Goshpi Avari is a Pakistani
Asian Games gold medalist in
sailing
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[History](_blank)
Karachi Yacht Club. Retrieved 20 November 2010
Pakistan Sports Board. Retrieved 22 November 2010 She won the medal with her husband,
Byram, at the
1982 Games.
She was the first and, until 2010, the only Pakistani woman to have won a gold medal at a major international competition.
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The News 7 January 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
Family
Avari is married to
Byram and the couple have three children together, including Xerxes, also an Asian Games competitor for Pakistan. She is
Parsi
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.
Sailing
Avari won a gold medal in
enterprise
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class
yachting
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at the
1982 Asian Games
The 9th Asian Games ( hi, 1982 एशियाई खेल) were held from 19 November to 4 December 1982, in Delhi, India. 74 Asian and Asian Games records were broken at the event. This was also the first Asiad to be held under the aegis of t ...
in
New Delhi
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, India,
where she was the only female competitor in the sport.
Awards
*
Pride of Performance
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(2011)
PR. NO. 192, PRESS RELEASE, Islamabad 14 August 2010
Press Information Department, GoP, Islamabad. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
References
Living people
Parsi people
Pakistani female sailors (sport)
Pakistani Zoroastrians
Recipients of the Pride of Performance
Sportspeople from Karachi
Asian Games medalists in sailing
Sailors at the 1982 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Pakistan
Year of birth missing (living people)
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