Yee Chun Leong
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
BRUNEI is sending three athletes to compete in two sports at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics.
This was confirmed during a flag handing over ceremony at the Green Room of the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium in Berakas on Saturday.
His Royal Highness Prince Hj Sufri Bolkiah, the president of the Brunei Darussalam National Olympic Council, handed over the national flag to the country’s chef de misson Umi Kalthum Hj Abd Karim.
Sprinter Muhammad Noor Firdaus Ar-Rasyid Hj Idris will be making his second consecutive appearance at the Games.
Zeke Chan and Hayley Wong will be competing in swimming at the July 26 – August 11 Olympics.
This will be the first time that the Sultanate will have a female representative for swimming.
The Bruneian athletes are competing under universality places which the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) and FINA (International Swimming Federation) have opened to countries with no qualified athletes.
Firdaus will run in the men’s 100m event while Chan and Wong will swim in the men's 100m backstroke and women's 50m freestyle respectively.
HRH in his sabda hopes that the athletes will be able to put up their best performance at the Games and is hopeful that Brunei can qualify on merit in the future.
This is the fourth time – in their seventh outing – that the Sultanate is sending more than one athlete to the Games.
