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EDAN SYAH

ABOUT ME EDAN SYAH

INDEPENDENT MARATHONER & RUNNING COACH

Nine years ago, Edan discovered that he had the potential to be a great runner when he kept improving and breaking boundaries in his running.

It inspired him to pursue his running dream and to achieve his maximum potential. He found his purpose in life through running and hope to be the best he can possibly be and to inspire others to start working on their dream, too.

He wants to raise running to the next level by imparting knowledge and experience to the running community and to help promote good runners for the country.

About

edan syah

journey

EDAN SYAH is the Youngest and Fastest Malaysian to finish the 119th Boston Marathon 2015 (held on April 20, 2015) with a time of 2:41:55. He ranked in the top 1.33% of the field size of 26,610 marathoners from around the world who qualified for this race according to their age groups. In July 2015 at the Gold Coast Airport Marathon (GCAM 2015), he broke his Half Marathon (21.1km) time by 6 minutes from 1:21:38 achieved in 2012, to a new Personal Best time of 1:15:09.

In 2016, Edan broke his old Full Marathon Personal Best time of 2:41 to achieve a new record time of 2:38 in the Tokyo Marathon 2016! He represented Malaysia as a Semi-Elite Athlete in Tokyo Marathon 2016 and he was ranked at 264 over a field size of 37,000 runners (top 0.7%), to be the Fastest Malaysian to finish the race. Again in July 2016, he achieved yet another PB of 2:35:05 in Gold Coast Marathon! He is now the 2016 Lead Marathoner in Malaysia with the fastest time achieved in the Full Marathon distance of 42.195km.

Edan Syah is well known in the running community as the “Citizen Runner’; not a professional athlete, who needs to work full time but have to juggle his time between work, training and recovery from training. He has inspired many people through his running journey and he challenges himself to DareToDream to achieve the impossible as an independent athlete and excel in his running performance globally.

He discovered his running potential 8 years ago when he won the 10km event in the Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur 2011. Since his debut Full Marathon in Standard Chartered Singapore 2011, he has improved tremendously by saving close to 30 minutes from his debut time of 3:07 to 2:38 in Tokyo Marathon 2016!

edan syah RUNNING MILESTONES

SEA GAMES 2017 QUALIFIER AND

PERSONAL BEST OF 2 HOURS 30 MINUTES

EDAN SYAH set a dream to Qualify for the SEA Games 2017 in 2016. He worked hard towards achieving the dream as Independent Athlete (someone without any support as National Athlete under government sports federation or paid to train and race like Professional Athlete). He broke his Personal Best of 2 hours 30 minutes and 56 seconds at the Gold Coast Airport Marathon and be the Top 3 Fastest Marathoner in the country. He is the First Malaysian Independent Athlete that Qualify For The SEA Games (Marathon) in 2017 based on Merit (Medalist Time) but he is not selected to represent his country even he is already in KITA JUARA Program in 2017.

edan syah biggest

achievements in 2018

60 KM ULTRAMARATHON CHAMPION

In June 2018, Edan takes a new challenge in his distance running career to complete his first 60 km Ultramarathon at the Great Ocean Road Running Festival (GORRF) 2018, Melbourne Australia. On his first attempted; he completed the 60km distances below his target time of 4:30 hours (finished time in 4:29 hours). He surprised everyone and himself to be crowned as the Champion for the Men's Open 60 km Ultramarathon Category. His 60 km Ultramarathon time of 4 hours 29 minutes is the Fastest 60 km Ultramarathon Time By Malaysian on debut 60 km distances. He also the First Asian Ultramarathoner to win the GORRF since the ultramarathon category began in 2014.

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDs AS THE fastest marathon with national flag costume

On September 16, 2018, Edan celebrates the Malaysia Day to attempt the Guinness World Records to be the Fastest Men to run the Full Marathon with National Flag Costume at the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival Australia. He broke the old record of 3 hours 29 minutes with an astonishing time of 2 hours 54 minutes. He is now the First Malaysian Marathoner who broke the Guinness World Record in Full Marathon distances in any costume.