Goshpi Avari
Pakistani sailor
Goshpi Avari is a Pakistani Asian Games gold medalist in sailing.[1][2] She won the medal with her husband, Byram, at the 1982 Games.[1] She was the first and, until 2010, the only Pakistani woman to have won a gold medal at a major international competition.[3]
Family
Avari is married to Byram and the couple have three children together, including Xerxes, also an Asian Games competitor for Pakistan.[citation needed] She is Parsi.[citation needed]
Sailing
Avari won a gold medal in enterprise class yachting at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, India,[1][2] where she was the only female competitor in the sport.[3]
Awards
- Pride of Performance (2011)[4]
References
- ^ a b c History Karachi Yacht Club. Retrieved 20 November 2010
- ^ a b 9th Asian Games Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine Pakistan Sports Board. Retrieved 22 November 2010
- ^ a b Goshpi Avari holds a unique record Archived 2011-05-25 at the Wayback Machine The News 7 January 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ^ PR. NO. 192, PRESS RELEASE, Islamabad 14 August 2010 Archived 16 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine Press Information Department, GoP, Islamabad. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
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Pride of Performance for Sports
- Hashim Khan (1958)
- Hawaldar Abdul Khaliq (1958)
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar (1958)
- Fazal Mehmood (1958)
- Subedar Muhammad Iqbal (1959)
- Hanif Mohammad (1959)
- Syed Abdus Samad (1960)
- Major Abdul Hamid (1960)
- Roshan Khan (1960)
- Brojen Das (1960)
- Khawaja Iftikhar Ahmed (1960)
- The Great Gama (1960)
- Captain Raja Javed Akhtar Khan (1961)
- Azam Khan (1961)
- Bholu Pahalwan (1962)
- Naseer Bunda(1962)
- Hafiz Rashid (1962)
- Saeed Ahmed (1962)
- Brigadier M.A. Baig (1962)
- Abbas Mirza (1963)
- Manzoor Hussain Aatif (1963)
- Mushtaq Muhammad (1963)
- Dafadar Mubarak Shah (1963)
- Khundker Nasim Ahmed (1964)
- Jamadar Ghulam Raziq (1964)
- Subedar Muhammad Nawaz (1966)
- Imtiaz Ahmad (1966)
- Sheikh Shaheb Ali (1966)
- Aslam Pahalwan (1967)
- Asif Iqbal (1968)
- Muhammad Bashir (1968)
- Khalid Mahmood Hussain (1968)
- Tariq Aziz (1968)
- Muhammad Asad Malik (1969)
- Moideen Kutty (1969)
- Mohammad Akhtar (1969)
- Lala Abdul Rashid (1970)
- Ahmed Riazuddin (1970)
- Jehangir Ahmed Butt (1970)
- Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool (1970)
- Faiz Muhammad (1970)
- Major Mohammad Aslam Khan (1970)
- Fazal Rehman (1971)
- Tanvir Dar (1971)
- Riaz Ahmed (1971)
- Nabi Ahmed Kalat (1971)
- Zaheer Abbas (1971)
- Islahuddin Siddique (1982)
- Jahangir Khan (1982)
- Byram D. Avari (1982)
- Nazir Ahmed Sabir (1982)
- Ashraf Aman (1982)
- Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1983)
- Akhtar Rasool (1983)
- Samiullah Khan (1983)
- Manzoor Hussain Junior (1984)
- Hasan Sardar (1984)
- Kaleemullah Khan (1984)
- Hanif Khan (1984)
- Qamar Zaman (1984)
- Major Mohammad Sher Khan (1985)
- Javed Miandad (1986)
- Zaheer Abbas (1986)
- Captain Abdul Jabbar Bhatti (1986)
- Mohammad Ali (1986)
- Abdul Majeed Maruwala (1987)
- Shah Jehan (1988)
- Zia Mahmood (1988)
- Intikhab Alam (1988)
- Abdul Qadir (1988)
- Nasir Ali (1988)
- Mudassar Nazar (1989)
- Honorary Lieutenant Mohammad Younis (1990)
- Arif Khan (1990)
- Muhammad Umer (1990)
- Nazo Anwar Miandad (1990)
- Mohammad Shehnaz Sheikh (1990)
- Wasim Akram (1992)
- Shahbaz Ahmed (1992)
- Ghulam Abbas (1992)
- Taimur Hasan (1992)
- Shahid Ali Khan (1992)
- Qazi Muhibur Rehman (1993)
- Rajab Shah (1993)
- Mohammad Yousuf (1994)
- Mohibullah Khan Junior (1994)
- Khwaja Mohammad Junaid (1994)
- Abdul Rashid (1994)
- Muhammad Saeed Khan (1994)
- Mansoor Ahmed (1994)
- Ahmed Alam (1994)
- Tahir Zaman (1994)
- Muhammad Shahbaz (1994)
- Muhammad Shafqat (1994)
- Irfan Mehmood (1994)
- Naveed Alam (1994)
- Asif Bajwa (1994)
- Muhammad Danish Kaleem (1994)
- Muhammad Usman (1994)
- Kamran Ashraf (1994)
- Rahim Khan (1994)
- Rana Mujahid Ali (1994)
- Waseem Feroze (1994)
- Aliya Rasheed (1995)
- Fareed Sehrai (1995)
- Waqar Younis (1995)
- Ali Nawaz Baloch (1995)
- Mohammad Sarwar (1995)
- Asghar Ali Changezi (1996)
- Sardar Azmarai Javaid Hissam el-Effendi (1996)* Ghulam Noorani Khan (1996)
- Munawwar uz Zaman (1997)
- Saeed Anwar (2000)
- Haider Ali (2003)
- Rozi Ali (2003)
- Mohammad Irfan Islam (2003)
- Grand Master Muhammad Ashraf Tai (2004)
- Zakir Hussain Syed (2004)
- Mehrullah Lassi (2004)
- Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (2005)
- Nida Waseem (2008)
- Zubair Ahmed Hundal (2008)
- Shahid Rehman (2008)
- Umer Khan Achakzai (2009)
- Atta Muhammad Kakar (2010)
- Khawaja Zakauddin (2010)
- Lal Saeed (2010)
- Shahid Khan Afridi (2010)
- Younis Khan (2010)
- Aleem Dar (2011)
- Goshpi Avari (2011)
- Naseem Hameed (2011)
- Shahid Pervaiz Butt (2011)
- Qasim Zia (2011)
- Mohammad Yousuf (2012)
- Maria Toorpakai Wazir (2013)
- Misbah-ul-Haq (2014)
- Zeeshan Abbasi (2014)
- Hanif Khan (2014)
- Muhammad Asif (2015)
- Amir Iqbal Khan (2015)
- Samina Baig (2015)
- Muhammad Waseem (2017)
- Alamgir Anwar Shaikh (2017)
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