From Ahmad Nazrin Syahmi Mohamad Arif
GLASGOW, July 31 (Bernama) — The nationwide contingent continued to reap gleaming medals on the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Video games as nationwide monitor biking star Datuk Mohd Azizulhasni Awang offered Malaysia’s seventh gold medal after dominating the boys’s keirin closing tonight.
The success on the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome turned the top of the nation’s motion immediately, concurrently witnessing Azizulhasni declare his first gold medal on the Commonwealth Video games stage throughout his closing look on the multi-sport video games.
The 38-year-old Terengganu-born rider displayed expertise and tactical knowledge to beat challengers who held the benefit by way of pedaling energy earlier than celebrating an emotional victory proper after crossing the end line.
The gold additionally equals the achievement of seven golds gained by Malaysia on the Birmingham 2022 version, although Glasgow 2026 encompasses a diminished competitors programme and lacks a number of conventional sports activities that contribute medals for the nation, similar to badminton, diving, squash, and rhythmic gymnastics.
Previous to that, nationwide ladies’s monitor biking rider Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri, making her second look, almost offered one other medal within the ladies’s dash occasion, however needed to accept fourth place after dropping 0-2 to Welsh rider Rhian Edmunds within the bronze playoff.
In the meantime, the nationwide weightlifting camp closed out its problem because the contingent’s greatest medal contributor after capturing 5 gold, one silver, and one bronze all through the competitors on the Scottish Occasion Campus Armadillo.
That excellence additionally gained recognition when the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MWF) was awarded the Trafalgar Trophy for the primary time in historical past after the nationwide males’s weightlifting squad emerged as the very best males’s weightlifting crew at this video games.
The nation’s 5 golds had been contributed by Mohamad Aniq Kasdan, Muhamad Aznil Bidin, Muhammad Erry Hidayat, Muhammad Hafizuddin Roslin, and Mohamad Syahmi Nor Ghazali.
Two extra nationwide golds had been contributed by para lengthy soar star Datuk Abdul Latif Romly within the males’s T20 occasion and Mohd Azizulhasni by way of the boys’s keirin.
Three silvers had been gained by Izzat Shameer Dzulkeple within the males’s garden bowls singles occasion, the partnership of Aleena Ahmad Nawawi and Syafiqa Haidar Afif Abdul Rahman within the ladies’s pairs, in addition to Siti Aqilah.
The nation’s three bronzes thus far got here by way of Bonnie Bunyau Gustin in para powerlifting, Irene in weightlifting, and Eljoe Gotuoh within the males’s T20 lengthy soar.
At present’s success noticed Malaysia acquire seven gold, three silver, and three bronze medals, thereby persevering with to surpass the preliminary 5-2-4 goal set earlier than the video games started.
Probabilities to extend the medal tally stay open by way of a number of remaining occasions, together with the boys’s dash and 1,000m time trial to be joined by Azizulhasni, in addition to different competitions in monitor biking.
The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Video games is scheduled to attract to a detailed this Sunday.
Australia continued to excel on the prime of the medal standings with 55 gold, 30 silver, and 43 bronze, whereas England is second (17-34-29) and Canada is third (17-15-21), with Malaysia in eighth place.
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