Haziq Kamaruddin (4 July 1993 – 14 May 2021) was a

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sport archer.

Personal life

Haziq was born in Johor Bahru,

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. A son of Kamaruddin Yusof, he studied at the

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. He married Shahira Abdul Halim and the couple has no children until his death.

Sport career

Haziq was a Malaysia's recurve men’s team archer and two-time Olympian who had competed the archery event in the

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and

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Olympic Games. He also participated in

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for four times from 2011 to 2017. Haziq also won gold medals at the 2011 Asian Archery Championships in Tehran, as well as the gold medal at the 2011 Asian Grand Prix in Laos and the bronze at the 2019 Asia Cup in the Philippines. Beside that he won four gold and two silver medals in both individual and team events in the

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from 2011 until 2019.

Awards

Haziq was picked as the recipient of the Johor Athlete Award 2011. Haziq together with Cheng Chu Sian and Khairul Anuar Mohamad made-up the Malaysia men's archery team which was honour as the National Men's Team of the Year in the

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2011. Haziq and national diving athlete

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was respectively named the Bukit Jalil Sports School Sportsman and Sportswoman for 2012. In 2013, he was named Best Young Athlete at the 2012 Sportswriters Association of Malaysia (SAM)-100PLUS Award.

Death

Haziq, aged 27, had collapsed after performing subuh prayer of the second day of the

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at his house in Kajang before being rushed and pronounced dead at

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at 9.37 am. on 14 May 2021. As the post-mortem was being carry out at the hospital, social media has been abuzz with many speculations connecting his death cause to the

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and the vaccination programme which Haziq had just completed, with the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on 4 May meant for athletes and officials in preparations for the forth coming

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Olympic Games. The National Sports Council (NSC) instead had said that Haziq's body was tested negative for

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His body was taken to his wife’s hometown in Merlimau, Melaka for prayers at Surau Al-Taqwa before burial at the Taman Koperasi Serkam Darat Cemetery, at 1.40 am in accordance with COVID-19 standard operating procedure (SOP) of the on-going Movement Control Order (MCO). The Ministry of Health (MOH), had finally issued a statement later after his burial, explaining that Haziq's death was not related to COVID-19 infection nor its vaccination and was due to complications arising from clogged heart blood vessels due to coronary artery atherosclerosis as shown by the post-mortem result.

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