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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 100m butterfly semi-final results

Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:46pm EDT
 
 Aug 15 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 100m butterfly
semi-final results in Beijing on Friday.
 Semi-final one
 1.  Michael Phelps (United States)    50.97 seconds
 2.  Andrew Lauterstein (Australia)    51.27
 3.  Jason Dunford (Kenya)             51.33
 4.  Ryan Pini (Papua New Guinea)      51.62
 5.  Shi Feng (China)                  51.68
 6.  Albert Altes Subirats (Venezuela) 51.82
 7.  Sergii Breus (Ukraine)            52.05
 8.  Kaio Almeida (Brazil)             52.32
 Semi-final two
 1.  Milorad Cavic (Serbia)            50.92
 2.  Ian Crocker (United States)       51.27
 3.  Andrii Serdinov (Ukraine)         51.41
 4.  Takuro Fujii (Japan)              51.59
 5.  Peter Mankoc (Slovenia)           51.80
 6.  Corney Swanepoel (New Zealand)    52.01
 7.  Lyndon Ferns (South Africa)       52.18
 8.  Frederick Bousquet (France)       52.94
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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