{"id":526806,"date":"2026-03-08T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526806\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:15:09","slug":"cycling-azizul-strikes-again-with-surprise-sprint-bronze-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526806\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling: Azizul strikes again with surprise sprint bronze in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA: Azizulhasni Awang finished off his World Cup campaign on a wonderful note by claiming an unexpected bronze medal in the sprint event at the Speed Dome in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Azizul&#8217;s bid to make the final ended after he lost in two heats to sprint world record holder Matthew Richardson of Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But true to his fighting style, Azizul bounced back superbly to beat Israeli Mikhail Yakovlev in two heats to secure a first-ever World Cup bronze medal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having won a dramatic keirin final race on Saturday, Azizul will return home with two medals for Malaysia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Making it to the sprint podium will bring him great satisfaction as Azizul&#8217;s previous accomplishments have all come in the keirin discipline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old earlier qualified fourth fastest in the 200m qualifying stage with 9.702s, which earned him a bye straight to the last 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Azizul then beat Lowie Nulens of Germany to enter the quarter-finals and went on to overcame reigning world junior champion Ryan Tayte of Australia to enter the last four stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PETALING JAYA: Azizulhasni Awang finished off his World Cup campaign on a wonderful note by claiming an unexpected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,6675,85],"class_list":["post-526806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}