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

Men's 200 metres freestyle at the Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	31 July 2002
Competitors	21 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:44.71 min
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Grant Hackett    Australia   Rick Say    Canada
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Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m EAD	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m EAD	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men
200 m	men
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m		women
100 m
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m		women
400 m
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men
4×200 m		women
Medley relay
4×100 m
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The Men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was held on 31 July at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing records were as follows;

World record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	1:44.06	Fukushima, Japan	25 July 2001	[1]
Commonwealth record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	1:44.06	Fukushima, Japan	25 July 2001	[1]
Games record		'

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
31 July	Final	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:44.71	GR

Results[]

Heats[]

The 8 fastest swimmers in the heats qualified for the semifinals.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:48.50	Q
2	2	4	Grant Hackett	Australia	1:49.22	Q
3	1	4	Rick Say	Canada	1:49.94	Q
4	3	5	Mark Johnston	Canada	1:50.26	Q
5	3	3	Brian Johns	Canada	1:50.40	Q
6	2	5		England	1:50.41	Q
7	1	5	Jason Cram	Australia	1:50.56	Q
8	2	3	David Carry	Scotland	1:51.45	Q
9	2	6	David Davies	Wales	1:51.89
10	3	6	Damian Alleyne		1:53.61
11	3	2	Alexandros Aresti		1:54.05
12	1	6	Mark Chay		1:55.53
13	2	2			1:55.88
14	1	7			2:01.63
15	1	2			2:01.94
16	3	7			2:03.59
17	2	7			2:03.71
18	3	1			2:07.35
19	2	1	Colin Bensadon		2:08.24
20	1	1			2:10.96
21	3	8			2:12.70

Final[]

The final was held on 31 July at 20:31.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:44.71	GR
	5	Grant Hackett	Australia	1:46.13
	3	Rick Say	Canada	1:49.40
4	7		England	1:50.01
5	2	Brian Johns	Canada	1:50.27
6	1	Jason Cram	Australia	1:50.30
7	6	Mark Johnston	Canada	1:51.18
8	8	David Carry	Scotland	1:51.22

References[]