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

Aug 15 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming women's 200m backstroke
semi-final results in Beijing on Friday.

Semi-final 1
1. Elizabeth Beisel (United States) 2 minutes 7.90 seconds
2. Reiko Nakamura (Japan) 2:08.21
3. Elizabeth Simmonds (Britain) 2:08.96
4. Gemma Spofforth (Britain) 2:09.19
5. Zhao Jin (China) 2:09.59
6. Melissa Ingram (New Zealand) 2:09.70
7. Hanae Ito (Japan) 2:09.86
8. Laure Manaudou (France) 2:12.04

Semi-final 2
1. Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe) 2:07.76
2. Meagen Nay (Australia) 2:08.09
3. Margaret Hoelzer (United States) 2:08.25
4. Belinda Hocking (Australia) 2:08.80
5. Anastasia Zueva (Russia) 2:09.07
6. Alexianne Castel (France) 2:10.04
7. Stanislava Komarova (Russia) 2:10.50
8. Anja Carman (Slovenia) 2:12.46

(Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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