Hockey match in honour of oldest surviving Olympic gold medallist

The oldest surviving Olympic gold medallist will have a hockey match between Pakistan and India dedicated to him after celebrating his 100th birthday yesterday. Feroz Khan played in the Indian national hockey team that won gold at the 1928 Olympic...

The oldest surviving Olympic gold medallist will have a hockey match between Pakistan and India dedicated to him after celebrating his 100th birthday yesterday. Feroz Khan played in the Indian national hockey team that won gold at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam and settled in Pakistan after partition in 1947.

Khan became the oldest-known living Olympic medallist after the death of American James Rockefeller - who won gold in rowing at the 1924 Paris Olympics - at the age of 102 last month.

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