Olympic Council Of Malaysia

THE OCM – CARLSBERG ATHLETES RETIREMENT SCHEME

Carlsberg Malaysia became a sponsor of OCM in 1994. The Carlsberg sponsorship fees are utilized for the OCM-Carlsberg Athletes Retirement Scheme, which was created to provide a retirement scheme for athletes who fulfilled the following conditions:

Athletes who won gold medals at the Asian Games and/or the Commonwealth Games;

Athletes who won gold, silver or bronze medals at the Olympic Games.

The Retirement Scheme is in the form of a Whole Life Insurance Policy for the benefiting athlete. OCM will pay the annual premium for the Policy until the 14^th year, after which the benefiting athlete has the option of:

Surrendering the Policy by taking out the cash.

To continue with the Policy without premium payment, with death benefit of RM50,000/=, and still having the option to surrender the Policy for cash.

To continue with the Policy by paying the premium privately

The value of the Policy for the beneficiaries are as follows:

Athletes who won gold medals, in individual events, at the Asian Games and/or the Commonwealth Games, will each be provided with a whole life policy of value RM50,000/=. For members of a Doubles team, each member of the gold winning pair will be provided with a whole life policy of value RM25,000/=. For gold medal winning teams, with more than two members, each member of the team, will be provided with a whole life policy of value RM10,000/=.

Athletes who won gold, silver or bronze medals, in individual events, at the Olympic Games, will be provided with a whole life policy of value RM160,000/=, RM80,000/= or RM40,000/= respectively. For members of medal winning teams, the value of each policy will be the above value for individual medal winners, to be divided equally by the number of team members.

Athletes shall only be provided with one whole life policy for one Games, irrespective of the number of medals won.

Athletes winning medals at subsequent Olympic, Asian and Commonwealth Games, will be provided with additional policies under the above conditions.

The policies are assigned to OCM and should any athlete, due to any serious misconduct or involvement in any unlawful activity, may have the policy terminated.

The OCM-Carlsberg Athletes Retirement Scheme was started in 1998 and to date 37 athletes are benefiting from the Scheme of value totaling RM1.20 million. The breakdown of the athletes, who are in the scheme are as follows:

1998 Commonwealth Games – 6 athletes who were awarded policies of value RM50,000/= each and 11 athletes who were awarded policies of value RM10,000/= each

1998 Asian Games – 4 athletes who were awarded policies of value RM50,000/= each 2 athletes who were awarded policies of value RM25,000/= each

2002 Commonwealth Games – 3 athletes who were awarded policies of value RM50,000/= each 4 athletes who were awarded policies of value RM25,000/= each

2002 Asian Games – 5 athletes who were awarded policies of value RM50,000/= each 2 athletes who were awarded policies of value RM25,000/= each

In the Sydney 2002 Olympic Games and the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, no athlete won any medal and no award was presented. However, between 10 to 20 gold medal winners are expected from the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and the Doha 2006 Asian Games and they will be provided with the life insurance coverage of the OCM-Carlsberg Athletes Retirement Fund.

The athletes who are beneficiaries of the Scheme are as follows:

Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur, 1998

1.	G. Saravanan	Athletics
2.	Cheah Soon Kit	Badminton
3.	Choong Tan Fook	Badminton
4.	Lee Wan Wah	Badminton
5.	Ong Ewe Hock	Badminton
6.	Wong Choon Han	Badminton
7.	Yap Kim Hock	Badminton
8.	Yong Hock Kin	Badminton
9.	Sapok Biki	Boxing
10.	Thye Chee Kiat (F)	Rhythmic Gymnastics
11.	Carolyn Au Yong (F)	Rhythmic Gymnastics
12.	El Regina Tajuddin (F)	Rhythmic Gymnastics
13.	Sarina Sundarajah (F)	Rhythmic Gymnastics
14.	Nurul Huda Baharin (F)	Shooting
15.	Kenny Ang Ah Tee	Tenpin Bowling
16.	Heng Boon Hian	Tenpin Bowling
17.	Muhammad Hidayat Hamidon	Weightlifting

Asian Games, Bangkok, 1998

1.	Chong Tin Sam	Billiards & Snooker
2.	Ooi Chin Kay	Billiards & Snooker
3.	C. Muralitharan	Karate
4.	R. Muniandy	Karate
5.	Nicol Ann David (F)	Squash
6.	Lim Keng Liat	Swimming

Commonwealth Games, Manchester, 2002

1.	Ang Li Peng (F)	Badminton
2.	Chan Chong Ming	Badminton
3.	Chew Choon Eng	Badminton
4.	Lim Pek Sien (F)	Badminton
5.	Muhammad Hafiz	Badminton
6.	Siti Zalina (F)	Lawn Bowls
7.	Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim	Weightlifting

Asian Games, Busan, 2002

1.	Premila Supramaniam (F)	Karate
2.	Punaveswaran	Karate
3.	Ong Beng Hee	Squash
4.	Chai De Choo (F)	Tenpin Bowling
5.	Sarah Yap (F)	Tenpin Bowling
6.	Shalin Zulkifli (F)	Tenpin Bowling
7.	Ho Ro Bin	Wushu

Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, 2006

1.	Lee Chong Wei	Badminton
2.	Chan Chong Ming	Badminton
3.	Koo Kien Keat	Badminton
4.	Wong Choong Hann	Badminton
5.	Choong Tan Fook	Badminton
6.	Wong Pei Tty (F)	Badminton
7.	Chin Eei Hui (F)	Badminton
8.	Wong Mew Choo (F)	Badminton
9.	Julia Wong Pei Xian (F)	Badminton
10.	Ooi Sock Ai (F)	Badminton
11.	Siti Zalina binti Ahmad (F)	Lawn Bowls
12.	Nor Iryani binti Azmi (F)	Lawn Bowls
13.	Nor Hashimah binti Ismail (F)	Lawn Bowls
14.	Azlina binti Arshad (F)	Lawn Bowls
15.	Mohd Faizal bin Baharom	Weightlifting

Asian Games, Doha, 2006

1.	Koo Kien Keat	Badminton
2.	Tan Boon Heong	Badminton
3.	Ong Beng Hee	Squash
4.	Nicol Ann David (F)	Squash
5.	Heng Boon Hian	Tenpin Bowling
6.	Aaron Kong Eng Chuan	Tenpin Bowling
7.	Daniel Lim Tow Chuang	Tenpin Bowling
8.	Esther Cheah Mei Lan (F)	Tenpin Bowling
9.	Aziela Zandra (F)	Tenpin Bowling
10.	Wendy Chai De Choo (F)	Tenpin Bowling
11.	Choy Poh Lai (F)	Tenpin Bowling
12.	Sharon Koh Suet Len (F)	Tenpin Bowling
13.	Shalin Zulkifli (F)	Tenpin Bowling
14.	Chai Fong Ying (F)	Wushu
15.	Rufina Tan Hong Mui (F)	Sailing