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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 200m freestyle semi-final results

Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:30pm EDT
 
 Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 200m freestyle
semi-final results in Beijing on Monday.
 Semi-final one
  1. Jean Basson (South Africa)       1 minute 46.13 seconds
  2. Daniil Izotov (Russia)           1:47.24
  3. Ross Davenport (Britain)         1:47.35
  4. Emiliano Brembilla (Italy)       1:47.70
  5. Nicholas Sprenger (Australia)    1:47.80
  6. Dominik Koll (Austria)           1:47.87
  7. Colin Russell (Canada)           1:48.13
  8. Rodrigo Castro (Brazil)          1:48.71
 Semi-final two
  1. Peter Vanderkaay (United States) 1:45.76
  2. Park Tae-hwan (South Korea)      1:45.99
  3. Michael Phelps (United States)   1:46.28
  4. Paul Biedermann (Germany)        1:46.41
  5. Yoshihiro Okumura (Japan)        1:46.44
  6. Dominik Meichtry (Switzerland)   1:46.54
  7. Robbie Renwick (Britain)         1:47.07
  8. Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (Israel)   1:48.16
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; editing by Neil Maidment)
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