Two-time Asian Games gold medalist and businessman Byram Dinshawji Avari passed away at the age of 81.
Avari's last rites will be performed on Monday afternoon.
In 1976 and again in 1980, Byram D. Avari served as Commodore of the Karachi Yacht Club. He won a gold medal in "enterprise-class" yachting at the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1978 alongside Munir Sadiq, and he repeated the feat in New Delhi in 1982 together with his wife Goshpi.
In 1978, he also took home a silver medal from the Enterprise World Championship hosted in Canada.
He was awarded with the Pride of Performance Award for Sports (Sailing) in 1982.
After his demise, the micro-blogging site Twitter filled with tweets paying tribute to him.
Here's what they said:
It should be mentioned here that Avari was a renowned name in the Pakistan business community. He owned and was the chairman of the Avari Group of companies.
Faizan Lakhani Faizan Lakhani is Deputy Editor (Sports) at Geo News.
