Ten legends, athletes of the year, decades without cash prize
PETALING JAYA:
For at least 10 of Malaysia’s greatest athletes, the prize money promised with the nation’s highest sporting honour never came.
Between 1966 and 1982, athletics dominated the nation’s sportsman and sportswoman of the year awards, claiming the crown 13 times.
But every winner — including four who took it twice — never saw the RM5,000 cash prize promised alongside the award.
The Malaysian Amateur Athletics Union (MAAU) had told its champions the money would only be paid upon retirement, to preserve amateur status.
Athletics forms the bulk of those left…
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