Abdul Waheed (field hockey)

For other uses, see Abdul Waheed (disambiguation).

Abdul Waheed (also known as Abdul Waheed Khan) was a member of Pakistan's gold medal winning 1960 Olympic Hockey team.^[1] He played center forward, and scored the first goal in the team's final game.

In September 2000 Abdul Waheed was interviewed by the changes in the motivation of Olympic athletes since his team won the gold medal:^[1]

"When we won Olympic gold in hockey in 1960 we did not get anything in return. We would walk for miles to reach grounds and it was passion not lust that ruled our hearts."

References

1 2 "Olympic medals: a money game". Independent online. 2000-09-05. Retrieved 2009-05-23.

Pakistan squad – 1960 Summer Olympics

1 Rashid 2 Mushtaq 3 Atif 4 Rasul 5 Anwar 6 Bashir 7 Alam 8 Hamid (c) 9 Waheed 10 Naseer 11 Motiullah 12 Zakauddin 13 Aslam 14 Dar 15 Habib 16 Gardener 17 Zafar Ali 18 Hayat

Reference: "THE XVII OLYMPIAD" (PDF). LA84 Foundation.

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