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Canada’s Alex Bellemarre Wins Weightlifting Silver at Commonwealth Games
The Laval, Que., native totaled 218kg, including a 102kg snatch and 116kg clean and jerk, to finish second in the women's 77kg event.
- Canadian weightlifter Alex Bellemarre won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
- Competing in the men's 94-kilogram category, the 28-year-old from La Sarre, Que., faced international rivals in the weightlifting competition.
- Bellemarre set an event record of 159kg in the snatch and lifted 187kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 346. Malaysia's Mohamad Syahmi Bin Nor-Ghazali won gold with 347.
- Elsewhere, Canada's men's and women's 3x3 wheelchair basketball teams will compete for bronze later Wednesday after semifinal losses to England.
- The women's and men's 4x100-metre relay teams qualified for their finals at Tollcross International Swimming Centre, concluding the swimming events at the Games.
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The Québécois set a record for the competition with 159 kg to be hauled.
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Canadian Alex Bellemarre won a silver medal in weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday.
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Quebec weightlifter Alex Bellemare won the silver medal in the 94 kg category at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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