The 23-year-old won the snatch with a lift of 217kg, bettering Iranian Behdad Salimi's 216kg set at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and then won the clean and jerk with 250kg. 

It gave the reigning Olympic and world champion an overall total of 467kg and a winning margin of 21kg. 

Armenia’s Gor Minasyan, the Rio 2016 silver medallist, came second with 446kg having finished runner-up in the snatch with 211kg and fifth in the clean and jerk with 235kg.

Compatriot Ruben Aleksanyan was the bronze medallist with 434kg, following a sixth-place finish in the snatch with 190kg and a third-place finish in the clean and jerk with 244kg.

Georgia’s Irakli Turmanidze came third in the snatch with 201kg, but he did not contest the clean and jerk.

Estonia’s Mart Seim ranked second in the clean and jerk with 246kg, however, a ninth-place finish in the snatch with 180kg proved costly as he ended up fifth overall with 426kg.

The men's 105kg category saw Rio 2016 silver medallist Simon Martirosyan of Armenia go one better on this occasion by claiming gold. 

The 20-year-old, a bronze medallist at last year’s continental championships in Førde in Norway, won both the snatch and clean and jerk with respective lifts of 184kg and 230kg for an unrivalled total of 414kg.

Bulgaria’s Vasil Gospodinov took silver with 397kg after finishing third in the snatch with 180kg and the same position in the clean and jerk with 217kg.

Rounding out the podium was Poland’s Arkadiusz Michalski, who totalled 387kg thanks to lifts of 170kg in the snatch and 217kg in the clean and jerk.

Austria’s Sargis Martirosjan ranked second in the snatch with 181kg, but he ended up fourth overall with 386kg having only managed the eighth-best lift of 205kg in the clean and jerk.

Russia’s David Bedzhanyan was the runner-up in the clean and jerk with 221kg, however, he was unable to post a total having bombed out in the snatch.

Russia’s Tatiana Kashirina, a four-time world champion and six-time European champion at over 75kg, came out on top in the women’s over 90kg category with a total of 317kg.

The 26-year-old world record holder, who served a two-year doping ban from 2006 to 2008, comfortably won the snatch with 137kg and the clean and jerk with 180kg.

Ukraine’s Anastasiia Lysenko came away with the silver medal with 277kg, having finished runner-up in both the snatch and clean and jerk with respective lifts of 125kg and 152kg.

Completing the top three was Hungary’s Krisztina Magat, who manged a total of 234kg after occupying the same position in the snatch with 104kg and the clean and jerk with 130kg.