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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 200m backstroke semi-final results

Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:39pm EDT
 
 Aug 14 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 200m backstroke
semi-final results in Beijing on Thursday.
  Semi-final 1
  1. Aaron Peirsol (United States) 1 minute 55.26 seconds
  2. Razvan Ionut Florea (Romania) 1:56.45 Q
  3. Hayden Stoeckel (Australia)   1:56.73 Q
  4. Arkady Vyatchanin (Russia)    1:56.85
  5. Damiano Lestingi (Italy)      1:58.25
  6. Gordan Kozulj (Croatia)       1:59.22
  7. Tobias Oriwol (Canada)        1:59.50
  8. Stanislav Donets (Russia)     1:59.87
  Semi-final 2
  1. Ryan Lochte (United States)   1:55.40 Q
  2. Markus Rogan (Austria)        1:56.34 Q
  3. Ryosuke Irie (Japan)          1:56.35 Q
  4. Gregor Tait (Britain)         1:56.72 Q
  5. Helge Meeuw (Germany)         1:56.85
  6. Ashley Delaney (Australia)    1:57.73
  7. Keith Beavers (Canada)        1:58.50
  8. George du Rand (South Africa) 1:58.61
  Q = Qualified for final
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; editing by Neil Maidment)
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