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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 100m freestyle semi-final qualifiers

Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:20pm EDT
 
 Aug 13 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 100m freestyle
semi-final fastest qualifiers in Beijing on Wednesday.
  1. Eamon Sullivan (Australia)              47.05 Q seconds
WR
  2. Alain Bernard (France)                  47.20 Q
  3. Pieter van den Hoogenband (Netherlands) 47.68 Q
  4. Matthew Targett (Australia)             47.86 Q
  5. Stefan Nystrand (Sweden)                47.91 Q
  6. Jason Lezak (United States)             47.98 Q
  7. Lyndon Ferns (South Africa)             48.00 Q
  8. Cesar Cielo (Brazil)                    48.07 Q
  9. Filippo Magnini (Italy)                 48.11
 10. Garrett Weber-Gale (United States)      48.12
 11. Brent Hayden (Canada)                   48.20
 12. Christian Galenda (Italy)               48.47
 13. Jonas Persson (Sweden)                  48.59
 14. Andrey Grechin (Russia)                 48.71
 15. Fabien Gilot (France)                   49.00
 16. Dominik Meichtry (Switzerland)          49.58
 Q = Qualified
 WR = world record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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