Hockey legend Feroze Khan was born on September 9, 1904. He is considered to be world`s oldest Olympic gold medal winner as at the time of his death, he was 100 years old following the death of U.S. athlete James Rockefeller in 2004. Feroze Khan participated at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

A skilful inside right and centre forward, Feroze Khan wons a honor of being the part of that Indian National team which fetched the gold medal for its undivided native country from the Olympics. After Feroze Khan, Roger Beaufrand of France Olympic gold medal winner, became the oldest living. Feroze Khan died on April 21, 2005.

After India got its independence like other destitutes, Feroze Khan also moved to Pakistan. In his later years, he served as a well-respected coach there. He also served as National sector. He died of natural causes at the age of 100. Former Olympians, hockey organisers, military officials, friends and relatives attended his funeral procession. This list include prominent former Pakistan hockey Olympians Anwar Ahmed Khan, Abdul Waheed Khan, Islahuddin Siddiqui, Samiullah Khan and Olympians Rasheed-ul-Hasan and Iftikhar Syed and others. Farooq Feroze,son of Feroze Khan said in Karachi, "Feroze died here peacefully and without any illness."

Feroze Khan was born in Jalandhar, Undivided India. From an early age, Feroze started playing hockey using a tree branch. After having a fall out with Indian selectors and transmigrated to Pakistan in early 1950s, he left the game. Feroze`s demise is a great loss not only for Pakistan but also for the world sports community according to the former Pakistan hockey captain Islahuddin Siddiqui.

On September 9, 2004, Feroze celebrated his 100th birthday and was acknowledged as the most erstwhile known living Olympic medal winner by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Feroze said, "I am proud to be 100 and am going great. This is ample proof of the fact that discipline and individuals with sporting habits can live longer". The title was conferred upon him after the United States` James Rockefeller died in early 2004. In the year 1924, Rockefeller had won a gold medal in rowing in the Paris Olympics.