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

Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:12pm EDT
 
 Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 100m backstroke
semi-final results in Beijing on Monday.
Semi-final one
  1. Arkady Vyatchanin (Russia)      53.06 seconds
  2. Aschwin Wildeboer (Spain)       53.51
  3. Liam Tancock (Britain)          53.61
  4. Junichi Miyashita (Japan)       53.69
  5. Tomomi Morita (Japan)           53.95
  6. Gregor Tait (Britain)           54.37
  7. Lubos Krizko (Slovakia)         54.38
  8. Mirco di Tora (Italy)           54.92
 Semi-final two
  1. Hayden Stoeckel (Australia)     52.97 OR
  2. Matthew Grevers (United States) 52.99
  3. Aaron Peirsol (United States)   53.56
  4. Ashley Delaney (Australia)      53.76
  5. Markus Rogan (Austria)          53.80
  6. Gerhard Zandberg (South Africa) 53.98
  7. Stanislav Donets (Russia)       54.57
  8. Guy Barnea (Israel)             54.93
  OR = Olympic record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; editing by Neil Maidment)
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