Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	5 April 2018
Competitors	21 from 12 nations
Winning time	1:54.81
Medalists
Taylor Ruck    Canada   Ariarne Titmus    Australia   Emma McKeon    Australia

Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m S7/S8	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S9	men	women
200 m	men
200 m S14	men
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S9	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m SB8/SB9	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
50 m S7		women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
200 m SM8	men
200 m SM10		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 Women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 5 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

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

World record	Federica Pellegrini (ITA)	1:52.98	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Commonwealth record	Emma McKeon (AUS)	1:54.83	Adelaide, Australia	10 April 2016
Games record	Emma McKeon (AUS)	1:55.57	Glasgow, United Kingdom	24 July 2014

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
5 April	Final	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:54.81	CR, GR

The schedule is as follows:^[1]

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:57.02	Q
2	3	4	Emma McKeon	Australia	1:57.40	Q
3	3	5	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:57.44	Q
4	1	4	Eleanor Faulkner	England	1:57.87	Q
5	3	6	Holly Hibbott	England	1:58.10	Q
6	1	5	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	1:58.21	Q
7	2	5	Leah Neale	Australia	1:58.91	Q
8	3	3	Lucy Hope	Scotland	1:59.18	Q
9	3	3	Kathryn Greenslade	Wales	1:59.66
10	2	6	Carina Doyle	New Zealand	2:00.01
11	1	6	Ellena Jones	Wales	2:01.47
12	1	3	Joanna Evans	Bahamas	2:01.75
13	2	7	Gemma Atherley	Jersey	2:03.64
14	3	2	Dune Coetzee	South Africa	2:04.15
15	1	2	Kristin Bellingan	South Africa	2:04.37
16	3	7	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	2:07.21
17	2	2	Marlies Ross	South Africa	2:08.29
18	3	1	Alison Jackson	Cayman Islands	2:12.08
19	1	7	Makaela Holowchak	Antigua and Barbuda	2:14.01
20	2	1	Theresa Soukup	Seychelles	2:15.63
21	1	1	Aliah Maginley	Antigua and Barbuda	2:25.35

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:54.81	CR, GR
	4	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	1:54.85
	5	Emma McKeon	Australia	1:56.26
4	6	Eleanor Faulkner	England	1:57.72
5	2	Holly Hibbott	England	1:58.55
6	1	Leah Neale	Australia	1:58.76
7	7	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	1:59.55
8	8	Lucy Hope	Scotland	1:59.58