Following are the heat results of lightweight women's double sculls held in Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on Sunday. The first two go directly to the semifinals while the rest to repechage.
Heat 1
1. Van der KOLK Kirsten/van Eupen Marit, Netherlands, 6 minutes 50.90 seconds
2. Amber Halliday/Marguerite Houston, Australia, 6:53.23
3. Renee Hykel/Jen Goldsack, United States, 6:53.32
4. Gabriela Huerta/Lila Perez Rul, Mexico, 7:11.71
5. Camila Carvalho/ Luciana Granato, Brazil, 7:25.90
6. Natalya Voronva/Alexandra Opachanova, Kazakhstan, 7:29.07
Heat 2
1. Berit Annika Carow/ Marie-Louise Draeger, Germany, 6:51.96
2. Melanie Cook/Tracy Cameron, Canada, 6:54.07
3. Hester Goodsell/ Helen Casey, Great Britain, 6:55.23
4. Sanna Sten/Minna Nieminen, Finland, 6:56.61
5. Chrysi Biskitzi/ Alexandra Tsivou, Greece, 7:05.95
6. Alex White/ Kirsten McCann, South Africa, 7:20.51
Heat 3
1. Xu Dongxiang/Yu Hua, China, 6:57.58
2. Katrin Olsen/Juliane Elander Rasmussen, Denmark, 6:58.63
3. Kumakura Misaki/Iwamoto Akiko, Japan, 7:05.67
4. Yaima Velazquez/Ismaray Marrero, Cuba, 7:13.35
5. Ko Youngeun/Ji Yoojin, South Korea, 7:39.70
(Xinhua News Agency August 10, 2008)