Azerbaijan’s Boyanka Minkova Kostova broke the women’s 58 kilogram snatch and overall world records on her way to securing a hat-trick of gold medals ©Getty Images

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Kostova lifted 112kg and 140kg in the snatch and clean and jerk respectively, giving her a winning total of 252kg ©Getty Images

Defending women's 58kg overall champion, Mengrong Deng of China, had to settle for silver this year ©Getty Images

Colombia's Lina Marcela Rivas Ordonez finished sixth, but was the highest-ranked South American ©Getty Images

Kostova stands atop the women's 58kg overall podium with Deng and Chinese Taipei's Hsing-Chun Kuo either side of her ©Getty Images

China's Zhiyong Shi claimed the men's 69kg clean and jerk and overall titles ©Getty Images

Russia's Oleg Chen won the men's 69kg overall silver medal, despite only recently returning from a serious knee injury ©Getty Images

Azerbaijan's Firidun Guliyev took silver in the men's 69kg clean and jerk but didn't appear entirely satisfied with his performance ©Getty Images

France's Bernardin Ledoux Kingue Matam was unable to compete with the medal chasers ©Getty Images

Shi proved to be too strong for everyone though in the end ©Getty Images