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Hockey great Kevin Nunis dies at 65
Hockey legend Kevin Nunis represented Malaysia at the Olympics and Asian Games and later became a coach. (Instagram pic)
PETALING JAYA : Former national hockey player and Olympian Kevin Nunis died in hospital today at the age of 65.
His brother, Graig Nunis, said in an Instagram post that Kevin breathed his last at Hospital Kuala Lumpur this evening.
Nunis had been recuperating from surgery on May 21 the second since he was diagnosed with a bacterial infection in the blood last month, according to the national athletes foundation (Yakeb). He was discharged on May 2 but was admitted again two weeks later after his health deteriorated and underwent another surgery.
Nunis, who was born in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, later converted to Islam and took the name Muhammad Khairy Nunis Abdullah. His son, Muhammad Karl Iskandar Nunis, a television sports journalist, said final rites for his father would be performed at 8am tomorrow.
Nunis was a member of Malaysia's hockey team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and also represented Malaysia at the 1982 and 1986 Asian Games in India and Korea.
After retiring, he ventured into coaching and once coached the Terengganu and Pahang hockey teams. He was also head coach of the Malaysian Hockey Confederation's national hockey development programme.
