China's Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia are on track towards their fourth women's 3-meter synchronized diving world title as they dominated the preliminaries at the world championships Thursday.

Guo and Wu led the field with a total of 342.90 points. Italy's Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape was second with 316.20, followed by Russia's Julia Pakhalina and Anastasia Pozniakova.

Guo, who won her fifth consecutive 3-meter springboard title on Tuesday, will fight for fifth straight synchro win on the springboard in Friday's final. She won the event with Wu in the worlds in 2001, 2003 and 2007 and with Li Ting in 2005.

Guo had teamed with Wu to win the last two Olympic synchro titles.

(Xinhua News Agency July 24, 2009)