Jang Miran was crowned the strongest woman on the planet on Saturday when she won Olympic gold and broke three world records to give South Korea their second weightlifting title at the Beijing Games.
Competing in the +75kg top division, world champion Jang, the silver medallist at the Athens Olympics four years ago, set a new snatch world record at 140kg, a kilogram more than Mu Shuangshuang of China's 2006 Doha Asian Games effort.
The 24-year-old then reset the clean and jerk and total lift world records to 186kg and 326kg respectively.
The old records were China's Tang Gonghong's 182kg for the clean and jerk, set on her way to winning the Athens Games gold, and Mu's 319kg total set at last year's world championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Neither Chinese were competing here.
Olha Korobka of Ukraine won silver with a total effort of 277kg while Mariya Grabovetskaya of Kazakhstan clinched bronze with 270kg.
Jang served notice early that she would not settle for second best on her second Olympic outing with a first snatch attempt of 130kg, six kilograms more than anyone else managed.
Her second snatch effort of 136kg was a new Olympic record.
Sa Jaeh-Youk in the men's 77kg had earlier won the first weightlifting gold medal for South Korea here.
