Chinese swimmers take center stage with two more victories

China's world record holder Liu Zige was delighted to take the women's 200m butterfly gold at world aquatics championships on Thursday after holding off Spain's Mireia Belmonte in a tight final.

Liu, the 2008 Olympic champion in Beijing, clocked 2 min, 04.59 sec in Barcelona with Belmonte just 0.19 sec back and Hungary's Katinka Hosszu exactly a second adrift in third.