North Korea's first gold from weightlifting

Busan, Korea - North Korean Ri Song-hui broke world records in the Asian Games 53kg women's weightlifting final on Tuesday.

The Olympic silver medallist's efforts in shedding 0.25kg - equivalent to a can of Coke - to compete in the 53kg weight category paid off when she lifted a total of 225kg to take gold.

Earlier, the 23-year-old surpassed the previous world mark when she lifted 102.5kg in the women's snatch section of the sport. She smashed the 100kg set record set in the 2000 Olympic Games by China's Yang Xia and equalled Yang's total world mark of 225kg.

Thailand's Polsak Udomporn, who was second in last year's Asian Championships, took the silver and the current world number one Meng Xianjuan of China bagged the bronze.