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Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games GLASGOW 2014 COMMONWEALTH GAMES Last updated on 11 July 2014 OFFICIALS S/n Sport Name Function 1 Athletics Lawrence Jason Paul (M) Team Manager 2 Tan Kim Boon, Melvin (M) Coach 3 Oh Soh Tin Margaret (F) Coach 4 Badminton Chua Yong Joo (M) Coach 5 Liu Qingdong (M) Coach 6 Chew Keet Hou (M) Team Manager 7 Gymnastics Pang Qiong (F) Coach 8 Yuan Kexia (F) Coach 9 Zhao Qun (M) Coach 10 Lin Zhenqiu (M) Coach 11 Shooting Anatoly Babushkin (M) Coach 12 Kirill Ivanov (M) Coach 13 Zhang Manzhen (M) Coach 14 Ng Jing Hui (F) Team Manager 15 Swimming Lopez Miro Sergio (M) Coach 16 Turner Ian Roderick (M) Coach 17 Yeo Ho Sin (M) Team Manager 18 David Lim Fong Jock (M) Coach 19 Table Tennis Loy Soo Han (M) Team Manager 20 Zhu, Jiang (M) Coach 21 Jing Junhong (F) Coach 22 Yang, Chuanning (M) Coach 23 Hao Anlin (M) Coach 24 Weightlifting Wu Chuanfu (M) Coach ATHLETES S/n Sport Name Event 1 Athletics Kugapriya D/O Chandran (F) 2 Tyra Summer Ree (F) 3 Wendy Enn (F) 4 Mok Ying Ren (M) 5 Pereira Veronica Shanti (F) 6 Eugenia Tan Yan Ning (F) Habibah Najihahbi Binte Ahmad 7 (F) 8 Kang Li Loong, Calvin (M) Muhammad Amirudin Bin Jamal 9 (M) Muhammad Elfi Bin mustapa 10 (M) Muhammad Naqib Bin Asmin 11 (M) 12 Yeo Foo Ee, Gary (M) 13 Lee Cheng Wei (M) 14 Badminton Wong Zi Liang, Derek (M) 15 Huang Chao (M) 16 Danny Bawa Chrisnanta (M) 17 Triyachart Chayut (M) 18 Shinta Mulia Sari (F) 19 Fu MingTian (F) 20 Hee Yong Kai, Terry (M) 21 Liang Xiaoyu (F) 22 Neo Yu Yan, Vanessa (F) 23 Yao Lei (F) 24 Gymnastics Chia Daphne Teresa (F) 25 Tong Kah Mun (F) 26 Joey Tam Jing Ying (F) 27 Michelle Teo Yin Zhi (F) 28 Ashly Lau Wei-Ning (F) 29 Janessa Dai Min Yi (F) 30 Phaan Yi Lin (F) 31 Tay Wei-An, Terry (M) 32 Gan Zi Jie, Gabriel (M) 33 Hoe Wah Toon (M) 34 Aizat Bin Muhammad Jufrie (M) 35 Lim Heem Wei (F) 36 Timothy Tay Kai Cheng (M) 37 Shooting Keith Chan (M) 38 Tay Seng Liang Sean (M) 39 Martina Lindsay P Veloso (F) 40 Li Yafei (F) 41 Ser Xiang Wei, Jasmine (F) 42 Lim Wen Yi, Abel (M) 43 Tan Ling Chiao, Nicole (F) 44 Lim Swee Hon (M) 45 Gai Bin (M) 46 Poh Lip Meng (M) 47 Teo Shun Xie (F) Nur Marina Chan Shi Min Alif 48 Swimming Abdullah (F) 49 Lim Xiang Qi (F) 50 Quah Ting Wen (F) 51 Lynette Lim Shu-En (F) 52 Tao Li (F) 53 Samantha Louisa Yeo Ginn (F) 54 Yeo Kai Quan (M) 55 Quah Zheng Wen (M) Christopher Cheong Ee Hong 56 (M) 57 Clement Lim Yong'En (M) 58 Joseph Isaac Schooling (M) 59 Table Tennis Zhan Jian (M) 60 Chew Zhe Yu, Clarence (M) 61 Li Hu (M) 62 Isabelle Li Siyun (F) 63 Lin ye (F) 64 Zhou Yihan (F) 65 Gao Ning (M) 66 Yang Zi (M) 67 Feng Tianwei (F) 68 Yu Mengyu (F) 69 Weightlifting Lewis Chua Yong Hwee (M) 70 Wong Wei Gen, Scott (M).
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