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{{short description|British Indian sprinter}}
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{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = S. Abdul Hamid
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| full_name = S. Abdul Hamid
| nationality = {{flagicon|Britain}} [[British Indian]] (1907-1947)<br/>{{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Pakistani]] (1947-1985)
| sport = [[Track and field]]
| event = 110H, 400H
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| collegeteam = [[Government College University, Lahore|Government College, Lahore]]
| birth_date = 1907
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| death_date = 22 October 1985
| death_place = [[Lahore]]
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'''S. Abdul Hamid''' (1907–22 October 1985), also known as '''Major S. A. Hamid''', was a [[British Indian]] track and field athlete. Hamid ran in the 110 metres hurdles and the 400 metres hurdles at the [[1928 Summer Olympics]] at [[Amsterdam]] but did not progress from his heat in either race. He was also scheduled to run in the 400 metres and the 4 × 400 metres relay but did not start in either event.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/71386|title=Olympedia – S. Abdul Hamid|website=www.olympedia.org}}</ref>

==Education==
He attended [[Zamindara Islamia High School]], [[Dasuha, Faisalabad|Dasuha]], [[Faisalabad]]. Later, he studied at [[Government College University, Lahore|Government College, Lahore]].

==All India Athletic Championships==
Hamid, representing [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], won 120 yards hurdles during the Second All India Athletic Championships, held at [[Calcutta]] in 1927. The same year, he was selected to the all-India team to take part in the Far Eastern Games in [[Shanghai]], but the three-member team could not go as by that time civil war had broken out in [[China]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite book |last=Kapur |first=M. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlZXAAAAMAAJ&q=abdul+hamid+m+l+kapur |title=Punjab Sports and Who's who: Official Book of Punjab Olympic Association |date=1968 |publisher=Punjab Olympic Association |pages=88 |language=en}}</ref>

==Indian Olympic Games==
Hamid, representing Punjab, remained first in 220 yards, 440 yards, 120 yards hurdles, 220 yards hurdles, and third in 100 yards, during the Indian Olympic Games at [[Lahore]] in 1928. Owing to this performance, he was selected to British Indian athletic team for the [[1928 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="auto"/>
In the 1930 Indian Olympic Games at [[Allahabad]], Punjab's team retained the top position with 89 points. Hamid remained first in hop, step and jump. Hamid was among three Punjab athletes selected as member of British Indian team for the [[Far Eastern Championship Games|Far Eastern Games]] in [[Tokyo]]. Only Hamid could accompany the team, the two others dropping out for personal reasons.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kapur |first=M. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlZXAAAAMAAJ&q=abdul+hamid+m+l+kapur |title=Punjab Sports and Who's who: Official Book of Punjab Olympic Association |date=1968 |publisher=Punjab Olympic Association |pages=89 |language=en}}</ref>

He is in a photograph with other members of India's Olympic team that they signed.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Official Report of the IXth Olympiad, 1928 | date=1928 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nTM_eDNYzI0C&dq=d.b.+chavan+1928&pg=PA26-IA4 }}</ref>

==Personal bests==
110H – 15.8 (1927); 400H – 58.5y (1932).<ref name="auto1"/>

==As sports organizer and trainer==

Hamid remained honorary secretary (tournaments) of the Punjab Olympic Association between 1939 and 1944 before the call of the armed forces.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kapur |first=M. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlZXAAAAMAAJ&q=the+call+of+the+armed+forces+took+mr.+hamid+away |title=Punjab Sports and Who's who: Official Book of Punjab Olympic Association |date=1968 |publisher=Punjab Olympic Association |pages=3–4 |language=en}}</ref>

After the partition of [[British India]] in 1947, Hamid who was serving in army, opted for Pakistan. He was instrumental in setting up the [[Pakistan Olympic Association]] (POA) in 1948. Hamid, who at that time was serving as Captain in [[Pakistan Army]], was performing the duties of ADC to the Governor of [[Sindh]], [[Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah]], gathered some known sport minded people and arranged a formal meeting in [[Karachi]]. Resultantly the POA was formed on 25 February 1948 and Quaid-e-Azam [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], the first governor-general of the country was nominated as the patron-in-chief of the POA, whereas [[Ahmed Ebrahim Haroon Jaffer]] became its first president and Capt. S. A. Hamid its first secretary general.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nocpakistan.org/newaboutus_static.php?pid=1|title=Pakistan Olympic Association|website=nocpakistan.org}}</ref>

He served Pakistan in the following capacities as sports organizer and trainer:
* Pakistan's chief de mission at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] at [[London]].
* One of Pakistan's officials at the [[1952 Summer Olympics]] at [[Helsinki]].
* Pakistan's manager and coach at the [[Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth and British Games]], [[Vancouver]]; July 1954.
* Pakistan's coach at the [[World Military Track and Field Championships|International Military Track and Field Championships]], [[Berlin]]; August 1956.
* Pakistan's associate manager at the [[1958 Asian Games]] at [[Tokyo]].
* Pakistan's coach at the [[1962 Asian Games]] at [[Jakarta]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bhatti |first=Mukhtar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yExXAAAAMAAJ |title=Twenty Years of Sports in Pakistan |date=1969 |publisher=Bhatti Publications |pages=10, 12, 15, 17, 25 |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1907 births]]
[[Category:1985 deaths]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Indian men sprinters]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for India]]
[[Category:Athletes from Punjab, Pakistan]]
[[Category:Pakistani sports executives and administrators]]

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