UK Shyam
Umaglia Kancanangai Shyam Dhuleep, commonly known as U. K. Shyam, is a retired Singaporean track and field athlete and former National 100m Record Holder.
He attended St. Andrew's Secondary School and Raffles Junior College, and went on to do a double degree in Philosophy and Political Science at the National University of Singapore.
He held the Singaporean national record over the 100m with a timing of 10.37s for 22 years. He broke the 33-year-old record of 10.38s (set by C. Kunalan) at the World University Games in Beijing in 2001. He equalled his own national record soon after at the 2001 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur.
He retired from athletics in 2005. After retirement from sprinting, Shyam went on to teach philosophy at a junior college. He subsequently became a teacher at Raffles Institution.
In 2018, Shyam released a book, written by former national sprinter Kenneth Khoo, Running On Empty: The Story Behind 0.01s, detailing his athletics career. Shyam and Khoo donated their royalties from the book to the Chiam See Tong Sports Fund.