TEQ Sri Lanka President leads Team Sri Lanka for the Olympics

TEQ Sri Lanka’s President Mr. Gamini Jayasinghe will be the Chef de Mission for Sri Lankan Contingent for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games which is rescheduled to be held from July 23 – August 8, 2021.

According to the latest media release on June 9, 2021 by the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka, four athletes are already on board in Team Sri Lanka. Six more athletes will be qualified or invited - most probably from Aquatics, Athletics, Wrestling, Wrestling, Archery, and Judo. Now, Jayasinghe is appointed as Chef-de-mission to lead the Team Sri Lanka which includes athletes and team officials.

TEQ Sri Lanka is very much delighted to hear that our President leads Team Sri Lanka. Because Summer Olympic Games is once in a four-year rare opportunity. While all media are widely speaking about the Olympic Games, Jayasinghe’s leadership is counted as a very proud moment by TEQ Sri Lanka and our Teq community. We profoundly congratulate him!

Chef-de-mission Jayasinghe is a very well-experienced sport administrator in Sri Lanka who has been serving as a treasurer of the NOC Sri Lanka for more than a decade. In sport, Jayasinghe has held various positions in different sport associations - treasurer of Handball Federation of Sri Lanka; General-Secretary of Sri Lanka Hockey Federation; Vice-President of Government Services Hockey Association; Chairman of Hockey Prison Sports Club; Development and Coaching Committee member of the Asian Hockey Federation; and now the President of Teqball Federation of Sri Lanka.

As an athlete, Jayasinghe was selected for the Sri Lanka Hockey Team on several occasions and toured India, Pakistan, and Singapore; represented and captained the Prisons Department Hockey Team from 1980 - 1985 and represented the State Services Hockey Association from 1980 - 1989; also captained the State Services Hockey Association team in 1986 which emerged joint champions in Matale. Further, Jayasinghe is an International Hockey Umpire and had officiated in the Asia Cup held in Hong Kong in 1997, national championships, and international tournament overseas as well; officiated as a technical officer in the Asian Games in 2010 and 2014 in China and South Korea, respectively.

Jayasinghe represented the Summer Olympic Games London - 2010 as the NOC Sri Lanka’s delegate; as Chef-de-mission for South Asian Games in 2010 and Deputy Chef-de-mission for South Asian Games in 2019; Chairman Technical Committee of the 1^st South Asian Beach Games in Hambantota in 2011.

Interviewing the GoodSport of the NOC Sri Lanka about the Games during this pandemic, Chef-de-mission Jayasinghe said in the latest press release by the NOC Sri Lanka, “unlike other Games the Covid-19 challenge has put an added responsibility upon the Lankan contingent. However, Japan being one of the most technologically and medically advanced countries and most of its day-to-day life is going on unabated we can take some courage from the situation. As for the athletes who are competing at the Games this will be a beacon of hope. I reckon with the situation at hand our Lankans should perform to their true potential.”

TEQ Sri Lanka wishes him and Team Sri Lanka all the very best!