Olympics-Athletics-Women's shot put qualification results

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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