Tariq Niazi
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's field hockey | ||
Representing Pakistan | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1964 Tokyo | Team competition | |
1968 Mexico City | Team competition | |
Asian Games | ||
1962 Jakarta | Team competition | |
1966 Bangkok | Team competition |
Tariq Niazi (15 March 1940 – 20 April 2008) was a Pakistani field hockey player between 1961 and 1969 and member of the Olympic team. Niazi was part of the 1964 games in Tokyo where they won a silver medal and the 1968 games in Mexico City where they won the gold. He competed in the Asian Games. Mianwali’s municipal hockey stadium was renamed Tariq Niazi Hockey Stadium in Niazi's honor.
Niazi died on 20 April 2008 of a cardiac arrest.[1]
References
- ^ Olympian Tariq dies Fieldhockey.com
External links
Categories:
- 1940 births
- 2008 deaths
- Pakistani male field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players of Pakistan
- Olympic gold medalists for Pakistan
- Olympic silver medalists for Pakistan
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in field hockey
- Field hockey players at the 1962 Asian Games
- Field hockey players at the 1966 Asian Games
- Pashtun people
- Pakistani field hockey biography stubs
- Asian Games gold medalists
- Asian Games silver medalists