Faiz Muhammad (23 September 1937– 2014 ) was a Pakistani freestyle wrestler. He was from 5 AK regt (HAIDER DIL BN).Profile of freestyle wrestler Faiz Muhammad on Olympic.org website
Retrieved 1 May 2017 During his time, he was one of the National Champions and

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of Pakistan.

Early life and career

Army H/Captain Faiz Muhammad was born in 1937 in Kandi (

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area of

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) and migrated to

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after the partition of

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in 1947. His family settled Iin Khanpur village, present day Kotli District of

. In June 1953, he got enlisted at training center number 3 of Azad Kashmir Regular Forces at

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town (a village at that time) and took his first flight of three-decade success with his home-learnt sports of wrestling in an army-level competition – 'Pakistan Army Training Centres Wrestling Championship' and secured the first position. In the same year, he once again impressed professional fraternity of the game by scaling the first spot in National and Army Wrestling Championships . He consecutively lifted the winner trophy of Army Championship from 1954 to 1984, for an unbeatable record of 30 years and won several Gold Medals. Like many other legendary names, perhaps the following Persian verse of 13th century philosopher

Saadi Shirazi Saadi Shīrāzī ( fa, ابومحمّد مصلح‌الدین بن عبدالله شیرازی), better known by his pen name Saadi (; fa, سعدی, , ), also known as Sadi of Shiraz (, ''Saʿdī Shīrāzī''; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was ...

was written for Faiz Muhammad too: - At Pakistani national level, he is the only one who has the distinction of high-winning-record of Army Championships. From 1953 to 1986, he enjoyed the longest winning streak of the prestigious National Wrestling Championship for 33 years and then exited the arena of National Wrestling Championships as a winner, whenever he entered it.

References

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