- Dorothea Köring
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Dora Köring Full name Dorothea Köring Country Germany Born July 11, 1880
ChemnitzDied February 13, 1945 (aged 64)
DresdenSingles Olympic Games Silver Medal (1912) Other Mixed Doubles tournaments Olympic Games Gold Medal (1912) Olympic medal record Women's tennis Gold 1912 Stockholm Mixed doubles Silver 1912 Stockholm Singles Dorothea "Dora" Köring (July 11, 1880 in Chemnitz – February 13, 1945 in Dresden) was a female tennis player from Germany.
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).
Köring died in her house in Dresden during the bombing of Dresden in World War II.
Tennis at the Summer Olympics • Olympic Champions in mixed doubles 1900: Charlotte Cooper & Reginald Doherty • 1912: Dorothea Köring & Heinrich Schomburgk; Edith Hannam & Charles Dixon (indoor) • 1920: Suzanne Lenglen & Max Décugis • 1924: Hazel Wightman & Richard WilliamsCategories:- German female tennis players
- 1880 births
- 1945 deaths
- Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic tennis players of Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- People from Chemnitz
- Deaths by airstrike
- German civilians killed in World War II
- Olympic medalists in tennis
- German tennis biography stubs
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