Qi's world record-breaking time of 2 minutes, 19.25 seconds, in the women's 200-meter breaststroke was more than six seconds faster than that of her closest competitor.

Qi's time improved on the previous short-course record of 2:20.22, set by Masami Tanaka at Hong Kong in April 1999.

Qi also won the 100 breaststroke Saturday.

Foster set the world record in the men's 50 freestyle. His time of 21.13 broke American Anthony Ervin's record of 21.21 set in March at Minneapolis.

Bedford retired after securing three wins in the two-day World Cup meet.

"I'm retiring as of right now," said Bedford, a member of the American gold-medal winning 400 medley relay team at the Sydney Olympics. "No more swimming for me. I'm sure that this is what I want to do."

On Sunday, Bedford won the 100 medley and 100 backstroke. She also won the 50 backstroke Saturday.

"I did not expect to do so well here," Bedford said.

Johanna Sjoeberg also won three events. She took the women's 100 freestyle and 50 butterfly Sunday, and the 100 butterfly Saturday.

Michael Klim was the only man to win three events. He won the 100 butterfly Sunday, after taking the 50 butterfly and 100 freestyle Saturday.

American Tom Malchow, winner of the 200 butterfly Saturday, was fifth in Sunday's 100 butterfly.

COLLEGES: Florida's Whitney Laiho and Jessica Lehnhoff won the College Invitational Flight A doubles title in Orlando with an 8-3 victory against Duke's Ansley Cargill. Earlier in the day, Laiho lost in the singles final to Cargill, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. Florida's Annika Bengtsson lost in the final in Flight B, losing 7-5, 6-2 to Notre Dame's Kimberly Guy. ... South Florida won five of six singles matches in straight sets for the second day in a row and beat Florida A&M 6-1 in men's tennis.

SWIMMING: Olympic and world champion Norbert Rozsa announced he is retiring.

CROSS COUNTRY: Driss El Himer and Paula Radcliffe won the men's and women's titles at the Auchan competition in Tourcoing, France. El Himer ran the men's 9.7-kilometer (6-mile) event in 26:52. In the women's 5.5-kilometer (3.4-mile) race, Radcliffe won at 17:54.

TRACK AND FIELD: Sprinters Allyn Condon and Daniel Caines ran the fastest times in the world this year at the British Indoor trials in Birmingham. Condon was timed at 20.60 for the 200 meters. Caines ran 45.76 for 400 meters.

TRIATHLON: Bryan Rhodes celebrated his 28th birthday by winning the Malaysia Ironman event on the island of Langkawi. He was timed in 8:41:53 to beat 268 competitors. The top woman was Belinda Cheney, who finished in 9:42:10.

SKIING: Christoph Gruber won the last race before the world championships, edging World Cup leader Hermann Maier by a record .01 seconds in super giant slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The Austrian squad took five of the top seven places. ... Adam Malysz completed a World Cup sweep of jump events at the K-120 hill in Sapporo, Japan. In his seventh victory of the season, Malysz led both rounds, leaping 132.5 and 136.0 meters. ... Travis Ramos and Kari Traa won men's and women's World Cup mogul events in the U.S. Freestyle Grand National at Newry, Maine.

SNOWBOARDING: Karine Ruby won the women's cross for her third gold medal at the world championships in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. Guillaume Nantermod won the men's cross title, in an event in which Mariano Lopez injured his head during a fall. Doctors at a nearby hospital said he regained consciousness and his condition was stable although still serious. No U.S. snowboarders finished in the top 16 in the men's or women's events.

BOBSLEDDING: Christoph Langen set a track record in winning his fifth world championship title in the two-man event in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Olympic champion and brakeman Marco Jakobs finished with a four-run combined time of 4:16.78 and a .95-second advantage on their closest rivals, Reto Goetschi and Cedric Grand.

SPEEDSKATING: Jeremy Wotherspoon won at 500 and 1,000 meters in Helsinki, Finland, on the only outdoor track on the World Cup circuit. Wotherspoon, the world record-holder at both distances, took the 500 in 36.29 seconds and the 1,000 in 1:12.13. Catriona LeMay-Doan won the women's' 500 in 39.02.

HANDBALL: The winless U.S. team was beaten by South Korea 37-20 in the World Championships in Paris, and was eliminated. In five matches in Group C, the Americans were outscored 189-80. In Group A, defending champion Sweden beat Egypt 29-23. The matches ended the preliminary round. The top four teams from each six-team group advanced to the second round, which begins Wednesday.

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