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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay final result

Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:42pm EDT
 Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 4 x 100m
freestyle relay final result in Beijing on Monday.
 1. U.S.
 Michael Phelps/Garrett Weber-Gale/Cullen Jones/Jason Lezak  3
minutes 8.24 seconds WR
 2. France
 Amaury Leveaux/Fabien Gilot/Frederick Bousquet/Alain Bernard
3:08.32
 3. Australia
 Eamon Sullivan*/Andrew Lauterstein/Ashley Callus/Matt Targett
3:09.91
 4. Italy
 Alessandro Calvi/Christian Galenda/Marco Belotti/Filippo
Magnini  3:11.48
 5. Sweden
 Petter Stymne/Lars Froelander/Stefan Nystrand/Jonas Persson
3:11.92
 6. Canada
 Brent Hayden/Joel Greenshields/Colin Russell/Rick Say 
3:12.26
 7. South Africa
 Lyndon Ferns/Darian Townsend/Roland Schoeman/Ryk Neethling
3:12.66
 8. Britain
 Simon Burnett/Adam Brown/Benjamin Hockin/Ross Davenport
3:12.87
 WR = World record
 * = Sullivan broke men's world 100m freestyle record, setting
a new mark of 47.24 secs.
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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