Azizul smashes own national mark en route to Asian semis

Catch me if you can: Azizulhasni Awang races ahead of Taiwan’s Kang Shih-feng in the men’s elite individual sprint quarter-finals in the Asian Championships at the National Velodrome in Nilai. — S.S. KANESAN/The Star

NILAI: Track cyclist Azizulhasni Awang is going all out to make up for lost time.

The 35-year-old put up a solid display to smash his own national record en route to reaching the semi-finals of the men’s elite individual sprint in the Asian Championships by posting a cracking time of 9.523s in the sprint qualifying session at the National Velodrome in Nilai yesterday.