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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 100m backstroke qualifiers

Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:23pm EDT
 
 Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 100m backstroke
fastest qualifiers in Beijing on Monday.
  1.  Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)         58.77 seconds Q WR
  2.  Natalie Coughlin (United States)   59.43 Q
  3.  Reiko Nakamura (Japan)             59.64 Q
  4.  Anastasia Zueva (Russia)           59.77 Q
  5.  Gemma Spofforth (Britain)          59.79 Q
  6.  Margaret Hoelzer (United States)   59.84 Q
  7.  Hanae Ito (Japan)                1:00.13 Q
  8.  Laure Manaudou (France)          1:00.19 Q
  9.  Emily Seebohm (Australia)        1:00.31
 10. Elizabeth Simmonds (Britain)      1:00.39
 11. Nina Zhivanevskaya (Spain)        1:00.50
 12. Julia Wilkinson (Canada)          1:00.60
 13. Sophie Edington (Australia)       1:01.05
 14. Kseniya Moskvina (Russia)         1:01.06
 15. Antje Buschschulte (Germany)      1:01.15
 16. Liz Coster (New Zealand)          1:01.45 Q = Qualified
for final
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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