Gallery of OCM's Olympians

1993 For the year 1993, the Female Olympian of the year was awarded to P. Jayanthi, for bringing home gold in the Women's 3000m and 10,000m event at the 17th SEA Games which was held in Singapore The Male Olympian for the year of 1993 was awarded to M. Ramachandran, who won the 5000m and 10,000m gold at the 17th SEA Games, creating a new SEA Games record at the same time. P. Jayanthi M. Ramachandran 1994 Ahmad Jais Baharum, Iskandar Arshad, Adbul Malek Samsudin, Zabidi Sharif won gold for the Sepaktakraw team event at the Asian Games in Hiroshima. Shalin won 2 Gold medals at the Hiroshima Asian Games in the All-Events and the women's trios. The XII Asian Games Sepaktakraw Team Champions Shalin Zulkifli 1995 The Male Olympian of the year 1995 was Sam Chong Gold medalist at the XVIII SEA Games for Billiards & Snooker. The Female Olympian of the year was awarded to Sharon Low. Gold medalist in Tenpin Bowling at the SEA Games held in Chiang Mai. Sam Chong Sharon Low 1996 Soon Kit and Kim Hock won Malaysia's first Silver Olympic medal, in the Men's Badminton Doubles event. Anastasia Karen Raj established a new National Record in the 10Km Race Walk with a time of 45 minutes and 47 seconds in the Olympics. Cheah Soon Kit and Yap Kim Hock Tuanku Ja'afar presenting the Olympians Medal to Anastasia 1997 Zaki Sadri won 2 Gold Medals in the individual athletics events for the XIX SEA Games in Jakarta. Long Jump (g.r.) Triple Jump Au Li Yen was the top female Malaysian performer in Artistic Gymnastics, winning a total of 3 Gold Medals. Vault All-round Team Zaki Sadri Au Li Yen 1998 The OCM-Coca-Cola Award is usually awarded to the best male and female athletes based on their performances at both the Commonwealth and Asian Games. However due to the exceptional performances of our athletes at the two international Games, the awards were given out in two sets. G. Savaran won the 50Km Men's Road Walk Gold in the 16th Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur, beating his personal best with a time of 4:10.05. Nurul Huda Baharin Won a Gold Medal for Malaysia at the Commonwealth Games for the Individual Air Rifle event with a score of 494.8 a new Commonwealth Games Record. G. Saravanan Nurul Huda Baharin Keng Liat was selected for his gold medal winning effort in the 100m backstroke which broke the Asian Games Record with a time of 55.53 seconds Nicol was the only female Malaysian athlete to win a Gold Medal for the Women's Singles in the 13th Asian Games held in Bangkok Lim Keng Liat Nicole Ann David 1999 Elvin Chia won 3 golds medals at the 20th SEA Games in Brunei Darussalam. The events were: 100m Breaststroke 200m Breaststroke 4x100m Medley   Shalin Zulkifli won 5 gold medals at the 20th SEA Games, from the following events: Women's Doubles Women's Trios Women's Team of 5 Women's All Events Women's Masters Elvin Chia Shalin Zulkifli 2000 Chong Tan Fook & Lee Wan Wah for the Badminton Doubles Event. Yuan Yu Fang finished 15th place for the 20 Km Walk Event in Sydney. Chong Tan Fook & Lee Wan Wah Yuen Yu Fang 2001 The Female Olympian of 2001 belongs to Leong Mun Yee from Aquatics, where she won 4 gold medals for diving, 2 from individual events and another 2 in the synchronised diving event. The 2001 Male Olympian of the Year is goes toQabil Ambak for his impeccable performance in Equestrian where he won 4 Gold medals for Malaysia, 2 of which are from individual events 2002 The Female Olympian of 2002 is awarded to Siti Zalina who won a gold medal in dramatic fashion, for Lawn Bowls (Women Singles) for the 17th Commonwealth Games Manchester. The 2001 Male Olympian of the Year is goes toHo Ro Bin who pulled a surprise gold from the Men’s Nanquan 3-Events Wushu competitions of the 2002 Busan Asian Games.   2003   Male Olympian 2003 Nazmizan Mohamad won the 100m and 200m sprint double at the 22nd SEA Games in Hanoi, Vietnam in December 2003. He became only the third Malaysian to achieve such a feat. The last time a Malaysian won the sprint double was in the 1967 SEAP Games, in Bangkok, 36 years ago, when the SEA Games was known as the SEAP Games. Nazmizan Mohamad

