| Event: | Women's 200 metre freestyle |
| Games: | 2018 |
| Venue: | Gold Coast Aquatic Centre |
| Dates: | 5 April 2018 |
| Competitors: | 21 |
| Nations: | 12 |
| Win Value: | 1:54.81 |
| Gold: | Taylor Ruck |
| Goldcga: | CAN |
| Silver: | Ariarne Titmus |
| Silvercga: | AUS |
| Bronze: | Emma McKeon |
| Bronzecga: | AUS |
| Prev: | 2014 |
| Next: | 2022 |
The Women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 5 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:
The following records were established during the competition:
The schedule is as follows:[1]
All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
| Date | Time | Round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 5 April 2018 | 11:00 | Qualifying | ||
| style=background:lemonchiffon | 20:04 | style=background:lemonchiffon | Final |
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 1:57.02 | Q | ||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 1:57.40 | Q | ||
| 3 | 3 | 5 | 1:57.44 | Q | ||
| 4 | 1 | 4 | 1:57.87 | Q | ||
| 5 | 3 | 6 | 1:58.10 | Q | ||
| 6 | 1 | 5 | 1:58.21 | Q | ||
| 7 | 2 | 5 | 1:58.91 | Q | ||
| 8 | 3 | 3 | 1:59.18 | Q | ||
| 9 | 3 | 3 | 1:59.66 | |||
| 10 | 2 | 6 | 2:00.01 | |||
| 11 | 1 | 6 | 2:01.47 | |||
| 12 | 1 | 3 | 2:01.75 | |||
| 13 | 2 | 7 | 2:03.64 | |||
| 14 | 3 | 2 | 2:04.15 | |||
| 15 | 1 | 2 | 2:04.37 | |||
| 16 | 3 | 7 | 2:07.21 | |||
| 17 | 2 | 2 | 2:08.29 | |||
| 18 | 3 | 1 | 2:12.08 | |||
| 19 | 1 | 7 | 2:14.01 | |||
| 20 | 2 | 1 | 2:15.63 | |||
| 21 | 1 | 1 | 2:25.35 | |||
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1:54.81 | CR, GR | ||||
| 4 | 1:54.85 | |||||
| 5 | 1:56.26 | |||||
| 4 | 6 | 1:57.72 | ||||
| 5 | 2 | 1:58.55 | ||||
| 6 | 1 | 1:58.76 | ||||
| 7 | 7 | 1:59.55 | ||||
| 8 | 8 | 1:59.58 |