Prem Kumar Selvam

Prem Kumar Selvam

Personal information
Born	10 January 1994
Sport
Country	Malaysia
Sport	Karate
Weight class	55 kg 60 kg
Event	Kumite
Medal record Men's karate Representing Malaysia Asian Games 2018 Jakarta Kumite 60 kg Asian Championships 2018 Amman Kumite 55 kg 2019 Tashkent Kumite 55 kg 2022 Tashkent Kumite 55 kg 2023 Malacca Kumite 55 kg Southeast Asian Games 2019 Philippines Kumite 55 kg 2023 Phnom Penh Kumite 55 kg 2023 Phnom Penh Team kumite 2017 Kuala Lumpur Kumite 55 kg 2017 Kuala Lumpur Team kumite 2021 Hanoi Kumite 60 kg

Prem Kumar Selvam (born 10 January 1994) is a Malaysian karateka. He won the gold medal in the men's kumite 55 kg event at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games held in the Philippines. Two years earlier, he won bronze in this event. He is also a bronze medalist at the Asian Games and a four-time bronze medalist at the Asian Karate Championships.

Career

In 2018, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's kumite 60 kg event at the Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

He also won one of the bronze medals in the men's kumite 55 kg event at the 2018 Asian Karate Championships held in Amman, Jordan. At the 2019 Asian Karate Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's kumite 55 kg event.

In 2021, he competed at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Paris, France hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

He won one of the bronze medals in the men's kumite 55 kg event at the 2022 Asian Karate Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

In 2023, he won the gold medal in his event at the SEA Games held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He also won the silver medal in the men's team kumite event. He won one of the bronze medals in his event at the 2023 Asian Karate Championships held in Malacca, Malaysia.

Achievements