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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 100m butterfly semi-final results

Sat Aug 9, 2008 10:41pm EDT
 
 Aug 10 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 100m butterfly
semi-final results in Beijing on Sunday.
  Semi-final one
 1.  Lisbeth Trickett (Australia)       57.05 seconds
 2.  Christine Magnuson (United States) 57.08
 3.  Li Tao (Singapore)                 57.54
 4.  Jemma Lowe (Britain)               57.78
 5.  Aurore Mongel (France)             58.46
 6.  Alena Popchanka (France)           58.55
 6.  Elaine Breeden (United States)     58.55
 8.  Lize-Mari Retief (South Africa)    58.63
  Semi-final two
 1.  Jessicah Schipper (Australia)      57.43
 2.  Zhou Yafei (China)                 57.68
 3.  Inge Dekker (Netherlands)          58.20
 4.  Gabriella Silva (Brazil)           58.39
 5.  Eszter Dara (Hungary)              58.84
 6.  Natalia Soutiaguina (Russia)       59.07
 7.  Jeanette Ottesen (Denmark)         59.29
 .   Ilaria Bianchi (Italy)             DSQ
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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