Y.B. Hannah Yeoh, the Minister of Youth and Sports Malaysia, paid an official visit to the Athletes Village of the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou 2022 on Sunday, 24th September 2023.
Y.B. Hannah Yeoh, who was accompanied by Mr. Jefri Ngadirin, the Director of Athletes Division, National Sports of Council (NSC) and Dr. Ahmad Zawawi Zakaria, the Director of Sports Performance, National Sports Institute (NSI), was given a warm welcome by the Chef de Mission, Dato’ (Dr.) Chong Kim Fatt and his two deputies Datuk Mohamad Iruan Zulkefli, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Farrah Hani Imran and members of the Secretariat upon her arrival at 11.30 am.
The delegation was taken on a tour to the base of the Malaysian Contingent located in Building No. 7 in Zone 2 South of the Athletes Village, where the Secretariat Operations Room which is jointly operated by OCM and NSC as well as the Sports Medical Clinic and Recovery Centre operated by NSI, are located.
Y.B. Hannah Yeoh then proceeded to the Dining Hall, where she took the opportunity to interact with the Men’s and Women’s Hockey Teams and the Boxing athletes before sampling lunch.
The visit concluded with a surprise birthday celebration for the national Hockey player, Mr. Abdul Khaliq Hamirin, who is celebrating his 26th birthday today.
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- Y.B. Hannah Yeoh holding the replica torch bearer photograph with Chef de Mission, Dato’ (Dr.) Chong Kim Fatt, along with the 2 Deputy Chefs de Mission Datuk Mohamad Iruan Zulkefli and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Farrah Hani Imran
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- Mr. Nor Ikhwan Ismail explained the daily tasks of the secretariat office.
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- Y.B. Hannah Yeoh photograph with the secretariat members.
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- Dr. Choong Wai Kong from the National Sports Institute gave a brief about Medical operations in the athlete village.
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- Y.B. Hannah Yeoh photograph with the Malaysian Contingent at the entrance of the athlete’s dining hall.
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- Y.B. Hannah Yeoh photograph with the Hockey Men’s and Women’s Team and Boxing Team at the athlete’s dining hall.
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- Y.B. Hannah Yeoh had lunch at the dining hall.
Dato’ Sieh Kok Chi was born on the 8th of November 1938. After his retirement in 1991, as an Engineer in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia, Dato’ Sieh chose to continue his involvement, full time, in the field of sports, where his life-long passion was, especially in the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM).
Born on 21st March 1949, Y.A.M Tunku Tan Sri Imran is the second son of the late Tuanku Jaafar, an elected monarch of the Negeri Sembilan. Tunku Imran was educated in the UK at the King’s School, Canterbury and studied law at Nottingham University before being called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London in 1971 and qualifying as a Barrister at Law.