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Canadian weightlifter Xavier Lusignan won a bronze medal in the men\u2019s 110kg final on Thursday at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Lusignan, of Mansfield, Que., lifted 159kg in the snatch before a successful attempt of 197kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 356kg.<\/p>\n
The Canadian waited in anticipation as Samoa\u2019s Jack Hitila Opeloge had three tries to bump Lusignan off the podium, however none of Opeloge\u2019s attempts at 210kg in the clean and jerk were successful.<\/p>\n
Fiji\u2019s Taniela Tuisuva Rainiboi won gold with Games-record totals of 170kg in the snatch and 208kg in the clean and jerk for a combined record of 356kg. England’s Cyrille Tchatchet II rounded out the podium in silver-medal position.<\/p>\n
WATCH | Canadian Lusignan claims weightlifting bronze:![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785414673_102_default.jpg\")
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Xavier Lusignan claims Commonwealth Games weightlifting bronze<\/p>\n
Xavier Lusignan of Mansfield, Que., lifted 159kg in the snatch before a successful attempt of 197kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 356kg, good enough for a bronze medal in the men’s 110kg weightlifting final at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
At Scotstoun Stadium, Damian Warner has a lead in the decathlon after two events.<\/p>\n
The native of London, Ont., was the fastest among all athletes in the 100-metre heats, finishing in 10.21 seconds and earned 1,044 points. That time would have been a new Games record in the 100m but it was not a legal wind (+3.5 m\/s).<\/p>\n
WATCH | Warner takes early lead with 100m result:![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785414674_848_default.jpg\")
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Damian Warner sprints out of the blocks to take early lead in the decathlon<\/p>\n
2020 Olympic decathlon champion and 2014 Commonwealth Games champion Damian Warner of London, Ont., easily won the men’s 100-metre portion of the decathlon, with a wind-assisted time of 10.21 seconds at the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
In the long jump, Warner’s top jump of 7.77m was second among all competitors and earned him 1,002 points.<\/p>\n
With one event remaining in the morning session \u2013 the shot put \u2013 the Canadian has 153-point lead over his closest competitor, England’s Sammy Ball.<\/p>\n
Warner has a history of success in Glasgow at the Commonwealth Games. In 2014, he captured gold here for his first major international title, setting Games records in the 100m and 110m hurdles along the way. After sitting out the Games in 2022, Warner is aiming for another title in the very location where he achieved his landmark first victory 12 years ago.<\/p>\n
Other Canadian results on ThursdayWith a third-place finish in his semifinal heat, Canada’s Christopher Morales Williams did not qualify for the men’s 400m final. The 21-year-old from Vaughan, Ont., ran his race in 45.99 seconds, but that time wasn’t enough for the world indoors champion to earn one of the two next-fastest qualifier spots up for grabs.Two Canadians advanced to the final of the women\u2019s one mile. Lucia Stafford finished second in her heat in 4:31.27 while Simone Plourde qualified for Saturday\u2019s medal race with a time of 4:38.50. Fellow Canadian Kate Current (4:39.66) did not advance.Ottawa\u2019s Lauren Gale qualified for the final of the women\u2019s 400m by running 52.05 in the semifinals.Tatiana Aholou, of Laval, Que., will race in the final of the women\u2019s 100m hurdles after running her heat in a time of 12.91 seconds. Fellow Canadian Mariam Abdul-Rashid (12.98) did not advance.The Canadian men\u2019s track cycling sprint team of Cole Dempster, Tyler Rorke, and James Hedgcock finished fifth in qualifying (44.131) and will not race for a medal.In bowls, Canada\u2019s Kelly McKerihen improved to a 2-1 record in women\u2019s singles after a tiebreaker victory over England\u2019s Katherine Rednall (5-6, 8-5, 1-0). McKerihen\u2019s has another match on Thursday, coming against Daphne Arthur-Almond of the Falkland Islands at 12:15 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-835859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}