Olympics-Swimming-Women's 100m backstroke semi-final results

Aug 11 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 100m backstroke
semi-final results in Beijing on Monday.

Semi-final 1
1. Natalie Coughlin (United States) 59.43 seconds
2. Reiko Nakamura (Japan) 59.64
3. Gemma Spofforth (Britain) 59.79
4. Hanae Ito (Japan) 1:00.13
5. Elizabeth Simmonds (Britain) 1:00.39
6. Julia Wilkinson (Canada) 1:00.60
7. Sophie Edington (Australia) 1:01.05
8. Kseniya Moskvina (Russia) 1:01.06

Semi-final 2
1. Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe) 58.77 WR
2. Anastasia Zueva (Russia) 59.77
3. Margaret Hoelzer (United States) 59.84
4. Laure Manaudou (France) 1:00.19
5. Emily Seebohm (Australia) 1:00.31
6. Nina Zhivanevskaya (Spain) 1:00.50
7. Antje Buschschulte (Germany) 1:01.15
8. Elizabeth Coster (New Zealand) 1:01.45

(Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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