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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 200m butterfly final result

Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:30pm EDT
 
 Aug 13 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 200m butterfly
final result in Beijing on Wednesday.
 1.  Michael Phelps (United States) 1 minute 52.03 seconds WR
 2.  Laszlo Cseh (Hungary)          1:52.70
 3.  Takeshi Matsuda (Japan)        1:52.97
 4.  Moss Burmester (New Zealand)   1:54.35
 4=. Wu Peng (China)                1:54.35
 6.  Pawel Korzeniowski (Poland)    1:54.60
 7.  Kaio Almeida (Brazil)          1:54.71
 8.  Nikolay Skvortsov (Russia)     1:55.14
 WR = world record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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