Students taking part in the mass aerobic exercise at Sekolah Wawasan USJ 15 in Subang Jaya yesterday. Pic by Sairien Nafis

About 3,000 students participating in the exercise at SMK Seri, Balik Pulau, Penang, yesterday.

Special needs students during the exercise at SMK Bukit Besar, Kuala Terengganu.

SUBANG JAYA: A NEW Malaysian record was created yesterday when more than 3.6 million students from 10,000 schools carried out a simultaneous aerobics exercise throughout the country.

Launched by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at Sekolah Wawasan USJ 15, the event was carried out under the Education Ministry's 1Malaysia 1Student 1Sport policy.

Muhyiddin, Education Department director-general Tan Sri Abd Ghafar Mahmud and senior ministry officials joined 2,500 students at the school field for the aerobic exercise lasting 45 minutes.

Muhyiddin said the policy hoped to create healthy students by getting them to participate in at least one sport.

"The policy also demonstrates the government's intention to make sports a major tool for unity because it has been clearly proven that sports can unite a multiracial community and make the 1Ma-laysia concept a reality."

Last year, the 1Malaysia 1Student 1Sport Simultaneous Run also made it into the Malaysia Book of Records. It was participated by 4.1 million students from 9,980 schools.

In Perak, 300,000 students and teachers from 1,092 schools took part in the aerobic session.

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