BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The following are the results of preliminaries of Beijing Olympics beach volleyball tournaments on Aug. 12:

    Men's section:

    Pool A:

    Wu Penggen/Xu Linyin (China) bt Kristjan Kais/Rivo Vesik (Estonia) 2-0 (21-15,21-16)

    Pablo Herrera/Raul Mesa (Spain) bt Florian Gosch/Alexander Horst (Austria) 2-0 (21-14,21-12)

    Pool D:

    Clemens Doppler/Peter Gartmayer (Austria) bt Marcio Araujo/Fabio Luiz Magalhaes (Brazil) 2-1 (20-22,21-19,15-11)

    Dmitri Barsouk/Igor Kolodinsky (Russia) bt Eugenio Amore/Ricardo Lione (Italy) 2-0 (21-17,21-13)

    Pool F:

    Jake Gibb/Sean Rosenthal (United States) bt Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann (Germany) 2-0 (21-15,21-13)

    Kentaro Asahi/Katsuhiro Shiratori (Japan) bt Emiel Boersma/Bram Ronnes (Netherlands) 2-1 (21-15, 23-25,15-11)

    Women's section:

    Pool B:

    Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh (United States) bt Dalixia Grasset/Tamara Peraza (Cuba) 2-0 (21-15,21-16)

    Nila Hakedal/Ingrid Torlen (Norway) bt Chiaki Kusuhara/Mika Teru Saiki (Japan) 2-0 (21-8, 21-18)

    Pool D:

    Xue Chen/Zhang Xi (China) bt Sara Goller/Laura Ludwig (Germany) 2-0 (21-14,21-18)

    Efthalia Koutroumanidou/Maria Tsiartsiani (Greece) bt Judith Augoustides/Vitalila Nel (South Africa) 2-0 (21-12,21-8)

    Pool F:

    Talita Antunes/Renata Ribeiro (Brazil) bt Doris Schwaiger/Stefanie Schwaiger (Austria) 2-0 (21-18, 21-19)

    Bibiana Candelas/Mayra Garcia (Mexico) bt Vassiliki Arvaniti/Vasso Karadassiou (Greece) 2-1 (21-17, 16-21, 15-12)