{"id":14784,"date":"2025-11-27T04:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14784"},"modified":"2025-11-27T04:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:48:35","slug":"he-was-once-singapores-fastest-man-heres-how-he-lives-a-happy-healthy-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14784","title":{"rendered":"He was once Singapore\u2019s fastest man. Here\u2019s how he lives a happy, healthy life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He turns 50 next July but Singaporean track and field athlete Umaglia Kancanangai Shyam Dhuleep does not look much older than he did in 2001. That was when he broke the nation\u2019s 33-year record for the 100-metre sprint, to finish in 10.37 seconds at the World University Games in Beijing, China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">UK Shyam, or Shyam as he is more commonly known, continues to inspire. After retiring from sprinting in 2005, he built a life around encouraging others to excel.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He works in education, teaching subjects required for university admissions such as philosophy and critical thinking, and is engaged in leadership development and public speaking.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2023, Marc Brian Louis broke his 100m record by 0.1 seconds. Shyam experienced a mix of feelings as he watched live as a TV studio guest.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On the one hand, he was \u201chappy that it was finally broken\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3334065\/he-was-once-singapores-fastest-man-heres-how-he-lives-happy-healthy-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He turns 50 next July but Singaporean track and field athlete Umaglia Kancanangai Shyam Dhuleep does not look much older than he did in 2001&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}