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.
Didih dominated the competition from start to finish, rewriting the record books with three Commonwealth Games records on her way to the top of the podium.
The Nigerian lifter opened with 93kg in the snatch to set a new Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth record. 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.
She finished comfortably ahead of India’s Gyaneshwari Yadav, who claimed silver with a total of 199kg, while Canada’s Rebeka Groulx settled for bronze with 178kg.
Didih’s triumph came just hours after Edidiong Umoafia had delivered Nigeria’s fourth gold medal in the men’s 71kg weightlifting event.
