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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay final result

Sat Aug 9, 2008 11:47pm EDT
 
 Aug 10 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 4 x 100m
freestyle relay final result in Beijing on Sunday.
 1. Netherlands
 Inge Dekker/Ranomi Kromowidjojo/Femke Heemskerk/Marleen
Veldhuis 3 minutes 33.76 seconds OR
 2. U.S.
 Natalie Coughlin/Lacey Nymeyer/Kara Lynn Joyce/Dara Torres
3:34.33
 3. Australia
 Cate Campbell/Alice Mills/Melanie Schlanger/Libby Trickett
3:35.05
 4. China
 Zhu Yingwen/Tang Yi/Xu Yanwei/Pang Jiaying 3:35.64
 5. Germany
 Britta Steffen/Meike Freitag/Daniela Goetz/Antje Buschschulte
3:36.85
 6. France
 Celine Couderc/Alena Popchanka/Ophelie Cyriell Etienne/Malia
Metella 3:37.68
 7. Britain
 Francesca Halsall/Caitlin McClatchey/Jessica Sylvester/Melanie
Marshall 3:38.18
 8. Canada
 Julia Wilkinson/Erica Morningstar/Genevieve Saumur/Audrey
Lacroix 3:38.32
 OR = Olympic record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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