Dorothea Köring
German tennis player
Dorothea Köring and Heinrich Schomburgk at the 1912 Summer Olympics | |
Full name | Dorothea Köring |
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Country (sports) | Germany |
Born | (1880-07-11)11 July 1880 Chemnitz, German Empire |
Died | 13 February 1945(1945-02-13) (aged 64) Dresden, Nazi Germany |
Singles | |
Olympic Games | Silver Medal (1912) |
Other mixed doubles tournaments | |
Olympic Games | Gold Medal (1912) |
Olympic medal record | ||
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Women's tennis | ||
1912 Stockholm | Mixed doubles | |
1912 Stockholm | Singles |
Dorothea "Dora" Köring (German pronunciation: [doʁoˈteːa ˈkøːʁɪŋ]; 11 July 1880 – 13 February 1945) was a female tennis player from Germany.[1]
At the Stockholm Olympics in 1912 she won a gold medal in the mixed doubles event with Heinrich Schomburgk and a silver medal in the women's outdoor singles tournament (lost to Marguerite Broquedis of France).[2]
Köring died in her house in Dresden during the bombing of Dresden in World War II.[3]
References
- ^ "Dorothea Köring". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Dorothea Köring Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
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Olympic tennis mixed doubles champions
- 1968: Julie Heldman & Herbert Fitzgibbon (USA)
- 1900: Charlotte Cooper & Reginald Doherty (GBR)
- 1912: Dorothea Köring & Heinrich Schomburgk (GER)
- 1920: Suzanne Lenglen & Max Decugis (FRA)
- 1924: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman & R. Norris Williams (USA)
- 2012: Victoria Azarenka & Max Mirnyi (BLR)
- 2016: Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Jack Sock (USA)
- 2020: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova & Andrey Rublev (ROC)
- 2024: Kateřina Siniaková & Tomáš Macháč (CZE)
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