Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley
# Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 29 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The medals were presented by David Wilkie, the 1974 Commonwealth champion in this event and the quaichs were presented by Dr. Bridget McConnell, Board member of Glasgow 2014.

## Records

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

| World record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth record | Leith Brodie (AUS) | 1:56.69 | Rome, Italy | 30 July 2009 |
| Games record | James Goddard (ENG) | 1:58.10 | Delhi, India | 8 October 2010 |

The following records were established during the competition:

| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 29 July | Final | Daniel Tranter | Australia | 1:57.83 | GR |

## Results

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Daniel Tranter | Australia | 1:59.05 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | Daniel Wallace | Scotland | 1:59.36 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 6 | Sebastien Rousseau | South Africa | 1:59.61 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Roberto Pavoni | England | 1:59.79 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Joseph Roebuck | England | 2:00.46 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 5 | Ieuan Lloyd | Wales | 2:00.73 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 4 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 2:00.78 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 4 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | Australia | 2:00.97 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 6 | Evan White | Canada | 2:01.28 | |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Mitchell Donaldson | New Zealand | 2:01.32 | |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Xavier Mohammed | Wales | 2:01.47 | |
| 12 | 4 | 7 | Luke Reilly | Canada | 2:03.10 | |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | Dylan Bosch | South Africa | 2:04.03 | |
| 14 | 2 | 6 | Lewis Coleman | England | 2:04.63 | |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Joseph Schooling | Singapore | 2:07.04 | |
| 16 | 3 | 7 | Thomas Hollingsworth | Guernsey | 2:08.35 | |
| 17 | 4 | 1 | Luke Belton | Guernsey | 2:13.54 | |
| 18 | 2 | 7 | Colin Bensadon | Gibraltar | 2:13.74 | |
| 19 | 3 | 1 | Ralph Goveia | Zambia | 2:13.90 | |
| 20 | 2 | 1 | Alexandros Axiotis | Zambia | 2:14.58 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 2:18.49 | |
| 22 | 1 | 5 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 2:18.89 | |
| 23 | 1 | 3 | Stanford Kawale | Papua New Guinea | 2:24.57 | |
| 24 | 1 | 4 | Nisar Ahmed | Pakistan | 2:25.69 | |
| | 2 | 3 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | | DNS |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | Daniel Tranter | Australia | 1:57.83 | GR |
| | 5 | Daniel Wallace | Scotland | 1:58.72 | |
| | 1 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:58.85 | |
| 4 | 8 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | Australia | 1:58.86 | |
| 5 | 6 | Roberto Pavoni | England | 1:59.30 | |
| 6 | 2 | Joseph Roebuck | England | 1:59.33 | |
| 7 | 7 | Ieuan Lloyd | Wales | 2:00.44 | |
| 8 | 3 | Sebastien Rousseau | South Africa | 2:01.61 | |
