London, England: Kazakhstan, Korea and DPR Korea all ended the second day of Olympic Games action on Sunday with two gold medals, while China added two more to stay on top of the table with six and Chinese Taipei joined the rankings with a silver in weightlifting. Kazakhstan weightlifter Zulfiya Chinshanlo, 19, from Almaty, won the women’s 53kg gold medal on Sunday after breaking the clean and jerk world record.

Chinshanlo set a world record of 131kg for the clean and jerk after lifting 95kg in the snatch for a total of 226kg, which was an Olympic record. Hsu Shu-Ching of Chinese Taipei took the silver with 219kg to put her team on the medals board.

DPR Korea won two gold medals on Sunday, through An Kum Ae in the women’s -52kg judo and Om Yun Chol in the men’s 56kg weightlifting, lifting three times his bodyweight in the clean and jerk (168kg) to equal the world record and set an Olympic record.

China’s two gold on Sunday came from defending champion Guo Wenjun in the women’s 10m air pistol and from Wu Minxia and He Zi in the women’s synchronised 3m springboard. It was Wu’s third consecutive gold in this event after winning with the now retired Guo Jingjing in 2004 and 2008. Korea beat China in the women’s team archery final at Lord’s Cricket Ground to record the country’s seventh straight Olympic victory in this discipline.