Both nations had won two titles over the weekend, and it became a head-to-head contest for a third gold in the women’s 59 kilograms.

When China’s Long Xue, making her first appearance in international competition, was left with three of the last four lifts she seemed sure to claim victory - but she missed the first two on 118kg and faced the prospect of a rare bombout.

Long recovered well and made the lift to edge ahead of her fellow 19-year-old, the Asian junior champion Quang Thi Tham.

The Vietnamese lifter had one final attempt to go back into the lead but she failed at 119kg and Long took China to the top of the medals table on three golds and one silver.

Long made 91-118-209, which was 7kg less than her total at the Chinese National Championships, while Thi Tham finished 93-115-208.

Thi Tham’s Vietnam team-mate Hoang Thi Duyen, who finished fifth at the Tokyo Olympic Games last year and won the South East Asian Games title in her home nation in May, made only two of her six attempts and finished fourth.

The bronze on total went to Natasya Beteyob of Indonesia on 89-116-205.

In the day’s other medal event, the men’s 67kg, the strong favourite Adkhamjon Ergashev landed Uzbekistan’s first gold medal of the week.

Ergashev, 23, who was sixth in Tokyo, took the snatch by 1kg when he made 138kg on his third attempt, and pulled well clear in the clean and jerk to finish 138-176-314.

In second place on 303kg was Mohammad Yasin of Indonesia, with Thailand’s Anucha Doungsri third on 301kg.

Anatoliy Savelyev of Kazkhstan, appearing on the international stage for the first time since he won Asian and world youth titles in 2017, was fourth a further 2kg back.