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Olympic medal record Women's tennis Gold 1920 Antwerp Doubles Winifred Margaret Slocock McNair (9 August 1877 – 28 March 1954) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her women's doubles (partnering Kathleen McKane) gold medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
Grand Slam singles final
Runner-up (1)
Year Championship Opponent in Final Score in Final 19131 Wimbledon Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers 6–0, 6–4 1This was actually the all-comers final as Ethel Thomson Larcombe did not defend her 1912 Wimbledon title, which resulted in the winner of the all-comers final winning the challenge round and, thus, Wimbledon in 1913 by walkover.
Tennis at the Summer Olympics • Olympic Champions in women's doubles 1920: Kathleen McKane & Winifred McNair • 1924: Hazel Wightman & Helen Wills Moody • 1988: Zina Garrison & Pam Shriver • 1992 - 1996: Gigi Fernández & Mary Joe Fernández • 2000: Serena Williams & Venus Williams • 2004: Sun Tiantian & Li Ting • 2008: Serena Williams & Venus WilliamsCategories:- 1877 births
- 1954 deaths
- British female tennis players
- Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Olympic tennis players of Great Britain
- Tennis players at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Wimbledon champions (pre-Open Era)
- Olympic medalists in tennis
- British Olympic medalist stubs
- British tennis biography stubs
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