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

Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:20pm EDT
 
 Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 100m backstroke
semi-final results in Beijing on Monday.
 Semi-final 1
 1.  Natalie Coughlin (United States) 59.43 seconds
 2.  Reiko Nakamura (Japan)           59.64
 3.  Gemma Spofforth (Britain)        59.79
 4.  Hanae Ito (Japan)                1:00.13
 5.  Elizabeth Simmonds (Britain)     1:00.39
 6.  Julia Wilkinson (Canada)         1:00.60
 7.  Sophie Edington (Australia)      1:01.05
 8.  Kseniya Moskvina (Russia)        1:01.06
 Semi-final 2
 1.  Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)       58.77 WR
 2.  Anastasia Zueva (Russia)         59.77
 3.  Margaret Hoelzer (United States) 59.84
 4.  Laure Manaudou (France)          1:00.19
 5.  Emily Seebohm (Australia)        1:00.31
 6.  Nina Zhivanevskaya (Spain)       1:00.50
 7.  Antje Buschschulte (Germany)     1:01.15
 8.  Elizabeth Coster (New Zealand)   1:01.45
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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