Swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Swimming
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Swimming ; at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Sandwell Aquatics Centre
Dates	29 July – 3 August 2022
Competitors	449 from 57 nations
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Swimming was among the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. The sport had been staged in all twenty-one previous editions of the Games thus far,^[1] and will be contested in England for the third time.

The competition took place between 29 July and 3 August 2022, spread across fifty-two events (including twelve parasport events).^[2] For the first time, visually impaired swimming was held at the Commonwealth Games.^[3]

Schedule

The competition schedule was as follows:^[2]

H	Heats	½	Semi-finals	F	Final

**Men**
Date Event	Fri 29		Sat 30		Sun 31		Mon 1		Tue 2		Wed 3
Session →	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle									H	½		F
50 m freestyle S7							H	F
50 m freestyle S13			H	F
100 m freestyle					H	½		F
200 m freestyle			H	F
200 m freestyle S14											H	F
400 m freestyle	H	F
1500 m freestyle									H			F
50 m backstroke					H	½		F
100 m backstroke	H	½		F
100 m backstroke S9	H	F
200 m backstroke									H	F
50 m breaststroke							H	½		F
100 m breaststroke			H	½		F
100 m breaststroke SB8					H	F
200 m breaststroke	H	F
50 m butterfly	H	½		F
100 m butterfly							H	½		F
100 m butterfly S10									H	F
200 m butterfly					H	F
200 m individual medley											H	F
400 m individual medley			H	F
4×100 m freestyle relay			H	F
4×200 m freestyle relay							H	F
4×100 m medley relay											H	F

**Women**
Date Event	Fri 29		Sat 30		Sun 31		Mon 1		Tue 2		Wed 3
Session →	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle			H	½		F
50 m freestyle S13			H	F
100 m freestyle							H	½		F
100 m freestyle S9	H	F
200 m freestyle	H	F
200 m freestyle S14											H	F
400 m freestyle											H	F
800 m freestyle							H			F
50 m backstroke									H	½		F
100 m backstroke			H	½		F
100 m backstroke S8					H	F
200 m backstroke							H	F
50 m breaststroke	H	½		F
100 m breaststroke							H	½		F
100 m breaststroke SB6							H	F
200 m breaststroke					H	F
50 m butterfly					H	½		F
100 m butterfly	H	½		F
200 m butterfly									H	F
200 m individual medley							H	F
200 m individual medley SM10									H	F
400 m individual medley	H	F
4×100 m freestyle relay			H	F
4×200 m freestyle relay					H	F
4×100 m medley relay											H	F

**Mixed**
Date Event	Fri 29		Tue 2
Session →	M	E	M	E
4×100 m freestyle relay	H	F
4×100 m medley relay			H	F

Venue

The swimming competitions were held at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, the only new-build permanent venue constructed for the Games.^[4] The diving competition also took place there.^[5]

Qualification (parasport)

A total of up to 96 para swimmers (48 per gender) qualified to compete at the Games. Nations may earn three quotas per event, allocated as follows:^[6]

Athletes in the World Para Swimming (WPS) World Rankings (for performances between 31 December 2020 and 18 April 2022).
Recipients of a CGF/WPS Bipartite Invitation.

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (England)


Rank	CGA	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	25	21	19	65
2	England*	8	16	8	32
3	Canada	7	7	6	20
4	New Zealand	5	2	2	9
5	South Africa	4	4	3	11
6	Scotland	2	1	9	12
7	Northern Ireland	1	1	1	3
8	Singapore	0	2	0	2
9	Wales	0	0	2	2
Totals (9 entries)		52	54	50	156

