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Nigeria's Rafiatu Folashade Lawal has clinched Gold in the final of the women's 59kg weightlifting event in the ongoing XXII Commonwealth Games holding in Birmingham.

The 25-year-old lifted 90kg at the Snatch category, setting a new Commonwealth Games Record.

At the clean & jerk category, she lifted 110kg at the first attempt, then at the second attempt lifted 115kg to set the Commonwealth Games Record, and then on the third attempt set another Commonwealth Games World Record, lifting 116kg.

A combined 206kg is a new Commonwealth Games Record in the women's 59kg weightlifting event.

England's Jessica Gordon Brown (Silver: 197kg) and Canada's Tali Darsigny (Bronze: 196kg) also scored podium finishes.

Prior to this tournament, Rafiatu won Gold at the 2019 All-African Games in Rabat, another Gold at the 2021 African Championships in Nairobi and later Gold at the 2021 Commonwealth Qualifiers in the Uzbek Capital, Tashkent: all in the women's 59kg weightlifting event.

This is Nigeria's third medal (all in the weightlifting category).

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She concentrated her anger toward Nigerian politicians and lifted that lol

I just de pity who go face Boxer for this competition

Good

It seems our strength in this Common Wealth Games is in powerlifting...


So we have people who can lift like this and they left the country in the hands of those who cannot carry it.

Kudos to the record breaker!

Congratulations

congratulations rafiat.

R

Late update, Gold that she won since yesterday.

Looks like the reason Nigeria is this unfortunate is because our women can compete with their counterparts in the West but our man who doesn't match the strength and intelligence of their counterparts in the West are the ones at the helms of affairs. Kudos to the Nigerian women. Accept my apology on behalf of the Nigerian men association for bastardizing the economy so badly that you have been relegated to selling yansh and begging for urgent 2k in order to pay tuition and survive. I throw cap

Team Naija..

This is good news. More wins girl.

Congratulations...

Hopefully, Nigeria will get better...

Well done team Nigeria

Congratulations

Nigerians are winners where ever we go in the world.

Big congratulations Rafiatu.

We are proud of you.

Weightlifting, Wrestling...

We should get enough medals..

We now have expectations from track and field because of Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume

Great

Congratulations to her.
Another win for Nigeria and Africa.

Igbo amaka.

Wow

This is MASSIVE.

From all of us @ :
CONGRATULATIONS darling.

God bless you and yours for this wonderful Gold medal to all Nigerians.

PointZerom:
Igbo amaka.

UP NIGERIA.
In ONE NIGERIA we stand.
Point zero, don't bring your usual tribalism to derail this beautiful thread please.
Use your head well.
Your point is zero as your moniker signify.
Na dem

Ara21:
This is good news. More wins girl.

Yessss oooo.
This is ONLY the beginning for her career.
Go gurl.

Some news to cheer me up.

If only we can get it right inside Nigeria. Nigeria will be almost the best place to live in the world

girl with brain...
more grease to your elbow.

Who go epp us lift Nigeria bayi??

That's my girl.

More winnings.

Another omoluabi

PointZerom:
Igbo amaka.

Is it Folashade or Rafiatu that sounds like Igbo to you? Anyways, its obvious that the abokis actually have nothing to contribute to this country order than to loot it. It's high time the south realized that we are the ones making things happen but hausafulani still control the resources. It's high time we woke up.