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Jahangir Khan (Pashto, Urdu: جهانګير خان born 10 December 1963) is a former professional Pakistani squash player. He won the World Open title six times, and the British Open title ten times (1982–1991). Jahangir Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time, [1] [2] [3] and one of the greatest sportsmen in ...
Hashim Khan was born in Nawakille, a small village near Peshawar in modern-day Pakistan, to an ethnic Pashtun family, between 1910 and 1914. [1] [3] Hashim was the second cousin of the two other leading Pakistani players of his time Roshan Khan and Nasrullah Khan, whose sons Rehmat Khan, Torsam Khan and Jahangir Khan are also squash players. [1]
In 1976, she won the first World Open Squash for women, although it is disputed whether this tournament was an official world championship. McKay moved to Toronto in 1975 and competed in the US squash championship in 1977, which she won. In 1979, she competed again in the World Open Squash, this time officially undisputed, and won it again. [4]
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Jansher Khan PP SI HI NI (Pashto:جان شیر خان; born 15 June 1969) [5] [6] [7] is a former professional Pakistani squash player. During his career, Khan won many championship games and received several awards, and held the rank of number 1 in the world for over a decade.
The Khan family's beginnings in the sport of squash can be traced to the British Army's officer's club in Peshawar, where Hashim's father Abdullah worked as the head steward. Around 1922 when Hashim was eight years old, his father began bringing him to the club. The young Khan soon received a job as a ball boy, and after hours taught himself to ...
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Nick Matthew holding his 2006 British Grand Prix Squash Championships trophy. Nicholas Matthew OBE (born 25 July 1980 in Sheffield) is a former English professional squash player who has won the two most prestigious tournaments in the professional game, the British Open and the World Open, three times each.