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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 200m butterfly qualifiers

Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:22pm EDT
 
 Aug 12 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 200m butterfly
semi-final fastest qualifiers in Beijing on Tuesday.
 1.  Michael Phelps (United States) 1 minute 53.70 seconds Q
=OR
 2.  Takeshi Matsuda (Japan)        1:54.02 Q
 3.  Nikolay Skvortsov (Russia)     1:54.31 Q
 4.  Laszlo Cseh (Hungary)          1:54.35 Q
 5.  Wu Peng (China)                1:54.93 Q
 6.  Kaio Almeida (Brazil)          1:55.21 Q
 7.  Moss Burmester (New Zealand)   1:55.26 Q
 8.  Pawel Korzeniowski (Poland)    1:55.35 Q
 9.  Gil Stovall (United States)    1:55.36
 10. Dinko Jukic (Austria)          1:55.65
 11. Chen Yin (China)               1:55.88
 12. Michael Rock (Britain)         1:55.90
 13. Ryuichi Shibata (Japan)        1:56.17
 14. Ioan Gherghel (Romania)        1:56.57
 15. Sergii Advena (Ukraine)        1:56.64
 16. Hsu Chi-Chieh (Chinese Taipei) 1:57.48
 =OR - Equals Olympic record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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