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Sky Arena Stadium, Air Panas, Setapak — seven days a week, from age seven. Coached by R. Murugan, SEA Games 4×400m relay silver medallist.

Seven days a week, this is what it looks like.

Sprints, distance, field events and recovery, at Sky Arena Stadium.

Coached by a SEA Games medallist.

Sprinters coming off the bend at a meet in Malaysia, from the coach's own album of his racing years

R. Murugan founded the club and coaches it. At the 1995 SEA Games in Chiang Mai he ran the second leg of Malaysia’s 4×400m relay, which took silver in 3:08.93.

He is at Sky Arena Stadium seven days a week — sprints, distance, jumps and field, from age seven up. He says an athlete needs two to four years to develop, and that pushing for results sooner is what damages them.

“There are no shortcuts to success.”
R. Murugan

Four Malaysian athletes on the second-place podium at the 1995 SEA Games, silver medals round their necks and a Games mascot under one arm. The print carries the camera's date stamp, 95 12 15. — From the coach’s own album. The cutting is the handover into his leg — D. Nadarajan to R. Murugan. The print is the medal ceremony that same day, stamped 15 December 1995. The figure cut out with scissors is a 200m win at a meet the cuttings never name.

A newspaper cutting kept in the album: Malaysia's first runner hands the baton to R. Murugan in the 4×400m relay. The printed caption ends, "The Malaysian quartet won the silver." He has signed across the corner, "Be the best." — From the coach’s own album. The cutting is the handover into his leg — D. Nadarajan to R. Murugan. The print is the medal ceremony that same day, stamped 15 December 1995. The figure cut out with scissors is a 200m win at a meet the cuttings never name.

The coach with his mother at home, his arm around her shoulder. — “To my mother — for everything you have done for me. Thank you.”
R. Murugan

Four disciplines, one squad.

Athletes from age seven, at every level from a first session to a national schools championship. Everyone trains together, in the same sessions.

01
Track & sprints
Starts, acceleration and speed endurance, through the school age groups and into open age. The club's fastest-growing discipline since 2025.
02
Endurance & cross country
Middle distance, cross country and race walking. Most of the club's record comes from these events.
03
Jumps & field events
High jump, long jump and the rest of the field programme, coached as events in their own right — approach, take-off, technique.
04
Mobility & recovery
A yoga master works with the squad on breathing, stretching and mental focus. It counts as training, not as an extra.