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

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
Jim Piper    Australia   Terence Parkin    South Africa   Michael Brown    Canada

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	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m		women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place on 4 August 2002 at Manchester Aquatics Centre.

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	Notes
	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