title: Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke
text: # Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke
  
  The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place 1 August. The heats and the final were held on 1 August.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Final
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 2 | James Goddard | England | 1:59.83 |
  | | 5 | Gregor Tait | Scotland | 2:00.55 |
  | | 3 | Simon Militis | England | 2:01.04 |
  | 4 | 6 | Leigh McBean | Australia | 2:01.22 |
  | 5 | 7 | Ethan Rolff | Australia | 2:01.65 |
  | 6 | 1 | Cameron Gibson | New Zealand | 2:02.00 |
  | 7 | 8 | Carlos Sayao | Canada | 2:03.05 |
  | 8 | 4 | Keith Beavers | Canada | 2:03.29 |
  
  Key: WR = World record
  
  ### Preliminaries
  
  | Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 3 | 3 | Keith Beavers | Canada | 2:01.22 | Q |
  | 2 | 2 | 4 | Gregor Tait | Scotland | 2:01.51 | Q |
  | 3 | 1 | 4 | Simon Militis | England | 2:02.46 | Q |
  | 4 | 2 | 5 | Leigh McBean | Australia | 2:02.54 | Q |
  | 5 | 3 | 5 | James Goddard | England | 2:02.62 | Q |
  | 6 | 1 | 3 | Ethan Rolff | Australia | 2:02.63 | Q |
  | 7 | 1 | 5 | Cameron Gibson | New Zealand | 2:02.76 | Q |
  | 8 | 2 | 6 | Carlos Sayao | Canada | 2:02.94 | Q |
  | 9 | 2 | 3 | Tobias Oriwol | Canada | 2:04.24 | |
  | 10 | 3 | 6 | Alex Lim | Malaysia | 2:04.40 | |
  | 11 | 1 | 6 | Nicholas Neckles | Barbados | 2:05.58 | |
  | 12 | 1 | 2 | Dane Harrop | Isle of Man | 2:09.32 | |
  | 13 | 3 | 2 | Ian Powell | Guernsey | 2:09.49 | |
  | 14 | 2 | 2 | Andrew Mackay | Cayman Islands | 2:09.71 | |
  | 15 | 3 | 7 | Jonathon Le Noury | Guernsey | 2:13.30 | |
  | 16 | 2 | 7 | Kabir Walia | Kenya | 2:29.07 | |
  | - | 3 | 4 | Matt Welsh | Australia | DQ | |
  