51.   Suzuki then qualified by beating Mizumaki in a playoff.

52.   The American lightweight coxless four qualified by winning its heat easily.

53.   The hockey team qualified by placing fourth in the World Championships two years ago.

54.   The move should avert a threatened boycott of qualifying by the Asian Football Confederation.

55.   The top five teams will join Yugoslavia, which has qualified by winning the world championship title last year.

56.   These nations qualified by having a World Bank-approved poverty reduction strategy and an acceptable education plan.

57.   Vasco da Gama qualified by winning the Copa Libertadores in August.

58.   Yugoslavia qualified by winning the World Championship last year.

59.   Furthermore, the CSF would like to see the top three countries from the last World Cup -- Brazil, Italy and Sweden -- qualifying by right.

60.   Group D will include Russia, Finland, the United States and Belarus, which qualified by clinching their preliminary group crown on Monday.