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

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	28 July 2014
Competitors	18 from 15 nations
Winning time	1:55.83
Medalists
Mitch Larkin   Australia   Josh Beaver   Australia   Matson Lawson   Australia

Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
100 m S8				women
100 m S9		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
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
100 m SB9				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 SM10				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 backstroke event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 28 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The medals were presented by Gregor Tait, the 2006 Commonwealth champion in this event and the quaichs were presented by Stuart Ogg, Director of Corporate Services of Sportscotland.

Records

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

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009	[1][2]
Games record	James Goddard (ENG)	1:55:58	Delhi, India	6 October 2010
Commonwealth record		'

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Larkin, MitchMitch Larkin	Australia	1:57.44	Q
2	1	4	Lawson, MatsonMatson Lawson	Australia	1:57.79	Q
3	1	3	Main, CoreyCorey Main	New Zealand	1:57.86	Q
4	3	5	Beaver, JoshJosh Beaver	Australia	1:58.34	Q
5	2	5	Bennett, RyanRyan Bennett	Scotland	1:59.44	Q
6	3	3	Wood, RussellRussell Wood	Canada	1:59.92	Q
7	2	4	McNally, CraigCraig McNally	Scotland	2:00.00	Q
8	2	3	Mohammed, XavierXavier Mohammed	Wales	2:01.04	Q
9	1	5	Murray, DarrenDarren Murray	South Africa	2:01.48
10	3	6	Halsall, GrantGrant Halsall	Isle of Man	2:05.30
11	1	6	Gallichan, TomTom Gallichan	Jersey	2:09.15
12	1	2	Wynter, TimothyTimothy Wynter	Jamaica	2:09.23
13	3	2	Tern Jian Han	Malaysia	2:10.07
14	3	7	Jurkiewicz, JamesJames Jurkiewicz	Guernsey	2:11.61
15	2	7	Courtis, ChristopherChristopher Courtis	Barbados	2:13.18
16	2	2	McCallum, AlexAlex McCallum	Cayman Islands	2:13.87
17	1	7	Maina, StevenSteven Maina	Kenya	2:14.90
18	2	6	Pavoni, RobertoRoberto Pavoni	England	9:59.99	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Larkin, MitchMitch Larkin	Australia	1:55.83
	6	Beaver, JoshJosh Beaver	Australia	1:56.19
	5	Lawson, MatsonMatson Lawson	Australia	1:56.63
4	3	Main, CoreyCorey Main	New Zealand	1:57.79
5	1	McNally, CraigCraig McNally	Scotland	1:58.27
6	2	Bennett, RyanRyan Bennett	Scotland	1:58.45
7	7	Wood, RussellRussell Wood	Canada	1:59.32
8	8	Mohammed, XavierXavier Mohammed	Wales	1:59.65

References

1. "Cavic supplants Phelps' 100 fly time". ESPN. 31 July 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
2. Michaelis, Vicky (31 July 2009). "Phelps earns relay gold medal, Peirsol sets 200m backstroke mark". USA Today. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

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