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Olympics-Timetable of events for Saturday

Fri Aug 8, 2008 9:19pm EDT

Aug 9 (Reuters) - Olympic timetable of events for Saturday (all start times GMT)

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SWIMMING, National Aquatics Centre 1033 Men's 400m individual medley heats 1057 Women's 100m butterfly heats 1118 Men's 400m freestyle heats 1148 Women's 400m individual medley heats 1223 Men's 100m breaststroke heats 1250 Women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay heats

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS, National Indoor Stadium 0400 Men's qualification - subdivision one 0800 Men's qualification - subdivision two 1200 Men's qualification - subdivision three

BOXING, Beijing Workers' Gymnasium 0530 Men's middleweight (75kg) preliminary bouts 0701 Men's light-heavyweight (81kg) preliminary bouts 1100 Men's middleweight (75kg) preliminary bouts 1231 Men's light-heavyweight (81kg) preliminary bouts

ROAD CYCLING 0300 Men's Road Race

SOCCER, Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium, Shenyang Olympic Stadium and Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium. 0900 Women's preliminaries - groups E, F, G 1145 Women's preliminaries - groups E, F, G

BASKETBALL, Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium 0100-1415 Women's preliminaries - groups A, B

SAILING, Qingdao Olympic Sailing Centre 0500 Women's Keelboat Yngling - race one and two 0500 Heavy Weight Dinghy-Finn - race one and two

WEIGHTLIFTING, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium 0200 Women's 48kg - Group A

ROWING, Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park 0550-0650 Women's single sculls heats 0650-0750 Men's single sculls heats 0750-0810 Women's pair heats 0810-0840 Men's pair heats 0840-0900 Women's double sculls heats 0900-0930 Men's double sculls heats 0930-1000 Men's four heats

EQUESTRIAN, Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Venue, Shatin 2230 (Fri) Team eventing dressage - day one 2230 (Fri) Individual eventing - dressage - day one 1115 Team eventing dressage - day one 1115 Individual eventing - dressage - day one

FENCING, Fencing Hall of National Convention Centre 0200 Women's individual sabre first, second, third round and quarter-finals 1100 Women's individual sabre semi-finals 1150 Women's individual sabre bronze medal match 1210 Women's individual sabre final

BEACH VOLLEYBALL, Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground 0100-1500 Men's/Women's preliminary round - pools A-E

BADMINTON, Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium 0100-1215 Men's and women's singles first round

HANDBALL, Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium 0100-1245 Women's preliminaries - pools A, B

VOLLEYBALL, Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Capital Gymnasium 0200-1400 Women's preliminaries - pools A, B

JUDO, Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium 0400 Women's 48kg, Men's 60kg preliminaries/repechages 1000 Women's 48kg, Men's 60kg repechage, table finals; bronze medal matches, finals

ARCHERY, Beijing Olympic Green Archery Field 0400 Women's ranking round 0730 Men's ranking round

SHOOTING, Beijing Shooting Range 0030 Women's 10m air rifle qualification 0100 Men's trap qualification 0230 Women's 10m air rifle final 0400 Men's 10m air Pistol qualification 0700 Men's 10m air pistol final

(Compiled by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Neil Maidment) (For more stories visit our multimedia website "Road to Beijing" here; and see our blog at blogs.reuters.com/china)

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