1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Malaya)

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Malaya took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia with a delegation of 32 athletes, 31 men and one woman, in 13 competitions in five sports.

It was the country's first participation in the Summer Olympics .

The youngest athlete was the swimmer Fong Seow Hor (19 years and 327 days), the oldest athlete was the hockey player Gian Singh (28 years and 313 days). The standard bearer was the weightlifter Bee Kim Tan .

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

Men's

• Lum Pak Chan
  • medium weight

  Final: 202.5 kg, competition not finished (DNF)

  Military press: 100.0 kg, twelfth place

  Tear: 102.5 kg, twelfth place

  Push: competition not finished (DNF)

• Tong Eng Koh
  • Featherweight

  Final: 285.0 kg, 17th place

  Military press: 90.0 kg, rank 14

  Snatch: 82.5 kg, 19th place

  Push: 112.5 kg, rank 14

• Bee Kim Tan
  • Middle heavyweight

  Final: 395.0 kg, sixth place

  Military press: 117.5 kg, 13th place

  Tear: 122.5 kg, fifth place

  Push: 155.0 kg, fifth place

hockey

Men's

• Results

  Main round: Group B, two points, 5-6 goals, third place, not qualified for the final

  2-2 draw against Great Britain

  Goals: Aman Ullah Karim, Thomas Lawrence

  2: 3 defeat against Australia

  Goals: Aman Ullah Karim (2 ×)

  1: 1 draw against Kenya

  Goals: Kim Eng Chua

  Games for places nine to twelve: six points, 14: 2 goals, first place

  8-0 win against Afghanistan

  3-0 win over the United States of America

  3-2 win against Kenya

  Goals: Cheng Eng Chuah, Aman Ullah Karim, Thomas Lawrence

  Ninth place

• Squad

  Sheikh Ali

  Noel Arul

  Kim Eng Chua

  Cheng Eng Chuah

  Salam Devendran

  Aman Ullah Karim

  Thomas Lawrence

  Supaat Nadarajah

  Philip Sankey

  Rajaratnam Selvanayagam

  Hamzah Shamsuddin

  Manikam Shanmuganathan

  Mike Shepherdson

  Gian Singh

  Gerry Toft

  Peter Van Huizen

  Freddy Vias

athletics

Ladies

• Annie Choong
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run five (fourth place), 12.5 seconds (hand-stopped), 12.73 seconds (automatically stopped)

Men's

• Abdul Rahim bin Ahmed
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run seven (fifth place), 50.8 seconds (hand-stopped), 50.93 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Raja bin Ngah Ali
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run one (sixth place), 11.2 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.41 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Manikavagasam Harichandra
  • 800 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run two (seventh place), 1: 56.27 minutes (automatically stopped)

• Sinnayah Karuppiah Jarabalan
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run nine (third place), 11.3 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.56 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Lee Kah Fook
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run twelve (fifth place), 11.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.84 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 200 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run eight (sixth place), 23.7 seconds (hand-stopped), 23.94 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Kenneth Perera
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run two (seventh place), 51.96 seconds (stopped automatically)

  • 800 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in round three (ninth place), without time

shoot

Men's

• Joseph Chong
  • Free target gun

  Final: 438 points, 33rd place

  Round one: 56 points, 33rd place

  Round two: 70 points, 33rd place

  Round three: 78 points, 31st place

  Round four: 75 points, 31st place

  Round five: 77 points, 32nd place

  Round six: 82 points, rank 30

• Sin Foh Liew
  • Clay pigeon shooting

  Final: 140 points, rank 29

• Kiat Fu Moe
  • Clay pigeon shooting

  Final: 145 points, rank 28

swim

Men's

• Hor Seow Fong
  • 200 meter butterfly

  Round one: eliminated in run three (seventh place), 2: 56.0 minutes

• Chek Heng Lim
  • 100 meters back

  Round one: eliminated in run four (seventh place), 1: 12.4 minutes

Web links

• Cuban Olympic team from 1956 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).