List of Malaysian sportspeople of Indian descent
This is the list of notable Malaysian sportspeople of Indian origin.
Athletics
- Canagasabai Kunalan, Singaporean sprinter, relay runner, former footballer and educator.
- Govindasamy Saravanan, Malaysian race walker. He won the gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Tan Sri Dr Mani Jegathesan, the fastest man in Asia
- Nashatar Singh Sidhu, Malaysian former javelin thrower who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
- Shanti Govindasamy
- Nokalmah Sanasee , Former Malaysian Runner, also known as the Malaysian Zola Budd.
Aquatic
- Abdul Malik Mydin, Malaysian solo long-distance swimmer
Badminton
- Punch Gunalan
- Renuga Veeran, Australian badminton player
- Sutheaswari Mudukasan
- Sannatasah Saniru, female Malaysian badminton player who competed at 2012 Japan Super Series
- Anita Raj[1]
Basketball
- Guganeswaran Batumalai, current Malaysia national basketball team and Westports Malaysia Dragons captain
- K. Satyaseelan
Cricket
- Arul Vivasvan Suppiah
- David Thalalla
- Jeevandran Nair
- John Prakash
- Krishnamurthi Muniandy
- Kunjiraman Ramadas
- Lall Singh
- Manrick Singh
- Marimuthu Muniandy
- Pavandeep Singh
- Rakesh Madhavan
- Ramesh Menon
- Ramesh Menon
- Rattan Jaidka (1927)
- Rohan Mark Selvaratnam
- Rohan Vishnu Suppiah
- Santhara Vello
- Sarath Jayawardene (1993–2007)
- Shankar Retinam
- Suresh Navaratnam
- Suresh Sakadivan
- Suresh Singh
- Suriaprakash Ganesan (2004–present)
- Suhan Alagaratnam
Fencing
Football or soccer
Player are listed by Football Club they representing.
ATM FA
Indian FC
JDT
JDT II
Kedah
NS Matrix F.C.
Pahang
PBAPP FC
PDRM
PKNS F.C.
Sabah
Serawak
Selangor
1.^ Representing or had represented the Malaysia national football team
Other
- R. Arumugam, Malaysia football legend
- Santokh Singh, Malaysia football legend
- R. Surendran, striker for Selangor FA
- K. Gurusamy
- S. Kunanlan
- V.Thirumurugan
- Victor Andrag
- D. Saarvindran
- S. Veenod, plays as a midfielder for Selangor FA
- Gary Steven Robbat
- K. Ravindran
- K.Rajan
- R. Surendran
- K. Ravindran
- Suppiah Chanturu
- V. Murugan, former Malaysia national football team goalkeeper
- K. Nanthakumar
- S. Subramaniam
- D. Christie Jayaseelan
- K. Sasi Kumar
- Ramesh Lai Ban Huat
- Padathan Gunalan
- S. Sarath Babu
- G. Jeevananthan
- C. Premnath
- K. Reuben
- G. Mahathevan
- D. Surendran
- Surendran Ravindran
- V. Saravanan
- Thamil Arasu Ambumamee
- Gary Steven Robbat
- D. Saarvindran
- K. Depan Sakwati
- V. Kavi Chelvan
- Devasagayam Christie Jayaseelan
- P. Rajesh
- M. Sivakumar
- K. Linggam
- S. Sivanesan
- Yosri Derma Raju
- Gunasekaran Jeevananthan
- G. Mahathevan
- G. Puaneswaran
- Gopinathan Ramachandra
- D. Kenny Pallraj, Harimau Muda A defender
- S. Vikneswaren, Harimau Muda B forward
- Shreen Tambi, Harimau Muda B midfield
- Steffi Sarge Kaur, Malaysia women's national football team midfield
- L.Ganason@Mani, Former Perak Forward
Hockey
- Kuhan Shanmuganathan, Malaysia Number one hockey player. Kuhan is known as one of the penalty corner specialist.
