The Family Fun Walk in conjunction with the 2019 Olympic Day was held in Padang Kota Lama, Georgetown, Penang on Sunday, 23 June 2019.
The Fun Walk was jointly flagged off by 4 VIPs as follows:
- Y.A.B. Chow Kon Yeow – Chief Minister of Penang.
- Y.B. Soon Lip Chee – Penang State Executive Councillor for Youth and Sports.
- Dato’ Seri Azim Zabidi – Deputy President of OCM.
- Dato’ Mohd Nazifuddin – Secretary General of OCM.
Other OCM Executive Board Members present to support the event were Dato’ Ong Poh Eng (Vice President), Mr. Ahmad Feisal Ahmad Tajuddin (Treasurer) and Ms. Moira Tan (Assistant Secretary General).
Immediately after the flag-off, the Chief Minister of Penang and other VIPs took part in the 5km Fun Walk in order to get active on the Olympic Day.
The Fun Walk was participated by over 10,000 people from all walks of life and of different age groups.
Happy Olympic Day!
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Dato’ Sieh Kok Chi was born on the 8th of November 1938. After his retirement in 1991, as an Engineer in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia, Dato’ Sieh chose to continue his involvement, full time, in the field of sports, where his life-long passion was, especially in the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM).
Born on 21st March 1949, Y.A.M Tunku Tan Sri Imran is the second son of the late Tuanku Jaafar, an elected monarch of the Negeri Sembilan. Tunku Imran was educated in the UK at the King’s School, Canterbury and studied law at Nottingham University before being called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London in 1971 and qualifying as a Barrister at Law.