Chinese Qi Hui touched home first in the women's 400m individual medley, the second swimming title for China and herself, while Poland retrieved top place at the medal tally by winning another gold medal at the 23rd Universiade on Monday in Izmir.

Qi, gold medalist in 200m individual medley and third placer in 200m breaststroke, trimmed the deficit after the first 200 meters by taking to breaststroke, and led the way to bag Chinese swimmers' second gold medal at the Universiade.

Qi clocked 4:45.24, 0.38 seconds faster than Briton Becky Cooke. Nicole Hetzer of Gemany finished third at 4:46.62.

"I'd like to thank my mom for her years' support. When I started my professional career, my mom was not in favor of that." Qi said, "But years later, she found I was in love with swimming and began to fully back me up."

Qi, 2002's world champion (short-course), won a fourth place in the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, both in 200m breaststroke.

Ye Jin, who has been coaching Qi for nine years, tipped Qi's performance as painstaking since Qi, after years' ups and downs, still kept her world champion hope alive and continued with hard trainning.

The women's 200m freestyle pushed Polish Otylia Jedrzejczak to the top of the podium as she finished in a Universiade mark of 1:58.49, and helped Poland overtake the United States and retrieve the top place at medal tally.

German Annika Liebs took the silver at 1:59.99, followed by her compatriot Petra Dallmann at 2:00.81.

In the women's 100m backstroke, Japan led a 1-2 finish through Aya Terakawa and Masaki Oikawa, separately at 1:01.38 and 1:02.44. Iryna Amshennikova of Ukraine came third at 1:02.53.

Russian Yury Prilukov clinched the men's 400m freestyle title at 3:49.85, edging Justin Mortimer of the United States into second place at 3:50.52. Japanese Takeshi Matsuda notched a bronze at 3:51.91.

Sergiy Breus of Ukraine bagged the men's 100m butterfly gold medal at 53.37. Briton Todd Cooper finished runner-up 53.41, followed by Sergiy Advena of Ukraine at 53.42.

Japanese Masafumi Yamaguchi crowned in the men's 100m backstroke at 55.00, with his teammate Junichi Miyashita finishing third at 55.81. American Matthew Grevers was sandwiched for a silver.

In the men's 4X200m freestyle relay, Italy secured a gold medal at 7:19.51. Japan placed second at 7:20.31. The bronze went to the United States at 7:20.54.

On the medal tally, Poland ranked first with five gold medals and one bronze. The United States dropped to second on a 4-5-4 sheet. Japan had four golds, four silvers and seven bronzes for the third place.

Source: Xinhua