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Sidek Abdullah Kamar

Malaysian badminton coach and player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Mohd Sidek Abdullah Kamar (19 January 1936 – 17 October 2005) was a Malaysian badminton coach, former player and the father of Malaysia's most famous badminton-playing family, Sidek brothers who represented Malaysia in badminton.[1]

In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name. The name Abdullah Kamar is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by their given name, Mohd Sidek.
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It was his sons who played the biggest roles to take Malaysia out of the doldrums in world badminton, culminating in the success to regain the Thomas Cup after a lapse of 25 years in 1992.[2]

Sidek laid the groundwork for his son's rise to stardom in Malaysian badminton. Led by Misbun, the Sidek brothers began their domination of the game from the early 1980s to 2000.

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Early life and education

Sidek was born on 19 January 1936, at Teluk Bunut, Banting, Selangor and grew up in Kampung Kanchong Darat, Banting.[3] He attended the SMKA Al-Mashoor (L) Islamic religious school in Penang.[4] His father, Abdullah Kamar Salimin was a farmer and herdsman.[a]

Career

In 1957, Sidek started playing competitively at the age of 21.[5] From 1959 to 1964, he become the Kuala Langat district-level champion (singles and doubles with Sukarman Abdul Rahim). From that period, he become Malay junior champion (1959) and Novice Cup champion (1964).

From 1964 until his death in 2005, Sidek retired early from badminton career and trained his children at a self-built two-court outdoor badminton hall in front of his home; later he groomed youngsters at the Kg. Kanchong Darat Civic Centre (a two-court multi-purpose badminton hall).

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Highlights of his children’s achievements

Misbun: National champion (1980-1984 and 1986–1987); National Sportsman award (1981,1983); World Cup runner-up (1982); All-England runner-up (1986).

Razif-Jalani: All-England champion (1982); World Grand Prix Finals champions (1986, 1988,1989, 1991); Commonwealth Games (1990); World Cup champions (1990, 1991); Thomas Cup champions (1992); Barcelona Olympics bronze medal (1992).

Rashid: Commonwealth Games champion (1990, 1994); Thomas Cup champions (1992); Atlanta Olympics bronze medal (1996); All-England runner-up (1996); National Sportsman Award (1990, 1991, 1992, 1996).

Rahman: Member of the Thomas Cup winning team (1992).

Zamaliah: Member of Commonwealth Games silver medal-winning team (1994).[6]

Personal life

Sidek was married thrice. His first marriage was with his first wife, Rukinah Sulaiman (1938-2003) in 1954, when he was 18 and she was only 16[b] and they have 8 children namely Rusitah (born 1958), Misbun (born 1960), Razif (born 1962), Jalani (born 1963), Rahman (born 1965), Rashid (born 1968), Zamaliah (born 1975) and Shahrizan (born 1987).[7]

After his wife, Rukinah whom he fondly called Kinah died in January 2003,[8] he remarried Juriah Abd Wahab, but divorced after a short while. Then, Sidek later married his third wife Bangaton Rasman also in 2003 and it lasted until her death two years later in 2005.[6]

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Death

Sidek died at about 2:25am on 17 October 2005, during that year's seasonal observance of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (HTAR) in Klang, at the age of 69 due to kidney failure, diabetes, pneumonia and high blood pressure. He was buried at the Banting Muslim cemetery.[7]

His wife, Rukinah Sulaiman, suffered a stroke and died on January 30, 2003, at the age of 65.[6]

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Honours

  • 1990: Benson and Hedges Gold Award for Sports Personality.
  • 2003: Malaysia's all-time sports personality award from Sports Ministry.
  • 2003: Presented with honorary doctorate in Sports Science by Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).

Honours of Malaysia

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Notes

  1. In the seventeenth edition of the Anak-Anak Sidek, it was stated that during Sidek’s childhood days, his father was a strict person because the way he educates his children using the tough love method, was worse than Sidek’s, owing that the norms of educating and disciplining children especially in Asian societies those days was strict, no matter how poor nor rich their class, as most of the poor society were illiterate and uneducated, what more denied opportunity to find a living due to harsh socio-economic conditions, hence they just inherit and maintain indirectly or directly, what their ancestors practiced centuries ago in instilling discipline from an early age in order to have a much better, successful quality of life in the modern era nowadays. But somehow, Sidek himself was also a mischievous child unlike any other normal children during his childhood and teenage years. When Haji Abdullah Kamar went to Mecca in the early 1950s for the Hajj pilgrimage, he brought Sidek together to perform that religious obligation. After they returned home from Mecca, Sidek’s habits changed slowly, he still remained as a strict but also simultaneously a loving father in many ways to his children and as well as a doting grandfather to all his grandchildren without any favouritism.
  2. In the first edition of the Anak-Anak Sidek, it was stated that Sidek and his wife, Rukinah who is also his own cousin, never meet each other face-to-face, what more been in a prior romantic relationship until the moment they were united in matrimony. Four years after their marriage in 1958, Sidek and Rukinah were blessed with many children, the first-born being Rusitah then followed by many others including the Sidek brothers themselves. Sidek's father, Haji Abdullah Kamar Salimin died in 1958, before he get the opportunity to see all his other subsequent grandchildren being born, but was still alive when he able to see the birth of his eldest-born grandchild cum granddaughter, Rusitah in that same year just before his own demise.
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