Dorothea "Dora" Köring (; 11 July 1880 – 13 February 1945) was a female
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player from
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
.
At the
Stockholm Olympics in 1912 she won a gold medal in the mixed doubles event with
Heinrich Schomburgk
Heinrich Georg Schomburgk (; 23 June 1885 – 26 March 1965) was a male tennis player and footballer from Germany.
At the Stockholm Olympics in 1912 he won a gold medal in the mixed doubles event with Dorothea Köring.
He participated in ...
and a silver medal in the women's outdoor singles tournament (lost to
Marguerite Broquedis
Marguerite Marie Broquedis (; married names Billout-Bordes; 17 April 1893 – 23 April 1983) was a French tennis player.
Biography
Broquedis was born on 17 April 1893 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. She moved with her family to Paris around t ...
of
France
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).
Köring died in her house in Dresden during the
bombing of Dresden in World War II.
References
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
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