Team China ended the final day of the FINA Short Course World Championships with a silver medal in the women's 4x100 meter medley relay in Hangzhou.

The tournament's last event saw Fu Yuanhui, Shi Jinglin, Zhang Yufei and Zhu Menghui adding another medal to the host country, as they ended in fifth place on the medal board with three gold, five silver, and five bronze medals.

Team U.S. opened a huge lead, but China finished second in three minutes, 48.80 seconds while the U.S. took gold in three minutes, 45.58 seconds, breaking the championships' record by 2.31 seconds.

In the first leg of backstroke, 2016 Rio Olympics bronze medalist Fu was one second behind America's Olivia Smoliga. Before Shi kept China behind the U.S. by less than a second as Katie Meili set a blistering pace in the second leg.

Zhang and Zhu then managed to keep China in second place in the butterfly and freestyle legs, with both swimmers having dropped out of their individual races to prepare for the relays.

Australia were later disqualified due to a foul, which gave Italy the bronze.

"I didn't think that I could swim so fast. My teammates gave me a lot of support before the race, because I barely had any strength for today's race. I was so nervous that I felt sick before the competition. But my teammates are really great so I think it's because they had faith," Fu said after the race.

In the men's 200 meter backstroke, China's Xu Jiayu was in the lead in the first 100 meters with Australia's Mitch Larkin just behind in second. But in the second half of the race, Ryan Murphy of the U.S. and Russia's Evgeny Rylov caught up and Rylov touched the wall first with a time of one minute, 47.02 seconds, while Xu ended up sixth.

The U.S. dominated with 17 gold, 15 silver, and four bronze medals. Russia came second with six golds, while Hungary and the Netherlands rounded out the top four.