{"id":111301,"date":"2026-08-03T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111301\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:44:11","slug":"swiss-shoe-brand-on-earn-16-medals-at-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111301\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss shoe brand On earn 16 medals at Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dropcapp2 wp-block-paragraph\">While the Commonwealth Games remain, at their core, a celebration of national colours and country-first competition, the modern reality is that clubs, training groups, and sponsors will, and have every right to trumpet their athletes\u2019 successes. Switzerland\u2011based On, now firmly established in the elite-performance ecosystem, has plenty to trumpet in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The brand\u2019s presence has grown from a lone athlete at the 2022 Birmingham Games. The company\u2019s cohort is now at 16 in 2026, spanning everything from the 100m blast to the attritional 10,000m. The result: seven medals and a clear signal that On\u2019s high\u2011performance program is no longer a boutique experiment but a fully realized pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ky-Robinson-1-781x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48173\"  \/>Ky Robinson. Photo courtesy of \u201cOn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2026 Commonwealth Games medallists<\/p>\n<p>Ky Robinson \u2014 10,000m (Gold), 5000m (Silver)<\/p>\n<p>Dejanea Oakley \u2014 400m (Gold), 4x400m Mixed Relay (Gold)<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Ezekiel \u2014 400m Hurdles (Gold)<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Hollingsworth \u2014 Mile (Bronze)<\/p>\n<p>Lavanya Williams \u2014 4x100m Relay (Gold)<\/p>\n<p>Oakley strikes twice for Jamaica<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dejanea Oakley\u2019s transition from NIL athlete to full professional with On could not have been timed better. She left Glasgow with two gold medals. She was first in the women\u2019s 400m, then in the 4x400m, where she hauled Jamaica from fourth to first on the anchor leg. It was the sort of late\u2011race takeover that sponsors dream about, and coaches replay on loop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lavanya Williams, also a newcomer, added to Jamaica\u2019s haul with gold in the 4x100m relay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Dejanea-Oakley-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48174\"  \/>Dejanea Oakley. Photo courtesy of \u201cOn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ezekiel breaks through<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria\u2019s Nathaniel Ezekiel, fourth at last year\u2019s World Championships in Tokyo, finally stepped onto a major podium. His win in the 400m hurdles marked his first international medal, a composed, late\u2011race surge that separated him from a tightly packed field.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson and Hollingsworth deliver for Australia<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ky Robinson, the Boulder\u2011based Australian distance runner, is training with the On Athletics Club\u2019s Global group. He produced one of the meet\u2019s most reliable double\u2011acts. He controlled the 10,000m in wet conditions, leaving little suspense about the outcome, then returned for silver in the 5000m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claudia Hollingsworth, representing the Oceania arm of the On Athletics Club, earned her first senior international medal. It was bronze in a competitive mile. At 21, she shared the podium with compatriots Abbey Caldwell and Jess Hull, underscoring Australia\u2019s current depth in middle\u2011distance racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Commonwealth Games remain, at their core, a celebration of national colours and country-first competition, the modern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[54430,2434,41,17],"class_list":["post-111301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-on","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117032823577238158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}