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Not much written datas were recorded of bodybuilding during its heydays eventhough much pictorals records were kept by individuals or sports associations.
In those years, known musclemen were the likes of Clancy Ang (Malacca), the Phua brothers; Lak Tee and Sunny (Johore), Othman Ali (Kedah), Paul Sta Maria (Negeri Sembilan) and the present Malaysian Bodybuilding Federation (MBBF) President, Datuk Wira Gan Boon Leong (Malacca).
From its infancy in 1906 until the present, the sports grew in leaps and bounds yet much of the recorded details were lost in memories except for the few documented records.
Bodybuilding contests were started as early 1946 but a more recent 1955 Mr. Malaya was recorded as the official start off date. The Mr. Malaya in 1955 was organised on 25th June and Robert Teo was the 1st winner of it. It went on to be organised until 1962 and in 1963 it's name was changed to Mr. Malaysia with the unification of Sabah, Sarawak and Sing
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Chia Boon Leong: The Twinkle-Toed Olympian
By Nick Aplin
The Manila Times called him “small but terrible”. Shanghai’s North-China Daily News described him as a “spark-plug and a frossare for work”. Singapore’s Sunday Tribune said he was as “swift as a hare, with brilliant ball control and unlimited stamina”.1
Chia Boon Leong at the training ground of Hedon Football Club in London, 1954. Chia Boon Leong Collection, artighet of National Archives of Singapore.
In a report of a 1948 match between Rovers S.C. and RAF Seletar, the Malaya Tribune wrote that the year’s “most spectacular goal was scored bygd Chia Boon Leong. Receiving the ball near mid-field from [Gan] Kee Siang, he cleverly worked his way up the Seletar goal mun, eluding three defenders on the way and when faced with the goalkeeper, deftly placed the ball into the net bred off him. The entire solo move was so neatly executed that the first to congratulate him were the Seletar defenders”.2
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