Pole sitter and three-time reigning world champion Vettel was third in a Red Bull.
He ran comfortably ahead of teammate and reigning world champion Jason Richardson, who finished in 13.04.
Reigning world champion Dott, who will meet Steve Davis or Alan McManus next, was more satisfied with his display.
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American Jessie Williams, the reigning world champion, couldn't find his rhythm and was eliminated after failing to clear 2.29 meters.
"I can only apologise to Fernando, " said Schumacher, who now trails Spain's reigning world champion by 21 points in the standings.
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Allen's girlfriend is reigning world champion Reanne Evans and he admits he was just relieved to have qualified for the Crucible.
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"It's grown-ups playing cowboys and Indians is what it amounts to, " says Gene (Evil Roy) Pearcey, the reigning World Champion cowboy shooter.
Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel was only eighth best in the Red Bull, with teammate Mark Webber, Alonso's nearest challenger, back in 14th.
It was another ugly day for reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, who finished well off the pace in ninth in his under-performing McLaren.
On the track, German Rosberg was half a second clear of Red Bull's Mark Webber in practice, while reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel came fourth.
Kovalainen drove alongside Lewis Hamilton for McLaren in 2008 and 2009, but his place this year has been taken by reigning world champion Jenson Button.
The reigning world champion has had a poor start to the Formula One season and only has two points after the first two Grands Prix.
Eaton, 24, cemented his status as gold-medal favorite for the London Games, where he will be joined by Trey Hardee, the reigning world champion, who finished second.
Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel also adopted the same tire strategy but didn't complete a timed lap in Q3 to end up one place behind Button in ninth.
Sebastian Vettel will start third on the grid after young Lotus driver Romain Grosjean, 26, snatched second place from the reigning world champion in the final seconds of the day's racing.
Gateshead will also host two of the world's top 400m runners with Jamaica's Commonwealth gold medallist Michael Blackwood and reigning world champion Avard Moncur of the Bahamas both sceduled to appear.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, the reigning world champion and a near media recluse by Formula One's standards, appeared to voice his confidence in the prancing horse's progress prior to the opening race.
Stalker was not in the same form as he had been beating reigning world champion Domenico Valentino last time out and admitted he may have approached the fight feeling a little over-confident.
As the reigning world endurance champion, Sheikh Mohammed is certainly well placed to make that judgment.
Reigning lightweight world champion Gavin failed to make weight at the Olympics and returned home before the boxing tournament had even begun.
The 2004 200m Olympic champion and silver medallist in Beijing Shawn Crawford and 100m star Carmelita Jeter will be competing for Team USA, captained by reigning world indoor champion hurdler Lolo Jones.
The reigning World Scotch Pie Champion Paul Boyle, from Boghall in West Lothian, and two former winners were among Scotland's entrants.
World number one Dwight Phillips of the US won with a mark of 8.54m, but reigning world and Olympic champion Irving Saladino of Panama failed to record a legal jump in three attempts.
Ethiopia had to settle for bronze in the women's 5, 000m , while Kenya again secured the top two medals as Vivian Cheruiyot and Sylvia Kibet both ran down reigning world and Olympic champion Meseret Defar on the final straight.
Wiggins, a four-time Olympic gold medallist and Tour de France winner, and Cavendish, the reigning world road race champion and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, had a magnetic appeal as thousands of spectators turned out at Ipswich Waterfront.
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It seemed like a cinch for the reigning three-time world champion, dubbed "Superman" because he never seems to fail.
And that's true even if everyone knows you're the fastest man in the world, if you're the reigning Olympic champion, if you hold the world record - nothing gets you a free pass to Beijing.
Ennis's main competition at the Gotzis multi-events meeting, which is part of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, is likely to come from the Ukraine's reigning Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska and World Indoor pentathlon champion Tatyana Chernova of Russia.
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