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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 100m backstroke qualifiers

Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:15pm EDT
 
 Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 100m backstroke
 fastest qualifiers in Beijing on Monday.
  1. Hayden Stoeckel (Australia)     52.97 seconds Q OR
  2. Matthew Grevers (United States) 52.99 Q
  3. Arkady Vyatchanin (Russia)      53.06 Q
  4. Aschwin Wildeboer (Spain)       53.51 Q
  5. Aaron Peirsol (United States)   53.56 Q
  6. Liam Tancock (Britain)          53.61 Q
  7. Junichi Miyashita (Japan)       53.69 Q
  8. Ashley Delaney (Australia)      53.76 Q
  9. Markus Rogan (Austria)          53.80
 10. Tomomi Morita (Japan)           53.95
 11. Gerhard Zandberg (South Africa) 53.98
 12. Gregor Tait (Britain)           54.37
 13. Lubos Krizko (Slovakia)         54.38
 14. Stanislav Donets (Russia)       54.57
 15. Mirco di Tora (Italy)           54.92
 16. Guy Barnea (Israel)             54.93
 Q = Qualified for final
 OR = Olympic record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; editing by Neil Maidment)
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