
The medals are actually trickling for Staff Nigeria as Rafiatu Folashade Lawal broke three Commonwealth Video games data to win Nigeria’s second gold medal on the Video games.
Rafiatu clinched gold within the closing of the ladies’s 59kg weightlifting occasion after lifting 90kg on the snatch class, setting a brand new Commonwealth Video games document.
The 25-year-old Nigerian star lifted 110kg on the first try, then on the second try lifted 115kg to set the brand new Video games document, after which on the third try set one other Commonwealth Video games World Report, lifting 116kg.
A mixed 206kg is a brand new Commonwealth Video games Report within the girls’s 59kg weightlifting occasion.
Her victory got here a number of hours after Staff Nigeria celebrated the bronze medal gained by Edidiong Joseph Umoafia within the males’s 67kg Weightlifting occasion.
England’s Jessica Gordon Brown gained silver – 197kg whereas Canada’s Tali Darsigny claimed bronze: 196kg.