Athens: Veteran lifter Kunjarani Devi lifted a total of 190 kg but finish outside the medals bracket in the 48 kg category at the Olympics Weightlifting competition in Athens on Aug 14, 2004.

Kunjarani, the oldest woman lifter at 36, ended up fifth after a rousing contest which was won by Nurcan Taylan of Turkey with a world record lift of 210 kg.

The silver went to Li Zhuo of China with a lift of 205 kg while the bronze went to Thailand's Aree Wiratthaworn with a total of 200 kg.

Kunjarani did not make a promising start to her campaign as she failed to lift 82.5 kg in the first attempt in snatch.

Though she made amends to it in the next attempt a failure to lift 85 kg in the final effort saw her slip to seventh position at the end of the snatch event.

Faced with an uphill task to leap frog four lifters to lay a claim on the bronze medal, the Assistant Commandant of Central Reserve Police Force began with a lift of 102.5 kg.

She successfully lifted 107.5 kg in the second attempt but failed in her third effort for 112.5 to finish with a tally of 190 kg.

But the star of the day was the Turkish lifter, who broke the world record for overall lift as well as in the snatch.

Her total lift of 210 was 2.5 kg better that the earlier record held by China's Wang Mingjuan since 2002.

Earlier in snatch, Taylan broke the record of Zhuo with a lift of 95 kg in her second attempt and then bettered it by 2.5 kg in her last effort.