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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 200m individual medley semis results

Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:47pm EDT
 Aug 12 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 200m individual
medley semi-final results in Beijing on Tuesday.
 Semi-final 1
 1.  Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)       2 minutes 9.53 seconds
OR
 2.  Stephanie Rice (Australia)       2:10.58
 3.  Katie Hoff (United States)       2:10.90
 4.  Katarzyna Baranowska (Poland)    2:12.13
 5.  Hannah Miley (Britain)           2:12.35
 6.  Svetlana Karpeeva (Russia)       2:13.26
 7.  Mireia Belmonte (Spain)          2:13.45
 8.  Li Jiaxing (China)               2:13.47
 Semi-final 2
 1.  Natalie Coughlin (United States) 2:11.84
 2.  Julia Wilkinson (Canada)         2:12.03
 2.  Alicia Coutts (Australia)        2:12.03
 4.  Asami Kitagawa (Japan)           2:12.18
 4.  Evelyn Verraszto (Hungary)       2:12.18
 6.  Julie Hjorth-Hansen (Denmark)    2:12.26
 7.  Camille Muffat (France)          2:12.36
 8.  Keri-Anne Payne (Britain)        2:14.14
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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