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

Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:18pm EDT
 
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 Aug 13 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 100m freestyle
semi-final results in Beijing on Wednesday.
 Semi-final one
 1.  Alain Bernard (France)                  47.20 seconds
 2.  Stefan Nystrand (Sweden)                47.91
 3.  Jason Lezak (United States)             47.98
 4.  Lyndon Ferns (South Africa)             48.00
 5.  Cesar Filho Cielo (Brazil)              48.07
 6.  Christian Galenda (Italy)               48.47
 7.  Jonas Persson (Sweden)                  48.59
 8.  Fabien Gilot (France)                   49.00
 Semi-final two
 1.  Eamon Sullivan (Australia)              47.05 WR
 2.  Pieter van den Hoogenband (Netherlands) 47.68
 3.  Matthew Targett (Australia)             47.86
 4.  Filippo Magnini (Italy)                 48.11
 5.  Garrett Weber-Gale (United States)      48.12
 6.  Brent Hayden (Canada)                   48.20
 7.  Andrey Grechin (Russia)                 48.71
 8.  Dominik Meichtry (Switzerland)          49.58
 WR = world record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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