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

Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:53pm EDT
 
 Aug 14 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 200m butterfly
final result in Beijing on Thursday.
  1. Liu Zige (China)                2 minutes 4.18 seconds WR
  2. Jiao Liuyang (China)            2:04.72
  3. Jessicah Schipper (Australia)   2:06.26
  4. Otylia Jedrzejczak (Poland)     2:07.02
  5. Yuko Nakanishi (Japan)          2:07.32
  6. Aurore Mongel (France)          2:07.36
  7. Elaine Breeden (United States)  2:07.57
  8. Kathleen Hersey (United States) 2:08.23
  WR = World record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; editing by Neil Maidment)
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