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- ↑ "Jessy Chen Results | Commonwealth Games Australia". commonwealthgames.com.au. 30 May 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
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- ↑ "After being paralysed in a racist attack, this man wants to repay the country that healed him". SBS News. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ↑ Wales, Table Tennis New South. "Jessy Chen Receives the Kurt Fearnley Scholarship". ttnsw.org.au. Retrieved 24 July 2024.