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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 200m backstroke final results

Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:12pm EDT
 
 Aug 16 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 200m backstroke
final result in Beijing on Saturday.
 1. Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe)       2 minutes 5.24 seconds WR
 2. Margaret Hoelzer (United States) 2:06.23
 3. Reiko Nakamura (Japan)           2:07.13
 4. Anastasia Zueva (Russia)         2:07.88
 5. Elizabeth Beisel (United States) 2:08.23
 6. Elizabeth Simmonds (Britain)     2:08.51
 7. Meagen Nay (Australia)           2:08.84
 8. Belinda Hocking (Australia)      2:10.12
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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