Olympic glory often comes down to hue of medals — gold, silver or bronze.

For Holley Mangold, it comes down to surgery — shoulder, knee and hand.

The first girl to play varsity football in Ohio when she attended Alter High School, Mangold made her Olympic debut Sunday in London’s ExCel Arena.

That she placed 10th in the 75-plus-kilogram (more than 165 1/2 pounds) did not diminish her feeling of accomplishment.

“I’m actually really proud of what happened — with my wrist,” Mangold said. “I had an injury two weeks ago where I tore the tendon in my (right) hand. So I’m actually really excited with what I did because it was not what I expected to do.”

Mangold said she tore the tendon during training, about two days before leaving Ohio for London. At first, she thought she had broken her hand.

She could work through a tear, though.

She thinks she tore it again on her final attempt Sunday.

First order of business when she returns to her training base in Columbus is surgery — on her torn tendon in the hand, torn knee meniscus and torn labrum in her shoulder.

“I’m hoping they can do it all at once, maybe give me a discount,” she said.

Mangold, who stands 5-8 and weighs more than 350 pounds, was cheered by 16 family members, including brother Nick, an All-Pro center for the New York Jets.

“Sixteen? That’s crazy!” she said. “I think that’s amazing.”

Zhou Lulu won China’s third gold in women’s weightlifting with a world-record total of 333 kilograms (734 pounds).

Russia’s Tatiana Kashirinia broke her own world record in the snatch, pushing the mark to 151 kilos (332), and finished with a silver-medal total of 332 kilos (731).

Zhou’s clean-and-jerk of 187 kilos (412) tied the world record and set an Olympic record.

Hripsime Khurshudyan of Aremnia took bronze with a total of 294 kilos (648 1/2), edging 2008 gold-medalist Mi-Ran Jang of South Korea.

Sarah Robles of Team USA placed seventh, while Mangold was 10th at 240 kilos (529 1/2).

Because of her injury, Mangold opened with less weight than she would have liked — 105 kilos (231) in the snatch, 135 (297 1/2) in the clean and jerk. That’s exactly what she lifted.

Having not snatched anything more than 80 kilos (176) since being hurt, Mangold was ecstatic to do 105.

“Last night I was worried if I was even going to get a total,” she said. “So I’m actually really excited with the total I made, even though it’s nothing near what I wanted. But it was painful, and I’m glad I could work through the pain and put up a total.”

She had hoped to be healthy enough to snatch 120 (264) and jerk 150 (330).

But she also knew that wouldn’t happen. Not after being with sports medicine doctors “twenty-four/seven for the last two weeks.” A cortisone shot two weeks ago and another three days ago helped her get through.

Withdrawing from the competition was never a consideration.

“I wouldn’t drop out. It’s the Olympics. You can fight through pain and just put up a total,” Mangold said. “Especially because I came here and some other girl didn’t get to come here. … I at least owed it to her to try to fight through the pain and try to make a total.”

She not only fought through pain, but also survived a wardrobe malfunction.

Team USA’s official uniform is a singlet, and super heavyweights are, well, rather large.

“Nobody looks good in a singlet,” Mangold said. “Not even a skinny girl.”

Luckily, Mangold wore a singlet on top of a singlet Sunday.

“My zipper tore off the back of my singlet. Luckily, I was wearing another singlet underneath it, so I was double-protected,” she said, able to laugh at the thought. “I was afraid it was going to rip, like in the crotch or something. They’ve got that camera that’s like right there. That’s all I need — a rip in my crotch and have a camera sticking up at me.”

Mangold said that lifting in pain left her with a raging headache.

Yet, she felt so good.

She already wants another shot on the Olympic stage in 2016.

“This is just the beginning. This made me really excited for the next Olympics,” she said. “So I’ll be there, and that time I won’t be hurt — knock on wood.”