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Olympics-Cycling-Women's track sprint qualification results

Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:36pm EDT
 Aug 17 (Reuters) - Olympic cycling women's track sprint
qualification results in Beijing on Sunday.
  1. Victoria Pendleton (Britain)   10.963 Q OR
  2. Guo Shuang (China)             11.106 Q
  3. Anna Meares (Australia)        11.140 Q
  4. Willy Kanis (Netherlands)      11.167 Q
  5. Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania) 11.222 Q
  6. Clara Sanchez (France)         11.365 Q
  7. Natallia Tsylinskaya (Belarus) 11.372 Q
  8. Jennie Reed (U.S.)             11.400 Q
  9. Lisandra Guerra (Cuba)         11.462 Q
 10. Yvonne Hijgenaar (Netherlands) 11.533 Q
 11. Swetlana Grankowskaja (Russia) 11.544 Q
 12. Sakie Tsukuda (Japan)          12.134 Q
 Q = Qualified
 OR = Olympic record
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports; editing by Neil Maidment)
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