He is the first and only Malaysian cyclist to win a medal at the Summer Olympics, earning the nickname 'The Pocket Rocketman' due to his little stature.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations, Azizulhasni was the national flag bearer for Team Malaysia. In
2009, he took silver in the individual sprint at the World Championships.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won his first Olympic medal, a bronze in the individual keirin.
He won a silver medal in the same category of individual keirin in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In 2017, he became the first Malaysian to wear the prized rainbow jersey after winning his first World Championship championship in the keirin.
Azizulhasni's most notable accomplishments are earning gold at the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a
silver medal in the keirin at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Among his other accomplishments,
he won a silver medal in the sprint category at the 2009 World Championships and a silver medal in the keirin category
at the 2010 World Championships. In 2009 and 2010, he was voted Malaysian Sportsman of the Year.
Azizul was seriously injured in a crash during the final of the keirin event during the World Cup leg in Manchester in February 2011,
when a 20 cm wooden splinter pierced his leg. That year, he was ruled out of the World Championships.
Azizul was the 111th gold medalist at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, achieving
Malaysia's gold medal objective after winning the men's sprint event at the National Velodrome in Nilai. Along with
diver Cheong Jun Hoong and silat competitor Mohd Al-Jufferi Jamari, Azizul was the flag bearer for Malaysia at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games.
