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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 50m freestyle final result

Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:15pm EDT
 
 Aug 17 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 50m freestyle
final result in Beijing on Sunday.
  1. Britta Steffen (Germany)          24.06 seconds OR
  2. Dara Torres (U.S.)                24.07
  3. Cate Campbell (Australia)         24.17
  4. Libby Trickett (Australia)        24.25
  5. Marleen Veldhuis (Netherlands)    24.26
  6. Kara Lynn Joyce (U.S.)            24.63
  7. Hinkelien Schreuder (Netherlands) 24.65
  8. Aleksandra Gerasimenya (Belarus)  24.77
  OR = Olympic record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; editing by Neil Maidment)
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