Husnah Kukundakwe won silver in the women’s SB8 100m breaststroke to secure Uganda’s first Commonwealth Games medal in swimming, its first in a Para Sport and its first in any sport outside athletics or boxing.

Kukundakwe was level with England’s Brock Whiston at the halfway mark before the world silver medallist pulled clear to win in a Games-record 1:22.05. England’s 15-year-old Iona Winnifrith took bronze.

Nigeria continued its dominance of weightlifting and Para powerlifting through Rafiatu Folashade Lawal, who swept aside the women’s 58kg field.

Lawal set Games records in the snatch, clean and jerk and overall total, lifting 103kg and 126kg for a combined 229kg.

Her victory was Nigeria’s sixth gold across the two sports at Glasgow 2026 and followed Edidiong Umoafia’s success in the men’s 71kg final earlier in the day.

Canada’s Ann-Sophie Taschereau claimed silver with a total of 215kg, while India’s Bindyarani Devi Sorokhaibam took bronze.

The opening night of athletics extended that international spread.

Kenya swept the men’s 3,000m steeplechase podium as Edmund Serem won gold ahead of Simon Kiprop Koech and Leonard Kipkemoi Bett.

Jamaica claimed two titles in quick succession through Romaine Beckford in the men’s high jump and Demario Prince in the men’s 110m hurdles, while Australia’s Rose Davies became her country’s first Commonwealth Games champion in the women’s 10,000m.