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

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 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth record | Christian Sprenger (AUS) | 2:07.31 | Rome, Italy | 30 July 2009 |
| Games record | Brenton Rickard (AUS) | 2:10.89 | Delhi, India | 9 October 2010 |

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 | CR |
| | 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 | |
