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Olympics-Swimming-Women's 4 x 100m medley relay final results

Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:05pm EDT
 Aug 17 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 4 x 100m medley
relay final results in Beijing on Sunday.
 1. Australia              3 minutes 52.69 seconds WR
 Emily Seebohm/Leisel Jones/Jessicah Schipper/Lisbeth Trickett
2. U.S.                   3:53.30
 Natalie Coughlin/Rebecca Soni/Christine Magnuson/Dara Torres
 3. China                  3:56.11
 Zhao Jing/Sun Ye/Zhou Yafei/Pang Jiaying   
 4. Britain                3:57.50
 Gemma Spofforth/Kate Haywood/Jemma Lowe/Francesca Halsall
 5. Russia                 3:57.84
 Anastasia Zueva/Yuliya Efimova/Natalia Sutyagina/Anastasia
 Aksenova
 6. Japan                  3:59.54
 Reiko Nakamura/Asami Kitagawa/Yuka Kato/Haruka Ueda
 7. Canada                 4:01.35
 Julia Wilkinson/Annamay Pierse/Audrey Lacroix/Erica
Morningstar
 .  Sweden                     DSQ
 Sarah Sjostrom/Joline Hostman/Anna-Karin Kammerling/Josefin
 Lillhage
 WR = World record
 DSQ = Disqualified
(Compiled by Infostrada Sports, editing by Lars Janssen)
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