Jahangir Khan: 555 matches without a loss
Between 1981 and 1986, squash player Jahangir Khan won 555 matches in a row, one of the longest winning streaks in professional sport.
Pakistani squash player Jahangir Khan went five years without losing a match.
The numbers
- 555: matches won in a row, from 1981 to 1986
- 6: World Open titles
- 10: British Open titles in a row, from 1982 to 1991
- 17: his age when he won his first World Open, in 1981
How the streak ended
The run ended in November 1986, when Jahangir lost the World Open final in Toulouse, France, to New Zealand's Ross Norman.
A squash nation
Pakistan dominated world squash for decades. Before Jahangir, Hashim Khan won the British Open seven times in the 1950s. After him, Jansher Khan won the World Open a record eight times.
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