Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Men's 200 metre breaststroke ; at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Date	August 4, 2002
Competitors	17 from 10 nations
Winning time	2:13.10
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place on 4 August 2002 at Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Schedule

All times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Mike Barrowman	United States	2:10.16	Barcelona	29 July 1992
Games record	Nick Gillingham	England	2:12.54	Victoria	22 August 1994

The heats were held the morning session on 4 August.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Jim Piper	Australia	2:15.21	Q
1	3	3	Michael Brown	Canada	2:15.21	Q
3	3	6	Andrew Bree	Northern Ireland	2:15.24	Q
4	3	5	Regan Harrison	Australia	2:15.60	Q
5	2	4	Terence Parkin	South Africa	2:15.72	Q
6	2	3	Adam Whitehead	England	2:15.83	Q
7	1	4	Morgan Knabe	Canada	2:16.21	Q
7	1	5	Ian Edmond	Scotland	2:16.21	Q
9	1	3	John Stamhuis	Canada	2:16.83
10	2	5	Justin Norris	Australia	2:17.92
11	2	6	Adrian Turner	England	2:18.79
12	1	6	Michael Williamson	Northern Ireland	2:19.23
13	2	7	Wickus Nienaber	Swaziland	2:25.72
14	3	2	Graham Smith	Bermuda	2:32.84
15	1	2	Jamie Zammitt	Gibraltar	2:35.55
16	2	2	Gavin Santos	Gibraltar	2:36.63
17	3	7	Chisela Kanchela	Zambia	2:53.66

The final were held the evening session on 4 August.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Jim Piper	Australia	2:13.10
	2	Terence Parkin	South Africa	2:13.34
	5	Michael Brown	Canada	2:13.82
4	7	Adam Whitehead	England	2:14.40
5	3	Andrew Bree	Northern Ireland	2:14.48
6	8	Ian Edmond	Scotland	2:14.56
7	6	Regan Harrison	Australia	2:15.86
8	1	Morgan Knabe	Canada	2:16.73