# Swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be held on 30 July at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:
| World record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 1:42.00 | Rome, Italy | 28 July 2009 |
| Commonwealth record | Ian Thorpe (AUS) | 1:44.06 | Fukuoka, Japan | 25 July 2001 |
| Games record | Ian Thorpe (AUS) | 1:44.71 | Manchester, United Kingdom | 31 July 2002 |

## Schedule

The schedule is as follows:
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
| Date | Time | Round |
| Saturday 30 July 2022 | 10:30 | Heats |
| Saturday 30 July 2022 | 19:43 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:46.87 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 1:47.16 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Tom Dean | England | 1:47.19 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Mack Horton | Australia | 1:47.37 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | Matt Richards | Wales | 1:47.59 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Calum Jarvis | Wales | 1:48.22 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 5 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 1:48.25 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | Joe Litchfield | England | 1:48.44 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 6 | Jack McMillan | Northern Ireland | 1:48.51 | R |
| 10 | 3 | 6 | Ruslan Gaziev | Canada | 1:48.59 | R |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Khiew Hoe Yean | Malaysia | 1:48.85 | |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | Cameron Kurle | England | 1:48.94 | |
| 13 | 4 | 7 | Kieran Bird | Wales | 1:48.99 | |
| 14 | 4 | 1 | Evan Jones | Scotland | 1:49.00 | |
| 15 | 4 | 5 | Zac Incerti | Australia | 1:49.54 | |
| 16 | 5 | 1 | Stephen Milne | Scotland | 1:49.56 | |
| 17 | 5 | 7 | Jeremy Bagshaw | Canada | 1:49.57 | |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | Andrew Ross | South Africa | 1:49.75 | |
| 19 | 4 | 2 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 1:49.83 | |
| 20 | 3 | 2 | Cameron Gray | New Zealand | 1:50.35 | |
| 21 | 3 | 1 | James Freeman | Botswana | 1:50.63 | NR |
| 22 | 4 | 8 | Arvin Chahal | Malaysia | 1:51.73 | |
| 23 | 5 | 8 | Alex Bregazzi | Isle of Man | 1:52.339 | |
| 24 | 2 | 4 | James Allison | Cayman Islands | 1:54.14 | |
| 25 | 3 | 8 | Kushagra Rawat | India | 1:54.56 | |
| 26 | 2 | 2 | Luke-Kennedy Thompson | Bahamas | 1:55.44 | |
| 27 | 2 | 6 | Christos Manoli | Cyprus | 1:56.16 | |
| 28 | 2 | 3 | Peter Allen | Isle of Man | 1:57.48 | |
| 29 | 2 | 1 | Collins Saliboko | Tanzania | 1:57.76 | |
| 30 | 1 | 6 | Tyler Fred | Seychelles | 1:58.46 | |
| 31 | 1 | 5 | Samuel Lowe | Guernsey | 1:59.45 | |
| 32 | 2 | 7 | Monyo Maina | Kenya | 1:59.72 | |
| 33 | 2 | 5 | Ollie Brehaut | Jersey | 2:00.62 | |
| 34 | 1 | 4 | Temafa Yalimaiwai | Fiji | 2:00.87 | |
| 35 | 2 | 8 | Matt Savitz | Gibraltar | 2:01.46 | |
| 36 | 1 | 3 | Kow Jackson | Ghana | 2:10.24 | |
| 37 | 1 | 2 | Stefan Thomas | Saint Helena | 2:12.70 | |
| 38 | 1 | 7 | William Caswell | Saint Helena | 1:57.48 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 1:45.02 |
| | 3 | Tom Dean | England | 1:45.41 |
| | 4 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:45.62 |
| 4 | 6 | Mack Horton | Australia | 1:46.78 |
| 5 | 2 | Matt Richards | Wales | 1:47.19 |
| 6 | 1 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 1:47.75 |
| 7 | 7 | Calum Jarvis | Wales | 1:47.84 |
| 8 | 8 | Joe Litchfield | England | 1:48.87 |