Dora Koering
| Dora Koering medal table |
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 Koering and Schomburgk, 1912 in Stockholm |
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 Olympic games
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| silver | 1912 Stockholm | Single (lawn) |
| gold | 1912 Stockholm | Mixed (lawn) |
Dorothea "Dora" Köring (born July 11, 1880 in Chemnitz , † February 13, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German tennis player .
Career
Köring, a member of the Academic SV Dresden , won the mixed gold medal at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm with Heinrich Schomburgk from Leipzig , making her the second German Olympic champion after Anna Hübler (1908). In the individual she was defeated in the final by the French Marguerite Broquedis in three sets and thus won the silver medal. After her career as a tennis player, Köring worked as a tennis teacher in Dresden. Koering died on February 13, 1945, the day Dresden was bombed .
Web links
- Dora Köring in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
1900: Charlotte Cooper / Reginald Doherty | 1912: Dora Köring / Heinrich Schomburgk (lawn) ; Edith Hannam / Charles Dixon (Halle) | 1920: Suzanne Lenglen / Max Décugis | 1924: Hazel Wightman / Richard Williams | 2012: Wiktoryja Asaranka / Max Mirny | 2016: Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Jack Sock
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| SURNAME | Koering, Dora |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koering, Dorothea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dresden , Germany |