Dorothea Köring
Appearance
![]() Dorothea Köring and Heinrich Schomburgk at the 1912 Summer Olympics | |
Full name | Dorothea Köring |
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Country (sports) | Germany |
Born | Chemnitz, German Empire | 11 July 1880
Died | 13 February 1945 Dresden, Nazi Germany | (aged 64)
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Olympic Games | ![]() |
Other mixed doubles tournaments | |
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Olympic medal record | ||
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Women's tennis | ||
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1912 Stockholm | Mixed doubles |
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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.
Categories:
- German female tennis players
- 1880 births
- 1945 deaths
- Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic tennis players for Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- Sportspeople from Chemnitz
- Deaths by airstrike during World War II
- German civilians killed in World War II
- Olympic medalists in tennis
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century German women
- German tennis biography stubs
- German Olympic medalist stubs