Glasgow 2026: Didih wins Nigeria’s fifth gold with record-breaking lift
READ ALSO: Glasgow 2026 Day 4: Team Nigeria eyes more medals as athletics, weightlifting take centre stage Umoafia lifted a Commonwealth Games record total of 319kg, comprising 147kg in the snatch and 172kg in the clean and jerk, to finish ahead of Samoa’s Joseph Tafi and Nauru’s Elgin Moses.
Team Nigeria continued its impressive run at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Monday as weightlifter Onome Omolola Didih won the country’s fifth gold medal with a record-breaking performance in the women’s 53kg event.
She followed it up with 113kg in the clean and jerk, another Games and Commonwealth record, before finishing with a total lift of 206kg, also a new Games and Commonwealth record.
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