The world's oldest Olympic medal winner, Pakistani field hockey player Feroze Khan (centre), has died, family members said.(AFP/File photo)

ISLAMABAD, Apr. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- The world's oldest Olympic gold medallist Feroze Khan has died seven months after celebrating his 100th birthday.

    Khan, who died on Wednesday, played in the hockey team for the then British colony of India at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.

    "It is a sad loss for Pakistani hockey," formerOlympian andformer Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary M.H. Atif said onThursday.

    "While he might have only played for India, after partitionhe played an instrumental role as selector for the Pakistan teamwhich won the 1960 Olympic hockey gold for the first time inRome."

    Pakistan became an independent country in 1947 after the end of British rule and the partition of India.

    Khan became the oldest Olympian after James Rockefeller ofthe United States, who won a gold medal in rowing in the 1924 Games in Paris, died last year at the age of 102.

    Born in the village of Basti Danishmandan, nearthenorthwest Indian city of Jalandhar in 1904, Khan was a contemporary of Indian hockey great Dhyan Chand and they played together at the 1928 Olympics. Enditem