Background and career
Dato' Muhammad Azizulhasni Awang @ Muda (born 5 January 1988) is a Malaysian professional track cyclist and sprinter based in Melbourne, Australia. Nicknamed the "Pocket Rocketman" because of his small stature, he is the first and only Malaysian cyclist to win an Olympic medal and the first Malaysian athlete to compete at five Olympic Games.
Azizulhasni won bronze in the men's keirin at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro before improving to silver in the same event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In 2017, he became Malaysia's first track cycling world champion when he won the men's keirin at the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong, becoming the first Malaysian cyclist to wear the rainbow jersey.
In 2026, at the age of 38, he won the overall men's keirin title in the UCI Track Cycling World Cup, after winning the Perth and Nilai rounds, and captured his first Commonwealth Games gold medal in the keirin at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
