She is the reigning CrossFit Games Champion and was a previous runner-up in 2015 and 2016 so defending her title remains next goal.

"Right now I'm not really focusing on the Olympics because they are two years away and so much can happen in that time," Toomey said.

"Of course I'd love to be able to train hard and perform like that or even better at the Olympics, but my next goal is to go to the CrossFit Games again," she said.

Toomey begun weightlifting to help improve the weightlifting component in her CrossFit and started to do a lot more strength training but slowly turned it into a dream to go to the Olympics.

She made her major international debut in weightlifting at Rio in 2016, 18 months after she became serious about the sport, where she placed 14th and just one month prior she was the runner-up in the CrossFit Games.

Last night, Toomey won just the third Commonwealth Games gold medal for Australia in weightlifting, the first in 12 years but says both wins are special in their own way.

"The CrossFit Games was unbelievable, but winning here in front of my home crowd was just spectacular," she said.