Following are the heat results of women's kayak single (K1) 500m at the Beijing Olympics held in Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on Tuesday:

Heat 1

1. Katalin Kovacs, Hungary, 1minute 49.424 seconds

2. Maria Teresa Portela, Spain, 1:51.654

3. Jennifer Hodson, South Africa, 1:51.655

4. Kitamoto Shinobu, Japan, 1:52.148

5. Chantal Meek, Australia, 1:53.374

6. Malgorzata Chojnacka, Poland, 1:53.635

7. Karen Furneaux, Canada, 1:54.065

8. Estefania Fontanini, Argentina, 2:00.291

9. Khathia Ba, Senegal, 2:17.740

Heat 2

1. Josefa Idem, Italy, 1:48.864

2. Zhong Hongyan, China, 1:49.440

3. Lucy Wainwright, Britain, 1:50.103

4. Carrie Johnson, United States, 1:50.221

5. Henriette Engel Hansen, Denmark, 1:52.773

6. Teresa Portela, Portugal, 1:53.761

7. Anne Rikala, Finland, 1:54.294

8. Tatsiana Fedarovich, Belarus, 1:57.881

Heat 3

1. Katrin Wagner-Augustin, Germany, 1:48.745

2. Inna Osypenko-Radomska, Ukraine, 1:49.776

3. Spela Ponomarenko, Slovenia, 1:49.973

4. Sofia Paldanius, Sweden, 1:51.110

5. Yuliana Salakhova, Russia, 1:51.628

6. Erin Taylor, New Zealand, 1:52.517

7. Zulmarys Sanchez, Venezuela, 1:57.728

8. Lee Soonja, South Korea, 1:58.140

Note: The top paddler in each group goes to final, the 2-7 go to semifinals and the rest out.

(Xinhua News Agency August 19, 2008)