Turkey's Nurcan Taylan wins women's 48kg Olympic gold

Nurcan Taylan of Turkey lifted two world records to win the women's 48kg category at the 28th Olympic Games Saturday evening.

Chinese Li Zhuo wins silver medal at women's 48 k weight lifting

The Turk strongwoman, who snatched 97.5kgs to set up her advantage in the lifts, continued her overwhelming performance in the jerk, lifting 112.5kg for a winning total of 210kgs, a new world record.

Her lift in the snatch also smashed the previous world record by 1.5kgs.

China's Li Zhuo, hot favourite for the title, lifted 205kgs in the total, with 92.5 from snatch and 112.5 from jerk.

Aree Wiratthaworn of Thailand finished third at 205kgs.

Factfile of weightlifting champion Nurcan Taylan

Birthdate: Oct. 29, 1983

Height: 1.50m

Weight:48kg

Event: women's 48kg

Competition highlights (tabulated under is rank, event, year, venue and result):

World Championships:

2 48kg 2002 Warsaw 192.5kg

2 48kg(snatch) 2002 Warsaw 87.5

2 48kg(clean&jerk) 2002 Warsaw 105.0

3 48kg 2003 Vancouver 187.5

3 48kg(snatch) 2003 Vancouver 85.0

5 48kg(clean&jerk) 2003 Vancouver 102.5

Athens Olympics:

1 48kg 2004 Athens 210.0

1 48kg(snatch) 2004 Athens 97.5

2 48kg(clean&jerk) 2004 Athens 112.5