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Raj Manchanda (5 August 1945 – 1 December 2024) was an Indian squash player. [1] He won six straight National Squash Championships from 1977 to 1982. [2] Also a member of the Arjuna Award, he received the Arjuna Award in 1980. [3] In 1981, he received the Best Services Sportsman Award. [4]
Jansher Khan (Pashto:جان شیر خان; born 15 June 1969) [5] [6] [7] is a Pakistani former professional squash player. Khan won numerous championships and awards during his career, and he held the rank of number 1 in the world for over a decade.
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]
Carla Khan (Urdu: کارلا خان; born 18 August 1981) is a British Pakistani professional squash player. She is the granddaughter of Azam Khan, one of the legends of squash in Pakistan and daughter of Jacqui Stoter and Wasil Khan. She started playing squash in England at age 12. In her early life, her father Wasil Khan coached her in squash.
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). He is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time, [1] [2] [3] and the greatest sportsman in Pakistan history.
Michelle Susan Martin OAM [2] (born 29 April 1967) is an Australian former professional squash player who was one of the game's leading players in the 1990s. She was ranked number one in the world from 1993 to 1996 and again in 1998 and 1999, and won three World Open titles and six British Open titles.
Mo was the nephew of the two most dominant Pakistani squash players of the 1950s – the brothers Hashim Khan and Azam Khan. He was also the nephew of Roshan Khan, winner of the British Open in 1957. Roshan is the father of Jahangir Khan, regarded as the greatest squash player in history. During the 1950s and 1960s, Mo and his uncles Hashim ...
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]