Following are the results of the first round of women's handball preliminaries at the Beijing Olympic Games on Saturday:

Group A

Romania bt Kazakhstan 31-19 (13-10)

France bt Angola 32-21 (13-14)

Norway bt China 30-23 (13-12)

Group B

Russia tied to South Korea 29-29 (16-13)

Hungary bt Sweden 30-24 (15-14)

Germany bt Brazil 24-22 (11-12)

(Xinhua News Agency August 9, 2008)