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, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ...

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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

Goshpi Avari and Byram have three children together, including Xerxes, also an Asian Games competitor for Pakistan. She is

Parsi The Parsis or Parsees () are a Zoroastrian ethnic group in the Indian subcontinent. They are descended from Persian refugees who migrated to the Indian subcontinent during and after the Arab-Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century, w ...

Sailing

Avari won a gold medal in

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class

yachting Yachting is recreational boating activities using medium/large-sized boats or small ships collectively called yachts. Yachting is distinguished from other forms of boating mainly by the priority focus on comfort and luxury, the dependence on ma ...

at the

1982 Asian Games The 9th Asian Games (), also known as Delhi 1982 (), 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 the Olymp ...

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

Awards

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

(2011)PR. NO. 192, PRESS RELEASE, Islamabad 14 August 2010
Press Information Department, GoP, Islamabad. Retrieved 29 March 2011.

References

Living people Parsi sportswomen Pakistani female sailors (sport) 20th-century Pakistani sportswomen Pakistani Zoroastrians Recipients of the Pride of Performance Sportspeople from Karachi Asian Games gold 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