Fiji was reinstated back into the Commonwealth in March, allowing it to send athletes to the Games for the first time since Melbourne 2006.

The move came too late for its hockey, netball and rugby sevens sides as the qualification period for Glasgow 2014 had already passed but it is set to send athletes in six sports - athletics, judo, lawn bowls, shooting, swimming and weightlifting to the Games this summer.

The national federations for each of these sports have until May 31 to provide a list of potential athletes who will make the team for Glasgow ahead of the final deadline of June 11 when the confirmed list of names will be finalised.

"They [the National Federations] need to finalise the names before the closing date which is on June 11," said FASANOC sports development manage, Lyndall Fisher.

"We will have to sit and look at the names to finalise them.

"So we're giving the federations until the end of the month to submit all the names of athletes."

Fisher added that judoka Josateki Naulu and weightlifter Apoloni Vaivai, both of whom are currently taking part in interim International Olympic Committee (IOC) scholarships in Japan and New Caledonia respectively, are likely to be two of the athletes representing Team Fiji this summer.

Fiji has won 14 medals at Commonwealth Games since first appearing in Sydney in 1938, then known as the British Empire Games.

Eight of those medals have come in the six sports they will be competing in this year, including shot put gold for Mataika  Tuicakau in Auckland in 1950 and Nacanieli Qerewaqa, who won judo gold at Manchester 2002.

Judoka Nacanieli Qerewaqa was the last Fijian to take Commonwealth Games gold at Manchester 2002 ©Getty Images



Fiji's rugby sevens side took silver at those Games in Manchester, sandwiched between a silver at Kuala Lumpur 1998 and bronze at Melbourne 2006.

The Pacific Island would have been a strong medal contender again during the rugby sevens competition in Glasgow and its exclusion from the Games briefly led to FASANOC threatening to pull out just days after being reinstated but that threat was dropped after the Commonwealth Games Federation insisted that the format for the competition could not be changed.

At Manchester 2002 and Melbourne 2006, the average size of the Fijian team, including athletes and officials, was 85.

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