1. Hashim Khan won the British Open Squash Championships a total of seven times, from 1951 to 1956, and then again in 1958.
12 Facts About Hashim Khan
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Hashim Khan was born in Nawakille, a small village near Peshawar in modern-day Pakistan, to an ethnic Pashtun family, between 1910 and 1914.
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Hashim Khan brought Hashim when he was 8 to the squash courts which were used by military men to relax, when not performing duties.
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Hashim Khan's father died in a car accident when he was 11, and he left school to become a ball boy, fetching balls for the squash players.
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In 1942, Hashim Khan became a squash coach at a British Air Force officers' mess.
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In 1950, Abdul Bari, a distant cousin of Khan's who had chosen to remain in Bombay after the Partition of India in 1947, and who Hashim had beaten in several tournaments in India before partition, was sponsored by the Indian Government to play at the British Open where he finished runner-up to the Egyptian player Mahmoud Karim.
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Hashim Khan was runner-up to Roshan Khan in 1957, and won his seventh and final British Open title in 1958, when he beat Azam Khan in the final.
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Hashim Khan won five British Professional Championship titles, three US Open titles, and three Canadian Open titles.
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Hashim Khan relocated to the USA in the 1960s, after being invited to teach squash at the Uptown Athletic Club in Detroit.
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On 18 August 2014, Hashim Khan died in his home in Aurora, Colorado due to congestive heart failure.
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Hashim Khan was widely believed to be 100 years old.
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In Pakistan, Hashim Khan was a hero and a symbol of national pride.