{"id":551890,"date":"2026-07-30T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551890\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:48:11","slug":"commonwealth-games-weightlifter-david-liti-scores-gold-for-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551890\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games: Weightlifter David Liti scores gold for NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiwi heavyweight David Liti has won Commonwealth Games gold in the +110kg weightlifting in Glasgow this morning.<\/p>\n

It’s his third consecutive Commonwealth Games medal, after gold in 2018 and silver in 2022. <\/p>\n

He lifted 223kg \u2014 a games record \u2014 in his second clean and jerk after a fascinating battle with India’s Lovepreet Singh.<\/p>\n

His combined weight of 389kg was also a record. <\/p>\n

He told Sky Sport afterwards it was a “massive sigh of relief”.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

David Liti with his gold medal (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

“Crazy, crazy, processing this whole thing. I knew coming into this competition, it would be tough. But yeah, best foot forward, that’s all I could give.”<\/p>\n

It was the seventh medal and second gold of the day for New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Earlier, shot putter Tom Walsh claimed silver, with gold going to Nigerian Chukwuebuka Enekwechi with a throw of 21.07m<\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/p>\n

Tom Walsh of Team New Zealand competes in the Men’s Shot Put Final during the Athletics on day seven of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

The South Cantabrian needed 21.08m with his final attempt to move back in front, but couldn’t improve on his 21.03m throw to start the competition. <\/p>\n

He had been gunning for a third straight gold, and said afterwards that achieving silver “wasn’t what I came here to do”. <\/p>\n

“I wasn’t probably up to the task that I needed to be up to today, which is a little bit frustrating. But if I am going to lose it to someone, losing it to Chuk is not a bad way to do.<\/p>\n

“Definitely not the distance or feeling I wanted to do out there, I warmed up well and then the nerves got to me a bit too much.<\/p>\n

“Between me and my team we set some pretty high standards and today I wasn’t where I wanted to be….I know that I am a better thrower than that.”<\/p>\n

Anna Grimaldi claimed her first Commonwealth Games bronze in 100m T47 final.<\/p>\n

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Gold medalist Sheriauna Haase of Team Canada, Silver medalist Chloe Dunbar of Team Canada and Bronze medalist Anna Grimaldi of Team New Zealand pose for a photo after the Women’s 100 Metres T47 Final. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

Grimaldi began in lane 3, finishing with a time of 12.46s – her season best. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi heavyweight David Liti has won Commonwealth Games gold in the +110kg weightlifting in Glasgow this morning. It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16671,166477,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-551890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-athletics","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551890","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=551890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}