Commonwealth Games 2018 - Men's Swimming 200m Butterfly, India's Sajan Prakash leads the charge: Live Updates

The 200m Men's Butterfly event is set to get underway at 6 pm.

Updated: 07 April 2018 06:21 IST - Published: 07 April 2018 03:26 IST

That's all from the live coverage from the Optus Aquatic Arena from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Sajan Prakash is out of contention for a final spot.

India's Sajan Prakash finishes his run with a timing of 1:58.87. Fifth in Heat 2.

And we're off in the Heat 2 as the swimmers start the race from the diveboard.

Heat 1 is expected to start in a couple of minutes. Stay tuned as we bring all the live updates from the pool right here.

This is the lineup for the Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 2

Cherantha de Silva (Sri Lanka)
Sajan Prakash (India)
Mackenzie Darragh (Canada)
Chad Le Clos (South Africa)
James Guy (England)
Duncan Scott (Scotland)
Bradlee Ashby (New Zealand)

14 swimmers will compete in two heats and the top eight from the two heats will move on to the final.

The Men's 200m Butterfly heats will take place in a few minutes' time as Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash hits the pool for a place in the final.

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the Commonwealth Games 2018 as the Swimming events are set to start at the Optus Aquatic Centre.

India has started the Commonwealth games strongly, winning four medals already. All the medals, however, have come in weightlifting but there has been progress in other events as well. One event that has particularly disappointed has been swimming with The competitors usually bowing out in heats. Virdhawal Khade did make it out of the heats only to lose in the next round. Khelo India sensation Srihari Nataraj, who is making his CWG debut also couldn't move out of his heat.

Day 3 of the Commonwealth Games brings back swimming amongst other sports with Sajan Prakash the athlete on display.

Sajan had already taken part in 50m butterfly on Day 1 of the games but failed to qualify from his heat.

The 24-year-old swimmer was born in Kerala and is taking part in 4 events at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
Sajan will be hoping to do better than his previous appearance when he returns to Optus Aquatic Centre on Day 3 of the games.