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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 200m freestyle qualifiers

Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:33pm EDT
 
 Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 200m freestyle
fastest qualifiers in Beijing on Monday.
  1. Peter Vanderkaay (United States) 1 minute 45.76 seconds Q
  2. Park Tae-hwan (South Korea)      1:45.99 Q
  3. Jean Basson (South Africa)       1:46.13 Q
  4. Michael Phelps (United States)   1:46.28 Q
  5. Paul Biedermann (Germany)        1:46.41 Q
  6. Yoshihiro Okumura (Japan)        1:46.44 Q
  7. Dominik Meichtry (Switzerland)   1:46.54 Q
  8. Robbie Renwick (Britain)         1:47.07 Q
  9. Daniil Izotov (Russia)           1:47.24
 10. Ross Davenport (Britain)         1:47.35
 11. Emiliano Brembilla (Italy)       1:47.70
 12. Nicholas Sprenger (Australia)    1:47.80
 13. Dominik Koll (Austria)           1:47.87
 14. Colin Russell (Canada)           1:48.13
 15. Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (Israel)   1:48.16
 16. Rodrigo Castro (Brazil)          1:48.71
 Q = Qualified for final
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Neil Maidment)
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