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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 200m freestyle final results

Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:21pm EDT
 Aug 13 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 200m freestyle
final result in Beijing on Wednesday.
 1. Federica Pellegrini (Italy)      1 minute 54.82 seconds WR
 2. Sara Isakovic (Slovenia)         1:54.97
 3. Pang Jiaying (China)             1:55.05
 4. Katie Hoff (United States)       1:55.78
 5. Camelia Alina Potec (Romania)    1:56.87
 6. Caitlin McClatchey (Britain)     1:57.65
 7. Bronte Barratt (Australia)       1:57.83
 7. Ophelie Cyriell Etienne (France) 1:57.83
 WR = world record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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