
They each received RM10,000 cash and special medals from Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail at a ceremony here.
Also present were Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman and OCM president Norza Zakaria.
The 30-year-old Azizul, also known as ‘Pocket Rocketman’, displayed outstanding performance to bag three medals at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games – winning gold in sprint, silver in the men’s team sprint and bronze in the keirin.
Amy, 23, returned with four medals from the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games – gold in individual ribbon, silver in the women’s team event and two bronze medals in the individual all-around and hoop.
Azizul and Amy are the third respective cyclist and gymnast to win the award since its introduction in 1993.
Cyclists who previously won the award were Josiah Ng (2004) and Fatehah Mustapa (2017) while the gymnasts were Au Li Yen (1997 and Ng Shu Wai (2005).
The award honours the most outstanding male and female athletes who participated in multi-sports Games under OCM’s jurisdiction, such as the Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and SEA Games.
Meanwhile, women’s singles shuttler Goh Jin Wei and the men’s five-a-side hockey team, who won gold medals at the third Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Buenos Aires, Argentina were presented with OCM Special Awards.
The feats also made it into the Malaysia Book of Records, with Jin Wei listed as the first Malaysian to win a gold at the YOG in an individual sport and the hockey squad for the team event.
Syed Saddiq presented Jin Wei with RM10,000 cash and a special trophy, as well as, RM18,000 (RM2,000 x 9 players) and a special trophy to the hockey squad.
Jin Wei and the hockey squad also received Malaysia Book of Record certificates from its chief operating officer Christopher Wong Hong Wai.
The ceremony also saw the 1998 Commonwealth Games gold medallists – comprising the men’s badminton team (Wong Choong Hann, Ong Ewe Hock, Yong Hock Kin, Yap Kim Hock, Cheah Soon Kit, Chong Tan Fook & Lee Wan Wah) and the rhythmic gymnastics team (Carolyn Au Yong, El Reginal Tajudin, Thye Chee Kiat & Sarina Sundara Rajah) – inducted into the OCM Hall of Fame.
Former OCM president Tunku Imran Tuanku Ja’afar and 1998 Commonwealth Games executive chairman Mohamed Hashim Mohd Ali were also inducted into the Hall of the Fame.
This year’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Trophy, with the theme ‘Olympism in Action’, was awarded to the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) while Malaysia Ice Hockey Federation vice-president Susan Loh Su Fang bagged the Women and Sports award.