Goshpi Avari is a Pakistani

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gold medalist in

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

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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.Goshpi Avari holds a unique record
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 Parsis () or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran (part of the early Muslim conq ...

Sailing

Avari won a gold medal in

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class

yachting Yachting is the use of recreational boats and ships called ''yachts'' for racing or cruising. Yachts are distinguished from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose. "Yacht" derives from the Dutch word '' jacht'' ("hunt"). With sailboats, t ...

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 ...

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, India, where she was the only female competitor in the sport.

Awards

Pride of Performance The Pride of Performance ( ur, ), officially known as Presidential Pride of Performance, is an award bestowed by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to recognize people with "notable achievements in the field of art, science, literature, sports, an ...

(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) {{Pakistan-yachtracing-bio-stub