By Lim Yong Teck/Red Sports
(from left) Pledge-taker Derek Wong (badminton), flag bearers Jonathan Chan (diving) and Lim Heem Wei (gymnastics), Chef De Mission Mark Chay, Minister Lawrence Wong, Minister Tan Chuan-Jin and Chef de Mission Low Teo Ping, sing the national anthem during the Flag Presentation Ceremony. (Photo 1 © Lim Yong Teck/Red Sports)
Singapore Sports Hub, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 — More than 80 Team Singapore athletes gathered at a flag presentation ceremony to kick-off their journey towards the 20th Commonwealth Games and the 2nd Youth Olympic Games.
Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, Minister for Manpower and President of the Singapore National Olympic Council, and Mr Lawrence Wong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, presented the Singapore flags to the respective Chefs de Mission and flag bearers.
Chef de Mission, Mr Low Teo Ping, who is currently the President of the Singapore Rugby Union, leads the contingent for the 20th Commonwealth Games. The 2nd Youth Olympic Games contingent is led by Chef de Mission, Mr Mark Chay, a former national swimmer.
Mr Tan Chuan-Jin said, “Teo Ping is a veteran sports administrator and has served as Chef de Mission at the Asian Games and SEA Games, while the YOG is Mark’s debut as a Chef de Mission. Mark’s experience as an athlete in multiple SEA Games, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games, puts him in good stead to lead Team Singapore at the YOG.”
The flag bearers for the 20th Commonwealth Games and 2nd Youth Olympic Games are gymnast Lim Heem Wei and diver Jonathan Chan respectively. Shuttler Derek Wong led the athletes in the recital of the pledge to end off the ceremony.
Team Singapore is fielding 70 athletes for the 20th Commonwealth Games, which will be held in Glasgow in July, while 17 athletes will take part in the 2nd Youth Olympic Games, which will be held in Nanjing in August. Among these athletes, shooter Martina Veloso, shuttler Liang Xiaoyu, and swimmers Nur Marina Chan and Samantha Yeo, will be competing in both Games.
“It is an honour to be able to represent Singapore in not one, but two extremely prestigious competitions. This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime chance that not many people get to experience and for this, I am extremely grateful,” said Samantha Yeo.
20th Commonwealth Games Contingent
Athletics
Kugapriya D/O Chandran
Dipna Lim Prasad
Wendy Enn
Mok Ying Ren
Pereira Veronica Shanti
Eugenia Tan Yan Ning
Habibah Najihahbi Binte Ahmad
Kang Li Loong Calvin
Muhammad Amirudin Bin Jamal
Muhammad Elfi Bin Mustapa
Muhammad Naqib Bin Asmin
Yeo Foo Ee Gary
Lee Cheng Wei
Badminton
Wong Zi Liang Derek
Huang Chao
Danny Bawa Chrisnanta
Triyachart Chayut
Shinta Mulia Sari
Fu Mingtian
Hee Yong Kai Terry
Liang Xiaoyu
Neo Yu Yan Vanessa
Yao Lei
Gymnastics
Chia Daphne Teresa
Tong Kah Mun
Joey Tam Jing Ying
Michelle Teo Yin Zhi
Ashly Lau Wei-Ning
Janessa Dai Min Yi
Phaan Yi Lin
Tay Wei-An Terry
Gan Zi Jie Gabriel
Hoe Wah Toon
Aizat Bin Muhammad Jufrie
Lim Heem Wei
Timothy Tay Kai Cheng
Shooting
Keith Chan
Tay Seng Liang Sean
Martina Lindsay P Veloso
Li Yafei
Ser Xiang Wei Jasmine
Lim Wen Yi Abel
Tan Ling Chiao Nicole
Lim Swee Hon
Gai Bin
Poh Lip Meng
Teo Shun Xie
Swimming
Nur Marina Chan Shi Min Alif Abdullah
Lim Xiang Qi
Quah Ting Wen
Lynette Lim Shu-En
Tao Li
Samantha Louisa Yeo Ginn
Danny Yeo Kai Quan
Quah Zheng Wen
Christopher Cheong Ee Hong
Clement Lim Yong’en
Joseph Isaac Schooling
Table Tennis
Zhan Jian
Chew Zhe Yu Clarence
Li Hu
Isabelle Li Siyun
Lin Ye
Zhou Yihan
Gao Ning
Yang Zi
Feng Tianwei
Yu Mengyu
Weightlifting
Lewis Chua Yong Hwee
Wong Wei Gen Scott
2nd Youth Olympic Games Contingent
Badminton
Bernard Ong Soon Yang
Liang Xiaoyu
Diving
Jonathan Chan
Gymnastics
Nadine Joy Nathan
Sailing
Bernie Chin
Samantha Yom
Ynez Lim
Shooting
Martina Lindsay P Veloso
Teh Xiu Yi
Swimming
Nur Marina Chan Shi Min Alif Abdullah
Samantha Louisa Yeo Ginn
Darren Lim Fang Yue
Dylan Koo Longhai
Table Tennis
Yee Herng Hwee
Yin Jing Yuan
Triathlon
Bryce Chong
Denise Chia
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