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| Hockey Legend Laid To Rest |
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 Former Pakistani hockey player and Olympian Feroze Khan shows his 1928 Olympics gold medal in this Aug 8, 2004 photograph in Karachi, Pakistan. The world's oldest Olympic medal winner, Khan died at the age of 100, Wednesday, April 20, 2005 in Karachi. (Picture courtsey, The Associated Press)
Hockey legend and world’s oldest Olympic medal winner, Feroze Khan who died on Wednesday evening, was laid to rest at Girzi Graveyard here on Thursday.
His funeral procession was attended by former Olympians, hockey organisers, military officials, friends and relatives.
Prominent among those attended the funeral included former Pakistan hockey Olympians Anwar Ahmed Khan, Abdul Waheed Khan, Islahuddin Siddiqui, Samiullah Khan and Olympians Rasheed-ul-Hasan and Iftikhar Syed and others.
"Feroze died here peacefully and without any illness," his son Farooq Feroze Khan said in Karachi.
Feroze, a skilful inside right and centre forward, won a gold with pre-independence India at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, Holland.
Born in Jalandhar, India, Feroze started playing hockey using a tree branch. He left the game after having a fall out with Indian selectors and migrated to Pakistan in early 1950s, where he served as a coach and national selector.
Former Pakistan hockey captain Islahuddin Siddiqui termed Feroze’s demise a great loss not only for Pakistan but also for the world sports community.
Feroze celebrated his 100th birthday on September 9 last year and was recognised as the oldest known living Olympic medal winner by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
He took the title after the United States’ James Rockefeller died in early 2004. Rockefeller had won a gold medal in rowing in the Paris Olympics in 1924.
"I am proud to be 100 and am going great. This is ample proof of the fact that discipline and individuals with sporting habits can live longer," Feroze said last year. |
Field hockey star, world's oldest Olympic gold medalist, dies in Pakistan:
Khan won gold at 1928 Amsterdam Olympics |
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The oldest Olympic gold medalist and one of Pakistan's most famous field hockey players died Thursday. He was 100.
Feroze Khan won a gold medal at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics while representing India. He migrated to Pakistan a few years after independence from Britain in 1947.
Khan celebrated his 100th birthday last year and was recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the oldest known living Olympic gold medal winner.
Khan's son, Farooq Feroze, said his father didn't have "any medical problems and died peacefully" in the southern city of Karachi.
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