In the event for women over 81kg, Li, who weighs 150kg and also won the super heavyweight category at the Tokyo Games, dominated the event.

In the end, with victory assured, she came out for the final lift of the Olympic weightlifting competition in Paris and, instead of grabbing the bar, lifted her coach, Wu Meijin, as fans had suggested to her on the internet.

The 24-year-old finished with a total of 309kg, 10kg ahead of South Korea's, with Tokyo silver medallist Emily Campbell of Britain another 11kg behind.

Park missed her final attempt, which would have taken her over the 300kg barrier for the first time in international competition, and finished 131-168-299. Korea finally won a medal after four disappointments earlier in the week.

Campbell performed her first four lifts before two misses, including a final attempt at 174kg that would have put her ahead of Park and into second place. She finished 126-162-288 and is now only the second British weightlifter to win medals at two Olympic Games. Louis Martin was the first in the 1960s.

Normally it was the men who closed the Games in this discipline, but this has changed in Paris, and the participants responded by putting on a show for the large crowd.

Although the Chinese took half of the ten weightlifting golds, with the United States tied for second place, several major Olympic nations at the bottom of the medal table, such as Colombia, Thailand and Indonesia, added to their small totals, as did traditional weightlifting powerhouses Bulgaria and Georgia. Ecuador's two bronzes came from sisters Neisi Dajomes and Angie Palacios.

For years weightlifting dominated Olympic doping headlines, but three years ago in Tokyo returned no positives. As women started the last event in Paris on Sunday, the International Testing Agency said that no weightlifters had so far failed tests, but added it would be one or two days before their labs processed all the samples collected on Saturday and Sunday.