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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 200m butterfly semi-final results

Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:44pm EDT
 
 Aug 13 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 200m butterfly
semi-final results in Beijing on Wednesday.
 Semi-final one
 1.  Jiao Liuyang (China)            2 minutes 6.42 seconds
 2.  Aurore Mongel (France)          2:07.21
 3.  Jemma Lowe (Britain)            2:07.87
 4.  Natsumi Hoshi (Japan)           2:07.93
 5.  Micha Ostergaard (Denmark)      2:09.29
 6.  Audrey Lacroix (Canada)         2:09.74
 7.  Petra Granlund (Sweden)         2:09.79
 8.  Kathryn Meaklim (South Africa)  2:11.74
 Semi-final two
 1.  Liu Zige (China)                2:06.25
 2.  Jessicah Schipper (Australia)   2:06.34
 3.  Otylia Jedrzejczak (Poland)     2:06.78
 4.  Yuko Nakanishi (Japan)          2:06.96
 4.  Kathleen Hersey (United States) 2:06.96
 6.  Elaine Breeden (United States)  2:07.73
 7.  Samantha Hamill (Australia)     2:09.58
 8.  Ellen Gandy (Britain)           2:10.60
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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