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metre freestyle details	Benjamin Proud England	21.36	Lewis Burras England	21.88	Joshua Liendo Canada	22.02
100 metre freestyle details	Kyle Chalmers Australia	47.51	Tom Dean England	47.89	Duncan Scott Scotland	48.27
200 metre freestyle details	Duncan Scott Scotland	1:45.02	Tom Dean England	1:45.41	Elijah Winnington Australia	1:45.62
400 metre freestyle details	Elijah Winnington Australia	3:43.06	Samuel Short Australia	3:45.07	Mack Horton Australia	3:46.49
1500 metre freestyle details	Samuel Short Australia	14:48.54	Daniel Wiffen Northern Ireland	14:51.79 NR	Luke Turley England	15:12.78
50 metre backstroke details	Andrew Jeffcoat New Zealand	24.65 NR	Pieter Coetze South Africa	24.77	Javier Acevedo Canada	24.97 NR
100 metre backstroke details	Pieter Coetze South Africa	53.78	Brodie Williams England	53.91	Bradley Woodward Australia	54.06
200 metre backstroke details	Brodie Williams England	1:56.40	Bradley Woodward Australia	1:56.41	Pieter Coetze South Africa	1:56.77
50 metre breaststroke details	Adam Peaty England	26.76	Samuel Williamson Australia	26.97	Ross Murdoch Scotland	27.32
100 metre breaststroke details	James Wilby England	59.25	Zac Stubblety-Cook Australia	59.52	Samuel Williamson Australia	59.82
200 metre breaststroke details	Zac Stubblety-Cook Australia	2:08.07	James Wilby England	2:08.59	Ross Murdoch Scotland	2:10.41
50 metre butterfly details	Benjamin Proud England	22.81 GR	Tzen Wei Teong Singapore	23.21	Cameron Gray New Zealand	23.27 NR
100 metre butterfly details	Joshua Liendo Canada	51.24	James Guy England Matthew Temple Australia	51.40	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
200 metre butterfly details	Lewis Clareburt New Zealand	1:55.60	Chad Le Clos South Africa	1:55.89	James Guy England	1:56.77
200 metre individual medley details	Duncan Scott Scotland	1:56.88 GR	Tom Dean England	1:57.01	Lewis Clareburt New Zealand	1:57.59
400 metre individual medley details	Lewis Clareburt New Zealand	4:08.70 CR, OC	Brendon Smith Australia	4:10.15	Duncan Scott Scotland	4:11.27
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay details	Australia Flynn Southam (48.54) Zac Incerti (47.96) William Yang (47.60) Kyle Chalmers (47.02) Matthew Temple^[a] Cody Simpson^[a] Elijah Winnington^[a]	3:11.12 GR	England Lewis Burras (48.39) Jacob Whittle (47.94) James Guy (48.70) Tom Dean (46.70) Edward Mildred^[a] Joe Litchfield^[a] Jamie Ingram^[a] Cameron Kurle^[a]	3:11.73	Canada Joshua Liendo (48.33) Ruslan Gaziev (48.13) Finlay Knox (48.82) Javier Acevedo (47.73) Stephen Calkins^[a] Jeremy Bagshaw^[a] Eric Brown^[a]	3:13.01
4 × 200 metre freestyle relay details	Australia Elijah Winnington (1:46.36) Flynn Southam (1:46.08) Zac Incerti (1:46.08) Mack Horton (1:46.44)	7:04.96 GR	England James Guy (1:46.87) Jacob Whittle (1:47.89) Joe Litchfield (1:47.59) Tom Dean (1:45.15)	7:07.50	Scotland Stephen Milne (1:49.30) Evan Jones (1:47.64) Mark Szaranek (1:47.91) Duncan Scott (1:44.48)	7:09.33
4 × 100 metre medley relay details	England Brodie Williams (54.02) James Wilby (59.22) James Guy (51.22) Tom Dean (47.34) Luke Greenbank^[a] Greg Butler^[a] Jacob Peters^[a] Jacob Whittle^[a]	3:31.80	Australia Bradley Woodward (54.07) Zac Stubblety-Cook (59.92) Matthew Temple (51.03) Kyle Chalmers (46.86) Mitch Larkin^[a] Samuel Williamson^[a] Cody Simpson^[a] William Yang^[a]	3:31.88	Scotland Craig McNally (54.79) Ross Murdoch (59.59) Duncan Scott (51.74) Evan Jones (48.99) Martyn Walton^[a] Craig Benson^[a] Greg Swinney^[a] Stephen Milne^[a]	3:35.11

Parasport

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metre freestyle S7 details	Matthew Levy Australia	28.95	Toh Wei Soong Singapore	29.10	Christian Sadie South Africa	29.78
50 metre freestyle S13 details	Nicolas-Guy Turbide Canada	24.32	Stephen Clegg Scotland	24.33	Jacob Templeton Australia	24.47
200 metre freestyle S14 details	Nicholas Bennett Canada	1:54.97 GR	Benjamin Hance Australia	1:55.50	Jack Ireland Australia	1:56.15
100 metre backstroke S9 details	Timothy Hodge Australia	1:01.88 GR	Jesse Reynolds New Zealand	1:03.65	Barry McClements Northern Ireland	1:05.09
100 metre breaststroke SB8 details	Joshua Willmer New Zealand	1:14.12	Timothy Hodge Australia	1:14.19	Blake Cochrane Australia	1:18.97
100 metre butterfly S10 details	Col Pearse Australia	56.91	Alex Saffy Australia	57.53	James Hollis England	58.55