	Female Olympian  2003 Wong Mew Choo won the Women's Badminton Singles Gold Medal in the 22nd SEA Games 2003, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She became the first Malaysian to win Woman Badminton Singles gold medal in the SEA Games since 1977.
Wong Mew Choo
Olympian For The Year 2003

2004
 

	Male Olympian of the Year 2004 Josiah was awarded a scholarship by Olympic Solidarity to train full time in the UCI Centre in Aigle, Switzerland from January 2003 until August 2005, for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. His best achievements in 2004 were a third place finish in the Sprint event at the World Cup in Aguascalientes, Mexico and a second placing in the Keirin event in the Manchester leg. He was injured in a fall during training in April 2004, when he fractured his wrist but managed to make a quick recovery to participate in the Athens Olympic Games, where he finished 6th in the final of the Keirin event and 11th in the Sprint event.
Josiah Ng Onn Lam
Olympian of the Year 2004, Josiah Ng, after winning the Award with (from left) YM Tunku Syed Badaruddin, Chairman F&N Coca-Cola Malaysia Sdn Bhd, His Majesty, The King of Malaysia, SPB Yang DiPertuan Agong. XII, Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail, Josiah Ng, Datuk Dr. M. Jegathesan, Hon. Datuk Azalina Othman Said, Minister of Youth and Sports Malaysia.

2005
 

The OCM-Coca Cola Olympians of the Year Awards for 2005 were presented to the most outstanding Male Athlete and Female Athlete of the Malaysian Contingent at 23rd SEA Games held in Philippine from 27th November to 5th December 2005.   The winners of the Awards are: Ng Shu Wai – Artistic Gymnastics Ng Shu Wai won 3 individual gold medals and one team gold medal in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics in the 23rd SEA Games, making him the highest gold medal winner among the Malaysian male athletes. The gold medals he won are the Individual All-around, Individual Floor, and Individual High Bar, plus the Artistic Team event.  This is the first time a male Gymnast has won more than 2 gold medals in the SEA Games. He is the first Malaysian male Gymnastic to qualify for an Olympic Games, having participated in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Wong Pei Tty and Chin Eei Hui – Badminton Women’s Doubles The Women’s Badminton Doubles pair won the gold medal in the Women’s Doubles in Badminton. First time since 1977 has a Malaysian women’s Doubles team has won the gold medal in the SEA Games.  Pei Tty and Eei Hui gave a world-class performance and displayed tremendous fighting spirit, when they were trailing in the third set to eventually defeat Indonesian pair, Jo Novita and Greysia Polii 15-12, 9-15, 15-13.

From left Ng Shu Wai, Chin Eei Hui and Wong Pei Tty, after receiving the Olympians Awards.

