Saravanan Govindasamy,Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist

 Saravanan Govindasamy: Won Malaysia's first ever Gold Medal in Race-Walking

Saravanan Govindasamy (born 15 May 1970) won the gold medal for the 50 KM race walking event during the 1998 Commonwealth Games which was held in Malaysia.He is also the recipient of the 'Peoples Car', an initiative by the Malaysian Nanban newspaper to compensate him for the Proton Perdana;a promise the national car maker failed to keep when Saravanan won