Anna Märtha Vilhelmina Adlerstråhle (16 June 1868 – 4 January 1956) was a Swedish
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. Aged 40 she won a bronze medal in the indoor singles competition at the
1908 Summer Olympics
The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori ...
.
[ She was the first woman to represent Sweden at the Olympics.]
References
Further reading
*
1868 births
1956 deaths
People from Kungsör Municipality
Swedish female tennis players
Olympic tennis players for Sweden
Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in tennis
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
20th-century Swedish women
Sportspeople from Västmanland County
{{Sweden-Olympic-medalist-stub