Following are the results of preliminaries of Beijing Olympics beach volleyball tournaments on Aug. 14:
Men's section:
Pool A:
Wu Penggen/Xu Linyin, China, bt Pablo Herrera/Raul Mesa, Spain 2-0 (21-13, 21-15)
Florian Gosch/Alexander Horst, Austria, bt Kristjan Kais/Rivo Vesik, Estonia 2-1 (21-16,18-21,15-12)
Pool D:
Clemens Doppler/Peter Gartmayer, Austria, bt Eugenio Amore/Ricardo Lione, Italy 2-0 (21-19,24-22)
Marcio Araujo/Fabio Luiz Magalhaes, Brazil, bt Dmitri Barsouk/Igor Kolodinsky, Russia 2-0 (24-22,21-17)
Pool F:
Jake Gibb/Sean Rosenthal, United States, bt Kentaro Asahi/Katsuhiro Shiratori, Japan 2-1 (21-15,19-21,18-16)
Emiel Boersma/Bram Ronnes, the Netherlands, bt Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann, Germany 2-0 (21-16,22-20)
Women's section:
Pool B:
Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, United States, bt Nila Hakedal/Ingrid Torlen, Norway 2-0 (21-12,21-15)
Dalixia Grasset/Tamara Peraza, Cuba, bt Chiaki Kusuhara/Mika Teru Saiki, Japan 2-0 (21-18, 21-17)
Pool D:
Xue Chen/Zhang Xi, China bt Judith Augoustides/Vitalila Nel, South Africa 2-0 (21-13,21-9)
Sara Goller/Laura Ludwig, Germany, bt Efthalia Koutroumanidou/Maria Tsiartsiani, Greece 2-0 (24-22,21-12)
Pool F:
Talita Antunes/Renata Ribeiro, Brazil bt Vassiliki Arvaniti/Vasso Karadassiou, Greece 2-0 (22-20,21-19)
Doris Schwaiger/Stefanie Schwaiger, Austria, bt Bibiana Candelas/Mayra Garcia, Mexico 2-0 (21-17, 21-10)
(Xinhua News Agency August 14, 2008)