No mercy: S. Prem Kumar (right) in action against Hong Kong’s Lee Chun Ho during the men’s kumite below 60kg category at the Jakarta Convention Centre yesterday.
EXPONENT S. Prem Kumar was not even supposed to be in Jakarta for the Asian Games but he became the toast of the Malaysian karate team.
Prem, who replaced the injured Kuala Lumpur SEA Games gold medallist Senthil Kumaran just a month ago, saved the blushes by delivering Malaysia’s first karate medal – a bronze in the men’s kumite below 60kg category yesterday.
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