Oldest Olympic Gold Medalist Dead at 100
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The world’s oldest Olympic gold medallist and one of Pakistan’s most famous field hockey players died Thursday. He was 100.
Feroze Khan, who used to play inside right and center forward, won a gold medal in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, Holland, 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 (IOC) as the oldest known living Olympic gold medal winner.
On Thursday, Khan’s son Farooq Feroze told reporters that his father didn’t have “any medical problems and died peacefully” in the southern city of Karachi.
Khan was born in India in 1904 and played with Indian field hockey legend Dhayan Chand.
