BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of preliminaries of Beijing Olympics beach volleyball tournaments on Thursday:

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) Enditem