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 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m S7	men
50 m S13	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S9		women
200 m	men	women
200 m S14	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S8		women
100 m S9	men
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m SB6		women
100 m SB8	men
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S10	men
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
200 m SM10		women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
	mixed
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
	mixed
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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]

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]