Commonwealth Games: Live coverage of Day 6 from Glasgow

Second time was the charm for Ollie Saxton who proves the weight wasn’t too heavy.

Getting the 180kg up puts him in the lead with a 336kg total.

The West Aussie will try 186kg with his final lift.

Just two competitors remain who can best Saxton’s spot.

Ollie will need another crack at 180kg.

His clean was done in fine form but his shortcoming came at the jerk.

Back in the iron palace, two more competitors have bowed out of the weightlifting final.

A 180kg clean and jerk would put Ollie in good standing.

Heartbreak for the women’s wombats who have dropped their semi-final match against Scotland 15-12, the only 3x3 Aussie side to not make the gold medal match.

The Scots jumped ahead early and Australia couldn’t close that gap despite the higher shooting percentage. Experienced star Georgia Munro-Cook had six points in the loss.

Ollie Saxton finishes the snatch with his 156kg lift, after failing to break the Commonwealth Games record on his third attempt.

He watched Bellemarre set a new record of 159kg and once again attempted to one up at 160kg.

A weight he has cleared before, unfortunately Saxton couldn’t get it up this time and currently sits at second place going into his less preferred clean and jerk.

After Canadian Alex Bellemarre lifted 155kg, Saxton decided to go one better on his second attempt.

Not only attempting a whopping 156kg but lifting it cleanly to hit the lead.

Next attempt will be 155kg for Saxton, and he will benefit from extra rest with competitors failing weights in the 150-153kg range.

Ollie Saxton nailed the 150kg snatch in his first crack, the biggest weight lifted thus far in the final’s early stages.

It looked routine for Saxton who can now build on top of it with his next two lifts.

A thin 10 horse race for the gold medal has been trimmed even more so after a timely DNF.

South African Nicolaas Jacobus du Plooy failed to register a snatch, leaving it down to nine lifters aiming for gold.

Perth’s Ollie Saxton is gunning for gold as the men’s 94kg weightlifting finals gets underway.

His planned 150kg to start the snatch is on the upper end for competitors, just two kgs off the max opening attempt.

Read about his story here.