- Jivan Mohan, national hockey player
- Kumar Subramaniam, national hockey player
- Peter van Huizen, national hockey player
- R. Yogeswaran, national hockey player
- S. Kuhan, national hockey player
- Selvaraju Sandrakasi
- Harnahal Singh, national hockey player
- Kevin Nunis, national hockey player
- Sarjit Singh, national hockey player
- Baljit Singh Charun, national hockey player
- Baljit Singh Sarjab, national player
- John Shaw, former field hockey player, who represented Great Britain in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
- Harnahal Singh,Notable former national hockey player
- Keevan Raj,Notable former national hockey player
- Logan Raj, Notable former national hockey player
- Maninderjit Singh, Notable former national hockey player
- R. Yogeswaran, Notable former national hockey player
- Kaliswaran Muniandy, playing for Tenaga Nasional Berhad HC
- Mahinder Singh Balbir Singh
- Bubalan Sandrakasi, playing for Tenaga Nasional Berhad HC
- Baljit Singh Sarjab Singh, KL Hockey Club player
- Shanker Shanmugam, KL Hockey Club player
- Harvinder Singh Makbul Singh, KL Hockey Club player
- Kevinder Singh , KL Hockey Club player
- Kannagi Arumugam, National Women Hockey Player[2]
Martial Art
- Puvaneswaran Ramasamy, National elite Karate athlete[3]
- Yamini Gopalasamy, National elite Female Karate athlete[4]
- Vasantha Marial , National elite Female Karate athlete[5]
- G.Vathana ,National elite Female Karate athlete[6]
- G.Yugneswary , National elite Female Karate athlete[7]
- Jayaseelan Vijaya Kumar, National elite Karate athlete
- L.Kunasilan , National Karate athlete[8]
- Nagatheeban Govindaramy, National Karate athlete[9]
- Pavitern Prataban, National Karate athlete[10]
- Soke John Samson Dass, 9 Times Class 'A' National Karate Grand Champion / 3 Times International Class 'A' Grand Champion ( Founder and Grandmaster of Karate Speed Power International )
Motorsport
- Karamjit Singh, first Asian driver to win the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Production Car World Championship for Drivers
- Nadarajan Periasamy
- Nandakumar Puspanathan
Netball
- Aruna Santhappan, current national team captain
Rugby
- Viliame Veto Tuinivanua, National rugby player
- Dineswaran Krishnan, National rugby player[11]
Scrabble
- Ganesh Asirvatham, world runner-up scrabble player in 2007, and Guinness World Records holder since 2007.
Sports management
- Shebby Singh, Sport Pundit
- Peter Velappan, general secretary of the Asian Football Confederation from 1978 to 2007
- Datuk K. Rajagopal, Malaysia national football team manager
- B. Sathianathan, former coach of Malaysia national football team
- K. Devan, former manager of Malaysia national football team
- M. Karathu, former Malaysian football manager and player.
- M. Chandran, Malaysia League XI manager during match against Arsenal F.C. (May 13 and 15,1975)
- E. Elavarasan, current coach of the Malaysia Super League football team Terengganu FA
- S. Veloo, ex-coach of Penang FA
- Stanley Bernard Stephen Samuel
- S. Sivanesvaran, current Physiotherapist of Malaysia national football team
- C. Prem Ghanesh, Physiotherapist of Malaysia national basketball team
- Paramasivam Manickam, current coach of Malaysia national under-17 football team
- Malaysia P. Balakrishnan, former manager of Malaysia national futsal team (2007–2009)
- Sarjit Singh, national field hockey coach
- Arul Selvaraj, national field hockey Assistant coach[12]
- M. Gobinathan, Vice President of Malaysian Hockey Confederation
- Dato' Dr. Surinder S. Cheema, Vice President of Malaysian Hockey Confederation
- Dr. Saju Joseph, Assistant Manager of KL Hockey Club
- P. Arivalagan, National Karate Chief Coach
- Komathi Subramaniam , Former National Karate Elite Coach & Exponent
- Mahendran , National Karate assistant Coach
- Ramesh Chandar-Nair, Former Deputy Chief Executive Officer, National Sports Institute
- Dr. P. Vella Pandian, Director Division of Sports Performance, National Sports Institute
- Rohan Ganason, Director of Corporate Affairs / Head of High Performance Sports, National Sports Institute (ISN)
- Dr.Rabindarjeet Singh, Former Director of Research Division, National Sports Institute
Squash
- Dato' Nicol Ann David, world number one female squash player
- Pushppa Devi[13]
- Vanessa Raj[14]
- Sanjay Singh
Tennis
- Theiviya Selvarajoo, Malaysia Fed Cup team player[15]
- Kanagaraj Balakrishnan
- Selvam Veerasingam, Malaysian Davis Cup team player
- Radhika Menon, Malaysian National Ladies Champion 1970
- Suresh Menon, Malaysian Team South East Asian (SEA) Games 1979, Malaysian Davis Cup team 1981
- S. Selvarajoo, Malaysian Team South East Asian (SEA) Games 1981, Malaysian Davis Cup Team 1987
- Kuldip Singh s/o (son of) Durbara, Malaysian Team South East Asian (SEA) Games 1981.
- U. Murali Dharam,Malaysian Davis Cup team 1987.
- R. Ramachandran, Malaysian Davis Cup team 1990.
Track cycling
References
- ^ http://www.the-sports.org/badminton-kaur-anita-raj-results-identity-s30-c2-b4-o29-w62738.html
- ^ http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/kannagi-arumugam-of-malaysia-strikes-the-ball-in-front-of-news-photo/156846744
- ^ http://martialarts.com.my/community/modules/news/article.php?storyid=793
- ^ http://www.karaterec.com/en/competitors/yamini-gopalasamy/
- ^ http://www.malaysiakarateteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=31
- ^ http://www.malaysiakarateteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemid=31
- ^ http://www.malaysiakarateteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=31
- ^ http://www.malaysiakarateteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=31
- ^ http://www.malaysiakarateteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=84
- ^ http://www.malaysiakarateteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=84
- ^ Malaysia national rugby union team#Squad
- ^ http://www.nst.com.my/sports/other/hockey-arul-does-it-all-for-the-love-of-the-sport-1.60841
- ^ http://www.squashinfo.com/players/3296-pushppa-devi
- ^ http://www.squashinfo.com/players/5830-vanessa-raj
- ^ http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=100127426
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