The Indian challenge came to a disappointing end at the World Weightlifting Championships on Friday when their main medal hope Olympic bronze medallist Karnam Malleswari finished outside the medal bracket.

Malleswari, who finished 12th with an overall lift of 235kg (105+130) in the women's 75-kg class, began on the wrong note at Vancouver, Canada failing to lift 105kg in snatch.

But on her second attempt she cleared 105kg and improved it to 107kg.

The Andhra girl, who became the first Indian woman to win a medal in Olympics in Sydney, then gave an improved performance in clean and jerk hoisting 130kg.

The gold medal went to Shichun Shang of China who created world records in all three categories -- snatch, clean and jerk and overall - recording an overall tally of 273kg.

The Chinese girl went one better with each attempt as she lifted 120kg in snatch and 153kg in clean and jerk to emerge victorious.

Egyptian Nahla Ramadan lifted 262.5kg (117.5+145) and Slaveyka Ruzhinska of Bulgeria 252.5kg (112.5+140) won the silver and bronze medal respectively.