Nigeria on Sunday received its second gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games, as Oluwatoyin Adesanmi won the women’s 63 kg weightlifting event
Adesanmi piped Commonwealth No.1 and fellow countryman Obioma Okoli into the silver position.
India’s Punam Yadav, the youngest lifter at 19, took bronze.
She followed her compatriot, Chika Analha who won gold Saturday after she recorded a lift of 107 kg in clean and jerk event.
That brought to six the number of medals won by Nigeria in weighlifting, placing her atop the medal table in the event.
Nigeria is the second placed African country on the medals table, Team Nigeria will be hoping to close up on South Africa with medal hopefuls in Athletics.