenada	2:43.17
21	3	8	Ntseke Setho	Lesotho	3:05.18
	3	6	Daniel Tranter	Australia		DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ross Murdoch	Scotland	2:07.30	GR
	5	Michael Jamieson	Scotland	2:08.40
	6	Andrew Willis	England	2:09.87
4	2	Adam Peaty	England	2:10.02
5	3	Calum Tait	Scotland	2:10.21
6	7	James Wilby	England	2:11.53
7	1	Robert Holderness	Wales	2:12.35
8	8	Christian Sprenger	Australia	2:12.69

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