mirza, masood, mirza, nasir, masood, april, 1906, september, 1991, indian, field, hockey, player, competed, 1936, summer, olympics, bornmirza, nasir, masood, 1908, october, 1908delhi, british, indiadied19, september, 1991, 1991, aged, delhi, indiaspouseatiya, . Mirza Nasir ud din Masood 23 April 1906 21 September 1991 was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics Mirza MasoodBornMirza Nasir ud din Masood 1908 10 13 13 October 1908Delhi British IndiaDied19 September 1991 1991 09 19 aged 82 Delhi IndiaSpouseAtiya MasoodAwardsOlympic Gold MedallistHonoursAmbassador UNESCO Mission ChiefField hockey careerNational teamYearsTeamApps Gls British IndiaMedal record Men s field hockeyRepresenting IndiaOlympic Games1936 Berlin TeamIn 1936 he was a member of the Indian field hockey team which won the gold medal He played one match citation needed as halfback In 1948 Masood became private secretary to India s first Minister of Education Abul Kalam Azad He was temporarily released from that role in 1952 when he was appointed the UNESCO Mission Chief to Indonesia where he remained until 1957 Following Azad s death in 1958 Jawaharlal Nehru successively appointed Masood as Advisor on Physical Education and Recreation Consul General responsible for Muscat and Oman the Emirates and Bahrain and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Upon his return to India in 1964 he was made secretary of the Central Waqf Board by Lal Bahadur Shastri 1 Masood retired to Delhi in 1968 with his wife Atiya 1 He died in 1991 and was buried in Nizamuddin cemetery 2 References Edit a b Mirza Nasiruddin Masud 1936 Olympics Gold Medallist UNESCO Chief Ambassador www twf org Retrieved 12 February 2020 K Arumugam 12 August 2004 When Dhyan Chand was man marked Hindustan Times Retrieved 25 January 2021 External links EditMirza Masood at databaseOlympics com archived Mirza Masood at Olympedia nbsp Mirza Masood at Olympics at Sports Reference com archived nbsp MN Masud at twf org nbsp nbsp This article about an Indian Olympic medalist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp nbsp This biographical article relating to an Indian field hockey figure is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mirza Masood amp oldid 1156656998, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
