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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 100m freestyle semi-final results

Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:31pm EDT
 
  Aug 14 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 100m freestyle
semi-final results in Beijing on Thursday.
  Semi-final 1
 1.  Natalie Coughlin (United States)  53.70 seconds
 2.  Zhu Yingwen (China)               53.84 Q
 3.  Britta Steffen (Germany)          53.96 Q
 4.  Libby Trickett (Australia)        54.10 Q
 5.  Josefin Lillhage (Sweden)         54.59
 6.  Lacey Nymeyer (United States)     54.74
 7.  Petra Dallmann (Germany)          55.05
 8.  Aleksandra Gerasimenya (Belarus)  55.31
 Semi-final 2
 1.  Marleen Veldhuis (Netherlands)    53.81 Q
 2.  Hanna-Maria Seppaelae (Finland)   53.84 Q
 3.  Francesca Halsall (Britain)       53.94 Q
 4.  Jeanette Ottesen (Denmark)        54.05 Q
 5.  Malia Metella (France)            54.20
 6.  Cate Campbell (Australia)         54.54
 7.  Erica Morningstar (Canada)        55.36
 .   Pang Jiaying (China)              DSQ
 Q=Qualified for final
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Nigel Hunt)
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