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GAMES:Weightlifter out to maintain golden Games haul

History-making Australian weightlifter Eileen Cikamatana will compete for her third-straight Commonwealth Games medal in Glasgow.

The 26-year-old powerhouse is the only Games gold medallist in the 12-person Australian weightlifting team named on Friday.

Cikamatana became the first woman to win Commonwealth Games gold for two countries in an individual sport when she dominated the 87kg event at the 2022 Birmingham edition.

Four years earlier, she won gold for Fiji in the 90kg event at the Gold Coast Games.

In 2019, Cikamatana switched to Australia because of a local dispute involving Fiji's weightlifting governing body.

She made her Olympic debut two years ago as one of the medal favourites in the 81kg event, narrowly missing on bronze and finishing fourth.

Cikamatana, who was in tears after the near-miss, will lift in the 86kg event at Glasgow.

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