2006
 

The 2006 OCM-Coca Cola Olympian of the year Award, is now in its 14th year, having being inaugurated in 1993. The award is to recognize and honor excellent performances by national athletes in multi sports games. For 2006, achievements in the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and the Doha Asian Games were considered. The male Olympian of the Year was the Badminton Doubles Pair, Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong, who won the Men’s Doubles Gold medal in the Doha 2006 Asian Games, after a lapse of 36 years. Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong, started as a pair at the Japan Open in October 2006, about 2 months before the Doha 2006 Asian Games, where they finished a runner-up to the Sydney Olympic Games gold medallists, Tony Gunawan and Candra Wijaya. In winning the gold medal in Doha, Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong, won all their matches in straight sets, beating the World Champion pair of Fu Haifung/Cai Yun from China in the Quarter Final, and two Indonesia pairs in the semi-final and in the final. Esther Cheah from Tenpin Bowling won the female Olympian of the Year Award, for her excellent and consistent performances in the Doha 2006 Asian Games where her opponents included some of the world top players. She not only won the women’s singles but also the gold medal in the Women’s five player team and silver medals in the women’s pairs, women’s all events and the women’s masters. The male Olympian of the Year and the female Olympian of the Year were each awarded a medallion and a cash prize of RM10,000.00.

2007
 

The 2007 OCM Coca-Cola Olympian of the Year Awards were presented to Daniel William Henry Bego and Khoo Cai Lin by the Right Honourable Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, at the 15th OCM Annual Dinner held on 4th February 2008 at the OCM Indoor Sports Arena, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur. The 2007 Olympians of the Year each received a cash prize of RM10,000/= and a medal. Daniel William Henry Bego Daniel William Henry Bego won two gold medals in Swimming at the 24th SEA Games in Korat. The gold medals he won were in the 100m Butterfly event and the 200m Freestyle event. In both the above events, he set new SEA Games records. In the 100m Butterfly event, his new record was 54.33 sec. The old record for this event was 55.94 sec. In the 200m Freestyle event, his new record was 1:52.22 sec. The old record for this event was 1:52.47 sec. In both the above events, Daniel Bego qualified for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming the only Malaysian male swimmer and the third Malaysian swimmer to qualify for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. He has also qualified for the 200m Butterfly event for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Khoo Cai Lin Khoo Cai Lin won two gold medals in Swimming in the 24th SEA Games in Korat The gold medals she won were the 400m Freestyle event and the 800m Freestyle event. In both the above events, she set a new SEA Games records. In the 400m Freestyle event, her new record was 4:18.20. The old record for this event was 4:19.13. In the 800m Freestyle event, her new record was 8:47.80. The old record for this event was 8:56.88. In setting a new SEA Games record in the 800m Freestyle event, she also broke one of the longest national record set by Nurul Huda Abdullah in 1988. In both the above events, Khoo Cai Lin qualified for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming only the second Malaysian woman swimmer and the third Malaysian swimmer to qualify for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

2008
 

The OCM-Coca-Cola Olympian of the Year Awards 2008 were presented at the The 16th OCM Annual Dinner held on 12th December 2008 at OCM Indoor Sports Arena, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur. Lee Chong Wei, who won a medal (silver) at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was selected the Male Olympian of the Year 2008. The Female Olympian of the Year 2008 was Siow Yi Ting (swimming), broke her own national record in the 200m Breaststroke event by 4.1 sec setting a new record of 2 min. 27.80 sec, in the 200m Women’s Breaststroke Heat, which placed her in 19th position in the overall ranking. Both the winners were each awarded a cash prize of RM10,000/= and a medal.

2009
 

The OCM – Coca-Cola Olympian of the Year Awards are presented to the most outstanding male and female Malaysian athletes at the recognized “Games” under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Federation. For the odd years, the Awards are presented based on the performance of the athletes at the SEA Games, while for the even years, the Awards are based on either the Olympic Games (if it is an Olympic Games year), or the Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games, during a non-Olympic Games even year. For the 2009 OCM – Coca-Cola Olympian of the Year Awards for the most outstanding female athlete or team, of the 25th SEA Games are: Male Olympian of the Year: • Daniel Bego, who won 5 gold medals in swimming in Vientiane and broke 4 SEA Games records. He was awarded the Most Outstanding Athlete of the 25th SEA Games. Daniel Bego won the 2007 OCM – Coca-Cola Olympian of the Year Award. Female Olympians of the Year • The Women’s Badminton Team, that won the Women’s Team event after 34 years.