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Olympics-Athletics-Men's shot put qualification results

Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:56pm EDT
 
 Aug 15 (Reuters) - Olympic athletics men's shot put
qualification results in Beijing on Friday.
 Group A
 1.   Tomasz Majewski (Poland)                     21.04 metres
Q
 2.   Christian Cantwell (United States)           20.48 Q
 3.   Dylan Armstrong (Canada)                     20.43 Q
 4.   Reese Hoffa (United States)                  20.41 Q
 5.   Pavel Sofin (Russia)                         20.29 Q
 6.   Yuriy Bialou (Belarus)                       20.12 Q
 7.   Andriy Semenov (Ukraine)                     20.01
 8.   Hamza Alic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)            19.87
 8.   Anton Lyuboslavskiy (Russia)                 19.87
 10.  Scott Martin (Australia)                     19.75
 11.  Joachim Olsen (Denmark)                      19.74
 12.  Carlos Veliz (Cuba)                          19.58
 13.  Maris Urtans (Latvia)                        19.57
 14.  Milan Haborak (Slovakia)                     19.32
 15.  German Lauro (Argentina)                     19.07
 16.  Asmir Kolasinac (Serbia)                     19.01
 17.  Lajos Imre Kuerthy (Hungary)                 18.74
 18.  Michail Stamatogiannis (Greece)              18.45
 19.  Marco Verni (Chile)                          17.96
 .    Robert Haeggblom (Finland)                   NM
 .    Georgi Ivanov (Bulgaria)                     NM
 .    Ralf Bartels (Germany)                       DNS
 Group B
 1.   Adam Nelson (United States)                  20.56 Q
 2.   Andrei Mikhnevich (Belarus)                  20.48 Q
 3.   Pavel Lyzhyn (Belarus)                       20.36 Q
 4.   Yuriy Bilonog (Ukraine)                      20.16 Q
 5.   Rutger Smith (Netherlands)                   20.13 Q
 6.   Ivan Yushkov (Russia)                        20.02 Q
 7.   Peter Sack (Germany)                         20.01
 8.   Dorian Scott (Jamaica)                       19.94
 9.   Justin Anlezark (Australia)                  19.91
 10.  Manuel Martinez (Spain)                      19.81
 10.  Miran Vodovnik (Slovenia)                    19.81
 12.  Yves Niare (France)                          19.73
 13.  Taavi Peetre (Estonia)                       19.57
 14.  Sultan Abdulmajeed E Alhebshi (Saudi Arabia) 19.51
 15.  Petr Stehlik (Czech Republic)                19.41
 16.  Nedzad Mulabegovic (Croatia)                 19.35
 17.  Reinaldo Proenza (Cuba)                      19.20
 18.  Ivan Emilianov (Moldova)                     18.64
 19.  Yasser Ibrahim Farag (Egypt)                 18.42
 20.  Marco Fortes (Portugal)                      18.05
 21.  Chang Ming Huang (Chinese Taipei)            17.43
 .    Amin Nikfar (Iran)                           NM
 .    Alexis Paumier (Cuba)                        NM
 Q = qualified
 NM = no mark
 DNS = did not start
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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