What is Hashim Khan?
'''Hashim Khan''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|ہاشم خان}}}} {{Circa|1910 to 1914}} &ndash; 18 August 2014) was a [[Pakistan]]i [[Squash (sport)|squash]] player. He won the [[British Open Squash Championships]] (BOSC) a total of seven times, from 1951 to 1956, and then again in 1958. During the 1950s, the BOSC was the ''[[de facto]]'' squash world championship. The [[movie]] based on Khan's life ''[[Keep Eye on Ball: The Hashim Khan Story]]'' was released in 2009 and was [[Movie director|directed]] by [[Josh Easdon]]. Khan was born in Nawakille, a small village near [[Peshawar]], [[British Raj]] (now Pakistan). He family were [[Pashtun people|Pashtuns]]. During the 1960s, he moved to the [[United States]] and lived in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]]. He had twelve children. Khan died from congestive [[heart failure]] on 18 August 2014 in [[Aurora, Colorado]]. There are many disputes of his exact age but he is believed to have been at least 100.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/hashim-khan-seven-time-world-squash-champion-dies/2014/08/19/40548ca0-27c2-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html|title=Hashim Khan, seven-time world squash champion, dies|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=August 19, 2014|accessdate=26 August 2014|first=Adam|last=Bernstein}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.squashfilms.com/hashimkhan.html Hashim Khan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822111158/http://www.squashfilms.com/hashimkhan.html |date=2014-08-22 }} at [http://www.squashfilms.com/default.html Squash Films] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823065459/http://www.squashfilms.com/default.html |date=2014-08-23 }} * {{IMDb title|1553679|Keep Eye on Ball: The Hashim Khan Story}} {{Sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Hashim}} [[Category:1910s births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Centenarians]] [[Category:Pakistani sportspeople]] [[Category:Pashtun people]] [[Category:People from Peshawar]] [[Category:World champions]] [[Category:Squash players]]