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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 50m freestyle semi-final results

Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:17pm EDT
 
 Aug 15 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 50m freestyle
semi-final results in Beijing on Friday.
 Semi-final 1
  1. Cesar Cielo Filho (Brazil)           21.34 seconds OR
  2. Stefan Nystrand (Sweden)             21.71
  3. Eamon Sullivan (Australia)           21.75
  4. Krisztian Takacs (Hungary)           21.84
  5. Duje Draganja (Croatia)              21.85
  6. George Bovell III (Trinidad & Tobago)21.86
  7. Gideon Louw (South Africa)           21.97
  8. Rafed Ziad El-Masri (Germany)        22.09
 Semi-final 2
  1. Alain Bernard (France)               21.54
  2. Ashley Callus (Australia)            21.68
  3. Roland Schoeman (South Africa)       21.74
  4. Amaury Leveaux (France)              21.76
  4. Ben Wildman-Tobriner (United States) 21.76
  6. Garrett Weber-Gale (United States)   22.08
  7. Bartosz Kizierowski (Poland)         22.12
  8. Nicholas Santos (Brazil)             22.15
  OR = Olympic record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; editing by Neil Maidment)
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