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Olympics-Athletics-Women's shot put qualification results

Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:23pm EDT
 
 Aug 16 (Reuters) - Olympic athletics women's shot put
 qualification results in Beijing on Saturday.
   Group A
 1.   Valerie Vili (New Zealand)          19.73 Q metres
 2.   Li Meiju (China)                    19.18 Q
 3.   Natallia Mikhnevich (Belarus)       19.11 Q
 4.   Christina Schwanitz (Germany)       19.09 Q
 5.   Misleydis Gonzalez (Cuba)           18.91 Q
 6.   Chiara Rosa (Italy)                 18.74 Q
 7.   Jillian Camarena (United States)    18.51 Q
 8.   Mailin Vargas (Cuba)                18.47 Q
 9.   Olga Ivanova (Russia)               18.46 Q
 10.  Denise Hinrichs (Germany)           18.36
 11.  Yanina Pravalinskaya-Karolchyk (Belarus) 17.79
 12.  Anca Margareta Heltne (Romania)     17.48
 13.  Natalia Duco (Chile)                17.40
 14.  Kristin Heaston (United States)     17.34
 15.  Eirini Chrysovalantou Terzoglou (Greece) 16.50
 16.  Iolanta Ulyeva (Kazakhstan)         15.49
 17.  Lee Miyoung (South Korea)           15.10
 .    Irache Quintanal (Spain)            NM
   Group B
 1.   Gong Lijiao (China)                 19.46 Q
 2.   Nadzeya Ostapchuk (Belarus)         19.08 Q
 3.   Anna Omarova (Russia)               18.74 Q
 4.   Li Ling (China)                     18.60 Q
 5.   Nadine Kleinert (Germany)           18.52 Q
 6.   Michelle Carter (United States)     18.49 Q
 7.   Cleopatra Borel-Brown (Trinidad & Tobago) 17.96
 8.   Assunta Legnante (Italy)            17.76
 9.   Yumileidi Cumba (Cuba)              17.60
 10.  Vivian Chukwuemeka (Nigeria)        17.15
 11.  Irina Khudoroshkina (Russia)        16.84
 12.  Ana Pouhila (Tonga)                 16.42
 13.  Lin Chia-Ying (Taiwan)              16.32
 14.  Guirong Zhang (Singapore)           16.23
 15.  Mariami Kevkhishvili-M. (Georgia)   15.99
 16.  Zara Northover (Jamaica)            15.85
 .    Krystyna Danilczyk-Zabawska (Poland)  NM
 Q = Qualified for final
 NM = No mark
(Compiled by Infostrada Sports, editing by Lars Janssen)
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