Ningbo, Nov. 8 -- China's Li Yan swept all three gold medals in the women's 86kg category at the World Weightlifting Championships on Sunday, breaking her own snatch world record twice on her way to a dominant victory.
The 22-year-old opened with 140kg in the snatch before lifting 146kg and 147kg in her next two attempts, both surpassing the previous world record of 145kg she set in Gandhinagar in May.
Li lifted 170kg with her first clean and jerk attempt but failed twice at 179kg, finishing with a total of 317kg, eight kilograms short of the world standard of 325kg.
"I had done it in training at home, so I wasn't nervous at all," Li said of her record-breaking snatch performance. South Korea's Park Hye-jeong took silver with a total of ...