Charron shows class is permanent with golden hat-trick
Returning champions, local heroes and a haka were the highlights of day three in the Weightlifting, when three sets of medals were awarded.
Canada's Maude Charron marked her ongoing dominance of the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday with a third consecutive gold medal in Weightlifting, but she remained uncommitted over whether she would return to battle for a fourth in 2030.
“I don’t know about that,” Charron said after topping the podium in the Women's 63kg at the SEC Armadillo.
“I’m enjoying myself right now. I don’t have a lot of Games to come; I need to enjoy them.”
The Canadian lifter, who won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and claimed silver at Paris 2024, held off England’s Sarah Davies Smale to clinch top spot.
Charron, 33, had to watch on as Davies Smale loaded her bar with the 138kg needed to take the lead with her final lift, but it proved too much for the Englishwoman, who claimed silver.
Seventeen-year-old Femily-Crystie Notte collected bronze for Nauru’s second Weightlifting medal of the Games.
“I was telling myself it is just another competition like any other; three snatch and three clean and jerks," Charron said.
"No matter the size of the competition, I have the same job to do.
“I know the pressure, I know how many eyeballs are on me, and I know the outcomes that can happen. I don’t feel that as pressure, but I perform better under pressure.”
Earlier in the day, Malaysia’s Hafizuddin Bin Roslin Muhammad secured gold in the Men’s 88kg, dropping to his knees in celebration when the green light flashed after his final lift.
New Zealand’s Cameron McTaggart made one last attempt at gold with 192kg, but he was unable to complete the lift to leave him with silver. The Kiwi celebrated by performing the traditional Pou Tangata haka.
Angus Doig earned the biggest cheer of the day by claiming bronze. The firefighter who trains in his garage earned Scotland’s first Weightlifting medal of Glasgow 2026 after South Africa’s William Swart failed on his final lift.
“My goal was to put on a good performance and put on a show for the crowd,” Doig said.
“I put on a show, and this (medal) is the result of it. It’s unbelievable.”
World Junior Champion Charlotte Simoneau won Canada’s second gold of the day in the women’s 69kg. She had dominated throughout and secured top spot when she lifted 132kg in the clean and jerk.
In doing so, she pushed India’s Harjinder Kaur into silver position, while Australia’s Nya Phebe Hayman claimed bronze.