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metre freestyle details	Emma McKeon Australia	23.99	Meg Harris Australia	24.32	Shayna Jack Australia	24.36
100 metre freestyle details	Mollie O'Callaghan Australia	52.63	Shayna Jack Australia	52.88	Emma McKeon Australia	52.94
200 metre freestyle details	Ariarne Titmus Australia	1:53.89 GR	Mollie O'Callaghan Australia	1:54.01	Madison Wilson Australia	1:56.17
400 metre freestyle details	Ariarne Titmus Australia	3:58.06 GR	Summer McIntosh Canada	3:59.32 NR	Kiah Melverton Australia	4:03.12
800 metre freestyle details	Ariarne Titmus Australia	8:13.59 CR, OC	Kiah Melverton Australia	8:16.79	Lani Pallister Australia	8:19.16
50 metre backstroke details	Kylie Masse Canada	27.31 GR	Mollie O'Callaghan Australia	27.47	Kaylee McKeown Australia	27.58
100 metre backstroke details	Kaylee McKeown Australia	58.60 GR	Kylie Masse Canada	58.73	Medi Harris Wales	59.62
200 metre backstroke details	Kaylee McKeown Australia	2:05.60 GR	Kylie Masse Canada	2:07.81	Katie Shanahan Scotland	2:09.22
50 metre breaststroke details	Lara van Niekerk South Africa	29.73 GR	Imogen Clark England	30.02 NR	Chelsea Hodges Australia	30.05 OC
100 metre breaststroke details	Lara van Niekerk South Africa	1:05.47	Tatjana Schoenmaker South Africa	1:06.68	Chelsea Hodges Australia	1:07.05
200 metre breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker South Africa	2:21.92	Jenna Strauch Australia	2:23.65	Kaylene Corbett South Africa	2:23.67
50 metre butterfly details	Emma McKeon Australia	25.90	Erin Gallagher South Africa Holly Barratt Australia	26.05	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
100 metre butterfly details	Maggie Mac Neil Canada	56.36 GR	Emma McKeon Australia	56.38	Brianna Throssell Australia	57.50
200 metre butterfly details	Elizabeth Dekkers Australia	2:07.28	Laura Stephens England	2:07.90	Brianna Throssell Australia	2:08.32
200 metre individual medley details	Summer McIntosh Canada	2:08.70 WJ	Kaylee McKeown Australia	2:09.52	Abbie Wood England	2:10.68
400 metre individual medley details	Summer McIntosh Canada	4:29.01 WJ, CR, AM	Kiah Melverton Australia	4:36.78	Katie Shanahan Scotland	4:39.37
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay details	Australia Madison Wilson (53.22) Shayna Jack (52.72) Mollie O'Callaghan (52.66) Emma McKeon (52.04)	3:30.64	England Anna Hopkin (53.81) Abbie Wood (54.28) Isabella Hindley (55.10) Freya Anderson (53.43)	3:36.62	Canada Summer McIntosh (54.62) Katerine Savard (54.44) Rebecca Smith (55.08) Maggie Mac Neil (53.11)	3:37.25
4 × 200 metre freestyle relay details	Australia Madison Wilson (1:56.27) Kiah Melverton (1:55.40) Mollie O'Callaghan (1:54.80) Ariarne Titmus (1:52.82)	7:39.29 WR	Canada Summer McIntosh (1:55.24) Ella Jansen (1:57.83) Mary-Sophie Harvey (1:59.65) Katerine Savard (1:59.28)	7:51.98	England Freya Colbert (1:57.85) Tamryn van Selm (2:02.60) Abbie Wood (1:58.99) Freya Anderson (1:57.67)	7:57.11
4 × 100 metre medley relay details	Australia Kaylee McKeown (58.79) Chelsea Hodges (1:06.68) Emma McKeon (56.59) Mollie O'Callaghan (52.38)	3:54.44	Canada Kylie Masse (59.01) Sophie Angus (1:07.66) Maggie Mac Neil (56.59) Summer McIntosh (53.33)	3:56.59	England Lauren Cox (1:00.72) Molly Renshaw (1:06.61) Laura Stephens (58.96) Anna Hopkin (53.15)	3:59.44

