2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES
- Friday, July 29 – Wednesday, August 3, 2022
- Birmingham, England
- Sandwell Aquatic Center
- Start Times
- Prelims: 10:30 am local / 5:30 am ET
- Finals: 7:00 pm local / 2:00 pm ET
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Event Schedule
- Entry List
- Entries (in seed order) – h/t to Troyy
- Live Results
The 2022 Commonwealth Games are set to kick off on Friday from Birmingham, England, with an exciting six days in the pool set to feature some of the world’s best swimmers.
The meet will feature seven reigning world champions, along with eight current Olympic champions (individual).
Below, find everything you need to follow along with the competition.
EVENT SCHEDULE
- Friday, July 29 – Wednesday, August 3
Start Times
- Prelims
- 10:30 am local
- 5:30 am ET
- 2:30 am PT
- Finals
- 7:00 pm local
- 2:00 pm ET
- 11:00 am PT
You can find the full day-by-day event schedule here.
PSYCH SHEETS & RESULTS
A full list of entries per nation can be found on the Birmingham 2022 website here.
You can also find an entry list formatted like a traditional psych sheet, courtesy of commenter Troyy, here. Note that some entry times are in short course meters.
Live results for the meet should be posted here once the competition starts on Friday.
HOW TO WATCH
- Canadian viewers will be able to stream live daily coverage on the CBC website and the CBC Sports app. There are six daily streaming feeds, so expect one to be solely dedicated to swimming coverage during each session.
- UK viewers can watch more than 200 hours of Commonwealth Games coverage on the BBC iPlayer.
- Australian viewers can stream the Games on 7plus, including 30 live and replay channels.
EVENT PREVIEWS
SwimSwam has been providing discipline-by-discipline previews for the competition, which you can find below:
- Men’s Sprint Freestyle
- Men’s Distance Freestyle
- Men’s Backstroke
- Men’s Breaststroke
- Men’s Butterfly
- Men’s Individual Medley
- Men’s Relays
- Women’s Sprint Freestyle
- Women’s Distance Freestyle
- Women’s Backstroke
- Women’s Breaststroke
- Women’s Butterfly
- Women’s Individual Medley
- Women’s Relays
- Mixed Relays
Keep up with everything Commonwealth Games throughout the competition on our event channel here.
Anyone watching the 7plus coverage from overseas needs warning…
The commentators you will see won’t be the knowledgeable ones (eg Nicole Livingstone) who most people watching world feeds love.
. The lead commentator will be a guy called Basil Zempilas and is pretty much despised by all Aussie swimming fans.
Fortunately he will be assisted by Ian Thorpe & Cate Campbell who will bring their knowledge to the calls but, sadly, Basil will be talking a lot lot more than either.
Sorry 🙁
If there are any athletics (track & field) fans watching from overseas our commentators in that sport are much, much better.
I will miss the global feed but at least this way I won’t keep missing post-race interviews.
Allright I have all my excuses ready for when the Aussies outperform the Americans. Bring it on.
FYI You can find official entry lists and start lists (proper PDFs) under reports now:
https://results.birmingham2022.com/#/athletic-sports-reports/SWM/*
Thanks! It’s pretty confusing how every so often an entry time will be SCM (even though those swimmers have LCM entry times available) and they don’t even point that out so it’s like “oh why is this random person I’ve never heard of the fastest seed by 2 seconds”
They should’ve only accepted LCM times for seeding and left anyone without an LCM time unseeded.
So no watching the games from anywhere else in the world?! Amazing…
There may be other options, but non-Commonwealth countries may need a VPN.
The CBC website makes it fairly easy even with the cheapest VPN.
I’m watching Australian Channel 7 and it’s super easy with VPN
VPN +7Plus is easy…even for Americans.