The Men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games took place on 8 October 2010, at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex.
Three heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The top eight from there qualified for the finals.
Heats
Heat 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Leith Brodie 2:01.41 Q 2 4 Darian Townsend 2:01.72 Q 3 5 Thomas Fraser-Holmes 2:03.32 Q 4 6 Ieuan Lloyd 2:03.55 5 3 Robert Ford 2:03.65 6 2 Ian Kumarakulasinghe 2:07.22 7 7 Jeremy Matthews 2:12.48
Heat 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Joseph Roebuck 2:01.80 Q 2 3 Sebastien Rousseau 2:02.33 Q 3 6 Roberto Pavoni 2:03.37 4 5 Brian Johns 2:03.91 5 2 Thomas Hollingsworth 2:05.90 6 7 Rehan Poncha 2:09.64 7 1 Colin Bensadon 2:18.49
Heat 3 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 James Goddard 2:00.43 Q 2 5 Chad le Clos 2:02.90 Q 3 6 Tobias Oriwol 2:02.97 Q 4 2 Lewis Smith 2:03.88 5 3 Tommaso D'Orsogna 2:06.38 6 7 Ian Black 2:09.69 7 1 Agnishwar Jayaprakash 2:10.51
Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 James Goddard 1:58.10 CG 6 Joseph Roebuck 1:59.86 5 Leith Brodie 2:00.00 4 3 Darian Townsend 2:00.29 5 7 Chad le Clos 2:00.74 6 8 Thomas Fraser-Holmes 2:02.31 7 2 Sebastien Rousseau 2:02.65 8 1 Tobias Oriwol 2:03.09
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