Noor Alam (5 December 1929 – 30 June 2003) was a

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

player from

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. He won gold medal in

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and a silver medal, the country's first Olympic medal, at the

1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December ...

. He was also a member of winning Pakistani team of 1958 and 1962 Asian Games.

Death

He died on 30 June 2003 in

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and was laid to rest in Alif Shah graveyard in Cantt area of the metropolitan.

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