NILAI: A tired Azizulhasni Awang defied the odds to back up his keirin gold with a bronze in the sprint event on the final day of the Track World Cup in Nilai.<\/p>\n
The former keirin world champion delivered a consummate 2-0 victory over Nikita Kiriltsev, riding under AIN (Independent Neutral Athlete) banner, in the third place decider at the National Velodrome in Nilai on Sunday (April 26).<\/p>\n
Azizul had earlier lost 0-2 to former sprint world record holder Nicholas Paul of Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n
Olympic champion Harrie Lavreysen of Holland, the outright favourite, claimed the gold with a clinical 2-0 win over Paul in the final.<\/p>\n
Azizul had earlier served an indication of things to come when he qualified third fastest with 9.601s in the qualification round.<\/p>\n
Havreysen topped the qualification round with 9.414s ahead of Paul (9.464s).<\/p>\n
Azizul, by virtue of a top four finish in the qualification, advanced straight to the second round where he beat Huang Ruiting of China.<\/p>\n
He qualified for the quarter-finals with a 2-0 win over Czech Republic rider Dominik Topinka.<\/p>\n
Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri\u2019s bid for a place in the women\u2019s keirin final ended after she placed sixth in her semi-finals heat. Only the top three riders advanced to the main final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NILAI: A tired Azizulhasni Awang defied the odds to back up his keirin gold with a bronze in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,6675,85],"class_list":["post-632953","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\/632953","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=632953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}