Following are the heats results of the women's quadruple sculls at the Beijing Olympics held in the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on Sunday (winner in each heat go to final, and the rest go to repechage):
Heat 1
1. Tang Bin/Jin Ziwei/Xi Aihua/Zhang Yangyang, China, 6 minutes 11.83 seconds
2. Svitlana Spiryukhova/Olena Olefirenko/Nataliya Lyal'Chuk/Tetiana Kolesnikova, Ukraine, 6:17.84
3. Rachell de Jong/Anna-Marie de Zwager/Janine Hanson/Krista Guloien, Canada, 6:23.27
4. Julia Kalinovskaya/Oxana Dorodnova/Larisa Merk/Yulia Levina, Russia, 6:26.21
Heat 2
1. Annie Vernon/Debbie Flood/Frances Houghton/Katherine Grainger, Britain, 6:13.70
2. Britta Oppelt/Manuela/Kathrin Boron/Stephanie Schiller, Germany, 6:15.26
3. Lia Pernell/Lindsay Meyer/Jen Kaido/Margot Shumway, United States, 6:19.89
4. Zoe Uphill/Amber Bradley/Kerry Hore/Amy Ives, Australia, 6:20.95
(Xinhua News Agency August 10, 2008)