Parasport

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metre freestyle S13 details	Katja Dedekind Australia	26.56 WR	Hannah Russell England	27.67	Kirralee Hayes Australia	28.24
100 metre freestyle S9 details	Sophie Pascoe New Zealand	1:02.95	Emily Beecroft Australia	1:03.74	Toni Shaw Scotland	1:03.75
200 metre freestyle S14 details	Bethany Firth Northern Ireland	2:07.02	Jessica-Jane Applegate England	2:08.58	Louise Fiddes England	2:11.22
100 metre backstroke S8 details	Alice Tai England	1:13.64	Tupou Neiufi New Zealand	1:17.91	Lily Rice Wales	1:23.06
100 metre breaststroke SB6 details	Maisie Summers-Newton England	1:32.72	Grace Harvey England	1:43.29	Camille Bérubé Canada	1:43.81
200 metre individual medley SM10 details	Jasmine Greenwood Australia	2:33.29	Aurélie Rivard Canada	2:34.26	Keira Stephens Australia	2:36.68

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay details	Australia William Yang (48.80) Kyle Chalmers (47.55) Mollie O'Callaghan (52.62) Emma McKeon (52.21) Flynn Southam^[a] Zac Incerti^[a] Meg Harris^[a] Madison Wilson^[a]	3:21.18 GR	England Lewis Burras (48.28) Tom Dean (48.12) Anna Hopkin (53.27) Freya Anderson (52.78) Edward Mildred^[a] Jacob Whittle^[a] Isabella Hindley^[a] Abbie Wood^[a]	3:22.45	Canada Javier Acevedo (49.05) Joshua Liendo (47.89) Rebecca Smith (54.41) Maggie Mac Neil (53.51) Ruslan Gaziev^[a] Stephen Calkins^[a] Ella Jansen^[a] Mary-Sophie Harvey^[a]	3:24.86
4 × 100 metre medley relay details	Australia Kaylee McKeown (59.01) Zac Stubblety-Cook (59.52) Matthew Temple (50.89) Emma McKeon (51.88) Mitch Larkin^[a] Samuel Williamson^[a] Alex Perkins^[a] Madison Wilson^[a]	3:41.30 GR	Canada Kylie Masse (59.11) James Dergousoff (1:00.57) Maggie Mac Neil (56.50) Ruslan Gaziev (47.80) Javier Acevedo^[a] Sophie Angus^[a] Patrick Hussey^[a] Rebecca Smith^[a]	3:43.98	England Lauren Cox (1:00.81) James Wilby (58.94) James Guy (51.19) Freya Anderson (53.09) Alicia Wilson^[a] Greg Butler^[a] Edward Mildred^[a] Abbie Wood^[a]	3:44.03

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Participating nations

There were 57 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in swimming with a total of 449 (246 men and 203 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.^[7]^[8] This marked Dominica's sport debut in the sport at the Commonwealth Games.^[9]

References

^ "Swimming at the Commonwealth Games". Topend Sports Network. Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
^ "Vision Impaired Swimmers to Compete in Commonwealth Games". www.mivision.com.au. mivision. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, commencing 28 July, will include visually impaired classifications in the para-swimming programme for the first time since swimming was featured in the Games in 1930.
^ Marshall, Jordan (13 December 2018). "Commonwealth Games aquatics centre design unveiled as architect on £60m project revealed". Building. Assemble Media Group. Archived from the original on 13 December 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
^ "Venues | SANDWELL AQUATICS CENTRE". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
^ "Athlete Allocation System | Para Swimming" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / World Para Swimming. 1 October 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 April 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
^ "Swimming Men Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
^ "Swimming Women Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
^ "Dominica to make swimming debut at Birmingham 2022". Caribbean Loop News. 6 July 2022. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.

External links

[1] "Swimming at the Commonwealth Games". Topend Sports Network. Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.

[swschedule-2] "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.

[3] "Vision Impaired Swimmers to Compete in Commonwealth Games". www.mivision.com.au. mivision. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, commencing 28 July, will include visually impaired classifications in the para-swimming programme for the first time since swimming was featured in the Games in 1930.

[4] Marshall, Jordan (13 December 2018). "Commonwealth Games aquatics centre design unveiled as architect on £60m project revealed". Building. Assemble Media Group. Archived from the original on 13 December 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2022.

[5] "Venues | SANDWELL AQUATICS CENTRE". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.

[6] "Athlete Allocation System | Para Swimming" (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / World Para Swimming. 1 October 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 April 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.

[7] "Swimming Men Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

[8] "Swimming Women Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

[9] "Dominica to make swimming debut at Birmingham 2022". Caribbean Loop News. 6 July 2022. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.

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