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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay final result

Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:57pm EDT
 
 Aug 14 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 4 x 200m
freestyle relay final result in Beijing on Thursday.
 1. Australia   7 minutes 44.31 seconds WR
 Stephanie Rice/Bronte Barratt/Kylie Palmer/Linda MacKenzie
 2. China       7:45.93
 Yang Yu/Zhu Qianwei/Tan Miao/Pang Jiaying      
 3. U.S.        7:46.33
 Allison Schmitt/Natalie Coughlin/Caroline Burckle/Katie Hoff
 4. Italy       7:49.76
 Renata Fabiola Spagnolo/Alessia Filippi/Flavia
Zoccari/Federica
 Pellegrini
 5. France      7:50.66
 Coralie Balmy/Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne/Aurore Mongel/Camille
 Muffat
 6. Hungary     7:55.53
 Agnes Mutina/Evelin Verraszto/Eszter Dara/Zsuzsanna Jakabos
 7. Japan       7:57.56
 Haruka Ueda/Misaki Yamaguchi/Maki Mita/Emi Takanabe 
 8. Sweden      7:59.83
 Josefin Lillhage/Gabriella Fagundez/Ida Marko-Varga/Petra
 Granlund
  WR = World record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Lars Janssen)
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