Malaysian cyclist

In this Malay name, there is no family name. The name Awang is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Muhammad Azizulhasni. The Arabic-derived word "bin" or "binti"/"binte", if used, means 'son of' or 'daughter of', respectively.Men's track cyclingOlympic Games2020 TokyoKeirin2016 Rio de JaneiroKeirinWorld Championships2017 Hong KongKeirin2009 PruszkówSprint2010 BallerupKeirin2015 YvelinesKeirin2016 LondonKeirin2020 BerlinKeirin2020 BerlinSprintAsian Games2010 GuangzhouKeirin2018 Jakarta-PalembangSprint2018 Jakarta-PalembangTeam sprint2018 Jakarta-PalembangKeirinAsian Championships2007 BangkokKeirin2008 NaraSprint2008 NaraKeirin2009 TenggarongSprint2009 TenggarongTeam sprint2014 AstanaSprint2015 Nakhon RatchasimaKeirin2017 New DelhiSprint2019 JakartaSprint2020 JincheonSprint2008 NaraTeam sprint2012 Kuala LumpurSprint2012 Kuala LumpurKeirin2014 AstanaKeirin2015 Nakhon RatchasimaSprint2018 NilaiSprint2020 JincheonKeirin2011 Nakhon RatchasimaSprint2011 Nakhon RatchasimaKeirin2016 IzuSprint2016 IzuKeirin2018 NilaiKeirin2019 JakartaTeam sprintCommonwealth Games2010 New DelhiTeam sprint2014 GlasgowKeirinSoutheast Asian Games2017 Kuala LumpurSprint2017 Kuala LumpurKeirin2007 Nakhon RatchasimaTeam sprint2007 Nakhon Ratchasima1 km time trial2007 Nakhon RatchasimaSprint

Dato'Muhammad Azizulhasni bin Awang DPMT KMN AMN (born 5 January 1988) is a Malaysian professional track cyclist. Nicknamed "The Pocket Rocketman" due to his small stature, he is the first and the only Malaysian cyclist to win a medal at the Summer Olympics.

Azizulhasni was Team Malaysia's national flag bearer at the 2008 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations. He won his first World Championship medal in 2009, a silver in the individual sprint. His debut Olympic medal came at the 2016 Summer Olympics, a bronze in the individual keirin.In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he won a silver medal in the same category of individual keirin.

In 2017, he won his first World Championship *le in the keirin, and became the first Malaysian to ever wear the coveted rainbow jersey.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Personal life
• 4 Achievements
• 5 Awards and achievements
• 6 Honours
  • 6.1 Honours of Malaysia
• 7 References
• 8 External links

Early life and education

Azizulhasni was born in Dungun, Terengganu, Malaysia to his biological parent Awang Embong and Rokiah Husin. He is the eighth of nine children in his family and was adopted by Mustafa Ngah and Selamiah Yong. Azizul took up cycling at 10 years old before he was discovered by his first coach Rozimi Omar who had advised him to stop skateboarding and focus on cycling. He was thankful to his late father for giving him a bicycle as a reward after he obtained 4A 1B in his UPSR. Azizul received his primary education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu 48 and continued his secondary studies at the Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sultan Omar in Dungun. After his PMR examination, he received three offers from MRSM, Science School and the Bukit Jalil Sports School. Ultimately chose to transfer to national sport school in Bukit Jalil as his interest in cycling and also due to his ambition to be a physician or an athlete at that time.

Azizul is majoring in sports science (Bachelor of Sport Movement) at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. In 2015, he became the first non-Australian athlete to receive a Blue Award from Victoria University.

Career

Azizulhasni's greatest achievement is winning the gold medal in 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and silver medal in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in keirin. Among his other achievements is winning the silver medal at the 2009 World Championships in the sprint category and the silver medal at the 2010 World Championships in the keirin category. He was named Malaysian Sportsman of the Year in 2009 and 2010.

In February 2011, Azizul was involved in a crash during the final of the keirin event in the World Cup leg in Manchester where he suffered serious injury when a 20:cm wooden splinter pierced through his leg. He was ruled out of the World Championships that year.

At the 2017 Southeast Asian Games Azizul was the 111th gold medal winner, achieving Malaysia's gold medal goal after emerging champion in the men's sprint category at the National Velodrome in Nilai. Azizul was also the flag-bearer for Malaysia at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games alongside diver Cheong Jun Hoong and silat exponent Mohd Al-Jufferi Jamari.

Personal life

Azizul married Athiah Ilyana Abd Samat on 30 January 2010. The couple lives in Melbourne with their two daughters.

Achievements

Track Cycling World Ranking

• 2008/09 – 1st Keirin
• 2010/11 – 1st Keirin

World Championships

• 2009 – Sprint
• 2010 – Keirin
• 2015 – Keirin
• 2016 – Keirin
• 2017 – Keirin
• 2020 – Keirin
• 2020 – Sprint

Asian Games

• 2010 – Keirin
• 2018 – Sprint
• 2018 – Team sprint
• 2018 – Keirin

Commonwealth Games

• 2010 – Team sprint (with Josiah Ng and Mohd Rizal Tisin)
• 2014 – Keirin

Olympic Games

• 2016 – Keirin
• 2020 – Keirin

Awards and achievements

• Sportswriters *ociation of Malaysia (SAM)-100Plus Best Athlete Award: 2009, 2017

Honours

Honours of Malaysia

• :Malaysia::
  • Officer of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (KMN) (2017)
  • Member of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (AMN) (2016)
• :Terengganu::
  • Knight Commander of the Order of the Crown of Terengganu (DPMT) – Dato' (2021)

References

External links

• Official website
• Azizulhasni Awang at Cycling Archives
• Azizulhasni Awang at CycleBase
• Azizulhasni Awang at Olympedia
• Azizulhasni Awang at the Commonwealth Games Federation
• Azizulhasni Awang at the Commonwealth Games Federation

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