The little 5ft 3inch athlete was ask for to stay in touching distance of the leading pack in the 75-kilogram showdown when she buckled under the strain of the weight, equivalent of 332lbs.

Her painful exit follows South Korean Olympic weightlifter Jaehyouk Sa, who was forced to abandon his competition on Wednesday after his elbow snapped back while he was attempting a 162kg lift.

Medical teams came to her aid and after some time she was helped off the platform at the London ExCeL centre in a wheelchair.

It was her final attempt at the lift as she tried to keep up with eventual winner Svetlana Podobedova of Kazakhstan, silver medalist Natalya Zabolotnaya of Russia and Belarussian Iryna Kulesha in third.
Earlier in the week there were similar weighlifting injury woes for the reigning champion in the men’s 77kg category JAEHYOUK SA.