China enjoys swimming success at world championships

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Chinese swimmers have performed strongly once again at the world swimming championships in Rome.

Pang Jiaying, Liu Jing, Zhu Qianwei and Yang Yu (L to R) pose for photos at poduim in Rome, Italy, July 30, 2009. China snatched the women's 4x200m freestyle relay gold medal in a world record time of seven minutes 42.08 seconds at the world swimming championships here on Thursday.  (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)

Liu Zige won silver in the 200-meter butterfly and Zhao Jing took a gold in the 50-meter back stroke. Then, four Chinese swimmers took gold in the 200 meter women's relay.

Liu Zige wins 200m butterfly silver

In the 200-meter butterfly, Liu Zige dominated the first half of the competition, but Australian Jessicah Schipper rallied in the final lap to win in 2 minutes, 3.41 seconds.

That time broke the mark that American Mary Descenza set a day earlier in the preliminaries.

Liu Zige took silver in 2 minutes 3.9 seconds, also lower than the previous world record.