Brown delivers silver medal lift for England at Commonwealth Games

ISABELLA BROWN held her nerve to win England’s second weightlifting medal of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games with silver in the women’s -77kg category today. Brown missed both her opening lifts of 77kg in the opening snatch portion of the competition before securing it at the third attempt to avoid early disqualification. She achieved a Games-record 132kg in the clean-and-jerk, but it was not enough to overhaul gold medallist Seine Stowers of Samoa, while Laura Hughes of Wales grabbed an…