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{{short description|Chinese swimmer}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Qi (surname)|Qi]]|lang=Chinese}}
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| strokes = Breaststroke
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|1|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Fuzhou|Fuzhou, China]]
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{{MedalCompetition|[[FINA World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2001 FINA World Championships|2001 Fukuoka]]|200m Breaststroke}}
{{MedalBronze|2001 Fukuoka|200m IM}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2003 FINA World Championships|2003 Barcelona]]|200m Breaststroke}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)|Short Course Worlds]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2002 FINA Short Course World Championships|2002 Moscow]]<ref name="swimrankings.net">{{cite web |url=http://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=meetDetail&meetId=8866485 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908060623/http://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=meetDetail&meetId=8866485 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-09-08 |title=2002 World Championships - Short Course Swim Rankings results |access-date=2007-07-24 }}</ref>|200m Breaststroke}}
{{MedalGold|[[2006 FINA Short Course World Championships|2006 Shanghai]]|200m Breaststroke}}
{{MedalGold|2006 Shanghai|200m IM}}
{{MedalGold|2006 Shanghai<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fina.org/events/SW/SWC(25m)/Shanghai_2006/results/index.php |title=Shanghai 2006 results |access-date=2007-07-24 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070306103724/http://www.fina.org/events/SW/SWC(25m)/Shanghai_2006/results/index.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-03-06}}</ref>|400m IM}}
{{MedalBronze|2002 Moscow<ref name="swimrankings.net"/>|4 x 100 m medley}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Summer Universiade]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[Swimming at the 2003 Summer Universiade|2003 Daegu]] | 200m Breaststroke}} 
{{MedalGold | 2003 Daegu | 4x200m Free Relay}} 
{{MedalGold | [[Swimming at the 2005 Summer Universiade|2005 Izmir]] | 200m IM}} 
{{MedalGold | 2005 Izmir | 400m IM}} 
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'''Qi Hui''' (齐晖, born 13 January 1985 in [[Fuzhou]], [[Fujian]]) is an Olympic and former world record holding [[breaststroke]] swimmer from China.

She held the [[World record progression 200 metres breaststroke#Long course 2|world record]] in the long course women's 200 breaststroke from April 2001 – July 2004. She specializes in breaststroke, but is also an individual medley swimmer.

==History==
Qi competed at the 1997 Chinese National Games, aged 12, where she placed 4th in the 200 breaststroke (2:30.77). She made her international debut at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York. She won silver behind Japan's [[Masami Tanaka]] in the 200 breaststroke (2:28.44 to 2:28.71) at the [[1998 Asian Games]] in Bangkok, where she was the youngest athlete in the Chinese delegation.

At the [[1999 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|1999 World Short Course Championships]] in Hong Kong, she placed 3rd behind Tanaka and South Africa's Olympic champion [[Penny Heyns]] in the 200 breaststroke (2:25.05). A few months later, she broke 1992 Olympic champion Kyoko Iwasaki's Asian record (long course) with 2:26.51. This ranked her 4th globally in 1999. Considered to be China's best hope for a swimming medal, in the [[Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Olympics]] in Sydney, Qi finished 0.01 second behind USA's [[Amanda Beard]] for 4th (2:25.35 to 2:25.36). Her time in the semifinal, 2:24.21, was a national record.

Qi set her first world record in January 2001 in Paris with 2:19.25 for the 200 breaststroke (short course), followed shortly by a 2:22.99 world record in the long course pool, breaking Penny Heyns' original mark by 0.65 sec. She won the 2001 East Asian Games in 2:25.33. At the [[Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships|2001 World Championships]] in Fukuoka, she finished 2nd in the 200 breaststroke event behind Kovacs (2:24.90 to 2:25.09). She won a bronze in the 200 individual medley (2:12.46 personal best) and was 4th in the 400 individual medley (4:41.64). In the 2001 Chinese National Games, Qi was 2nd in the 400 individual medley after former world record holder Chen Yan (4:35.22 to 4:38.20) and 3rd in the 100 breast (1:09.12) behind [[Luo Xuejuan]] and Luo Nan.

In 2002, Qi swam a 2:23.74 200 breaststroke (fastest time of the year, and 3rd fastest all time) at the Chinese Nationals, won her first world title at the [[2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|Short Course Worlds]] in Moscow (2:20.91 in the 200 breaststroke), and took home three golds (200 breaststroke: 2:24.01; 200 individual medley: 2:13.94 and 400 individual medley: 4:40.37) and 1 silver (100 breaststroke: 1:08.24) at the [[2002 Asian Games]] in Busan, Korea in October. She broke her own 200 breast world record (short course) to 2:18.86 in December.

At the [[Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships|2003 World Championships]], Qi finished 3rd in the 200 breaststroke (2:25.78) behind USA's Amanda Beard (who won by tying Qi's world record of 2:22.99) and Australia's [[Leisel Jones]] (2:24.33, Commonwealth record). Qi was 4th in the 200 individual medley and 9th in the 400 individual medley.

Before the [[Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Olympics]], Qi lost her (joint) world record to [[Leisel Jones]], who swam a 2:22.96 in Brisbane, and this was followed by Amanda Beard's world record of 2:22.44 at the [[2004 U.S. Olympic Trials (swimming)|US Olympics Trials]] a few days later. At the 200 meter breastroke at the games, Qi was in 3rd place at the 150m mark, but finished 6th at 2:26.35. In the Olympics, Qi also entered the 100 breaststroke, but was disqualified in the final for an illegal underwater dolphin kick. Qi placed 29th in the 200 individual medley in 2:26.02. Qi competed in the [[2004 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|2004 World Short Course Championships]] in Indianapolis but did not win any medals.

Qi skipped the [[Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships|2005 World Championships]] in Montreal to concentrate on the Chinese National Games in October, where she won the 200 breaststroke (2:24.14), 200 individual medley (2:12.17) and the 400 individual medley (4:38.24), and placed 2nd in the 100 breaststroke (in a personal best of 1:07.27). She won the 200 individual medley (2:09.33), 400 individual medley (4:34.28) and 200m breaststroke (2:20.72) at the [[2006 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|2006 World Short Course Championship]] in Shanghai. She won the same three events at the Doha Asian Games: 200 individual medley at 2:11.92; 400 individual medley at 4:38.31 and 200 breaststroke at 2:23.93. All times ranked among the top 4 globally in 2006.

At the [[Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships|2007 World Championships]], after having switched to a new training approach, she performed poorly in her two individual medley races in Melbourne. However, she made the semifinals in the 200 breaststroke.

She competed in the World Military Games in [[Hyderabad]], India, in October 2007, where she won the 200 breaststroke (2:29.23) and took silver in the 100 meter breaststroke (1:09.52).

At the Good Luck Beijing 2008 Swimming China Open, held in the [[Beijing National Aquatics Center|"WaterCube"]] (venue for 2008 Olympic swimming and diving competitions) in early February, she swam in the 200 individual medley (2:14.14), 100 breaststroke (1:08.22) and 200 breaststroke (2:27.11).

At the [[Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Olympics]] in Beijing she finished 13th in the 200 meter breaststroke and 20th in the 200 meter individual medley.

==See also==
*[[China at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://2008teamchina.olympic.cn/index.php/personview/personsen/773 Beijing 2008 Team China Profile]

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|title = World Record Holder <br>[[World record progression 200 metres breaststroke#Long course 2|Women's 200 Breaststroke]]
|before = [[Penny Heyns]]
|after = [[Leisel Jones]]
|years = April 13, 2001 – July 10, 2004}}
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