{"id":548064,"date":"2026-07-28T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548064\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:41:11","slug":"commonwealth-games-weightlifter-cameron-mctaggart-wins-silver-in-88kg-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548064\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games: Weightlifter Cameron McTaggart wins silver in 88kg final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weightlifter Cameron McTaggart has claimed a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, marking New Zealand’s first medal outside of the pool.<\/p>\n

McTaggart finished second in Tuesday’s men’s 88 kilogram final behind Hafizuddin Bin Roslin Muhammad, of Malaysia, who set a new games record.<\/p>\n

It is New Zealand’s ninth medal at Glasgow and McTaggart’s first ever in what is his third games appearance.<\/p>\n

In other results, New Zealand’s para bowls mixed pair<\/a> have narrowly missed the podium, beaten by Wales in the bronze medal match that was decided on a one-end tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

New Zealand swimmer Lewis Clareburt laid down another marker as he looked to successfully defend another Commonwealth Games title in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

After powering from behind to win gold in the 200 metre butterfly on Monday, Clareburt stormed into the final of the 400 metre medley final overnight.<\/p>\n

His time of four minutes and 16.49 seconds was the fastest across both heats.<\/p>\n

Clareburt won the 400 medley gold in Birmingham four years ago.<\/p>\n

The final gets under way about 6.45am on Wednesday, New Zealand time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weightlifter Cameron McTaggart has claimed a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, marking New Zealand’s first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-548064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}